Narcissus quagliata
Narcissus Quagliata (* 1942 in Rome ) is an Italian visual artist .
life and work
Narcissus Quagliata studied painting in Rome with Giorgio de Chirico in the style of Pittura metafisica . At the age of 19 he emigrated to San Francisco , where he studied painting and graphics with Richard Diebenkorn at the Art Institute and graduated in 1968 with a master's (MFA) in painting. He very soon discovered the material glass , with which he dealt with the phenomenon of light and specialized as a glass artist .
Quagliata works in the USA, Mexico, Europe and Asia, and his work is in private and public collections. Since the 1980s, more and more public space projects have emerged. The dimensions of the works range from smaller sculptures to the largest illuminated glass ceiling with a diameter of 30 meters; the Dome of Light in the station Formosa Boulevard of the subway of Kaohsiung was at Derix-Taunusstein made.
Today Quagliata lives in Mexico City .
Works (selection)
- 1999: Glass dome of the rotunda / entrance hall of Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri in Rome
- 2002: Stained glass window for Grace Cathedral in San Francisco
- 2003: Brushstroke of Discovery , 60 m wall glass painting on metal, Discovery Communications Headquarters, Silver Spring , USA
- 2004: Return to the Cosmos , 11 m × 3 m glass wall, Reforma 115 office building, Mexico City
- 2006: La Seconda Innocenza , glass ceiling with a diameter of 8 m in the Hotel El Santuario , Valle de Bravo , Mexico
- 2008: Dome of Light , glass ceiling of the Formosa Boulevard subway station , the central transfer station in the subway network of Kaoshiung , Taiwan
Works by Narcissus Quagliata can also be found in the following museums: Metropolitan Museum , New York; Renwick Gallery in the Smithsonian Museum , Washington DC; Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan; National Glass Museum, Palacio Real , Segovia, Spain; De Young Museum, San Francisco; Oakland Museum of California, USA.
literature
- Birgitta Lamparth: Where windows come to life . In: Wiesbadener Tagblatt. 4th July 2007.
- Narcissus Quagliata: Painting With Light. Pitture di Luce. Pintando con luz. Il Cigno Galileo Galilei. Rome 1996, ISBN 88-7831-040-9 .
Web links
- Homepage Narcissus Quagliata with catalog raisonné, illustrations and references
Individual evidence
- ↑ Artist Info ( Memento from May 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) and CV ( Memento from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF), Bullseye Projects, Portland (English, accessed on May 8, 2015).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Quagliata, Narcissus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian visual artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rome |