Vintage INCALMO New Mexico Saturn
Josh started making Saturn sculptures more than 30 years ago, inspired by space missions that studied the rings of the planet Saturn. The resulting sculptures evoke the idea of matter and energy swirling around a Planet or, more recently, around a black hole singularity. Among the most difficult works Josh creates, they exemplify his mastery of both blown work (the disks) and hot glass sculpture (the Planets).
This unique Saturn was made using the ancient and very difficult “Incalmo” technique, in which the Planet and surrounding disk are fused together while both are hot/molten.
It is 18.5” diameter with a disk of concentric transparent and New Mexico rings, and a 3.5” New Mexico Planet core.
Signed Simpson and serialized 2.7.93
Josh started making Saturn sculptures more than 30 years ago, inspired by space missions that studied the rings of the planet Saturn. The resulting sculptures evoke the idea of matter and energy swirling around a Planet or, more recently, around a black hole singularity. Among the most difficult works Josh creates, they exemplify his mastery of both blown work (the disks) and hot glass sculpture (the Planets).
This unique Saturn was made using the ancient and very difficult “Incalmo” technique, in which the Planet and surrounding disk are fused together while both are hot/molten.
It is 18.5” diameter with a disk of concentric transparent and New Mexico rings, and a 3.5” New Mexico Planet core.
Signed Simpson and serialized 2.7.93
Josh started making Saturn sculptures more than 30 years ago, inspired by space missions that studied the rings of the planet Saturn. The resulting sculptures evoke the idea of matter and energy swirling around a Planet or, more recently, around a black hole singularity. Among the most difficult works Josh creates, they exemplify his mastery of both blown work (the disks) and hot glass sculpture (the Planets).
This unique Saturn was made using the ancient and very difficult “Incalmo” technique, in which the Planet and surrounding disk are fused together while both are hot/molten.
It is 18.5” diameter with a disk of concentric transparent and New Mexico rings, and a 3.5” New Mexico Planet core.
Signed Simpson and serialized 2.7.93
Provenance: Visionary Landscapes Exhibit 1998-2006, Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT
