The author Sylva Petrová, who curates the collection of modern and contemporary glass at the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague, explores the works of art in public, previously sacred, spaces produced by Stanislav Libenský and Jaroslava Brychtová in Bohemia and Moravia in the years 1964–2003. The works of these renowned glass artists, pioneers of mould-melted glass, include windows for St Wenceslas Chapel of St Vitus Cathedral, for St Anne’s Chapel in the Convent of St George in Prague Castle, for Holy Trinity Chapel in Horšovský Týn State Castle, and for the chapel of Špilberk Castle in Brno. Sylva Petrová evaluates these installations in the wider context of their time and the two artists’ collaborative links with architects, but also within the semantic concept of the role of light in sacred architecture. She offers an enriched view of the works of both glass artists, allowing for a new interpretation and thus an updated definition of the artistic legacy of these two partners in art and life.
Publisher: Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague
Concept: Sylva Petrová
Photographs: Gabriel Urbánek, Ondřej Kocourek, George Erml, Russel Johnson, Michal Motyčka, and others
Graphic design: Martin Hlubuček
Edition: English
Size: 29.1 x 22 cm, soft cover
Pages: 118
Reproduction: 88
ISBN 978-80-7101-210-8
Prize: 480 CZK