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Scapes: Laura de Santillana and Alessandro Diaz de Santillana
Scapes Laura de Santillana and Alessandro Diaz de Santillana Author:Balkrishna Doshi, David Landau, Francesco Da Rin De Lorenzo This book celebrates Scapes, a gloriously colorful, dynamic new body of work in glass imagined and executed by siblings Laura de Santillana and Alessandro Diaz de Santillana. In addition to having a family history anchored in the traditions of glassmaking in Murano, Italy, both are respected artists in the international Studio Glass movement and... more » have enjoyed successful solo careers. This book celebrates their first collaboration. The art in Scapes is inspired by Hindu cosmology. Alessandro's glass paintings were created from large, color-saturated cylinders that were slumped open into vibrant painterly compositions. Laura's elegantly sculpted forms represent linga, mountains, celestial eggs, and stars. The book includes essays by renowned experts and a DVD documenting the creation of the complex artwork, including interviews with the artists describing the four installations that comprise Scapes. Balkrishna Doshoni is an architect and founder of the Vastu-Shilpa Foundation for Studies and Research in Environmental Design. David Landau is an international businessman, collector, and art scholar. Francesco Da Rin De Lorenzo is an architect with a scholarly interest in glass as an architectural and artistic material.« less