Technique
...Working with blown glass for over 10 years, Nadège Desgenétez refined her technical skills in Seattle as a hot shop team member for Lino Tagliapietra, Dale Chihuly, Dante Marioni, Benjamin Moore, Dan Dailey and others, while developing her sensitivity as an ar tist. She has taught in the USA, Europe and Japan, and is joining the faculty crew at the Australian National University of Canberra in 2005. Although grounded in functional design, her work evolved to explore more intimate themes. As a result she has created many unique sculptures that express her personal memories. Nadège was born in Normandy, France, in 1973, the last child and only girl in a family of four children. ÒI have been inspired by the notion that we often relate to memories from our youth in glamorized or distorted ways. Objects can trigger vivid recollections of such memories...Ó, says Desgenétez. While introspective, her work often is very colorful and possesses a lighthear ted twist. Desgenétez uses the incalmo technique to create forms amplified by stripes, linking the familiar clothing patterns from her childhood to a recurrent theme in her sculptures. ÒA new series, Ôcages dorées’, or golden cages, is my way to talk about little girls, looking at the sense of innocence and quiet beauty inherent to a child’s body. It approaches the issues of misconception, social stereotypes and expectations that children sometimes encounter while growing up.
The pattern I chose to use when creating these figures is the reticello,which has a strong historical significance as a classic and much appreciated Venetian glass blowing technique. It celebrates a sensuous aspect as its distinctive fishnet like pattern evokes femininity. I saw an analogy between using this highly revered technique to make a naked child’s body and the ambiguity found in a certain image of the child’s body. My way of examining that ambiguity is to celebrate the beauty of the body, while the skin is a reticello, evoking more of a beautiful transparent cage than a glamorous fishnet to me.Ó Sarah Nichols cages dorees/ Pittsburgh Glass Center.
Dimensions
7 inches high 34 inches wide 34 inches deep
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