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Hand-Made

Object NameVideo and Sculpture Installation

Artist Anna Mlasowsky (German, b. 1984)

Studio Studio of The Corning Museum of Glass

Studio Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design

Made FromSheet Glass, Video

Date2010 (video); 2013 (sculpture)

TechniqueHand-formed, acid-etched, recorded

Size(a) Glass Sculpture (dimensions variable): H: about 25 cm, W: about 43 cm, D: about 40 cm

Accession Number2013.3.12

Curatorial Area(s)

Postwar and Contemporary

Exhibitions

CA+D Reopening 2020

Interpretive Notes

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Anna Mlasowsky embraces nontraditional viewpoints and unanswered questions in her art, which is about the exploration and investigation of glass. The video installation Hand-Made documents the artist hand-forming a sculpture—wearing fireproof gloves—that is displayed on a pedestal next to the video projection. “On the market, craft products are described with and circumscribed by the term ‘handmade,’” Mlasowsky says. “The piece Hand-Made is a literal execution of this term. As a glass artist, I can never shape the material with my own hands. Tools function as a translator of my movement. This piece is a poetic study of material that exploits my wish to form the hot material directly, and results in shapes that can only be created by hand.”

Place Made

Sweden, Stockholm; United States, NY, Corning

Physical DescriptionVideo and Sculpture Installation, "Hand-Made". Video, glass; hand-formed glass, acid-etched. (a) Hand-formed laminated glass sculpture made from a circular sheet of glass that was bent, folded, and creased while hot; acid-etched after annealing. (b) 1:15 minute silent color video documenting the creation of the sculpture. Sculpture is displayed on a pedestal next to continuously-looped video projection.
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