Latitude 90.07
Artist: Sylvie Vandenhoucke (Belgian, born 1969)
Date: 2006
Dimensions:
H: 10 5/8 in. (27 cm); W: 10 5/8 in. (27 cm); D: 3/8 in. (1 cm) [dealer]
Medium: Colorless and brownish-yellow glass, crushed, molded, fused (pâte-de-verre technique)
Classification: Glass
Credit Line: Purchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number: 2007.27
Label Text:Belgian artist Sylvie Vandenhoucke creates delicately structured objects with subtle surfaces that invite close looking. Many of her works are developed from a single, flat surface, similar to paintings. She uses extremely fine granules of glass that are pressed into a paste and fused together (a technique called pâte de verre, French for glass paste), a demanding process that stretches back to the 2nd-millennium BCE. The projecting surface details play with light and shadow to create actual and illusory designs. Vandenhoucke says of her work, “orderly patterns slide into chaos; snow-like softness sharpens into angled fins; superficial marks deepen into vents; changing light through a window unmasks lengthening patches of color as shadows."
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