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“RECASTING PITTSBURGH AP” (2021), kiln-cast glass from 3D-printed sample, 13 x 16 x 10 inches. All photographs © Norwood Viviano, courtesy of Heller Gallery, New York, shared with permission
“I discover myself trying on the world as a surveyor—telling tales by way of objects,” says Norwood Viviano, whose kiln-cast glass sculptures map iconic metropolis skylines by way of every location’s recognizable industries. Houston oil, Pittsburgh metal, and Portland timber are represented alongside odes to Detroit “Motor Metropolis” and Toledo, “The Glass Metropolis.”
By way of conversations with historians, city planners, demographers, local weather scientists, and statisticians, Viviano research layers of knowledge and lore to construct an understanding of every metropolis. He then undertakes a meticulous means of three-dimensional laptop modeling and printing, mixed with glass-blowing and casting, to create daring skylines and gridded layouts. He maps the distinctive patterns of buildings, roads, and bridges, superimposing them onto objects consultant of every locale, like a sequence of lower crystal tumblers supporting Toledo or an car engine carrying Detroit.
Viviano’s ancestors immigrated from Sicily within the early 1900s. He grew up in Detroit within the Seventies and Eighties, a interval of immense financial upheaval within the metropolis resulting from auto producers’ restructuring efforts and white flight. “I initially wished to look at the facility dynamic between business and the early immigrant inhabitants within the metropolis of Detroit,” Viviano says. “This then led me to analysis different intervals of historical past the place main inhabitants shifts befell and their relationship to fast industrial development and decline.”
Discover extra on Viviano’s web site.
“RECASTING NEW YORK” (2021), kiln-cast glass and digital print framed,12 1/2 x 12 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches
“RECASTING PHILADELPHIA” (2021), kiln-cast glass from 3D-printed sample, 20 1/2 x 12 1/2 x 2 1/2 inches
Element of “RECASTING PHILADELPHIA”
“RECASTING TOLEDO” (2021), kiln-cast glass, 13 3/4 x 13 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches
“RECASTING DETROIT AP” (2021), kiln-cast glass, 16 1/2 x 13 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches
“RECASTING PORTLAND” (2019), kiln-cast glass from 3D-printed sample, 17 1/4 x 17 1/2 x 5 inches
Element of “RECASTING PORTLAND”
“RECASTING CHICAGO” (2022), kiln-cast glass from 3D-printed sample, 23 x 18 x 9 1/2 inches
“RECASTING HOUSTON AP” (2022), kiln-cast glass from 3D-printed sample, 14 x 14 x 13 inches
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#glass
#maps
#Norwood Viviano
#sculpture
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