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SUNSET YOGURT is a contemporary glass jewellery project by Venetian artist Cosima Montavoci.
Cosima is the maker and thinker, takes her inspiration from her art practice and always listens to what the glass has to say. She's giving Murano glass a contemporary look and getting rid of the dust and stereotypes that come with this beautiful material. SUNSET YOGURT is sculptural and controversial.
The style does not follow any passing by fashion or hype, SUNSET YOGURT always creates evergreen contemporary classics, almost wearable pieces of art.
With SUNSET YOGURTCosima is always trying to break the boundaries of glass. After having had a "traditional" training, she learns from every material, searching for a new technique every time one is perfected.
Her research is driven and effortlessly exploring the boundaries between art and craftsmanship.
SUNSET YOGURT was founded at the beginning of 2016, even though Cosima started her journey with glass in 2005, almost by mistake in Murano, Venice.
Since then, her love and bond with the glass craftsmanship exponentially grew during the years, leading her to open her own atelier and workshop in Venice, Italy since 2006 at the age of 18. Cosima then moved to Amsterdam,Netherlands in 2009 and graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Fine Arts in 2015.
SUNSET YOGURT has been featured in several international publications.
My work originates from sculpture and installation, but finds its turning point in observing the phenomenon of memorabilia. The small objects people take away from exhibitions - postcards, brochures, souvenirs - embody a desire to retain the artistic experience, but often end up forgotten between the pages of a book or at the bottom of a bag.
This awareness leads me to a radical choice:to remove art from the static nature of the gallery, from that place where the public hesitates to ask questions and the artist risks becoming a mythological figure.
I use the human body as an exhibition space, allowing works to be worn, circulate freely, stimulate spontaneous conversations, and continue to live outside the institutional environment of art.
Simultaneously, I feel the urgency to give Murano glass a shake, affirming with punk spirit that "Murano Glass is not dead". Glass becomes a material to reinvent, contaminate, and question, without betraying its history. I refuse total delegation of making - every piece is made entirely by hand by me, from modelling to finishing, safeguarding a direct and inseparable relationship between concept and material.
I define myself as a maker and thinker: a hybrid figure who thinks by making and makes by thinking.
Glass is a wonderful material to which you must dedicate your whole life. It's not a material that comes to you - it tempers you and ends up giving you so much. But it's a material that demands a lot. If you're looking for quick profit, it's not the right path. It requires perseverance. It's like engraving: you have to work with its times, without haste. Glass is like that. It bends you, not the other way around. Better to accept it and let yourself be shaped by it: little by little, you melt.
The Sunset Yogurt project is born from the tension between tradition and renewal, between body and concept. The Thingness collection takes its name from Paul Thek, who, in a Whitney Museum interview, recounts how visiting the Capuchin Catacombs in Palermo led him to recognize "the joy of accepting my thingness" — the joy of accepting one's materiality.
I take up that intuition, but if Thek often expresses it through works that induce unease, I choose to seek the joy he enunciates but never fully stages: a joy embodied in the possibility of looking at the body, even in its fragments, with affection and irony.
The collection also engages with Freud's concept of the Uncanny - what is familiar yet strange, alive yet not alive. I recognize the uncanny in teeth, breasts, eyes, but temper it through humor, so that what disturbs becomes acceptable, shareable, and even playful.
Sunset Yogurt is the magic moment when white-hot glass glows like sunset and takes the consistency of yogurt.
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