HUGH FINDLETAR - Flowers in your head
TheFlower Headsd'Hugh Findletarare glass vases, fruits of a fertile and eccentric imagination. Glass vases, yes, but in the shape of a head, whose influences can be mapped and traced throughout...
The Flower Heads d'Hugh Findletar are glass vases, fruits of a fertile and eccentric imagination. Glass vases, yes, but in the shape of a head, whose influences can be mapped and traced throughout the world and into antiquity.
Each Flower Heads has a name (Tess, Chris, Tyron, Agnes, Hugh...). When a house acquires one of them, it adopts it and considers it a guest of the house. Findletar creates custom pieces, made to order, like a portrait designed to reveal the baroque and festive nature of its subject. Findletar brings the portrait back to life as it was done in the past.
When the vases are empty, these expressive faces created by Findletar reveal themselves to us, as powerful as primitive fetishes, reminiscent of artifacts from the Etruscan, Roman or Greek period. Add flowers, and they seem to come alive, as if by magic, topped with richly colored petals... who knows what these unexpected characters are up to behind closed doors?
Photographer by profession, Hugh Findletar grew up in Kingston, Jamaica. He moved to New York City where he honed his eye and developed his artistic gifts before moving to Milan almost 20 years ago. Famous for his portrait work, this multi-faceted artist has always had a passion for all things botanical, so much so that he willingly describes himself, with humor, as a sort of florist.
His discovery of Murano, an island off the coast of Venice famous for its legendary art of glassblowing, is the source of his fascination for works in glass, a material he also works with today. The Flower Heads of Findletar was born after his meeting with the glass artist Oscar Zanetti, descendant of the founder of the Murano glass museum and the glass blowing school.
Meet the forces of nature of Hugh Findletareye-to-eye with the forces of nature, at Leclaireur.