“Đs xibiśn seḷbrets hiz sixtiiʈ brʈde n includz, in sm cêsz fr ɖ frst tîm in public, xamplz v wrc fṛm ol pirịdz v hiz c̣rir ṣlctd bî ɖ artist hmslf, includñ wrc strêt fṛm ɖ stydio n a grūp v slfportrits”
Chinese Swimmer Three, 2014, oil and wax on canvas
The Startled Mandarin, 2009. Acrylic and oil.
Professor Diana Green, CBE, Vice-Chancellor of Sheffield Hallam University (1998–2007) (triptych, right wing), c.2006. Oil on canvas, 165 x 80 cm. Sheffield Hallam University
Alan Bennett, 1993. Oil on canvas laid on panel, 110.5 x 122 cm. Portrait Gallery, London
(Posted 9 May 2015. The text is in an older version of Ñspel.)
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“Venis-bêst siblñz Lâra de Santiyana n Aleșandro Diaz de Santiyana r inṭnašnli rnând ātists n dsndnts v ɖ Venīni glaswér diṇsti, istablišt bî Pâlo Venini on ɖ îḷnd v Murano in 1921. In Me 2015, ɖe brñ ɖer eḷgnt sculpčṛl fwmz n culrfl glas pêntñz t YSP’z rfrbišt 18ʈ senčri čapl in ɖer frst evr YC xibišn.
Xperimentešn, risc-têcñ n iṇvešn drîv ɖ de Santiyaṇz’ wrc, fed bî wîdspred travl n c̣laḅrešnz wɖ glasmêcñ xprts acrs ɖ wrld. Aleșandro’z inspirešn z wōtr, ẇč trnzlets t ɖ incredbl trītmnt v ɖ srfis in hiz wrcs, mni v ẇč hv a stroñ, pêntrli qoḷti. Ɖ YSP xibišn includz a siriz v wōl n flor wrcs bî ɖ ātist, wɖ a complex, dāc blac yt mirrd patina, rcwlñ ɖ sens v lcñ intu dīp, rflctñ pūlz.
Crušñ ɖ tipicl blôn silindr, foldñ it in on itslf, z a tecnīc ofn implýd bî Lâra de Santiyana t pṛdys slab-lîc fwmz ɖt r, in a sens, envlops f̣rvr sìld bî ɖ mcñ-prôses. Ɖ ātist rfŕz t ɖm az glasbcs, n ɖe rten a pârfl sens v sīmñ t cnten nolij held in sspenšn. In ɖ čapl, ɖ ātist šoz a lîbrri v ɖz fwmz, t ẇč š rtrnz hbičli, in spešli md bcšelvz.”
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HS-YSP, 2011-15
N5, 2013
Untitled, 2015
Left: Nero CM Liquid Black (Purple), 2009. Right: Alabaster d, 2013
Laura de Santillana: Light Blue, (2013). 104.5 x 117 x 7cm. Photo Fabio Zonta
Alessandro Diaz de Santillana: N22 (2014). 102 x 115.5 x 8.5cm
Alessandro Diaz de Santillana: N33 (2014). 106.5 x 119.5 x 6.7cm
Alessandro Diaz de Santillana: N34 (2014). 104.5 x 117 x 7cm
Alessandro Diaz de Santillana: S1, (2013). Photo: Fabio Zonta
Alabaster D, 2014. Photo: Jonty Wilde
“Kate Robertson looks at glass work by renowned Venetian artist Laura de Santillana.” Photo: Tony Johnson
“Kate Robertson looks at glass work by renowned Venetian artist Laura de Santillana.” Photo: Tony Johnson
“Born in Caslfd, West Ywcšr, Henri Mur (1898–1986) z wn v ɖ most impwtnt artists v ɖ 20ʈ senčri. Đs mêjr xibišn, in c̣laḅrešn wɖ Ɖ Henri Mur Fândešn, têcs a freš aproč t Mur’z wrc bî cnsidrñ hiz pṛfând rlešnšp wɖ land, wč wz funḍmntl t hiz practis n fyld hiz vižl vcabylri.”
