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received the stamp of approval from society and they trust their interests to their own judgement. For people like this my gallery does not have to be in a city.
Glass art, as we understand it today from the effects of your efforts, is a young art form. What exactly is glass art - are we talking about an offshoot of sculpture, of painting or has it earned it place in a category of its own?
Glass art is a young phenomenon in the art world. It began four decades ago. It was recognised that glass - just as much as any other material - is an expressive medium. And art is an expressive medium - a communication which is possible in every kind of material.
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It is in particular the Czechoslovakian glass artists who, not least of all because of their unique training, are also excellent sculptors, painters of graphic artists - in short, an excellent example.
In that case the prejudice that glass art should rather be defined as a handicraft is not true, is it?
Glass has been known of for hundreds of years as an aesthetic material rather than a valuable utility object. This concept is deeply rooted within us.
Since glass is still young as a direction in art and since there are only a few galleries which deal with glass art in a responsible way, the observer does not have many opportunities to grapple with the develop- ments and the content of glass art.
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