Luzia Vogt : New works
Luzia Vogt is fascinated by sugar, both as a foodstuff and a source of pleasure. Once an expensive luxury from the colonies, sugar is now cheap and abundantly available. Luzia literally uses sugar as a material, carving sugar beets which she transforms into porcelain boxes, with Carrara marble lids that glisten like sugar. She also makes Zuckerblumen – snow-white plastic brooches based on granulated sugar with forms that are either severe or fanciful and energetic. Her Sucre earrings look like sweetmeats …
Luzia Vogt, ‘SugarFlower’, brooch, plastic
Luzia Vogt – Brooches: Zuckerblumen – Synthetic material, silver 925, steel – Approx. each: 65 x 70 x 40 mm
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