(2^2) Apothecarium Moderne
Curefor Intelligent Design
Cure for Financial Insecurity’
Cure for Overpopulation
Cure for Erectile Dysfunction
Cure for Family Dysfunction
Cure for Infertility
do, with cabinets and strange
curiosities,” he says. (In con-
trast to Tate’s frenetic energy,
Petrovic is calm, reflective,
more subtle in his humor. “Tim
holds me to blame for his meth-
odology,” he says, adding wryly
that he hopes it’s working
“because that’s a lot of weight
to carry.”)
As much as they share,
however, the two have relied
on their differences when
working together. Petrovic,
based in Essex, Connecticut,
identifies himself as an artist
who is also a hot-glass sculptor.
He creates his idea-driven art-
work from blown, hot-worked,
and flameworked glass. Tate’s
expertise, on the other hand,
is in the warm glass world -
fusing, slumping, and casting.
(The Washington Glass School,
where he is cofounder and cre-
ative director, celebrates its
ioth anniversary in June; it is
now one of the largest warm
glass schools in the country.)
As a mixed-media sculptor, he
incorporates found objects and
interactive media (often video),
into his pieces.
You can see evidence of both
men’s hands in the joint series.
In
Cure fo r Financial Insecurity,
part of
Apothecarium
, Tate’s
cast-glass dollar sign sits atop
the reliquary, which he etched
with a cautionary tale about
Ponzi-scheme king Bernie
Madoff. But it was Petrovic
- someone who enjoys tackling
a tricky problem - who figured
out how to suspend the bingo
cage in his blown-glass dome.
Left:
Apothecarium Modeme
(2010) combines blown,
lampworked, and cast
glass with video and an
array of found ob jects,
including at least one
organic element per
cure. Each reliquary
measures 18 inches high
and 8 inches across.
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