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Aura VII Torso
Glassmaker: Romanelli, Bruno
Clear glass, cast, sandblasted, and polished. A narrow rectangular pillar indented with the outline of a human torso with a nipple. The surface of the indentation is sandblasted. Within the glass there are various indeterminate misty markings.
History note: Adrian Sassoon, 14 Rutland Gate, London, SW7 1BB
Given by Nicholas and Judith Goodison through the National Art Collections Fund
Depth: 9.9 cm
Height: 41.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1999-04-23) by Goodison, Nicholas and Judith
20th Century, Late#
Production date:
AD 1999
Text from object entry in A. Game (2016) ‘Contemporary British Crafts: The Goodison Gift to the Fitzwilliam Museum’. London: Philip Wilson Publishers: Bruno Romanelli studied at Staffordshire Polytechnic and the Royal College of Art, London. He was studio assistant to Colin Reid before establishing an independent workshop in London in 1996 with the aid of a Crafts Council setting-up grant. He designed the lettering for the Glass Gallery at the Victoria and Albert Museum and has been on the Board and Artistic Advisory Council of North Lands Creative Glass in Scotland and continues to develop and exhibit works internationally. This piece was made using the lost-wax process. It was one of a series of pieces in which the glass described the space around the body rather than the body itself, hence the title. The work was about the idea of memory (i.e. the body is not actually there anymore, just the memory), and the cast was of the artist’s own body.
Bottom
Width 13.1 cm
Top
Width 14.5 cm
Casting (process)
: Clear glass, cast, sandblasted, and polished
Sandblasting
Polishing
Accession number: C.11-1999
Primary reference Number: 27263
Entry form number: 109
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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