Claes Uvesten
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"Hermes", a sand cast sculpture, Sweden 2007.
Head, mounted to an iron stand, signed C. Uvesten, total height 65 cm.
Provenance
The Glassery, Stockholm
More information
Claes Uvesten (b. 1964) started his artistic career as a sculptor but transitioned to glass after a revelation during a trip around the world in his late twenties. While snorkeling at Australia's Great Barrier Reef, he was surrounded by a crystalline beauty that he knew could never be expressed in words. Only in glass.
So he sought out Orrefors Glassworks and became an apprentice at Sweden's most prestigious glassworks. While traditional studio glass is based on unity and perfection, Claes Uvesten wanted to embrace chance and fragmentation. He began experimenting with different ways of casting glass, incorporating foreign objects - such as wire mesh and silver threads - into the molten glass, and started assembling his sculptures from multiple pieces of cast glass. His life-sized glass heads are in dialogue with the ancient marble sculptures he admires so much, but at the same time, they reference science fiction, cyberculture, and contemporary street life.
Designer
Claes Uvesten (b. 1964) was educated at Nyckelviken Art School, Orrefors School of Glass, and Pilchuck School of Glass in Seattle, USA. He has been working as a glass artist and designer since 1996. His works are represented at institutions such as the National Museum in Stockholm and the Röhsska Museum in Gothenburg, and they have been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Europe, Mexico, and the USA, as well as in several Swedish galleries.
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