Un-frame your mind
Scrolling through the abyss of my digital addiction frustrates me. I need to un-frame my mind. This unrelenting pressure to ‘create content’ is driving me up the wall. Maybe I’ve found a way to do it.
Lothar Böttcher
About Lothar Böttcher
Posts by Lothar Böttcher:
The 7 Glass Wonders
The United Nations declared 2022 the International Year of Glass. Countless events, and activities across the globe took place throughout the year, celebrating glass in all its glory — from science, sustainability, industry and technology, to art, history and culture.
Fired Up! – Celebrating Southern African Glass Art
Fired Up! An exhibition of contemporary Southern African glass art for the United Nations’ International Year of Glass 2022.
Silwerskermfees 2022
It’s not often when one gets a phone call out of the blue where the conversation kicks off around light, optics and sculpture. I answered this call at the beginning of December, to imagine a sculpture which encapsulates lights, camera and action for the Silwerskermfees 2022.
Lathe Riders, Secrets from the Cold Shop – at the Glass Art Society Virtual 2021 Conference
Lathe Riders is an international collaboration of cold workers specifically focussing on their Cold Shop Studio and Cold Working Techniques.
Woman and Man, two parts of a whole
“If the work was, indeed, intended so to combine two motifs in a single object, like a puzzle picture, then it supplies evidence that the purpose of most early art was magical.”
Telescreens – a phenomenological experiment?
Continuing my exploration of digital vs. analogue experienced lives, I have constructed small sculptures as an experiment in phenomenology called Telescreens. These sculptures explore tangible experiences within the digital dystopia of our global lockdown and isolation.
Bohemian and the Freedom to do what you want.
A sluice of possibilities opened at this first international cold workers get-together! Through sharing, doing and conversing we explored the juncture between tradition and craftsmanship, and the freedom to do what you want.
2019 – New Glass Now
It is truly a proud moment to be recognised on this grand international platform for contemporary glass, to be one of the voices intertwining the world of glass and future, twenty-first century art.
South African Glass – The art and societies from my perspective
One thing I have learned from the international glass community is that it is a family with weird cousins, uncles and aunts, some might be scary and others timid or bombastic, everyone differently unique but all are giving, supportive and believe in the magic of glass and its future