×

Subscribe to our newsletter

Highlights From the Previous Week, Partnered Events and Haikus. View our Newsletter archive

Tora Urup: In Colours and Layers

Jan 28, 2016

Danish glass artist Tora Urup’s work questions conventional understanding of how material reacts.

Scroll right to read more ›
Text by Lise Coirier
Photography by Stuart Mclntyre

Tora Urup is a Danish independent glass designer and artist working with different manufacturers, individual craftsmen and factories in the Czech Republic and Japan. Channelling an intimate approach, she focuses on how we might experience and perceive common objects anew, both as functional and individual pieces. Her glass pieces could be described as ‘visual interpretations of the known objects.’

Urup exploits the structure, colour and thickness of glass to produce a body of work that questions our conventional understanding of how this material reacts. Her pieces are often shown at Galerie Maria Wettergren in Paris, France. She is also the co-founder of Butik for Borddækning, a gallery and shop specialized in tableware in Copenhagen, Denmark. •

Glass Is Tomorrow is a European network, which aims at establishing more fluid exchange of knowledge and competencies between glass and design professionals in the north, south, east and west of Europe. Glass Is Tomorrow is initiated and organized by Brussels-based creative agency Pro Materia, which also publishes TLmagazine with Paris-based publishing house Bookstorming.

Main image
Tora Urup: Clear Cylinder with Floating Cooper Bowl.
Blue and Blue Layers
Blue and Blue Layers
Clear Cylinder with Floating Cooper Bowl
Clear Cylinder with Floating Cooper Bowl
Clear Mat Cylinder with Floating Azure-Blue Bowl
Clear Mat Cylinder with Floating Azure-Blue Bowl
Dish Azure Blue and Clear
Dish Azure Blue and Clear
Dish lacquered and Clear
Dish lacquered and Clear
Clear Layers
Clear Layers
Azure and Clear Layers
Azure and Clear Layers
Back

Articles you also might like

Curated by Fondazione Lino Tagliapietra together with Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, Lino Tagliapietra: The Origins of a Journey is a comprehensive exhibition of work by the Italian glass artist, now on view at the Ca’ Rezzonico, Museo del Settecento Veneziano in Venice.

For TLmag38: Origins, Laura Daza Carreno wrote about the archaeology of colour and applying the study of ancient colourants and the knowledge of traditional colour making to better understand human evolution.

Fabienne Verdier recently opened an exhibition titled, “The Song of Stars”, at the Musée Unterlinden in Colmar. Curated by Frédérique Goerig-Hergott, the show presents 92 works that respond to the museum’s collection and architecture, including the iconic Isenheim Altarpiece by Grünewald. This exhibition, along with several others she had last spring, are discussed in an article that originally appeared in our S/S 2022 issue.