Nicolas Aubagnac
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light and shadow
poetry of black and white
When night falls, the sky slowly sinks into darkness, as if a little black ink had been poured into a huge glass of clear water. Thus was born the Notte lamp…
I chose glass paste so that the light and dark pigments would mix in the secret of the mold, and under the action of firing. To create this sculpture of light, each piece is fired at 900 degrees for several hours before cooling for 15 whole days!
Each room is necessarily unique, because no two nights are alike.
The Notte lamp is part of the Mobilier National collections.
Mastery, patience, and mystery!
Molten glass requires the talents of an experienced master glassmaker.
What we call "molten glass" is actually pieces of crystal that are mixed with pigments and heated to a very high temperature so that the crystal fuses with the colored pigments.
The art of the master glassmaker is therefore to control the distribution of pigments in his mold and then to control the fusion in order to obtain the desired aesthetic result.
But nothing is visible, because everything happens in the secrecy of the mold...
It takes several days for the oven to gradually reach the required temperature, and several more days for the piece to cool in the mold.
It is only when we break the mold that we discover whether the piece is successful...or needs to be redone!
This element of randomness makes each piece perfectly unique.
KNOWLEDGE OF THE ARTS
Special issue METIERS d’ART 2017
