M.Saare, D.Reekie and D.Gudovskis
To celebrate its 10th anniversary the Contemporary Glass Society whose aim has been “to encourage excellence in glass as a creative medium and to develop a greater awareness of contemporary glass world-wide” organized an impressive survey exhibition of contemporary international glass in the Riverside Mill gallery (Devon Guild of Craftsmen) at Bovey Tracey, Southern England from September 21 to November 4, 2007. Continue reading
In Eskisehir, one of the biggest university towns in Turkey, a contemporary glass museum was recently opened. The idea and initiative belong to the head of the department of glass of the Anadolu University, ceramist and glass artist Ekrem Kula. Housing the museum is a wonderful example of ottoman architecture, tastefully and delicately restored house with an inner covered yard complete with a fountain. The historical surroundings are at the same time complemented and contrasted by examples of contemporary glass, mostly by glass artists of Turkey. Continue reading
European Glass Context 2008 forms part of a biennial symposium for European
Contemporary glass and ceramics. This biennial symposium takes place on the Island
of Bornholm, Denmark in September and October 2008. For the first time this event
presents contemporary European glass. Continue reading
“The Light and Silence in Sound”
December 7th-25th of 2007
A human being accepts the world through senses. But quite often we would like to share, what we have received. Continue reading
FRAGILE. RECORDED INFLUENCES
September 14th – October 2nd 2007
Hop gallery
Hobusepea 2, Tallinn
open Th – Tu 10 -1 8
Artist Meeli Kõiva gave a presentation at the worlds biggest glass conference.
The presentation, called “Metamorphosis in glass space installations” was given at the Tampere Glass Processing Days in June, which is one of the most distinguished glass conferences in the world. This was the tenth year that the conference took place. Continue reading
ROUND: exhibition of glass at the Albu manor July 11 to july 29, 2007
The exhibition ROUND comprises the latest works of Estonian glass artists.
The Albu manor, originally built in the 18th century, was renovated in 1995-2000. The spacious exhibition area includes several rooms and, as frequently characteristic of manor houses, one can proceed from one room to another through double doors all around the building. Continue reading
Eeva Käsper: Chandelier
Viivi-Ann Keerdo, Eeva Käsper and Tiina Sarapu together with German glass artists Annelie Grund and Werner Kothe were invited to participate in series of events organized by Glasbrücke Berlin.
The evening of June 2nd was a great beginning of the season. There was an open air glass art exhibition in Berlin Glass Night. Hundreds of people gathered in the garden to enjoy art and music. The beautiful garden was a perfect place for the exhibiting and lightning of glass art works. Continue reading
Kersti Vaks (b. 1940) belongs to the generation of Estonian glass artists who began their artistic careers in the 1960-ies. Due to the lack of opportunities at that period to work with glass in Estonia she worked from 1967 to 1972 as a designer at the Byelorussian glass factory Neman, one of the largest in the then USSR.
After her return to Estonia in 1972 she started teaching at the department of glass of the Estonian Academy of Arts (then: State Art Institute of the Estonian SSR). Her ties with the factory continued and thanks to the artist-friendly atmosphere she was able to experiment and work out her own technique, combining lead crystal with sulfide glass. The outcome was complicated three-dimensional drawing, black and white threads of glass creating beautiful graphical worlds inside clear and milky white glass. Her use of colors remained modest, yet nuanced. Her beloved forms – elegant vases, sometimes ground and polished, and simple plates lent her the “canvas” to draw on and reveal the richness of graphical patterns. The inspiration most often has been taken from nature.
Among Estonian glass artists she stands out as one of the very few who have stayed true to blown and furnace-worked glass, although recently she has also sometimes turned to kiln-work as well.
Kersti Vaks’s works will be exhibited at the Finnish Glass Museum in Riihimäki from March 16 to April 24, 2007.
