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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