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Corning Museum of Glass Presents Commission by Andrew Erdos

The Corning Museum of Glass unveiled its 2013 Rakow Commission: Ghost Walk under Infinite Darkness by Andrew Erdos.

Ghost Walk under Infinite Darkness by Andrew Erdos.
Ghost Walk under Infinite Darkness by Andrew Erdos.
The artwork of Andrew Erdos is pop, sarcastic, and humorous, with a hint of social commentary. His over-the-top installations create a situation of sensory overload, which he sees as a reflection of everyday life in urban culture, especially the culture of New York City. Through the use of futuristic-looking mirrored animal sculptures, vehicles used by the artist to navigate identity and environment, Erdos explores the relationships between nature, technology, and people.

For the Rakow Commission, Erdos pushed the scale of his two-way mirrored boxes with mirrored and dichroic glass sculptures and colored murrine to create an overwhelming sensory experience, a setting of hyper-beauty. “When all your senses are activated is oftentimes when there is a moment of clarity,” says Erdos. The titles of Erdos’ works often reference ghosts and time, which he considers to be core fascinations of humans as physically intangible but always present entities and emanations.

Hear from Erdos on the making of Ghost Walk under Infinite Darkness and read a conversation between Erdos and Tina Oldknow at www.cmog.org/erdos.