Ektoplasma No. 20

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Object Name: 
Sculpture
Title: 
Ektoplasma No. 20
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
Austria, Vienna
Accession Number: 
79.3.24
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 38.6 cm, W: 25 cm, D: 12.5 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1977
Primary Description: 
Black, light olive amber glass; pâte de verre. Considerable filling-out and retouching done with colored synthetic resin, probably polyester resin or epoxy. Most of the back has been leveled using this material, and it may make up about 20% of the sculpture. Brass mount on the back clamps underneath the base.

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Maderna, Marianne (Austrian, b. 1944), Former Collection
1979
Color: 
Black, light olive amber
black
Technique: 
Pate de verre
Inscription: 
Maderna 2/7
signature

Exhibitions (1)

Particle Theories: International Pate de Verre and Other Cast Glass Granulations
Venue(s)
Museum of American Glass at Wheaton Village 2005-04 through 2006-01

Publications (6)

Particle Theories: International Pate de Verre and Other Cast Glass Granulations (2005) illustrated, p. 32, no. 36; BIB# 87714
Contemporary Glass: A World Survey from The Corning Museum of Glass (1989) illustrated, p. 138; BIB# 32803
Thirty Years of New Glass, 1957-1987, from the Collection of the Corning Museum of Glass (1987) p. 4; BIB# 2318
Recent Important Acquisitions, 22 (1980) illustrated, p. 101, #55; BIB# AI98082
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1979 (1980) illustrated, p. 7; BIB# AI97143
Contemporary Glass (1977, v. 2) (1978) illustrated, #69; BIB# 21922