| COS. DÉJÀ VU. NEW INCALMI FOR A CONTEMPORARY VENINI |
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| Antonio Cos / Déja Vu - glass containers / 2009-2011 / SELF-PRODUCTION | © photo: Max Rommel |
«What Cos does here is a kind of invention: a new-venini, contemporary, popular but very cultured, innovating the tradition-tecnique of glass pairing it to a sensibility so contemporary and so classic at the same time. He invents the contemporary «incalmo». Venini defines «incalmo» as a «complex technique consisting in pairing, while the glass is still hot, two blown shapes, along their circumference, in order to obtain in the same object different parts usually also of a different color…»
Wirkkala is hovering. Maybe Sottsass.
Artisan and grinder instead than a blower. Working with selected components, retrieved from a infinite and commercial panoply.
Cos cuts, measures, pairs, welds pieces, components, sections.
His project sets free again the shapes’ potential to combine, those neglected shapes that would be likely dismissed. And he brings them back to life.
They are new imaginative profiles... Some of them are obscure. Without the function as a container itself.
It’s a cut-up. Burroughs-like multiform. Compositionally vibrant».
Stefano Maffei |
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