CHIHULY BLACK

Chihuly's black works combine the dominant use of black intensified with the dynamic use of color throughout each blown sculpture. Dramatic contrast forces the eye directly to the form and secondly, to the exuded colors. Burned Drawings, an essay by Dale Chihuly, introduces his series of drawings that radiate a potent energy. Experimental processes such as torching, using metal shavings, iridescents and metallics soon became the primary elements for these drawings.

"I started the Black Series with making the Black Cylinders. I wasn't necessarily going to do anything else in black, but I went ahead and did the Soft Cylinders in black, the Baskets in black, the Venetians in black, the Macchia in black, and about that time I kind of felt it was a series unto itself." Dale Chihuly, 2008

Chihuly Black is the largest formatted publication on the artist's work to date and flaunts a debossed leather-bound cover. Look past the cover and find the silver-tipped pages which lead the way to an awe inspiring collection of twelve fascinating series.

Barbara Rose is the author of American Art Since 1900 and major monographs on several American artists of our time. Currently she is the co-director at the Istituto d'Arte e Architettura, American University, in Corciano, Italy.

Also see the Chihuly Black note card set

2008 hardcover, leather-bound
12 x 15 1/2"
208 pages, 138 color photographs
Essay by Barbara Rose
ISBN: 978-1-57684-166-2
ISBN: 1-57684-166-9


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