Echo
Artist: Vera Liskova (1924-1985)
Date: 1984
Dimensions:
H: 30 11/16 in. (78 cm); W: 26 3/8 (67 cm); Depth: 16 9/16 in. (42 cm)
Medium: Simax® borosilicate glass tubing, flame-worked (blown, tooled, applied)
Classification: Glass
Credit Line: Purchased with funds from Helen Brooks in memory of Mayme and Rudolph Luedtke
Object number: 2014.17
Label Text:In the 1960s, Věra Lišková pioneered the use of flame-worked borosilicate glass to make abstract sculpture and sculptural animals. They were made by softening, inflating, and manipulating tubes of borosilicate glass (like Pyrex) with a torch. The individual parts were then assembled by fusing.
Traditionally, borosilicate glass is used for making laboratory wares for scientists, such as beakers and test tubes. For Echo, Lišková expands its material possibilities, bridging disciplines to create an imaginative sculptural manifestation of sound. This piece is a physical representation of an echo, rendered with breathtaking clarity in transparent, paper-thin glass.
Traditionally, borosilicate glass is used for making laboratory wares for scientists, such as beakers and test tubes. For Echo, Lišková expands its material possibilities, bridging disciplines to create an imaginative sculptural manifestation of sound. This piece is a physical representation of an echo, rendered with breathtaking clarity in transparent, paper-thin glass.
DescriptionEcho was made by heading colorless borosilicate glass tubes, inflating and manipulating the hot glass over a torch to create the individual spiky elements, and then fusing the elements to one another with a torch. The sculpture is comparatively light weight in relation to its size.
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