Mino – the flower of paradise
Mino is a lot. A girl's name. A boy's name. In Persian it’s even a name for paradise itself. Mino's beautiful versatility also made it an apt name for this series, designed by Lena Bergström for Kosta Boda Artist Collection. Equal parts imagination and reality, form and color.
The Mino series is mouth-blown in the cabin in Kosta. Glass orbs are attached to a base, then cut up and given their final shape. "I see these sculptures as wild glass flowers, but sometimes they remind me of unruly, curly hair," says Bergström. "I like using materials that all too often are overlooked or simply discarded. The inspiration for Mino came from the shards that are cut off at various process steps, and the thought of how they could be resurrected as minimalist anemones. Thanks to our master glassblowers, we created a wonderful chaos of shards, and the genie was out of the bottle. A crazy, cool, graphic glass ball was born.”
Mino is derived from Anemones, Lena Bergström's acclaimed and beloved series of glass flowers, and was first shown in the tribute retrospective Lena 25+ at Kosta Boda Art Gallery 2021–2022 and later at Galleri Glas in Stockholm in 2022. Mino is included in the Kosta Boda Artist Collection.
