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Laura de Santillana
Aosta 4, 2002
Hand-blown, shaped and compressed glass, copper leaf, silver leaf, gold leaf
H17 3/4 x W17 3/4 x D2 in
H45 x W45 x D5 cm
H45 x W45 x D5 cm
LS25NY4 (LS2002_SCU20)
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At the turn of the twenty-first century, de Santillana expanded her experimentations in cold worked glass and the iconic slumped sculptural form, departing from her design-focused creations at Venini. First developed for her 2002 exhibition in the namesake region at the Italian-Swiss border, the Aosta series—clear tablets of formidable stature fused with a lip of gold leaf—contrasts the fundamental elements of glass: form, interior/exterior, and transparency. From within the veiled surfaces emerge pockets of air and flowing crevices of glass, sculptural and sensual. Values which remained at the core of her artistic expression and which persist throughout her career.
Provenance
Artist EstateProduction details: Murano (IT), made by Simone Cenedese