Vitreosity

Cosmovitral, Toluca

Another instance of finding out about a big contemporary work of stained glass from internet sources like YouTube and Flickr, and not from traditional media like magazines or newspapers.

The filmmaking is pure shaky, blurry touristy stuff. What comes across is that this is a big, big commission, some 3,000 square meters of glass... and I'd never heard of it before.

I came across this YouTube video just a few days ago -
Turns out it's the Cosmovitral, in Toluca, just west of Mexico City, Mexico (wikipedia entry for Cosmovitral).

As usual, the next stop was Flickr and as usual I found lots of images, including this of the Sun Man...

All subsequent photos are courtesy of Lucy Nieto's Cosmovitral Flickrset. Not much commentary (busy times), but another video (in spanish) and lots of 'lucy nieto' photos below the fold...

longer video with Spanish commentary

First observation - lots of abstracted birds

and

and

and

and

and

and some birds meld in with figures

and then become more and more figures

and more figures

and closer

and

and close-up of feet

and figures swirling in a vortex

and a closeup of the hands

and long again

and just a little closer

and again

and there are nice shots of the framing metalwork

and this or the sun man area

and this

and finally, photos of the central image the sun man - from longest

and just place long

and closer

Posted by Tom at March 8, 2009 10:53 AM