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Big Arcus/Arcus III

Big Arcus/Arcus III

 
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Object Name: 
Sculpture
Title: 
Big Arcus/Arcus III
Department
Modern
Category
Contemporary
Place Made: 
Czechoslovakia, Zelezny Brod
Date: 
1993
Technique
AAT
ground glass
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 104.1 cm; Base W: 86.2 cm, D: 16.7 cm
Accession Number: 
93.3.26
Credit Line: 
Gift of the artists
Location: 
On Display
Description
Transparent blue-gray glass; chunks of glass melted in a mold, cut, ground, polished. Massive solid cast abstract sculpture with modeled non-polished front side and flat back, vertical shape has semi-circular top with elongated sides (front left side tapers in slightly towards base, front right tapers out slightly towards base forming inverted bucket silhouette), overall shallow depth with thickness swelling to widest point at left front, exterior (except for base) tapers to thin irregular undulating edges, sculpture is pierced (upper half, towards left) by recessed semi-circular "key hole" that slices diagonally through thick area towards left front base dividing the sculpture into a narrow "leg" with roughly equal-sided triangular base, and remaining wide base section in shape of obtuse triangle; overall internal veiling, front has overall mold marks, back side is ground and polished flat with scattered bubble indentations; inscribed: on lower right corner of front: "Libenský-Brychtová 92-93".
Label Text
Glass can be transparent, translucent, or opaque, and the objects that you see in this area illustrate these three different states. Although this sculpture is opaque, it still holds and reflects light, which is a characteristic unique to glass.
Provenance
Libensky, Stanislav ((Czech, 1921-2002)), Source to 1993
Heller Gallery, Source to 1993
Brychtova, Jaroslava ((Czech, b. 1924)), Source to 1993
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass
Sculpture Gallery
Title Unknown (Heller Gallery)
Venue(s)
Heller Gallery
 
Kiln Forming Glass (2010) illustrated, p. 23; BIB# 110657
Professor Stanislav Libensky and Jaroslava Brychtova: Pioneers of Contemporary Glass Art (2009-06) illustrated, p. 11;
Contemporary American Glass Art Education: A Handbook (2002) illustrated, p. 66; BIB# 109340
Rhinestone Cowboys (1997) illustrated, p. 16;
The Past Ten Years of Contemporary Glass (1996) illustrated, p. 613, fig. 9;
Recent Important Acquisitions, 36 (1994) illustrated, p. 123, #43;
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1993 (1994) p. 15, ill.;

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