Mark Tobey
artist
American painter
The collaboration
Tobey and Egidio meet in the early 1960s, and a friendship is born between them from which all their shared work springs. At the root of Tobey’s work lies a spiritual and mystical reflection: in 1918 he embraces the Bahá’í Faith, born in Persia.
The sculptures join Tobey’s gift for giving form to his reflections on “nature and the cosmic forces that guide us” to Egidio’s for translating them into glass. For both, the informal is their way of approaching nature: the sculptures are made of layered pourings of colour, a method Egidio chose to render the “unbroken calligraphy” of Tobey’s works.