Biography

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Introduction:

Light, transparency, and the luminosity of its colors are the characteristics of glass that have always enthralled people. As a child I was fascinated by the delicate transparency of flint, of which I saw artifacts in the Museum of Les Eyzies in the Dordogne Valley. The mighty animal bodies in the caves of Lascaux, just outlines, radiated a similar energy. Giacometti’s sculptures in Saint Paul de Vence, the cut-and-pasted paper designs of Matisse, the profiles by Cocteau, Picasso’s ceramics and assemblages: They are simple, raw, have an archaic strength. I saw all of these in my childhood.

Glass is seductive, smooth, can appeal simply with its surface. To go deeper, breaking open the glass, beginning to see its relief. With overlay glass, to unpeel it. Later to work it with hammer and chisel and thermal shocks. It is sensual work and difficult to say whether the path on which the material took me reawakened my memories of childhood or whether the old images guided me.

Although I love harmony, opposites have a magic appeal for me. What are 30,000 years of history, the Dordogne Valley? Today it is Cologne, Paris, Bordeaux, New York. There is the world of elegance, intellectualism, aesthetics and on the other side that of primary nature, of energy. To me, glass unites opposites. That is its appeal and its challenge.