Glass Art Installations
A very large artwork consisting of several sections to make up the whole.
Example:
- "La Cascade" (1991), Steve Tobin
A huge installation measuring 20x20x80 feet made up of glass capillary tubes. The work was shown at L’Espace Duchamp Villon, Rouen, France.
- "Chronos Trilogy" (1998), Warren Carther
A suite of three large scale sculptures in Lincoln House office tower, Hong Kong, by Warren Carther, Canadian Architectural Glass Artist. At twenty five tons, and collectively spanning over 50 meters the immense pieces of the trilogy each represent a particular facet of time: the past, the present, and the future.
- "Noel Judicial Complex Project" (2010), Paul Housberg
Inspired by the architecture and its references to water and wetlands, this kilnformed art glass has both color and texture. It consists of four screens, one for each floor and representative of the different seasons.
- "Pack Ice / Mirror of the Sea" (Ahtojää / Meren peili; 1967/1987), Timo Sarpaneva, Finland's largest glass art object
Nordic art specialists often compared the capacity of Sarpaneva's work in glass to capture light along with its hues to looking through ice beneath the sea. "Pack Ice / Mirror of the Sea" has been installed in the entrance lobby of the KoskiKeskus shopping mall in downtown Tampere since March 1988. The 36x21 ft. (12x6.4 m) mirror-paneled triangle, suspended from the ceiling, is filled with 488, up to 1 m (3.3 ft.) high, faceted and noduled glass turrets. A meditation on fluidity and the cycle of life, it also subsumes a Finnish take on the two manifestations of the country's denotative multitude of lakes – white ice in the winter and a blue mirror in the summer.
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