Still life has always been used to display familiar objects: food, flowers, porcelain, or other man-made objects. Malling’s still life is a display of aesthetic experimentation with the phenomena and materiality of glass, and with color and shape.
-Susanne Jøker Johnsen
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Physical DescriptionInstallation, "Transcendence". Colorless and blue glass and vitreous materials from artist-made batch formulas; cast/melted, cut, chiseled, polished. Installation of 31 cast/melted, cut, chiseled and polished vessels/pieces of various sizes, shapes and textures made from colorless and blue glasses and vitreous materials from artist-made batch formulations arrange purposefully on a horizontal surface. (-1) Light blue chunk with rounded bottom. (-2) Light blue fragment with large pores. (-3) Medium blue rectangular column. (-4) Small green fragment with slightly metallic or iridized pores. (-5) Short rectangular sandy column. (-6) Transparent blue sphere enclosing large fragment. (-7) Turquoise rectangular column. (-8) Blue rectangular column with light gritty layer near top. (-9) Transparent blue column with fragment applied to top. (-10) Small blue fragment; two-thirds is lighter with large pores. (-11) Light blue fragment with large pores. (-12) Small half green, half teal fragment. (-13) Small light blue fragment. (-14) Light blue fragment; two-thirds is lighter with pores and grayish-brown gritty striations. (-15) Dark greenish-blue rectangular column. (-16) Small primarily gritty fragment with thin layer of blue on top. (-17) Irregularly-shaped fragment of blue glass with several layers, including a saturated blue and a lighter blue with large pores. (-18) Slab of bluish-green glass with pores. (-19) Transparent bluish-green elongated dome. (-20) Half of hemisphere with several layers, including saturated blue and lighter blue with large pores. (-21) Dark greenish-blue fragment with slightly metallic or iridized pores. (-22) Colorless elongated dome. (-23) Portion of a hemisphere with layers including reddish purple and blue with large pores. (-24) Azure blue fragment. (-25) Tapered rectangular column with large pores; gritty white layer towards tapered end. (-26) Azure blue rectangular column. (-27) Gritty hemisphere. (-28) Grayish-blue roundish fragment with large pores. (-29) Transparent blue sphere. (-30) Fragment with several layers including cobalt blue and light blue. (-31) Grayish/brownish-blue fragment with smaller pores. Provenance
Source
Karina Malling
(Danish, b. 1982) - 2016-2019-11-21
