Spiral Forms

Object NameSculpture

Artist Bert Frijns (Dutch, b. 1953)

Made FromNon-lead float glass

Date1994

Place MadeNetherlands, Zeeland, Haamstede

TechniqueCut, slumped through a template, ground, polished

SizeOverall H: 50 cm, Diam (max): 38 cm

Accession Number95.3.76

Curatorial Area(s)

Postwar and Contemporary

Exhibitions

Bert Frijns

Not On View

Interpretive Notes

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Generally, we look through transparent glass without really thinking about it, just as we look through this Plexiglas to see the object inside. By nesting his vessels, one inside the other, Frijns attempts to show us what transparency looks like.

Physical DescriptionColorless non-lead float glass with natural green tint; cut, slumped float glass, cut, ground, polished, assembled. Four thin-walled, deep, bell-shaped (rims only slightly flared, closed ends are curved) vessel forms varying only slightly in dimension are stacked one inside the other so that openings are at top, rims have been ground and polished at slight angles so that when the forms are assembled vertically the edges extending one above the other are not parallel, rims seem to be tilted in opposite directions on alternating vessels; round base ends of (b),(c), and (d) are suspended one inside the other and (a); (a) narrow base ground slightly flat, scratched on base: "B Frijns/1994"; (b) scratched on end point: "2"; (c) scratched on end point: "3"; (d) scratched on end point: "4".
Provenance

Former Collection Bert Frijns (Dutch, b. 1953) - 1995-11-03