Beschreibung:

signed 'Decredico / Tagliapietra / Zynsky', glass 32cm high, 31cm wide (12.6in high, 12.2in wide) Provenance: A Private European Collection of Studio & Contemporary Glass. This work stems from a short period of fruitful collaboration between the three artists around 1995 to 1997. Alfred De Credico stated of their collaboration at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum (RISD) in 1996: "My interest in the collaborative process lies primarily in the opportunity it affords me to test my artistic voice and question the vocabulary I have been building as "abstraction language." Through the interaction of the glass collaboration I am forced to consider forms and colors that I ordinarily would not bring into play in the construction of my images. These elements are joined with and become part of the drawings I construct on the pasteralli. The result has often been startling to me and consequently raise new questions for me to ask myself both in the process of constructing the next glass vessel in the hot shop and back in my studio when making other art with the materials I am accustomed to using. Working with an artist of the caliber of Toots Zynsky, whose focus is so acute and intense and the excellent craftsman blowers that I have been fortunate to be working with, forces me to rethink moves which can often be taken for granted or assumed in the construction of an image. It is this questioning that causes artistic inquiry to push beyond what is known in order to find the point of resistance at which meaningful images are created. It heightens one's sense of the "formal" in the construction of an image, i.e. structure, shape, form, and space and opens the door through which the creative mind must pass in order to abandon what is known and invent new idioms in the development of artistic language."