Spin The Bottle
Glass, Metal, Wood · 2016 494 views
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Details
- Category
- Sculpture
- Medium
- Glass, Metal, Wood
- Dimensions
- 72 × 12 in
- Year
- 2016
- Edition
- Unique piece
- Framed
- No
- Signed
- Yes
Spin the Bottle is a curious glass sculpture designed by artist Lourdes Torgersen. The piece is built from 87 wine bottles glasses (all donated by friends!) that are kiln formed and each hand cut in the center, where they are positioned on a metal pole. LTart created this original textural art piece by using layers of glass and adding cylindrical wood cut in the center and sliced one by one in unexpected places. Only when you rotate around the object and viewed from different angles you can have a full effect. Fusing form and function, the result is a beautiful, unique, poetic, one-of-a-kind sculpture. This remarkable piece took about six months to get ready!
Lourdes Torgersen is a visual artist who was raised overseas and lives in Houston for the last 10 years. Art has always been an important part of her life. Growing up in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and being raised by her artist parents, she learned at an early age to explore and express emotions through the use of varieties of media and materials. She has a bachelor degree in Communications, with specialization in Public Relations, but has started her professional career as a graphic designer. The background on commercial art, allows her to develop ideas by manipulating digital images on Photoshop. When she pieces together fragmented images from memories, formed by moments half observed and then forgotten, she reaches a familiar place where she explores an ambiguous shifting space. Glass becomes the sort of medium chosen where she applies these prospects. In 2007, Lourdes Torgersen started her art business. Since then, Lourdes's energy is devoted to working with glass in recognizing its beauty, multidimensional qualities and allowing the materials to dictate design. The evolution of her work is to allow the glass to free itself into its natural liquid state, directing its flow, and then freezing that shape.
Melvin Thambi