The International Glass Prize is …
A triennial international glass competition for arts, design and crafts. This first edition is focusing on "THE OBJECT".
"The Object is that tangible thing consisting of lifeless matter, limited in size and autonomously standing, lying or hanging in the space. It is the materialization which serves a purpose or transforms a concept, but where - above all - we can find the essence in the intrinsic quality." - J. MAES
"An expressive object goes beyond a mere fascination of material and process." - J. BOELEN
"It is the one out of many that silently makes itself known, insisting itself on my consciousness without sound, movement, or effort of any kind. It emerges singularly and undeniably from what a moment ago was only neutral background. Without legs ...
"I understand the object as something that must be three-dimensional. It may be functional or it may be non-functional. It may be symbolic or it may be self-referential. It may be animate. The Spanish Jungian scholar, Juan Eduardo Cirlot, ...





