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Gabriel Loire (French, 1904-1996)

“Symphonic Sculpture” 1975

Sculptured glass, iron, epoxy resin 1,800 x 800 x 800 cm

With walls consisting of panels, made up of 480 sheets of stained glass, this work creates a unique space, filled with light passing through the colored glass. The title of the work means "a symphony performed by light." Of the various forms of stained glass, the work uses the dalle de verre(slab of glass) technique, employing sheets of glass between two and three centimeters thick. The artist, Gabriel Loire, struck the glass to create patterns of cracks, the light being refracted through these to produce an unparalleled, glittering beauty that he refers to as "sculptured glass." The composition of this work presents the world as it was when Loire was a child, expressing it in the formy. of a prose poem. The st was in divided into four sections facing, respectives, east, south, west, and north, and depicting the four seasons of spring, sum-mer, autumn, and winter, allowing visitors to enjoy the changing seasons as they climb and descend the spiral staircase inside. The roof of the tower statudes a panoramic view of the mountain range of Hakone.