~DALE CHIHULY GLASS SCULPTURE . . at heart of BBB / BILLIONAIRES BEHAVING BADLY . . with a side of JONNY CAMPOLO
YIKES !! SPIKES !! MELTED FUSION & COLORED LIGHTS !!
this is how ‘hot’ glass art work is right now . . .
from the fringes of the underground / Jonny Campolo’s exhibit in a hardcore indie Gazebo in artist Jonathan Hartshorn’s New Mexico backyard, amongst the random roaming chicken . . .
to the increasingly bitter warring . . of gazillionaire / billionaire Laguna Beach, ocean-front owning California neighbors: Pimco co-founder BILL GROSS vs tech titan MARK TOWFIQ !!
& each worth according to Forbes, over $1.5 billion.
at the heart of their dispute ?
a 20 ft. long / 10 ft. high cobalt blue / aggregate glass outdoor sculpture by Mr. Chihuly, installed by Mr. Gross, on his side of the adjacent property line.
DALE CHIHULY sculpture . . on Mr. Gross’ property / at center of the dispute.
Photo: Los Angeles Times
note: the fact that it can be ‘illuminated’ at night . . probably adds to the controversy.
hey, Jonny’s Calendar Gazebo, fused glass exhibit – could be lit, too.
note: in fact, ‘light’ illumination / goes quite nicely with transparent, or even opaque . . glass works /
apart from the intrinsic, wonderous surface of glass, of any kind,
could it also be: because it’s born from fire / and fire = light ?
the sculpture as seen from the neighbors’ side / the Towfiq family
Photo: Yahoo!finance
the view-obscuring netting / also has something to do with the bad tempers !!
Mr. Gross insists he needs the netting to protect the glass works from the elements, duh.
but, he also seems to be alleging ‘damage’ from a thrown ‘rock’ / in some reports.
JONNY . . was happy to attach his much smaller scaled glass pieces to (paper !!) cardboard & let the elements work . . their magic.
emphasizing the expected entropy . . with glued-on strips of masking tape !!
then again, Jonny’s pieces go for about a grand, maybe a grand and a half, max /
while, Finance.yahoo suggests the Chihuly sculpture array . . tops out at over or about $1 million.
there you have it / glass, glass, everywhere.
from desert to ocean / rural backyard to cliff-hugging mansion.
and at every . . price point !!
from doughnuts to caviar / glass is not just classy / it’s breaking glass ceilings / esp as hot collectibles / and, even for outdoor sculptures per se, which are usually of steel, wrought iron, if not resin, plaster, or wood.
breaking art collecting no-nos / as well as money-class divides . . anybody with a little art smarts – can easily hop onto glass collecting . . band-wagon.
Cinderella’s proverbial glass slipper returns to haunt a covid-fearing nation . . in need of a fairy tale / or at the very least . . . something, very very pretty !!