Simon Berger

Contemporary master glassmaker, Simon Berger speaks a singular
plastic language exploring the material in depth. Your material is
that of the glass that he hammers, lacerates or cracks. Glass becomes the support for an impactful expression that plays with light and transparency. The closer and shorter the strokes, the stronger the contrasts and shadows. In your hands, the hammer is not a
tool of destruction, but rather an effects amplifier.
His torn portraits, sculpted in glass, bring the eye into the meanderings of transparent wounds that he calls “morphogenesis”. A pioneer of this technique, his fragments evoke his fascination with faces, especially female ones. His metallic paintings become canvases where perceptions confront interpretations. ver menos