PHOTO: Unique glass works will travel from the north of Bohemia to Prague
The United Nations has declared the International Year of Glass this year. A small contribution of the North Bohemian Museum Liberec to this event is the current exhibition Glass without Borders, which will last in the north of Bohemia until 15 May. The exhibition From Liberec will visit the Museum of Applied Arts in Prague.
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Glass without Borders exhibition.
| Photo: Veronika Nováková
The exhibition presents glass works created during last year’s XIV. International Symposium in Novy Bor. It is the work of 44 artists from the Czech Republic and 13 other countries who have found more than helpful understanding and practical help in the workshops of nine glass companies in Nový Bor and the surrounding vocational schools in Bor and Kamenický Šenov.
The four-day glassmakers’ festival takes place every three years, the last year took place at the turn of September and October 2021. pop culture, represent students of art disciplines and their teachers.
For the first time, the symposium was welcomed by a professional airbrusher. Among the biggest attractions was the participation of the American John Dexter, the art director of a number of Hollywood blockbusters from Big Lebowski to Pirates of the Caribbean, or one of the best art glassmakers today, Martin Janecký.
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The Liberec Museum, which has recently been renovated, also offers several permanent exhibitions. Beauty + benefit will guide you through the changes of art styles over the centuries, from different perspectives. The main goal of the new exhibition is to introduce visitors to the development of arts and crafts, materials used and their technological processing. More than a thousand exhibited collection items are complemented by demonstrations of materials, crafts and techniques directly in the exhibition. Contains interactive elements. For example, visitors can touch copies of works of art or try specialized workflows.
The children will be especially interested in the exhibition Touches of the North, which presents the nature of the Jizera Mountains and the Frýdlant region.
The North Bohemian Museum in Liberec is open to visitors for voluntary admission from Tuesday to Sunday.
Veronika Nováková