Video: Outlandish sculptures of famous glassblower brought to Dublin
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
On June 19 this year, an exhibition of the famous master glassmaker Dale Patrick Chihuly opened at the Solomon Fine Art gallery in Dublin. The American artist, whose work has been exhibited in such large art spaces as the Victoria and Albert museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Louvre in Paris, has received worldwide recognition for his unsurpassed craftsmanship. in working with glass.
Chihuly's handwriting is recognizable. The curators of one of his exhibitions, held at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, called the master's approach revolutionary, noting that it was Chihuly who elevated the art of glass blowers to the rank of full-size sculpture. Chihuly's sophisticated yet elegant work is the fruit of his incredible efforts and skill. The artist is equally good at gigantic sculptures assembled from many details, and the inhabitants of the depths of the sea, as if caught in glass, and bizarre plants, and chandeliers consisting of spherical surfaces. Dale believes that the secret of his success is the use of ancient technologies in working with glass. According to him, modern craftsmen control the process too much, not allowing the glass to be blown out “freely”.
Dale Chihuly was born in 1941 in the American city of Tacoma. He received his BA in Interior Design from the University of Washington, Seattle. Two years later he defended his master's thesis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. And already in 1968, Chihuly received a master's degree at the Rhode Island School of Design.
In 1976, having got into a serious car accident, Dale Chihuly lost his left eye, and a severe dislocation of the shoulder, received by the master three years later, deprives him of the opportunity to work with glass directly. Then the strong-willed master invites other glassblowers to work together, becoming a kind of "director" of the process of making sculptures.
American artist Graham Caldwell, like Dale Chihuly, is a dedicated glassblower. His works look futuristic and intriguing: molecules, balls, original colored weaves, mirrors - the variations of Caldwell's talented sculptures are truly endless.
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