The Inner Space

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Object Name: 
Sculpture
Title: 
The Inner Space
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
Czechoslovakia, Zelezny Brod
Accession Number: 
97.3.58
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 19.4 cm, W: 11 cm, L: 31.9 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1968
Credit Line: 
Gift of the artist
Web Description: 
Jan Fisar (Czech, b. 1933) worked as a designer for the Czech national glassworks in Zelezný Brod before establishing his private studio in the north Bohemian town of Nový Bor in the 1970s. He gained experience in the mold-melting technique of casting while working with the renowned artists Stanislav Libenský (Czech, 1921-2002) and Jaroslava Brychtová (Czech. b. 1924) on the creation of their monumental glass sculptures for Expo 67 in Montreal, Canada. The Inner Space is an important, early example of glass sculpture in this technique.

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Fisar, Jan (Czech, 1933-2010), Source
1997
Category: 
Studio Glass
Color: 
colorless
bluish green
Technique: 
Mold-Melted
cutting
grinding
polishing
Material: 
glass
metal
Inscription: 
J. Fisar 68
scratched
: 
near base
Fi 68
signature
: 
cast into piece near base
Copyright: 
© Jan Fišar

Description

Primary Description: 
Sculpture, "The Inner Space". Colorless, blue-green tinted glass; mold-melted, cut, ground, polished. Rectangular brushed metal base.

Publications (4)

Kiln Forming Glass (2010) illustrated, p. 23; BIB# 110657
Czech Glass 1945-1980: Design in an Age of Adversity (2005) p. 160, #41; BIB# 87054
The Corning Museum of Glass: A Decade of Glass Collecting 1990-1999 (2000) illustrated, p. 89, #155; BIB# 65446
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1997 (1998) illustrated, pp. 13; 40; BIB# AI95178