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Marco Mencacci's Crystal Dreams

2021-09-09T15:33:27.014Z


The Italian artist exhibits very unique vases for Design Week in Paris. At first glance, they are soliflores. Their central cavity where a vertical colored blade plunges into a mass of crystal calls for cool water and a single rod. The tradition dates back to Art Nouveau: making a real flower emerge from the efflorescence of imaginary vegetation. Illusion of art and art of illusion. In the gallery, each vase is placed on a promontory, some solitary and others assemble


At first glance, they are soliflores.

Their central cavity where a vertical colored blade plunges into a mass of crystal calls for cool water and a single rod.

The tradition dates back to Art Nouveau: making a real flower emerge from the efflorescence of imaginary vegetation.

Illusion of art and art of illusion.

In the gallery, each vase is placed on a promontory, some solitary and others assembled in bouquets.

But they don't expect anything.

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“These are 'coses', as Ettore Sottsass said, things that look like everyday objects but are not,”

explains artist Marco Mencacci in his native Italian.

“The vase is a container, it awaits life, the flowers, it disappears for them.

My vases, they expect nothing. "

They may well be empty, they are not lacking.

A tongue of a single color crosses them.

Orange, ruby, indigo.

“It is the first breath of the master glassmaker.

It is then immersed in basins of molten glass,

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Source: lefigaro

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