Big Arcus/Arcus III

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Object Name: 
Sculpture
Title: 
Big Arcus/Arcus III
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
Czech Republic, Zelezny Brod
Accession Number: 
93.3.26
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 104.1 cm; Base W: 86.2 cm, D: 16.7 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1992-1993
Credit Line: 
Gift of the artists
Web Description: 
Glass can be transparent, translucent, or opaque, and the objects that you see in this area illustrate these three different states. Although this sculpture is opaque, it still holds and reflects light, which is a characteristic unique to glass.

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Libensky, Stanislav (Czech, 1921-2002), Source
1993
Heller Gallery, Source
1993
Brychtova, Jaroslava (Czech, 1924-2020), Source
1993
Category: 
Contemporary
Color: 
blue
gray
Technique: 
molding
cutting
grinding
polishing
Material: 
glass
Copyright: 
© Stanislav Libensky
© Jaroslava Brychtova

Description

Primary Description: 
Transparent blue-gray glass; chunks of glass melted in a mold, cut, ground, polished. Massive solid cast abstract sculpture with modeled non-polished front side and flat back, vertical shape has semi-circular top with elongated sides (front left side tapers in slightly towards base, front right tapers out slightly towards base forming inverted bucket silhouette), overall shallow depth with thickness swelling to widest point at left front, exterior (except for base) tapers to thin irregular undulating edges, sculpture is pierced (upper half, towards left) by recessed semi-circular "key hole" that slices diagonally through thick area towards left front base dividing the sculpture into a narrow "leg" with roughly equal-sided triangular base, and remaining wide base section in shape of obtuse triangle; overall internal veiling, front has overall mold marks, back side is ground and polished flat with scattered bubble indentations; inscribed: on lower right corner of front: "Libenský-Brychtová 92-93".

Exhibitions (2)

Czech Glass Now: Contemporary Sculpture, 1970-2004
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass
Sculpture Gallery
Title Unknown (Heller Gallery)
Venue(s)
Heller Gallery
 

Publications (10)

5000 years of glass (2012) illustrated, p. 221, #278; BIB# 133950
Kiln Forming Glass (2010) illustrated, p. 23; BIB# 110657
Professor Stanislav Libensky and Jaroslava Brychtova: Pioneers of Contemporary Glass Art (2009-06) illustrated, p. 11; BIB# AI99125
Contemporary Glass Sculptures and Panels: Selections from the Corning Museum of Glass (2008) illustrated, p. 43 (fig. 87); BIB# 107478
Contemporary American Glass Art Education: A Handbook (2002) illustrated, p. 66; BIB# 109340
The Corning Museum of Glass: A Decade of Glass Collecting 1990-1999 (2000) illustrated, p. 90, #157; BIB# 65446
Rhinestone Cowboys (1997) illustrated, p. 16; BIB# AI99109
The Past Ten Years of Contemporary Glass (1996) illustrated, p. 613, fig. 9; BIB# AI48527
Recent Important Acquisitions, 36 (1994) illustrated, p. 123, #43; BIB# AI33896
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1993 (1994) p. 15, ill.; BIB# AI95182