much more than blowing and making bottles

Your house is your museumturned showroom, where he exhibits his art in every corner: unique blown glass pieces, decorated tiles and paintings, many paintings, that he painted throughout his career. Because Ana Manghand, are authored, recognized for its glass designsis above all a visual artist.

He studied at the Prilidiano Pueyrredón National School of Fine Arts and in La Cárcova. “I have been painting and creating since I was 6 years old, when I enrolled in the School of Fine Arts. From a very young age I had the ability to draw, to paint, to do crafts.. I did workshops, clinics. My training enabled me to jump from one specialty to the other. And although I could have worked as a teacher, I never dedicated myself to teaching,” she clarifies.

Ana calls her sculptural, blown glass designs “pieces.” She hates the word “vase” and refers to her work because of its uniqueness, rather than because of the usefulness it may have. “Emptiness is more beautiful than fulfilling a function. These are brilliant pieces. They complete the space. They look beautiful alone, stripped down. They don’t need to have a flower inside. It is better empty than filled with something that distorts the image. Glass has always been luxury, from its origins. “It reflects, it transforms the vision.”

A collection of “blown” candelabras and a series of fire-painted pieces and decorative objects, handcrafted with the vitrofusion techniquewhich melts glass in a furnace using different types of programs, complete their work.

20 years ago I made glass tiles, guards, windows and coverings for bathrooms and kitchens that he sold in glass shops and deco houses. He now specializes in this ancient technique, famous for glass craftsmanship, which has evolved to the point of allowing the creation of the most exotic shapes.

Blowing is a meticulous job, which consists of blow and inject air through a metal tube, to generate interior bubbles and give volume. In this way, everything from lamps to decorative objects can be made that go through several workshops. After blowing comes cutting, then polishing and finally, graining, where the signature is engraved, since these are author’s designs. “The process is not easy. It’s not blowing and making bottles. It’s trial and error,” admits Ana.

Result? “I look for the most provocative, the most bizarre. Not everything I do is trendy. The idea arises and I translate it. With glass you can make objects with a lot of personality, strong, that are distinguished, transcend and give character to the place where you live. They do not go unnoticed. They challenge those who see them. They mark their presence and impose their stamp. The trend today is to have distinctive things that stand out,” says the artist.