Vladimir Zbynovsky creates sculptures combining glass and stone.
Vladimir Zbynovsky (Bratislava 1964 - )
Sphère
2003
Yellow optical glass suitable for gray granite
H. 0,50 ; L. 0,90 ; P. 0,90 cm
Inscr. V. ZBYNOVSKY
Inv. MV. 2013.3.1. Achat avec l’aide du FRAM Haute-Normandie
Trained in the 1980s at the Secondary School of Applied Arts where he learned to cut stone, then at the glass department of the Higher School of Fine Arts in Bratislava, Vladimir Zbynovsky has been creating sculptures combining glass and stone. Through skillful technical stages of molding and thermoforming, he adapts glass to stone, exploring the thresholds that come alive in light, and questions the notions of time, memory, the sacred and perception. In 2002, for the annual Verriales exhibition at the Galerie Internationale du Verre de Biot, the artist created in the same way a sculpture formed of a sphere symbolizing the representation of the void and the cosmos. By attracting light into the hollow that extends it, the sphere became an improbable threshold opening onto an unknown area. The following year, Zbynovsky created this sculpture in the same spirit as the previous one but larger in size, initially intended to be presented outdoors.
EXPOSITIONS
2004 - Salon d'art contemporain de Strasbourg (St'Art) (23 janvier - 25 janvier 2004).
2009 - Mémoire de verre - De l'archéologie à l'art contemporain. Musée archéologique du Val d'Oise, Guiry-en Vexin (8 juin - 28 décembre 2009).
2010 - Mémoire de verre - De l'archéologie à l'art contemporain. Musée départemental des Antiquités, Rouen (2 février - 26 mai 2010).
2013 - Vladimir Zvynovsky - Seuils. Musée du Verre, Conches (2 mars - 2 juin 2013).
PUBLICATIONS
ROY Nathalie, Mémoire de verre - De l'archéologie à l'art contemporain, Oeuvres contemporaines. Ed. Musée départemental des Antiquités, Rouen, 2010 (fascicule p. 5).
LOUET Eric, Vladimir Zbynovsky - Seuils. Ed. Musée du Verre, Conches, 2015. p. 27.
LOUET Eric, Acquisitions 2013-2014. La Revue des Musées de France. Ed. RMN 2015. p. 102.
