Delicious Fish
US$ 3,030
Overview
2020
Glass, Glass
Unique Work
Dimensions: 20cm (H) x 80cm (W) x 17cm (D) / 7.9" (H) x 31.5" (W) x 6.7" (D)
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About the art
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Artist statement
What remains after you pull a fish out of the water?
Solid bases, branches that grow and seek the light: the first projects were still only inside my head and already had the form of a bonsai.
Before this, it could have been a surgeonfish, a turbot, or a tuna.
In the end, only the structure remains.
Our everyday life conceals some elements that are essential, necessary, which become apparent only when it is too late.
"However, not all is lost. Water has another chance to touch these fish, filling them with a last jolt of life."
With glass I enhance these supporting structures with a decorative take, so that they are not only honored in natural science museums but so that the beauty of these hidden souls can be admired up close, from alternative points of view.
Once again glass allows me to express the strong contradictions that nature conveys to me: the precariousness of life and the energy of survival, the apparent fragility of transparency, and the solidity of form.
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Artist profile
Simone Crestani
Born: 1984
Hometown: Vicenza
Based in: Vicenza
Born in 1984 in Marostica, in the region of Venice, he started working glass at the age of 15 at the Massimo’s Lunardon glass factory. After an apprenticeship that lasted ten years, he opened his own studio, where he continues to work, dedicated to research and innovation. An introspective and …
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