浮标
Buoy
2001
《浮标》最初是艺术家Steven Weinberg对泡沫塑料标记的一种阐释。渔民用这种标记指示航线线路、渔网或者罗网的位置。浮标随着大海澎湃的波浪起伏，辛勤的渔民在浮标上潦草地写下各种名称和标识。浮标这种物体是大自然与人类历史的双重馈赠。它们成为了一种参照物，是被包含在内的宇宙。通过铸造玻璃的诠释，浮标承担起了象征性标记的责任，为迷路的人指示方向，总能把我们精确地带回到你离开它时的位置。至少浮标赋予了我们信念，那就是我们一定能回到某个曾经造访的地方。在如此浩瀚的大海上，能够重新回到某个精确的位置确实令人惊叹不已，毕竟人类目力所及的参照物少之又少。
The ‘Buoy’ started as my interpretation of Styrofoam markers that are used by working fishermen to signal route, net or trap. Shaped by the power of an unforgiving sea, juxtaposed with names and identifiers scrawled by industrious working hands. The floats are objects, which describe a legacy of both nature and personal history. The buoys become both a referential object and a contained universe. Interpreted in cast glass, they take on the mantle of symbolic markers, accessible to all who search, always bringing us back to the exact location we left them. Or at least giving us faith that we can return to a place that we once had visited. It truly is amazing to be able to revisit a precise spot in an ocean so vast with few visual references for guidance.
艺术家简介 About The Artist
Steven Weinberg
USA/美国
*1954
https://weinbergglass.com
Steven Weinberg是新一代玻璃艺术工作室艺术家的代表。在七十年代初期，Weinberg在Alfred学习陶瓷艺术，但是他很快转换到了玻璃艺术，师从玻璃工作室艺术家先锋AndreBilleci和从英国的皇家艺术学院毕业的苏格兰艺术家EricHilton。1979年Weinberg正式毕业，并开始筹建自己的工作室，独立设计和打造工作室的所有设备，这在七十年代的美国是一种非常前卫的做法。
近30年来，Weinberg一直从事玻璃艺术创作，并以此做为自己的事业，成为一名自由艺术家。他一直在罗德岛的工作室中，不断创作和创新，在这里诞生了众多不同系列的作品。
Born in 1954,Weinberg represents the next generation of studio glass artists. In the early 1970s, Weinberg also studied ceramics at Alfred, but he soon switched over to glass, working with studio glass pioneer Andre Billeci, and the Scottish artist Eric Hilton, who had come to Alfred from London’s Royal College of Art.
Upon his graduation in 1979, Weinberg began to build his studio practice, and in his case, he literally built it, starting with the development and construction of his studio equipment. Although popular now, Weinberg’s interest in kiln-casting and in cutting and polishing glass was quite uncommon in American studio glass of the late 1970s.
Over the 30 years that Weinberg has been working with glass, he has made a living as an independent artist and he has worked as a designer for various companies.