Breaking the Bottle at Heller Gallery
This great ‘breaking the bottle’ collection has been designed by brooklyn-based artist mark reigelman and is site-specific installation on display and is presented at the Heller gallery in New York City.
The entire collection features twelve household objects, including chairs, lamps, and a bearskin rug, all of them covered in protective layers of broken shards, and are made from the handmade glass defenses found on different fences and rooftops worldwide. The objects from this unique collection are displayed on a pedestal with specific dimensions in order to represent in a creative way the artist’s childhood living room. These twelve glass pieces of “furniture” are placed in a beautiful arrangement in order to create the environment of a normal room but also to suggest a familiar landscape.
All the furniture objects have a green color and crystalline surface texture which tries to evoke the performative topiaries of the outdoors, the innate danger and hostility of glass. The surface takes the role of a barrier, protecting in a great way the objects contained within. Even though it looks untouchable, the functionality of every object is maintained, as for example the lamp’s illumination and the mirror’s reflective properties, all of these tiny elements creating a familiar scene.
