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Amy Thai
Professional member
Carrara
Tel. +393923465681
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Undercurrent
Venice, Italy
Amy Thai: The 'Undercurrent' Glass and Marble Series, 2023-2024
The title 'Undercurrent' takes its definition from water – a current moving beneath the surface, in a different direction from any surface current.
Bringing marble blocks from Carrara, the Tuscan quarrying town whose stone has been prized by sculptors for centuries, to a 2023 residency in Venice, Thai found in the city's water the conceptual terms for a new body of work. The weight of the stone against the lightness of the surrounding lagoon established its central tension.
Continuing the cycle in glass, Thai collaborated with Galleria Barovier&Toso in Murano, the Venetian island that has been synonymous with glassmaking since the thirteenth century, pushing the scale at which the medium can be handled, producing large-scale pieces that are elemental in form and capture light within their mass.
Thai works across materials, directly with their inherent character – the weight of marble, the translucency of glass – allowing the natural properties of each to guide her forms, emerging from the organic world. |
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