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Dedicant 8

Dedicant 8

 
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Object Name: 
Sculpture
Title: 
Dedicant 8
Department
Modern
Category
Contemporary
Maker(s)
Ben Tre, Howard ((American, b. 1949)), Artist
Super Glass, Studio
Place Made: 
United States, NY, Brooklyn
Date: 
1987
Color
Colorless, acqua, gold
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colorless
Technique
Sand-cast glass, sandblasted, cut; patinated brass sheet, gold and copper foils, pigmented wax
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sandblasting
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cut glass
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 121.6 cm, W: 35.9 cm, D: 25.7 cm
Accession Number: 
87.4.57
Credit Line: 
2nd Rakow Commission
Location: 
On Display
Copyright: 
© Howard Ben Tre
Description
Colorless non-lead glass with aqua patination, gold, lead, gilding, brass; cast in sand mold, sandblasted, cut, ground, inlaid with gilded lead. Vertical, squared ribbed and notched column; solid, vertical four-sided column with overall slightly irregular surfaces, tapers in towards base; top flat edge is step-notched in an approximately 2" recession and gilded (also sealed); broad sides are slightly concave towards base, overall pattern; of narrow horizontal grooves gilded and patinated on protruding edges; short sides have vertical wide groove extending from approximately 1/6 distance from top to base, groove is lined with bar of lead patinated aqua and brown, at base lead is covered with square metal plate attached with two screws; flat glass base with attaching metal plate hardware.
Label Text
Howard Ben Tré's large-scale and small-scale sculptures are inspired by elements of architecture and industry, such as columns, heavy stone fragments, ancient monoliths, and machine parts. However, their massiveness suggests cast metal rather than glass. Like architecture, Ben Tré's solid, monumental forms create space rather than decorate it. In Dedicant #8, the artist produces a visual tension between the shape of the sculpture, which is blocky and semi-industrial, and its tactile surface and luminous color. Bars of carved and gilded lead, inserted into the glass mass, transform the object into an altarlike monument with ritualistic implications. Cast in an industrial glass factory in New York City, the sculpture was finished in the artist's studio.
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