Fractured Funzione Primaria: Installazione d'Arte in Vetru by Julie Conway

Fractured Funzione Primaria: Installazione d'Arte in Vetru by Julie Conway is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award di Ferru in Belle Arti Competition Category.

FerruBelle Arti· 2023

Fractured Funzione Primaria: Installazione d'Arte in Vetru

by Julie Conway

Client: Illuminata Art Glass Design

A' Design Award di Ferru Winner in Belle Arti Category

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The Design

About Fractured Funzione Primaria: Installazione d'Arte in Vetru

Testu di u Libru: Fractured hè un'installazione in vetru specifica per u locu, creata per spazii interni. L'opera hè cumposta da diciannove pezzi di vetru sopiati à caldu individualmente, chì variighjanu da 254 à 650 millimetri di lunghezza. Ogni cumpunente di vetru hè finitu cù foglia d'oru 24K martellata o specchju cromatu d'argentu. Pezzi di specchju rottu, cavi è elementi d'illuminazione cumpletanu a cumposizione. E superfizie rivistite riflettenu è rifrangenu a luce indentru à a curvatura di ogni forma di diamante. A forma di diamante rapprisenta a vita è i segni chì a vita lascia. L'installazione pò esse riconfigurata per adattassi à diverse stanze.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award di Ferru

Fractured Funzione Primaria: Installazione d'Arte in Vetru hè un vincitore di u premiu A' Design Award di Ferru, una ricunniscenza prestigiosa attribuita à i boni disegni chì rispondenu à i requisiti prufessiunali è industriali aspettati da creazioni ben cuncipite. I vincitori di Ferru dimustranu una grande abilità, una alta specializazione, una cumpresa esperta è a capacità creativa di i so creatori. Si aspetta chì Fractured Funzione Primaria: Installazione d'Arte in Vetru sia una creazione assai apprezzata, ammirata è cara chì hè pratica è innuvatrice. Stu disegnu vincitore di u premiu A' Design Award di Ferru integra e migliori pratiche di u settore è hà caratteristiche tecniche cumpetenti ligate à u sapè fà è à u talentu. Fractured Funzione Primaria: Installazione d'Arte in Vetru hè rispettatu per a so meticulosità è hè cuncipitu per furnisce miglioramenti di a qualità di a vita chì aiutanu à fà di u mondu un locu megliu.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: I enjoy creating spectacular environments with blown glass and light. Chrome mirror coatings and 24K gold refract and reflect light in the bend of each diamond. The diamond represents us, our precious life. Sometimes we have scars or broken pieces that we mend, seeking our reflection in the bent and broken mirrors keeps us on track. We follow the lighted beacon through life's challenges.
Dimensions & Packaging: This installation can be re-configured into any interior space. The exhibition hall at Bellevue Arts Museum shown here is 5.5 meters by 6 meters tall.
Tags: blown glass, glass and light, lighting design, light art, installation, glass mirror,
Production Technology: Fractured is a wall/ room installation with 19 x Individual parts of hot blown glass at various sizes from 254-650 mm long. Each glass component is finished with 24K hammered gold leaf or silver chrome mirror. Broken mirror, cables, lighting elements are included.
Design Challenge: The challenge is always the risk of blowing glass into forms that I’ve have not tried before, then suspending them overhead!! Assembling and installation onsite to fit the room can only be imagined so far in design, then translated into the real 3D world. Breaking large mirrors added to the risk, and discovery of space shuttle tape for mirror pieces that could be removed from the wall, but hold up with strength. All came together onsite for the installation at the museum for the first time.
Research: Forming hot glass is taking molten sand at 2100F out of a furnace and filling the glass with our breath! It is nothing short of an alchemical process that is still quite impressive after 5000 years of history. Glass is utilized as a transcendent material in countless forms.
Inspiration: Fractured is a statement on finding ourselves in our modern society. It is challenging to find our reflection in the mirror, pulled in many directions, focused on many angles, and feeling like we are on a tight wire. Finding peace and tranquility in our ever demanding world is a challenge.
“I say— follow the light.” — Julie Conway
Project Duration: Fractured was a feature site-specific installation in the Bellevue Arts Museum in Washington State for the Glass Biennial "Glasstastic" displayed from November 9, 2018 – April 14, 2019 The piece is also the recipient Winner of LIT Awards Artisan Blown Glass 2018. Light in Theory Awards.
Operation Flow: I loved watching museum visitors interact with this installation. Taking selfies and finding inspiration in the works that reflect themselves. I usually design and install functional works for residential or hospitality locations, that are attractive and design oriented. Fractured was built from an artist statement and interactive theme.
Image Credits: All images shot by Alec Miller / Photographer