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Sabine Marcelis | Seeing Glass Exhibition
Seeing Glass on view at Abel Fragrances, Wellington New ZealandAbel Fragrances opening hours:
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As Sabine Marcelis’s representative gallery in Australia and New Zealand we are pleased to present a small exhibition in Wellington of Seeing Glass artworks to coincide with the unveiling of Merging Blocks, a major installation outside Te Papa. We are grateful to our NZ/Netherlands friends at Abel who are hosting the exhibition. This is a unique opportunity to acquire work by Marcelis in New Zealand.
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Sabine MarcelisSeeing Glass, Off Round Hue 1, Blue , 2023frosted glass, mirror70 x 75 cm -
Sabine MarcelisSeeing Glass, Custom Off Round Hue 1, Red/Bronze , 2023frosted glass, mirror85 x 89 cm
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Sabine MarcelisSeeing Glass, Custom Off Round Hue 5, Rose, 2023laminated glass, mirror80 x 80 cm
In collaboration with Brit van NervenAUD 6,650.00 -
Sabine MarcelisSeeing Glass, Off Round Hue 1, Black , 2023laminated glass, mirror54 x 58 cm
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Sabine MarcelisSeeing Glass, Off Round Thick, Bronze, 2023glass, mirror70 x 62 cmAUD 3,800.00
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Sabine MarcelisSeeing Glass, Off Round Thick, Bronze, 2023glass, mirror85 x 89 cmAUD 6,000.00
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Sabine MarcelisSeeing Glass, Off Round Hue 1, Sunrisefrosted glass, mirror54 x 58 cmAUD 5,000.00
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Sabine MarcelisSeeing Glass, Off Round Hue 2, Sunrise, 2023frosted glass, mirror67 x 126AUD 8,250.00
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Sabine MarcelisSeeing Glass, Off Round Hue 3, Sunrise, 2023frosted glass, mirror137 x 112 cmAUD 16,000.00
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Please note these works are on exhibition and are for sale in NZ.Click Here to see more by Sabine Marcelis
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Sabine Marcelis: Merging Blocks, Te Papa
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Sabine Marcelis is the 9th artist to be commissioned by the Wellington Sculpture Trust for the Colin Post 4 Plinths Project, installed between the forecourt of Te Papa Tongarewa and the Wellington waterfront.
Merging Blocks (2024) marks a significant moment in Marcelis’ practice, bringing an element of scale and permanency to her work not before seen. Mergere—the Latin root from which the word merge stems—means to dip, dip in, immerse, or plunge. Today, merge is a term that implies connection; the coalescence of one thing into another. Marcelis explores this idea through a site-specific work that does not simply attach itself to the four plinths that mark the boundary between the forecourt of Te Papa Tongarewa and the Wellington waterfront, but instead merges with the landscape and its surrounds.
Four mirrored glass volumes, each a slightly different shape, each with slightly different proportions, each with the same mirrored gradient—folding gently in colour from dark to light—have been installed across the four plinths. Their reflective forms, luminous and jewel-like, return the sun’s light to their urban surroundings with changed colour. Rather than sitting atop the plinths, the volumes engage with them, elevating these bluestone pedestals from objects of urban utility to pieces of functional beauty.
In this way, Merging Blocks can be read as a comment on connection and unity; the materiality of its four forms, as a tangible expression. Together, the mirrored blocks and plinths create a harmonious whole, but one that is not singular and one which cannot be contained. During the day, saturated shadows spill beyond each plinth, while their mirrored exteriors remain constantly in motion, reflecting the pattern and pace of the world that surrounds them. John Cage wrote that certain experiences are “invitations to events at which we are already present”, and this is one such work. While nothing outside of the plinths have changed, suddenly the landscape around them appears anew.
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