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“RECASTING PITTSBURGH AP” (2021), kiln-cast glass from 3D-printed sample, 13 x 16 x 10 inches. All photos © Norwood Viviano, courtesy of Heller Gallery, New York, shared with permission
“I find myself looking at the world as a surveyor—telling stories through 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 City” and Toledo, “The Glass City.”
By means of conversations with historians, city planners, demographers, local weather scientists, and statisticians, Viviano research layers of information and lore to construct an understanding of every metropolis. He then undertakes a meticulous means of three-dimensional pc 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 collection of reduce crystal tumblers supporting Toledo or an vehicle engine carrying Detroit.
Viviano’s ancestors immigrated from Sicily within the early 1900s. He grew up in Detroit within the Nineteen Seventies and Eighties, a interval of immense financial upheaval within the metropolis as a result of auto producers’ restructuring efforts and white flight. “I initially wanted to examine the power dynamic between industry and the early immigrant population in the city of Detroit,” Viviano says. “This then led me to research other periods of history where major population shifts took place and their relationship to rapid industrial growth 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
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#Norwood Viviano
#sculpture
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