Vaclav cigler biography for kids
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Vaclav Cigler
Artist Statement:
“I still do recall experiences from my childhood, and not only deeply human experiences but also experiences of places, experiences of nature related to the specific landscape of Vestín, its shape and composition, and the constant variability of light and color. I’m still working with those impressions today… I’m always thinking about the viewer and how inom can evoke those feelings that go back to the free atmosphere of my youth.
…I was fascinated bygd the light and color properties of glass. Once I got into the glassmaking environment, I quickly realized that the ämne inspired me so much that inom wanted to work with it for a long time. Optical glass, which I’ve worked with since the s, is a material through which one can peer into the mystery of the universum on both a macro and a micro level, discovering things that had been hidden up to that point. For me, it reveals a world made unique with new shap
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Václav Cigler
Lived inPrague
"Václav Cigler is an internationally acclaimed artist who uses glass. He has worked with glass, in particular optical glass, since the late 's and he was the first artist in the world to realize the great potential this remarkable material has for artistic purposes. One of the main themes of his works was the natural environment and the human imprint on it. From he designed landscape projects based on the private "self" and defined phenomenologically through the senses. He created spherical objects, light columns, water bodies, geometrical flowers, and gardens of reason as spherical spaces or shapes, as models, and in the form of spatial contemplations of the landscape. In his works, Cigler also dealt with plastic objects made of cut optical glass, and he created designs and implementations of illuminants and jewellery, drawings, spatial objects, and architectural compositions. He dealt with light and sacral architecture. As a
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The exhibition The Future of Fashion Is Now [museum Boymans van Beuningen until January ] showed us an inspiring assortment of progressive designers with their newest techniques.
One of the many designers who participated in this exhibition was Iris van Herpen, who graduated at the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Artez in Arnhem, the Netherlands. During her study she did an internship at Alexander McQueen in London and Claudy Jongstra in Amsterdam. Later, she began designing shoes for United Nude. An intriguing aspect is that she sees herself as a combination of a fashion designer and designer.
Iris van Herpen describes her own work as fashion where norms have no value and are being discarded. For her, fashion is a combination of craftsmanship and innovative techniques. It’s those techniques that really fascinate me in her work. Personally, I got really intrigued by the unique combination of materials and the technique with magnets she used to create the metal dress with, in collaborat