I NEED you guys to see this right now. This is my favorite sculpture/work of physical art and it’s a crime that more people don’t know about it.
Carroña (English, Carrion)
This thing was absolutely GORGEOUS in person and it's so fgkfgindf radical because look at it!!!! The bloody disemboweled corpse of beauty!!! Holy shit!! I adore this sosossoo much and I love intentional destruction of art and aaaaaaaa
This is a work done by Spanish artist Javier Pérez in 2011, and it's currently being held in the Corning Museum of Glass (NY). CMoG's artwork page (go read it, it has more info on Pérez's other creations!) describes the piece:
"This sculpture consists of an elaborate chandelier whose many parts were blown and tooled of transparent blood-red glass, assembled and hung, then intentionally dropped. A flock of taxidermied crows perches on the fallen carcass, and shards dangle from their mouths. The installation is meant to evoke opportunistic birds gobbling carrion by the side of the road, a metaphor for the gradual disappearance of Murano’s traditional glass industry."
Pérez also has it listed on his personal website. (Many of his works may be considered disturbing for some, so if you see a thumbnail you don't like in his portfolio, don't click <3)
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I have probably written about The Corning Museum of Glass before. Probably in a very similar manner. So this may be a repetitive post for some who have seen other posts. But, I feel like this is something I want to write about even if repeatedly because it is important to me to write about other forms of art and local places I can engage with art. And I love to talk about how I engage with art,…
New Glass Now Exhibition, Toyama Glass Art Museum, Japan
New Glass Now Exhibition, Toyama Glass Art Museum, Japan
News just in!! New Glass Now opens at the Toyama Glass Art Museum on the 16th of July 2022.
New Glass Now premiered at The Corning Museum of Glass (USA) in 2019. This international exhibition of contemporary glass art follows the “New Glass: A World Wide Survey” exhibition of 1979 , when the annual publication New Glass Review was launched.
“Uniting the various forms New Glass has taken is a…
I wanted to post this separately bc Carroña deserves its own spotlight but. Some other highlights on why you should visit Corning Glass:
Meat chandelier
Gay square (That's actually what it's for. It's meant to be taken outside in the sun so that you can reflect a rainbow on any surface for LGBT awareness)