Exhibition: Tomas Bata University Zlí Since the foundation of the glass department of the Amsterdam Gerrit Rietveld Academy by Sybren Valkema in 1966 the works of the students of this department have gone through an enormous change. Starting out in the realm of Studio Glass, developing both techniques and concepts, they ended up producing Fine Arts. The main focus shifted from good craftsmanship, with an eye for perfection, to using glass as a medium for new and challenging ideas. This line of thinking, combining experimental, innovative and interdisciplinary approaches in order to stimulate the artistic and conceptual potential of the students has been at the basis of the Glass Department. Attracting young artists from all over the world, the glass department of the Gerrit Rietveld Academy enjoys a high reputation on an international level. Under the supervision of Caroline Prisse - head of the Department since 2003 and reputable artist and curator - students and their ideas have been challenged to an increasing extend to refine their visual language, expanding their ideas with extensive research. The works selected for the exhibition in the Tomas Bata University in Zlín, deal with these main issues. Geir Nustad (2 nd year Rietveld) for instance developed a new visual language in the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, combining his experience as a craftsman, being trained in Kosta Glass center ( Scandinavia’s most renowned Glass School), with new and refreshing ideas on how we experience Society. In his installation ‘Burned City’, he reflects on how we have come from a hunter -, collector society to a modern consumer society, surrounded by mass production. He created an abstract city, combining burned wood and several glass houses. He chose to burn the wood to make the contrast in the change in society stronger, the way we pollute the planet and poison our self. Several houses are made in the grail technique with petro glyphs (cave-inspired drawings) while others remain in clear or colored glass. Artist: Geir Nustad Title: Burned City Technique: Mold Blown Glass Material: Glass, Recycled Wood Year: 2010 Size: 150 x 185 x 40 cm
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Exhibition: Tomas Bata University Zlí
Since the foundation of the glass department of the Amsterdam Gerrit Rietveld Academy by Sybren Valkema in
1966 the works of the students of this department have gone through an enormous change. Starting out in the
realm of Studio Glass, developing both techniques and concepts, they ended up producing Fine Arts. The main
focus shifted from good craftsmanship, with an eye for perfection, to using glass as a medium for new and
challenging ideas. This line of thinking, combining experimental, innovative and interdisciplinary approaches in
order to stimulate the artistic and conceptual potential of the students has been at the basis of the Glass
Department. Attracting young artists from all over the world, the glass department of the Gerrit Rietveld
Academy enjoys a high reputation on an international level.
Under the supervision of Caroline Prisse - head of the Department since 2003 and reputable artist and curator -
students and their ideas have been challenged to an increasing extend to refine their visual language,
expanding their ideas with extensive research.
The works selected for the exhibition in the Tomas Bata University in Zlín, deal with these main issues. Geir Nustad (2
nd year Rietveld) for instance developed a new visual language in the Gerrit Rietveld Academy,
combining his experience as a craftsman, being trained in Kosta Glass center (Scandinavia’s most renowned Glass School), with new and refreshing ideas on how we experience Society. In his installation ‘Burned City’, he reflects on how we have come from a hunter -, collector society to a modern consumer society, surrounded by mass production. He created an abstract city, combining burned wood and several glass houses. He chose to burn the wood to make the contrast in the change in society stronger, the way we pollute the planet and poison our self. Several houses are made in the grail technique with petro glyphs (cave-inspired drawings) while others remain in clear or colored glass.
Artist: Geir Nustad Title: Burned City
Technique: Mold Blown Glass
Material: Glass, Recycled Wood
Year: 2010
Size: 150 x 185 x 40 cm
Artist: Geir Nustad Title: Burned City
Technique: Mold Blown Glass
Material: Glass, Recycled Wood
Year: 2010
Size: 150 x 185 x 40 cm
Anna Karolina Zajac (graduated Rietveld in July 2010) began her adventure with glass, studying at the Academy
of Fine Arts in her birth city Wroclaw, Poland. Developing her own vocabulary - working with a variety of
materials, including glass, plastic, and fabric– she creates colorful compositions, combining three-dimensional
objects with the notion of a two-dimensional painting. Expressing an inexplicable desire of different materials
and media to be together, she emerges kitsch of everyday life with a picturesque fairy tale view on life in the
twenty-first century.
Artist: Anna Zajac Material: Mixed Media Title: Hacking Forest (1), The Creation (2), Composition (3) Year: 2010 Technique: Mixed techniques Size: (1) 90 x 90 x 10 cm, (2) 100 x 90 x 10 cm, (3) 90 x 90 x 10 cm
Hacking Forest (1) Composition (3)
The investigation of Xandra Paijmans (graduated Rietveld in July 2010) is lead by the curiosity of what our
cultural heritage could look like in the future. How the legacy of physical artifacts and intangible attributes of a
group or society, inherited from past generations, maintained in the present and bestowed for the benefit of
future generations will continue. She wonders if the cobalt blue, glass skull she made is natural or artificial,
what it says about time, about nature, and about art.
The relation between culture and beauty seems to be ever-changing trough out time. Immanuel Kant
considered the beauty of nature no different than the beauty in art, yet today we consider beauty a tool to
manipulate and to be manipulated. Xandra’s artistic research at the Rietveld Academy concerning the relation
between beauty and art has strengthened her belief that the strongpoint of human beings is our imaginary
mind, beauty being the metaphysical anchor point that guides our creative thinking.