Pleiad of Glass 1946-2019
Date:
Jan 1, 2020,
(all day)
Duration -
1461 days
Location - Museum of Decorative Arts, Prague, Czech Republic
All of the exhibited objects document not only the creativity of Czech artists, which in its day foreshadowed the future developments in art glass in the world, but also the technical virtuosity of the master glassmakers that collaborated in the execution of these artworks.
The exhibition Pleiad of Glass 1946-2019, which has consisted of art-exhibition glass objects, has been expanded to include almost 50 large-scale sculptures from the collections of the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague. All of the exhibited objects document not only the creativity of Czech artists, which in its day foreshadowed the future developments in art glass in the world, but also the technical virtuosity of the master glassmakers that collaborated in the execution of these artworks.
Although a number of the exhibited objects are related to the historically significant and renowned presentations of Czech glass abroad after 1957, many of those works have never been shown to the general public in Czechoslovakia, or later the Czech Republic. The exhibition features historical objects that were on display at those international venues, as well as objects that were re-created again, after the original works had remained abroad. The display also contains artist-made versions of their own original artworks that are intended to illustrate the successes achieved at the Montreal Expo ’67 and the Osaka Expo ’70 world’s fairs. The museum has facilitated the restoration of many of these objects from the museum’s holdings for the Pleiad of Glass exhibition and directly initiated the creation of other outstanding glass objects for this display.
