Spazio Nobile At Home, Winter Show, featuring Laura Laine, Golden Hive
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Lise Coirier & Gian Giuseppe Simeone are pleased to invite you in their private villa to discover their new Spazio Nobile collection of contemporary glass sculptures by acclaimed Finnish artist Laura Laine in a surreal Winter Show atmosphere. The seven sculptures came back from her solo exhibition at the Finnish Glass Museum Riihimäki and are inspired by the Flemish and Dutch still-life and vanitas paintings.
“The Dutch and Flemish Golden Age of still life paintings are often regarded in our time as just lavish displays of wealth and an access to rare and exclusive things. The works are seen as superficial shows lacking any deeper meaning"
Helsinki-based artist Laura Laine blends elements of surrealism, fantasy, fashion and art history into her elaborate and intricate illustrations and glass works. Collaborating frequently with the fashion world, but also exhibiting in the art world, her work transports into another realm.
In 2014, she began to transform her creative ideas into glass, bringing with her the fluid, wildly fantastical creative imagination that she has in her drawings into this delicate contemporary medium.
During this Spring-Summer 2024, Laura Laine presented “Nature Morte”, a solo show of glassworks at Suomen Lasimuseo, the Finnish Glass Museum, the largest exhibition to-date in which she revealed unique glass sculptures which are inspired by Flemish and Dutch still-life and vanitas paintings.
She exhibited earlier in a group show at the Dutch National Glass Museum in Leerdam in 2013 (interpreting with new perspectives scientific illustrations by the German zoologist Ernst Haeckel) and had solo shows at Designmuseo Helsinki, "In the Depth of the Sea - The Wet Collection" in 2015 and at Spazio Nobile with “Subtle Bodies” in 2019. The exhibition “Call to the Wild” happened at Maison Louis Carré in 2020-21 in duo with Finnish tapestry artist Kustaa Saksi, an exhibition co-curated by the gallery and the Finnish Cultural Institute as well as many other group shows at Spazio Nobile At Home, Unique Design Shanghai, NOMAD St Moritz... from 2020 until now.
The seven sculptures which are part of Spazio Nobile At Home, Winter Show, Golden Hive, came back from her solo exhibition at the Finnish Glass Museum Riihimäki and are inspired by the Flemish and Dutch still-life and vanitas paintings.
She exhibited earlier in a group show at the Dutch National Glass Museum in Leerdam in 2013 (interpreting with new perspectives scientific illustrations by the German zoologist Ernst Haeckel) and had solo shows at Designmuseo Helsinki, "In the Depth of the Sea - The Wet Collection" in 2015 and at Spazio Nobile with “Subtle Bodies” in 2019.
Photo by Studio YenAn, courtesy of Spazio Nobile
The exhibition “Call to the Wild” happened at Maison Louis Carré in 2020-21 in duo with Finnish tapestry artist Kustaa Saksi, an exhibition co-curated by the gallery and the Finnish Cultural Institute as well as many other group shows at Spazio Nobile At Home, Unique Design Shanghai, NOMAD St Moritz... from 2020 until now.
Photo by Frederik Vercruysse, courtesy of FinnCult & Spazio Nobile
The seven sculptures who will be part of Spazio Nobile At Home, Winter Show, Golden Hive, came back from her solo exhibition at the Finnish Glass Museum Riihimäki and are inspired by the Flemish and Dutch still-life and vanitas paintings.
Photo by Margaux Nieto, courtesy of Spazio Nobile
“The Dutch and Flemish Golden Age of still life paintings are often regarded in our time as just lavish displays of wealth and an access to rare and exclusive things. The works are seen as superficial shows of artistic tricks lacking any deeper meaning, and on the other hand the still-life sub-genre vanitas is often seen only through its characteristic symbolism.
Photo by Margaux Nieto, courtesy of Spazio Nobile
The works were often commissioned and there was a general trend of showing off – skill-wise for the artist and possession-wise for the client. However, I find it interesting how, despite the aim to depict the objects in a desirable and beautiful manner, they might become something a little grotesque. The artist's meticulous effort to create a realistic trompe-l'œil across the entire painting lends it a surreal rather than realistic quality.
Photo by Margaux Nieto, courtesy of Spazio Nobile
Also, the compositions are sometimes surreal and have some kind of accidental beauty to them; when an ambitious attempt of a composition in space does not really succeed, the objects in the painting seem as if they were suddenly hanging in the air,” states Laura Laine.
Photo by Margaux Nieto, courtesy of Spazio Nobile
“I was aiming for a richness in both shape and colour in these new works. I wanted a very maximalist look, so I have also used silvering to achieve gold and pearlescent effects. I always sketch as I plan for the sculptures."
Photo by Margaux Nieto, courtesy of Spazio Nobile
"All the new work is made in Nuutajärvi in Finland (earlier Iittala glassworks). But I had Emil Kovac of Novy Bor (Czech Republic) who came to Finland and Josja Schepman ( Netherlands) who came to blow glass and whom I used to work with in my previous projects such as “Subtle Bodies” for Spazio Nobile.”
Photo by Margaux Nieto, courtesy of Spazio Nobile
Spazio Nobile At Home, Winter Show, featuring Laura Laine, Golden Hive, also includes new collectible art and design works by represented artists and designers Florence Coenraets, Kaspar Hamacher, Åsa Jungnelius, Pao Hui Kao, Laura Laine, Isaac Monté, Bela Silva, Kiki van Eijk,Fabian von Spreckelsen, Vera Vermeersch, Quentin Vuong.
Photo by Margaux Nieto, courtesy of Spazio Nobile
