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Evanescent: Ilkka Suppanen

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Evanescent
Ilkka Suppanen, 17 March - 13 May 2017

Evanescent: Ilkka Suppanen

Past exhibition
  • Artworks
  • About the Artist
  • The solo exhibition Evanescent  features recent glass sculptures and lightings by the Finish artist and architect Ilkka Suppanen. In a metaphorical way, Ilkka Suppanen suggests a link between water and glass through their ability to turn from solid into liquid and vaporous stages. Architectural, yet delicate, Suppanen’s glass sculptures seem to be in constant change, appearing like ethereal visions in translucent colors from white and pale green to ice blue. In some of the sculptures, Suppanen used silver to enhance the optical illusion of a vibrating silhouette, like a mirage on the horizon of the sea. Made in collaboration with the Murano glass blowers Tiozzo and Claudio Pino Signoretto, the sculptures of Suppanen prolongs the important tradition of Modernist Finnish artists, such as Tapio Wirkkala, working with Murano glass blowers.
    Ilkka Suppanen is further exploring the optical dimension in the  3D printed and hand assembled Porcupine lamps in resin or copper. Porcupine was selected by CNN among the « 15 Most Desirable Objects In The World » in 2016.
  • Artworks
    • Ilkka Suppanen, Crystalize
      Ilkka Suppanen, Crystalize
    • Ilkka Suppanen, Dream, 2012
      Ilkka Suppanen, Dream, 2012
    • Ilkka Suppanen, Dawn. Vanishing Night, 2016
      Ilkka Suppanen, Dawn. Vanishing Night, 2016
    • Ilkka Suppanen, Dusk. Vanishing Day, 2016
      Ilkka Suppanen, Dusk. Vanishing Day, 2016
    • Ilkka Suppanen, Vanishing Arch, 2016
      Ilkka Suppanen, Vanishing Arch, 2016
    • Ilkka Suppanen, Vanishing Tower, 2016
      Ilkka Suppanen, Vanishing Tower, 2016
    • Ilkka Suppanen, Vanishing Barge, 2016
      Ilkka Suppanen, Vanishing Barge, 2016
    • Ilkka Suppanen, Split Moment, 2016
      Ilkka Suppanen, Split Moment, 2016
    • Ilkka Suppanen, Boiling, 2016
      Ilkka Suppanen, Boiling, 2016
    • Ilkka Suppanen, Fission, 2016
      Ilkka Suppanen, Fission, 2016
    • Ilkka Suppanen, Stick Chair, 2017
      Ilkka Suppanen, Stick Chair, 2017
    • Ilkka Suppanen, Porcupine. Resin, 2014
      Ilkka Suppanen, Porcupine. Resin, 2014
    • Ilkka Suppanen, Porcupine. Copper, 2015
      Ilkka Suppanen, Porcupine. Copper, 2015
    • Ilkka Suppanen, Point of view, 2016
      Ilkka Suppanen, Point of view, 2016
    • Ilkka Suppanen, Crystalize
      Ilkka Suppanen, Crystalize
    • Ilkka Suppanen, Dream, 2012
      Ilkka Suppanen, Dream, 2012
    • Ilkka Suppanen, Dawn. Vanishing Night, 2016
      Ilkka Suppanen, Dawn. Vanishing Night, 2016
    • Ilkka Suppanen, Dusk. Vanishing Day, 2016
      Ilkka Suppanen, Dusk. Vanishing Day, 2016
    • Ilkka Suppanen, Vanishing Arch, 2016
      Ilkka Suppanen, Vanishing Arch, 2016
    • Ilkka Suppanen, Vanishing Tower, 2016
      Ilkka Suppanen, Vanishing Tower, 2016
    • Ilkka Suppanen, Vanishing Barge, 2016
      Ilkka Suppanen, Vanishing Barge, 2016
    • Ilkka Suppanen, Split Moment, 2016
      Ilkka Suppanen, Split Moment, 2016
    • Ilkka Suppanen, Boiling, 2016
      Ilkka Suppanen, Boiling, 2016
    • Ilkka Suppanen, Fission, 2016
      Ilkka Suppanen, Fission, 2016
    • Ilkka Suppanen, Stick Chair, 2017
      Ilkka Suppanen, Stick Chair, 2017
    • Ilkka Suppanen, Porcupine. Resin, 2014
      Ilkka Suppanen, Porcupine. Resin, 2014
    • Ilkka Suppanen, Porcupine. Copper, 2015
      Ilkka Suppanen, Porcupine. Copper, 2015
    • Ilkka Suppanen, Point of view, 2016
      Ilkka Suppanen, Point of view, 2016
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