Disco Dragons

Artist: Micke Johansson
Height: 33 cm
Diameter: 22 cm
Technique: Double-ariel
Edition: Unique
Delivered signed by the glass artist with certificate.

Taught by the great masters and raised in the Kingdom of Glass by the glassblowing elite, Micke Johan is extremely creative and has a unique artistic talent. This results in art glass that has never before been possible to produce. It is only now with the ability to handle the 1000 degree glass mass on the glassblower's barrel and shape the glass with the techniques of ariel and graal, that this has become possible. He experiments and challenges the techniques. The Ariel technique, loosely translated as 'spirit of air', was invented by Gustav Bergkvist in 1936 and is considered to be by far the most difficult glassblowing technique. Ariel is an art glass developed from the Grail technique. In the ariel technique, a glass substance consisting of several layers of different colors is processed on the surface of the glass. The result is characterized by the fact that in addition to patterns in different colors, differently shaped air bubbles are included that form formations around the colored patterns.
Micke Johansson has developed his own ariel technique, called MJT (Micke Johan Johansson technique), and he is now the only master in the world to master double ariel with the MJT technique. What is very unusual about Micke Johansson is that he blows, manufactures and designs the art glass himself and all this in world class, where everything is done to perfection.
The name Ariel comes from the air spirit in Shakespeare's The Tempest.
Graal, which is the predecessor of Ariel and was developed at Orrefors and for a long time only made there, got its name from Gustaf Fröding's poem The Grail.