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Gisèle et Régis FIEVET 1948 - Algéria 1951 -France |
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The rapid evolution of these two artists, husband and wife, is quite exceptionnal. Their initiation to glass began at Sars-Poteries and was based on glass-blowing and enamelling.
After having created superb and perfectly mastered works in " pâte de verre ", they have gone on to other techniques. Their creative capacities, the perfect knowledge of the medium, their constant optimism and will, place these artists on the pinacle of French glass artists.
Warren LANGLEY 1950 - Australia |  |
This renowned Australian artist, is interest by the tactile properties of glass, its texture. All his work, whether exhibition or architectural - scale work is very much about the optical effect that texture creates. He wants people, as they walk past his work, to feel that they must touch the surface ...
Antoine LEPERLIER
1953 - France
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Etienne LEPERLIER
1952 - France
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Matei NEGREANU 1941 - Roumania |
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This renowned Roumanian artist, established in France since the beginning of the 'eighties, develops an esthetique of contradiction in order to mask and ornement the transparency of this paradoxal material ... His creations, essential in the contemporary glass mouvement, highly appreciated and sought after by international art collectors, can be seen in numerous museums all over the world.
Jean-Pierre UMBDENSTOCK 1950 - France |  |
Jean-Paul VAN LITH 1940 - France |  |
Known for his huge creative vitality and imagination, Jean-Paul VAN LITH has sought the numerous possibilities of his expression in " Les Arts du Feu ", without ever enclosing himself in any one technique. Streaks caused by the agression of a diamond on the perfectly flat surfaces obtained by months of polishing, can illustrate the ambiguity of his personality. He breaks huge blocks of optical glass, and then joins together the broken, sharp fragments with pieces of ordinary glass. He maintains this constant tension between the expressionist's spontaneity of the gesture and the rigour of a constructor.
Czeslaw ZUBER 1948 - Poland |  |
The day Czeslaw ZUBER made the decision to create new forms by breaking large pieces of cristal, he was doing more than simply bringing about an innovation in glass craft : when he swung his hammer down he broke mans' conceited belief that glass is a medium totally in his power, and proved that materials still hold within them unthought of areas that are beyond their control ...
Toyojiro Hida
Curator of Tokyo National Museum of Modern Art
... and numerous others Contemporary Glass Artists, French and international, to come ...