Multi-Colored Blown Glass Vase by Ada Loumani, 2019

Description

Ada Loumani's technique requires a combination of artistic work, technical competence, and strenuous physical work. From the very first creation, … more Ada Loumani's technique requires a combination of artistic work, technical competence, and strenuous physical work. From the very first creation, there is a real need to tame and model color, which continues right up to the transcription of perfect images, like on a canvas. The alliance of painting and sculpture in a moving universe: glass, succeeding in imprisoning real 'paintings' in the material, giving the illusion of lightening the volume by confronting it with the transparency of glass in an attempt to optically remove the laws of gravity. The fragility of glass is used as a support by injecting strength and solidity into it, working by opposing densities and transparencies.

The first step is to blow a core, cook it, then paint the decoration. The process continues by heating the core, enclosing it in new layers of glass, then blowing the final shape. Each step is long and risky, as each annealing cycle induces pressures and tensions in the successive glass layers. The result: vases with paintings suspended in thick glass that intensifies the depth and resonance of colors.

Ada Loumani, born in 1959, is purely self-taught and specializes in blowing glass according to the 'Grail technique'. This means a successive cold and hot work in order to create depth effects within the work. Ada Loumani has received the 'Entreprises du Patrimoine Vivant' label, which rewards excellence in French know-how. Signed by Maker,Signed by Maker less