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Over nine days an immersive glass-blowing studio was set up to produce a  sculpture series entitled ‘113’. During the installation glass and copper alloy  objects bought by Bocci at flea markets and antique shops in London were  melted down and used to create a series of intricate sculptures to explore  innovative approaches to material and manufacture and continue long  histories of reuse in metalworking and glass production. \n\n‘113’ is part of an ongoing series of experiments exploring the relationship  between copper alloys and glass by interrogating the discrepancies between their material properties. To create the series a glass form was  blown, and molten copper was poured into the hot glass vessel before  being left to cool. Due to the differences in the two materials cooling rates,  the glass form slowly shattered during the cooling process to leave behind  the copper alloy form. When hot, the metal did not come into contact with oxygen on the glass side of the form meaning that a vivid iridescent outer surface was created with the multiple colours demonstrating the different  alloys present in the object. This outer surface is in vivid contrast to the dark  oxidised finish on the inside of the vessel. The intricate, lace-like form of the  vessel was created by the flow of metal within the blown glass form. The  bought objects were displayed and photographed on a plinth in the Santa  Chiara Chapel in the Medieval and Renaissance Galleries prior to being moved to the garden for melting. At the end of each day the new sculptures were moved to the galleries for display alongside the other sculptures in the series and the objects yet to be melted down. \r\n\r\nOmer Arbel is a multidisciplinary Canadian artist and the founder of design  and research studio Bocci, whose work encompasses art, design,  architecture and research. Arbel was born and raised in Jerusalem until age  thirteen, when his family relocated to Vancouver, Canada. He received a BSc in environmental science from the University of Waterloo, Ontario in 1997  and began an apprenticeship with Catalan architect Enric Miralles the  following year. Miralles’ death in 2000 brought Arbel back to Canada, where he completed his professional degree in architecture and began working at Patkau Architects in Vancouver.  \r\n\r\nArbel typically embraces a research driven, collaborative methodology to  interrogate the mechanical, physical and chemical properties of a chosen medium. Arbel titles all his work with a sequential numbering process that  lends a scientific or algorithmic element to his practice whereby he views every material as worthy of exploration. Through his work he challenges the idea of authorship by allowing an understanding of material and the process of making to dictate the form. His interest in the molecular composition and transformation of materials reduces aesthetics to a secondary consideration, allowing him to embrace and exploit the chance and  imperfection of the making process. Rather than setting out a defined objective, he instead devises a series of constraints within which the making  happens. The ‘core’ recipe remains the same, but each outcome is different,  purposefully unpredictable, and considered an equally valid expression of  the design.  \r\n\r\nBocci is a design and manufacturing company based in Vancouver and  Berlin. Founded in 2005 under the creative directorship of Omer Arbel. Bocci  is committed to fostering a lateral and open-ended relationship between  creative direction and craft. Material Experiments was a collaboration between Omar Arbel and Bocci, under the creative direction of Arbel. 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