Donut
Artist
José Chardiet
(Cuban-American, born 1956)
Date2004
MediumHot-sculpted, cut and polished glass with gold plating
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Leon and Margaret Ellin, 2024
Object number2024.38.15
While living in Providence, Rhode Island, for
fifteen years, José Chardiet created a series
of works inspired by architecture. Although
Donut depicts a building’s façade, the artist
also intended the work to be figurative. The
architectural form references the body with the
round donut as the head and the building as the
shoulders and torso. The plated metal on the
glass surface is like the skin with the transparent
glass akin to looking inside someone’s soul.
Correspondingly, the heart-shaped air bubble is
an integral part of the work. Given the fragility
of glass and the costliness of gold, the idea of
preciousness infuses the work.
On View
On viewLocation
DimensionsOverall: 9 1/4 × 5 1/2 × 2 3/4 in. (23.5 × 14 × 7 cm)- Kotler-Coville Glass Pavilion, 1st floor, gallery, floor
Unknown, Italian
mid-3rd–early 4th century CE
LeatherCraft Company
