Visual Oases in Exceedingly Distracted Times
We spend our lives believing the shadows on the wall in our caves are the real thing. We don’t even want to go outside any more. Our attention is the currency. We spend it freely.
Inspiration
Trapping a Beast Inside the Screen
A Beast trapped inside a screen. A sculpture revealed after the final polish. Lothar Böttcher on the two questions that drive his practice in glass.
Big News for Glass Art in Africa!
Moya African Glass Network turns one. From the origins of glass art in South Africa to our first Glass Safari and the exhibition Glass Now — African Perspectives, here’s the story of how a community found its voice.
Precious Beasts – Carving Crystal Idols
Precious Beasts is an ongoing series of carved sculptural idols, loosely related to prehistoric representations of animals and magical creatures of fantasy.
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.
Woman and Man, two parts of a whole
In his book, Prehistoric European Art (1968), Walter Tobrügge discusses this specific Palaeolithic sculpture, suggesting: “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.
Pocket Lenses II & Notes on past works
Pocket Lenses developed over years. They have become an analogue synonym of our digitally engaged society. Lenses were a natural conclusion to the work I do. Sculpting solid (and sometimes blown) glass by grinding and polishing I invoke light to do crazy things. Light is all around us. It is the substance (or wave) that informs us of our surrounding, bouncing off everything we see.