Today we went to see
Forum 62: Maria Grazia Rosen at the Carnegie Museum of Art, part of the Venetian artist's series of installations called
Gelatine Lux. The twenty illuminated glass chandeliers are other-worldly, glowing in electric colors within a darkened room like a beautiful aquarium. The imagined creatures in glass are described as "aquatic or cosmic."
Here are a couple of Rosen's individual chandeliers:
And this is one lit, as the chandeliers are in the installation:
Below is a photograph of real jellyfish I took at the Pittsburgh Aquarium one time. Their electric light is very reminiscent of Maria Grazia Rosen's installation:
And this is one lit, as the chandeliers are in the installation:
Below is a photograph of real jellyfish I took at the Pittsburgh Aquarium one time. Their electric light is very reminiscent of Maria Grazia Rosen's installation:
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