Galerie B
Glass Art
Egyptians made glass as early as 4000 years ago. In the twentieth century, the large factories defined glass art up to the fifties. A new period began with the invention of the small studio furnace: The studio glass movement emerged. Independent of glass factories and their large furnaces, many artists were now able to make works of free-blown, non-functional, pure glass art. Glass formed individually by artists spread quickly.
Large museums began to build collections. He fascination of the older matter glass was rediscovered: transparent like nothing or impermeable to light; shiny like polished silver or as rough as sandstone.
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current Exhibition
Bernard Dejonghe
„clear and wild”
25th of April to 10th of September 2010
Bernard Dejonghe began his artistic career as a ceramic artist. After classical studies at the “Ecole des Métiers d’Art” in Paris from 1960 to 1965 where he learned moulding and drawing techniques, he moved to Fontenay-aux-Roses in 1968, in Emile Decoeur’s former workshop, a famous ceramic artist from the beginning of the XXth century. Considering materials as reflection supports, he began his research on enamel on terracotta baked at high temperatures ...
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Outlook
Josepha Gasch-Muche
17th of October 2010 to 17th of February 2011
Josepha Gasch-Muche works with ultra-thin glass splinters, stacking them on top of and next to each other and fixing them in that position. The alignment and density of the stacking determine the structure and order of the art work. The artist from the region of Saarland (Germany), who was awarded the Bavarian State Prize (Bayerischer Staatspreis) does not name her art works, she simply labels them with their date of origin. Her sculptural works give the impression of paintings, a fact Gasch-Muche emphasizes by adding white granules. Light from different angles keeps changing the object’s appearance. The Galerie B will present works by Gasch-Muche from 17 October 2010 to 17 February 2011.
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