"Loughlin unlocks the transcendent peace bestowed by the light of open unpeopled landscapes, that sense of release from self that is the particular gift of the sea, or the dessert, through working paradoxical capacities of glass. Light has entered the studio, and leaves it locked in glass."
Julie Ewington
Sydney - Australia - May 2021
Caterina Tognon - Vetro Contemporaneo
Jessica Loughlin - Architectures of Light
At Caterina Tognon Vetro Contemporaneo Gallery - until October 30 - the beautiful exhibition - Jessica Loughlin - Architetures of Light. Australian artist Jessica Loughlin creates 'architectures of light' inspired by the
austere and infinite Australian landscape. Her works tell of the colour
of distance: the blue of the horizon that is lost at the edge of the
world, the light that changes during the passing of the day, and the
tides – the fluid movement of water, as it flows on the ground. «My
material is both glass and light» writes Loughlin «I use glass to sculpt
light and shadow». Poised between idealised spaces and material
surfaces, Loughlin uses glass – particularly opaline – in an
experimental way, using a limited colour palette from which she creates
infinite shades combined with variations of translucence, opacity and
gloss.
Jessica Loughlin
https://www.theveniceglassweek.com/en/
"The first thing is the light.
Always everywhere.
How it strikes - with brilliant intensity, or gently, with a caress."
Jessica Loughlin - Melbourne - 1975 - is well-known in Australia and USA; in Europe
she is represented solely by Caterina Tognon. This is her second
exhibition in Europe and Italy.
Jessica Loughlin
"A simple and autonomous entity, extraneous to any subject and symbolic reflection that is not the very process of its construction."
Germano Celant
Giampoalo Babetto - Skira Editions - Milan 1996
Giampaolo Babetto - Body Architectures
Giampaolo Babetto - Padua - 1947 - is one of the Masters of the Paduan
Goldsmith School – an artistic movement born in the mid-1950s on the
benches of the goldsmith section of the Pietro Selvatico Art Institute.
For the exhibition Architectures for the Body at Caterina Tognon
gallery - until October 30 - the artist has chosen to work with glass, a fragile material
par excellence, combining it with gold, which is both pliable and
durable. Two materials in antithesis, different and distant in
characteristics and appearance, but harmoniously close in the synthesis
of Babetto’s creations, which inhabit the body and live on its supple
and constantly moving surface.
Giampaolo Babetto
Babetto’s works belong to all the world’s most important museum collections of contemporary jewelry; we recall some of them: Victoria & Albert Museum in London, Musee des Arts Decoratifs in Paris, Metropolitan Museum of Art in NY, Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in NY.
Giampaolo Babetto
Giampaolo Babetto
Please Note
The text has been adapted from the
The Venice Glass Week
website