Special Exhibition at Hempel Glass Museum April 27-October 20 2024
“TILL – from coarse chaos to exquisite elegance”
by Anett Biliczki
The exhibition offers interiors for two themes: the Ice Age landscape and the aesthetics of decay in the glass industry.
Anett Biliczki’s works are interpretations of experiences in nature, the history of places and special geographical characteristics. Her work is always based on a physical place, where she tries to recreate the atmosphere that she has experienced there. In “TILL – – from coarse chaos to exquisite elegance”, it is the Ice Age landscape that has been the great inspiration
– When you look at the Ice Age landscape, there are many depths that the eye can explore. That is why it is important that the work is free-standing, so that you can move around it and experience it from different angles and maybe spot new deatil, when you see it from a different perspective, Anett Biliczki explains.
The title of this year’s special exhibition points to the nature around the Hempel Glass Museum. TILL is sediment, which is characteristic of an Ice Age landscape like Odsherred. The main work in the special exhibition is an unusually large glass work with dimensions of 170 x 90 cm. It has required many measurements and preliminary drawings, templates in paper, cardboard and flamingo to create such a large work.
The exhibition also shows a number of works that Anett has created as a commentary on the history of glass production. The works are impressions from abandoned buildings at Frauenau in Germany, which for many years were home to a large industrial glass production. The works reproduce an aesthetic of decay, but also a pervasive concern for the fragility of nature in all its forms and refractions.
Anett Biliczki received the Hempel Glass Prize in 2023.