Object No. 23 (Architectural Glass Fantasies series)

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Object No. 23 (Architectural Glass Fantasies series)

Artist Stine Bidstrup (Danish, born 1982)

Date2018

Dimensions10 1/8 × 13 1/2 × 11 in. (25.7 × 34.3 × 27.9 cm)

MediumMold blown glass with digitally enhanced graal technique

ClassificationGlass

Credit LinePurchased with funds given by Edith Rathbun

Object number

2018.65

Not on View

DescriptionIrregularly-shaped object with multiple layers of glass (Swedish graal technique), blown into waste mold; in sky-blue semi-transparent glass.

Label TextStine Bidstrup’s Architectural Glass Fantasies are inspired by the mountainous landscape in Bergen, Norway, as well as the theories of German writer Paul Scheerbart (1863–1915) and German architect Bruno Taut (1880–1938), who described and illustrated theoretical architectural ideas for a utopian future, including glass-constructed cities. Bidstrup uses molten glass as a means of interpreting these ideal structures, creating her own series of imaginative shapes that look like miniature cityscapes. She includes elements of intricate patterns found extensively on cut glass of the early 20th century and still produced by Libbey Glass (see an example in this case). Incorporating overlapping star shapes, Bidstrup merges the decorative and the structural in her forms, inventively fusing architectural ideas with the beauty of glass.Published ReferencesHeller Gallery, Stine Bidstrup, Architectural Glass Fantasies: Utopia Materialized, Heller Gallery, 2018 (postcard).

Heller Gallery, Stine Bidstrup, Architectural Glass Fantasies: Utopia Materialized, Heller Gallery, 2018 (digital catalog), Link to resource.

Heller Gallery, Stine Bidstrup, Architectural Glass Fantasies: Utopia Materialized, New York, NY, Heller Gallery, 2018, repr. col. p. 14-15.

Corning Museum of Glass, New Glass Now: 40th-anniverary issue of New Glass Review, Corning, N.Y, Corning Museum of Glass, 2019, repr. col. p. 284.

Exhibition HistoryNew York, Heller Gallery, Stine Bidstrup, Architectural Glass Fantasies: Utopia Materialized, September 14,-October 13, 2018.