Topic: face sculpture/box

[flying free]

Well I have no idea what it is to be honest.  I bought it because I really really would love a Bengt Edenfalk thalatta vase.....  (a nice ariel or graal piece might suffice though )  but that is unlikely to ever happen.
 
So when I saw this, I just could not resist.  I think it is absolutely fascinating.  Especially since it came as a lidded box.  I don't think the two pieces are supposed to be together really but they came together and were bought by the previous owners together.
However, I have absolutely no idea where it has come from.
I have searched interminably and zilch so far.  There may be a number of possibles but nothing I have been able to pinpoint.  I had one artist who I thought may have been the originator but have lost the link  :thud:
So, I'm passing the puzzle over and if anyone knows?  that would be fantastic    I believe it was bought originally in Denmark.

Many thanks and I hope you like it.
m

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[a40ty]

No idea, but it's lovely, well done! :hiclp:

[flying free]

thanks   
The design is all internal.  I wonder if the  face texture, which looks like millions of bubbles, may have perhaps been orginally a material of some sort?  I think the eye is amazing - it looks at you, very weird.
I did find somewhere, a reference to someone experimenting with ink and bubbles etc, but I lost the link  -  so annoying - and now I can't remember who it was they were referring to.
m

[Cathy B]

It almost looks like some sort of fibrous stuff that's burnt away and vanished in the process, leaving only trails of bubbles. :sm: Or maybe not, just an idea   :ooh:

[chopin-liszt]

I'm keeping my beady eyes on this - it's fascinating and lovely.
It has a lot of the features I love about Benny Motzfeldt's work - strange inclusions. I wondered if it might have been glass fires used to create the effect.
I don't think it looks like a Benny piece, but I'm still watching and waiting to find out what it is.
I'd have grabbed it too.... if I'd seen it, and if M. wasn't looking, and if I had a spare place I could sneak it into, and if I had any spare cash!

[flying free]

thanks all   Cathy yes, I thought maybe 'something' textile ish may have been used to create the face effect.  Sue, I knew you'd like it as well and it does have something Benny ish about it.  Can I ask what do you mean by glass fires?  I've tried to look that up but I don't understand terminology that well so I'm probably looking in the wrong place.
I seem to have exhausted my entire list of Scandinavian designers who did bubbles, texture etc (not to say I've exhausted them all, but the ones I have been able to find and recall) and moved onto maybe Czech.  But I keep coming back to Scandinavian.  Bertil Vallien was mentioned when I bought it but I discounted him on the basis it would presumably have been signed and it didn't look like any of the sculptures I had seen that he has made.
Also I did find my link and it was to do with Bengt Edenfalk but I misremembered what I had read and it talked about experimenting with 'dies'    not inks!  I'll keep going.
I wonder if it is either a quite early piece from someone and has some age to it, or is from a young designer perhaps?
Strangely on one of my searches I came across some Kubus glass lidded boxes from Wilhelm Wagenfeld - it looks as though it may be paired with a box that looks similar to one of those (but I couldn't match the size so probably not his)- but that led me onto yet another area.

I'll let you know if I find out any more.
m

[Cathy B]

Glass fires = glass fibres? That would be possible, the little bubbles might be trapped as the fibres were marvered in, then reheating makes them disappear?

[a40ty]

I too am keepin an eye on this thread
I'm 100 % certain that the box part isn't WW as they aree more rounded and made of matt glass ( if matt is the right term )

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Bertil Vallien did do texture in glass in the 60's and 70's but I don't think it's him either.
I look forward to "hearing" more
a40ty

[chopin-liszt]

 :ooh:

Typo, I did mean glass fibres, yes, sorry.
As in fibreglass, angel hair for xmas trees, house insulation, and optic cables.....boat building material....