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Claes Uvesten

(Sweden, Born 1964)
Claes Uvesten, "Prometheus", sand cast glass sculpture, Sweden 2008.Claes Uvesten, "Prometheus", sand cast glass sculpture, Sweden 2008.
Claes Uvesten, "Prometheus", sand cast glass sculpture, Sweden 2008.Claes Uvesten, "Prometheus", sand cast glass sculpture, Sweden 2008.
Claes Uvesten, "Prometheus", sand cast glass sculpture, Sweden 2008.Claes Uvesten, "Prometheus", sand cast glass sculpture, Sweden 2008.
Claes Uvesten, "Prometheus", sand cast glass sculpture, Sweden 2008.Claes Uvesten, "Prometheus", sand cast glass sculpture, Sweden 2008.
Claes Uvesten, "Prometheus", sand cast glass sculpture, Sweden 2008.Claes Uvesten, "Prometheus", sand cast glass sculpture, Sweden 2008.
Claes Uvesten, "Prometheus", sand cast glass sculpture, Sweden 2008.Claes Uvesten, "Prometheus", sand cast glass sculpture, Sweden 2008.
Claes Uvesten, "Prometheus", sand cast glass sculpture, Sweden 2008.Claes Uvesten, "Prometheus", sand cast glass sculpture, Sweden 2008.
Claes Uvesten, "Prometheus", sand cast glass sculpture, Sweden 2008.Claes Uvesten, "Prometheus", sand cast glass sculpture, Sweden 2008.
Claes Uvesten, "Prometheus", sand cast glass sculpture, Sweden 2008.Claes Uvesten, "Prometheus", sand cast glass sculpture, Sweden 2008.
Claes Uvesten, "Prometheus", sand cast glass sculpture, Sweden 2008.Claes Uvesten, "Prometheus", sand cast glass sculpture, Sweden 2008.
Claes Uvesten, "Prometheus", sand cast glass sculpture, Sweden 2008.
Claes Uvesten, "Prometheus", sand cast glass sculpture, Sweden 2008.
Claes Uvesten, "Prometheus", sand cast glass sculpture, Sweden 2008.
Claes Uvesten, "Prometheus", sand cast glass sculpture, Sweden 2008.
Claes Uvesten, "Prometheus", sand cast glass sculpture, Sweden 2008.
Claes Uvesten, "Prometheus", sand cast glass sculpture, Sweden 2008.
Claes Uvesten, "Prometheus", sand cast glass sculpture, Sweden 2008.
Claes Uvesten, "Prometheus", sand cast glass sculpture, Sweden 2008.
Claes Uvesten, "Prometheus", sand cast glass sculpture, Sweden 2008.
Claes Uvesten, "Prometheus", sand cast glass sculpture, Sweden 2008.
Estimate
30 000 - 50 000 SEK
2 650 - 4 410 EUR
2 760 - 4 600 USD
Hammer price
55 000 SEK
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Sweden: BUS
Finland: Kuvasto

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Claes Uvesten
(Sweden, Born 1964)

"Prometheus", sand cast glass sculpture, Sweden 2008.

Bust in three parts, mounted on an iron stand, signed C. Uvesten, total height approximately 80 cm.

Provenance

The Glassery, Stockholm

Exhibitions

Småland Museum and the Swedish Glass Museum, Växjö 2010, Claes Uvesten, "Robots and Wild Boars"

More information

Claes Uvesten (b. 1964) started his artistic career as a sculptor but transitioned to glass after a revelation during a trip around the world in his late twenties. While snorkeling at Australia's Great Barrier Reef, he was surrounded by a crystalline beauty that he knew could never be expressed in words. Only in glass.

So he sought out Orrefors Glassworks and became an apprentice at Sweden's most prestigious glassworks. While traditional studio glass is based on unity and perfection, Claes Uvesten wanted to embrace chance and fragmentation. He began experimenting with different ways of casting glass, incorporating foreign objects - such as wire mesh and silver threads - into the molten glass, and started assembling his sculptures from multiple pieces of cast glass. His life-sized glass heads are in dialogue with the ancient marble sculptures he admires so much, but at the same time, they reference science fiction, cyberculture, and contemporary street life.

Designer

Claes Uvesten (b. 1964) was educated at Nyckelviken Art School, Orrefors School of Glass, and Pilchuck School of Glass in Seattle, USA. He has been working as a glass artist and designer since 1996. His works are represented at institutions such as the National Museum in Stockholm and the Röhsska Museum in Gothenburg, and they have been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Europe, Mexico, and the USA, as well as in several Swedish galleries.

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