Gray Bowl with Frosted Insert

Gray Bowl with Frosted Insert

 
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Object Name: 
Sculptural Vessel
Title: 
Gray Bowl with Frosted Insert
Department
Modern
Category
Contemporary
Place Made: 
Czech Republic, Zdar nad Sazavou
Date: 
2003
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 13.8 cm, Diam: 31 cm
Accession Number: 
2008.3.16
Location: 
On Display
Description
Grayish-brown and colorless glass; cast, cut, acid-etched, sandblasted, and polished. Two-part hemispherical bowl, the outer bowl a grayish-brown hollow thick vessel with a solid hemipsherical colorless inserted bowl form. Both elements are cast, etched, snadblasted, and hand polished.
Label Text
Vízner’s works are characterized by his distinctive approach to the vessel form, his preference for solid colors and heavy and massive shapes, and his exacting craftsmanship. With their reduced forms, deep and luminous colors, and cleanly articulated lines, his vessels illustrate the artist’s desire to formulate a “new concept for the modern vessel.” While these vessels are based on the shapes of functional bowls and plates, we best understand their pure and simple volumes as nonfunctional, sculptural forms.
Provenance
Barry Friedman Ltd., Source
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass
West Bridge Exhibit
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 2008 (2009) illustrated, p. 15;

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