Matti Klenell
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a unique glass urn/ sculpture "Ajeto Urn", Ajeto Glassworks, Czech Republic 2008.
Black, white and clear glass in two pieces, the upper part decorated with a flower in white and green, signed Matti Klenell "Ajeto Urn" 2008. Height 45,5 cm, diameter ca 12 cm.
The lower white part with cracks inside the glass.
Exhibitions
Galleri Inger Molin, Stockholm, 2008.
More information
A number of similar unique urns produced at the Ajeto Glassworks, CZ for a solo exhibition at the Inger Molin Gallery in Stockholm.
Matti Klenell: "When working with glass I have always been fascinated by deconstructing the material, cut it apart and build it together again. Through working with glass this work method around giving form has come to influence my design language in general where stacked elements or volumes, not rarely contradictory, are balanced together in to one shape.
During this project I also made the discovery that glassmaking is a very local tradition that differs depending on where you are working. In Czech Republic there is a strong tradition in making paper weights, often with decorations magically floating inside the glass. I wanted to use that in my own work and it became a balance act between the breathtakingly beautiful and something quite repelling".
The project is Included in the permanent collection of
the Röhsska Museum, Gothenburg.