Milano
Date2003
Mediumblown, solid furnace worked, sand-cast, sand blasted, and acid etched glass
DimensionsOverall: 25 × 11 × 6 1/2 inches (63.5 × 27.9 × 16.5 cm)
.a Base: 8 × 11 × 6 1/4 inches (20.3 × 27.9 × 15.9 cm)
.d Left Sculpture: 7 × 3 1/2 inches (17.8 × 8.9 cm)
.c Center Sculpture: 20 × 2 1/8 inches (50.8 × 5.4 cm)
.b Right Sculpture: 6 1/2 × 2 1/4 inches (16.5 × 5.7 cm)
Credit LineGift of Moses Luski.
Object number2009.17.1.a-.d
Copyright© José Chardiet.
The images and text contained on this page are owned by Telfair Museums or used by the Museum with permission from the owners. Unauthorized reproduction, transmission or display of these materials is prohibited with the exception of items deemed “fair use” as defined by U.S. and international copyright laws.Label TextInspired by the connections between primitivism in the art of indigenous cultures in North America and Africa with modern and contemporary art, José Chardiet uses a variety of glass-making methods “to create sculptures imbued with a spiritual and inner life.” Blown, assembled, and cast examples of his work represent the diverse style and exploration Chardiet has employed to depict his visual ideas. In Milano, representative of his “still-life” series the artist gives an abstracted, three-dimensional form to a traditional two-dimensional motif-the still-life painting. While Chardiet’s glass sculpture evokes playfulness by using a variety of forms and techniques, the artist finds the interior voids of his work the most relevant. “The interior or void is where all the spiritual power lies, not on the surface.”
José Chardiet received a B.A. from Southern Connecticut State University and a M.F.A. from Kent State University in Ohio. He taught glassmaking at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana for ten years, as well as classes at Pilchuck Glass School in Washington, Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina, and Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Maine. Chardiet works from his studio in Rhode Island.
