ESPRIT SERIES – THE MEMORY OF THE PEBBLES
The shape that a stone acquires throughout its life is an expression of a balance between inner resistance and the outer forces of destruction. > read more
And they realize that no two stones are alike.
In order to understand a landscape, you need to walk through it. Pictures of landscapes are constructs, integrative acts of perception. And any form of perception involves language: speech acts, stones that speak, like the pebble in her coat pocket.
Sometime later, the realization dawns that stones not only have a cosmogenesis, but also a homogenesis. That’s the moment whan a stone can start to speak and becomes symolic. Or you can invent metapors. The life of a stone, if you so wish, somehow resembles the individual in the way he/she develops and wanders through life.
If you walk through life the way Eva Moosbrugger does, lots of unexpected things might happen. It’s then that the pebble that was meandering for who knows how long may become the source of artistic inspiration.
Just like with Eva Moosbrugger.
In the glassworks of Murano, Eva instructs the maestro with her creative fantasy. He then forms her glass objects to mirror the different shapes of pebbles.
Sculptures of glass, as compared to those of stone, display a mysterious inner dimension that is created by the special effects of light and color in the interplay of inner and outer layers. It’s as if you were looking into them through a window.
Cit. Peter Niedermair in EVA MOOSBRUGGER – PURE. ISBN 978-3-902612-8
Description: ESPRIT SERIES is made of glass, free blown and hot shaped. The inner layer is a composition of selected color-rods, which is covered with multiple layers of opaque glass in lime-yellow. Chiselled openings in the outer layers offer an insight onto the underlying striped glass layers. This way the inner, hidden nature of the form is revealed.
ESPRIT #I, 2016
H 41,8 x 24,3 x 13,9 cm, weight 5,8 kg
ESPRIT #II, 2016
H 37,5 x 26,4 x 13,7 cm, weight 5,4 kg
ESPRIT #IV, 2016
H 37,5 x 24,2 x 14 cm, weight 6 kg
ESPRIT #V, 2016
H 37,3 x 30,2 x 14,6 cm, weight 5,75 kg
ESPRIT #I, 2018
Opaque glass, free blown and hot shaped. Multiple overlays. Inner layer „a canna“, covered with opaque lime-green glass. Sculpted with hammer and chisel to get windows. Surface with HAPTOGLYPH structure. Hand-polished.
H 31 x 28,5 x 13,3 cm, weight 4,9 kg