
Baldwin Guggisberg
09.02.2022

Philip Baldwin & Monica Guggisberg
Philip Baldwin & Monica Guggisberg met at Oreffors in Sweden in the 1970’s and learned their metier in Sweden where layering color through blown overlays (originally developed by Simon Gate for the Graal technique at Orrefors) was an “old” 20th century process. Using the same techniques and using Italian cutting techniques (Battuto), originally pioneered by Carlo Scarpa in the 1930’s and 40’s, they opened up a vast and expanding panorama of possibilities. And for the last fifteen years, that is what they have been doing. In their words “Battuto is a style, a manner, a tool of expression. It allows an otherwise shiny glass surface to loose it’s shine, to gain in an earthy, pithy texture, to acquire depth, a matte finish. Combined with layers of colored glass, cut through, it yields a whole new way to “paint” on glass. But the tool is never the expression itself”. With pieces in most of the world’s greatest collections and galleries, their craft has truly become art. Their latest installation “Under an Equal Sky” in Canterbury Cathedral was a commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War.
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