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Mark Angus. Glass artist. Artist in residence Valentine Eisch Glass Factory 2006
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Mark Angus. Glass artist.
Artist in residence Valentine Eisch Glass Factory 2006
As an Artist in Residence Mark Angus has been working in the Eisch Glass Factory in the summer of 2006. Through his co-operation with the glass painters and the glass blowers of the factory he has shown that the approaches of a stained glass artist meet with the craft knowledge of a traditional glass blowing factory. Images in light and colour find their effects through the medium glass. The British artist, who has been located in Frauenau for seven years, usually works in stained glass especially for architecture and predominantly for churches.
Biographie von Mark Angus Homepage of Mark Angus
For this body of work Mark Angus painted the interior side of thin bowls, so-called "Mäntel" meaning "coats", with high-firing paints Paradise Colours. After re-heating a glass blower must then picked them up with a gather of hot glass and form by blowing and skilful manipulation into vases or plates.
In the process the painting is included within the glass, and through blowing and shaping it is distorted. The results play with coincidence and chance, call it serendipity, resulting in angels which are sometimes shadowy and always unpredictable.
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The glass pictures, in blown glass and in stained glass, which Angus exhibits in this exhibition in Frauenau reflect a life work which searches for wonder, for the mysterious, for the border realms of life – no matter if he creates angels, as his favourite theme, or with deeply human themes. In his stained glass Angus uses mouth-blown, coloured flat glass and transparent float glass; his panels are painted, guilded, etched, stained , and decorated with engraving and scraffito, and then leaded – or even wired up into little glass packages.
British glass artist Mark Angus has been resident in Frauenau since 1999. He was instrumental in the creation and with the development of the Artist-in-Residence program for the Eisch glass factory, a program that has now run for two years. The program is co-ordinated by Elisabeth Zizlsperger and is expected to bring new impulses and directions for glass blowing and glass working into the future. Mark Angus has now taken his place as the 5th Artist-in-Residence, and the residency concludes with his exhibition "Verzogene Engel". The title means distorted or hidden Angels.
Angels are light-beings, messengers between heaven and earth, companions through the depths, sometimes dangerous sudden breaks of life, as well as guides through life’s calm passages, and yet whom we yet hardly ever get to see. Except, may be, as blurred, distorted figures, who then, quickly, have hidden away, or even might stay long-term close by us, or who might have moved house permanently. And who is to say that these moody creatures would not also be quite spoilt ? (The German meaning of the word Verzogene can also refer to a spoilt child!). The "verzogenen" Angels accompany us as mysterious fellow-travellers through the exhibition as a real discovery journey.
Verzogene Engel
Private view: Friday December 22, 2006, 3 p.m.
Introduction: Jo Hruschka
December 23rd, 2006 – April 12th, 2007
Opening times: Mondays – Tuesday 11 a.m. – 5.30 p.m.,
Saturdays 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. and on request
Elisabeth Zizlsperger
Glashütte Valentin Eisch
Galerie am Museum - Eisch Atelier
Grafenauer Straße 8 - 94258 Frauenau
Tel.: 09926 180868 - E-mail: info@eisch.de - Internet: www.eisch.de
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