{"id":195769,"date":"2022-04-26T10:57:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T14:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/?post_type=id_news&p=195769"},"modified":"2022-10-27T15:48:09","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T19:48:09","slug":"an-exhibition-showcasing-works-by-jaroslava-brychtova-and-stanislav-libensky-opens-at-heller-gallery-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"id_news","link":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/designwire\/an-exhibition-showcasing-works-by-jaroslava-brychtova-and-stanislav-libensky-opens-at-heller-gallery-in-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"An Exhibition Showcasing Works by Jaroslava Brychtov\u00e1 and Stanislav Libensk\u00fd Opens at Heller Gallery in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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1986\u2019s Moon Face, never before on public view. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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April 26, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n

Words: <\/span>Annie Block<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photography: <\/span>Courtesy of Heller Gallery<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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An Exhibition Showcasing Works by Jaroslava Brychtov\u00e1 and Stanislav Libensk\u00fd Opens at Heller Gallery in New York<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

They were the power couple of the studio glass movement: Jaroslava Brychtov\u00e1 and Stanislav Libensk\u00fd. Innovators of the mold-melting technique, which casts the material into three-dimensional objects, sculptor Brychtov\u00e1 and painter Libensk\u00fd met in 1954 in what\u2019s now the Czech Republic, a center of glass manufacturing and craftmanship for centuries. Together, with him sketching designs and her producing clay sculptures of those designs, they were able to translate abstract concepts into pioneering colorful and light-capturing works that nod to Czech Cubism and metaphysical philosophy; their trio of large-scale sculptures at Expo \u201967 are said to have influenced such American studio glass artists as Dale Chihuly. They and their work certainly influenced Dr. Dudley and Lisa Anderson, who, with the help of Katya and Doug Heller, have amassed a sizeable Brychtov\u00e1-Libensk\u00fd collection, several pieces of which are on display for the first time in \u201cInner Light\u201d this spring at Heller Gallery<\/a> in New York. The exhibition encompasses 19 sculptures from 1958 to 2002, the year of Libensk\u00fd\u2019s death, plus four of his drawings made while he and Brychtov\u00e1, who died in 2020, were teaching at Washington\u2019s Pilchuck Glass School in 1987.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cross Head, a 1988 cast-glass sculpture by \nJaroslava Brychtov\u00e1 and Stanislav Libensk\u00fd, is part of \n\u201cInner Light,\u201d an exhibition of the late Czech couple\u2019s \nwork on view at Heller Gallery in New York from April 9 to May 30.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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One Small Voice, 1987.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Table Laid for a Bride, 1989.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"1986\u2019s
1986\u2019s Moon Face, never before on public view. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n