Ɖ mistri v ẇt z undr ɖ šrâd z smẇt acin t ɖ mistri in powtri. It z ɖs eḷmnt v ɖ uņon ɖt fasinets m in cevz n ɖ houlz in ɖ sîdz v hilz – y d’nt nô ẇt z ɖr untl y lc n xplor intu ɖm. Mistri plez a lj n inlîvnñ pāt in âr lîvz; nt nwñ bt wntñ t nô, wundrñ n gesñ, qesčnñ n xplorñ. (Henri Mur, 1974)
A fândñ pêtṛn v YSP, Mur wz cmitd t šowñ hiz wrc in ɖ ôpn er, n in ɖ rolñ hilz v ɖ fwmr Dírpāc in ptklr.
Ɖ xibišn nt onli xplorz ɖ ātist’s radicl nošn v plêsñ sculpčr in ɖ landscep – lj-scêl sculpčrz grīt ɖ vizitr on arîvl at ɖ Pāc n r dspled agnst ɖ bytifl n historic visṭz v ɖ Boʈīgādn – bt ɖ impwtns v ŕʈ in Mur’z crietv ʈncñ. Āčroc, Îsbrg, Roci Landscep n nymṛs uɖr drōñz, sm rerli sīn in public, alñ wɖ a renj v sculpčrz xplorñ scêl n ɖ inṭple btwn intrnl n xtrnl spêsz, emfsîz ɖ ātist’s constnt invstigešn v land, fṛm ɖ blac colsìmz v hiz homtân n ɖ rič jioḷji v Britn, t ɖ mistcl ênčnt fwmz v Stônhenj.
Ɖ xibišn olso priznts an oṗtyṇti t xplor ɖ man bhnd ɖ practis wɖ a cerfli ṣlctd dsple v prsnl āṭfacts, nôts, scečz n fôṭgrafs, kretd in c̣laḅrešn wɖ ɖ ātist’s dwtr, Mẹri Mur.
“Soñ fr Col z bytifl, plêfl n enigmatc. Evri tîm I si it I fînd smʈñ ny ɖt I hd’nt īvn nôtist ɖ last tîm. Pāt c̣lîḍscôp, pāt cʈīdṛl rôzwindo, wɖ vôcl myzic ɖt z bʈ reẓlutli seklr n krı̣sli spiričl. Vri prâd t hír ɖ gwjs výsz v ɖ Cwrs v Opra Nwʈ in ɖs pìs.
Dominic Gre, Projcts Drectr at Opra Nwʈ.
Ɖs hîli ivoc̣tv c̣lîḍscopic wrc, instwld in ɖ bytifl n cntmpḷtv 18ʈ senčri čapl, xplorz ɖ fizicl n culčṛl proprtiz v col ʈru rič imijri n soñ.
Soñ fr Col têcs a fwm bêst on ɖ flamboynt trêsri v ɖ apoc̣liptc rôzwindo v Sainte Chapelle, Paris. Brôcn dân intu 152 sepṛt panlz, č sẋn v ɖ rôz hôsts indivijl filmz ɖt três col fṛm ɖ cāḅnifṛs t ɖ pôstindustrı̣l.
Ɖ hymn výs z a sentṛl n pârfl eḷmnt in ɖ comṗzišn v ɖs wrc. Wrcñ wɖ Opra Nwʈ, Cro n Rwlinsn hv crietd a plênsoñ, bêst on Ɖ Colcaṭcizm (1898) bî Wiłm Jaspr Niclz.
Ɖ ātists hv wrct wɖ ɖ c̣lẋn v ɖ Našnl Colmainñ Myziym n Drax Pârstêšn, bʈ wɖn a fy mîlz v YSP, in filmñ sẋnz v ɖ wrc. Ɖe hv olso implýd ɖ rer practis v canlcol carvñ t criet objcts n fiğrīnz ẇč wr lêtr brnd in frunt v ɖ camra.
Nic Cro n Iyn Rwlinsn wrc c̣labṛtvli btwn stydioz in Brlin n Mančestr. Ɖer wrc z primṛli cnsrnd wɖ ɖ lanĝj v pâr, wɖ its gramr n wɖ its reṭric. Ɖer projcts adres qesčnz arnd fêʈ, poḷtcs, našnl îdntti n ɖ invîrnmnt. Rīsnt projcts includ xibišnz at Nwɖn Gaḷri v Cntmprri Āt, Sunḍḷnd, n VlpsVlps, Lundn, n a cmišn fr Ɖ Ẇitẉʈ Ātgaḷri, Mančestr. Ɖ ātists wr ṣlctd fr ɖ Nwɖn Ātprîz in 2009.”
