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Sun Chariot (Detail)

Sun Chariot (Detail)

 
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Object Name: 
Sculpture
Title: 
Sun Chariot (Detail)
Department
Modern
Category
Contemporary
Maker(s)
de Santillana, Laura ((Italian, b. 1955)), Maker
Place Made: 
Italy, Venezia, Murano
Date: 
2001
Color
Colorless, Translucent Purple, Yellow, Yellow Green
AAT
colorless
AAT
yellow
Technique
blown, tooled
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 41.2, W: 47.7 cm, D: 5.6 cm
Accession Number: 
2002.3.3
Location: 
On Display
Description
Multicolored (violet, amber, yellow, yellow-green) glass; blown incalmo, hot-worked. The walls of the vessel are "compressed" with cork paddles during the blowing process. The mouth of the vessel is pressed together, sealing the body but leaving pockets of open space inside.
Label Text
De Santillana is an internationally recognized artist and designer whose work is innovative, classic, and experimental. Subtle and complex in color and minimalist in format, her objects inhabit an indefinable space between painting and sculpture. A deep connection to the natural world and to the realm of the senses informs her artistic activity. Sun Chariot is a flattened architectonic sculpture influenced by the expressive canvases of the American color-field painter Mark Rothko. It investigates the intricacies of color, form, and mass.
Inscription
LAURA DE SANTILLANA 2001
Signature and date
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inscribed in block letters on bottom of base
Provenance
Elliott Brown Gallery ((Kate Elliott)), Former Collection
2002-04-17

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Exhibitions

Contrasts: A Glass Primer
Venue(s)
Museum of Glass: International Center for Contemporary Art 2006-11-10 through 2009-10-11
Publications
1

Publications

Contrasts: A Glass Primer (2007) illustrated, p. 18; BIB# 100121
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 2002 (2003) illustrated, p. 14, bottom;
Recent Important Acquisitions, 45 (2003) illustrated, pp. 230-231, fig. 61;

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