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Luniverre
After many years in fashion and Haute Couture, Marianne
Spottswood chose
to devote her talents to sculpture,working that most diabolical and
duous material,
glass, which in her hands turns into frothy silk, icicles, frozen pools,
satin alike.
Twenty years of hard work and strenuous experimentation later, Marianne
has opened Luniverre,
her gallery in Paris. Just across from the Picasso Museum
gardens, the ideal environment to show her own work which she
will ship regularly
from her studio in Newport Rhode Island, as well as presenting
sculpture by contemporary artists. A bijou gallery in shades of
grey with careful
lighting expressly designed to enhance the difficult presentation of delicate
glass works.
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Marianne Spottswood
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Marianne's
own work is highly original within the Parisian context, unaccustomed to
experiencing surreal screens, low tables carved into layers of
glass, sculpture
and one-of-a-kind necklaces formed out of molten glass, revealing the most
provocative use of a seemingly precarious material. |
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« Illusion is what I'm fascinated by. The intermingling of transparency
and opaqueness,
like the simultaneous melting and freezing that takes place in
the last days
of winter, when the ice begins to crack on the pond in Newport
and the molten
snow freezes up again at night» |
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At once brittle and supple, yielding and powerful, the yin glass plays
to the copper
and steel yang, a sometimes outrageous combination of metals fused
into the pieces. |
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To launch the gallery, Marianne Spottswood will be presenting her recent
work, as well
as sculptures in glass and bronze by Mexican artist Elvira
Hickert, and the
enigmatic soft sculpture in silver and pewter by Scottish
sculptor Ann Murchison. |
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At the end of the year, in honour of the Snow Queen, Luniverre will be
showing a
selection of small sculpture and jewellery, designed by young artists working
in glass and ceramics whom Marianne will be showing on a
regular basis
in the gallery. |
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