Juliet VLES | Solaris 6 | 2017 | intarsia glass and acrylic on wood | 80x100cm | 32x40x2in | $2,610 SOLD

Art Description

NEW GLASSWORKS

Between 1997 and 2003, I made a great many installations and sculptures of industrial glass - a medium difficult to handle but unique as to its infinite esthetical possibilities. These works were regrouped and shown as « the glassworks ».

The new glassworks that have been created in the course of this year are a logical continuation of the initial series and draw on the technical experience I acquired during that period.

REVERSE GLASS PAINTING

by Leon Taveling (extract)

The technique of reverse glass painting consists in painting the back side of a glass panel which is then reversed so that the mirror image can be viewed through the glass. This art form is known since the Middle Ages. During the 19th century, it became very popular in Bohemia, where local artists used it under the name of « Hinterglasmalerei » for naïve paintings of mostly religious and pastoral motifs.

If the traditional form of reverse glass painting is exclusively figurative and executed with elaborate artisanal precision, contemporary artists have usurped the classical technique to create brute work of industrial glass, inspired by minimalism and arte povera. Conform to this interpretation, Vles’ glassworks freely play with light, transparency and reflexions to create an abstract and luminous oeuvre.

The Solaris series are mosaics of pieces of broken glass, glued on wood panels and inserted, intarsia-like, into an acrylic-painted wooden support. At first sight, the complementary paintings on wood and glass seem to merge into an overall geometric pattern. But as the glass part is still subject to exterior influences like light and reflections, the osmosis of painting and environment continues to create new images, depending on the time of the day and the place where the picture is hanging

Juliet VLES | from the Krypta series: L 112 (beautiful orphans) |  Acrylic, Pencil and Paper on Wood. | 51.2 H x 35.4 W x 2.8 in 

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The KRYPTA series:

Relief and assemblage work, half-painting half-sculpture - geometrical constructions overlaid with painting, drawing and written panels incrusted, intarsia-like, into the supporting frame. The word «Krypta» (from Greek «hidden», «secret») stands for an artistic expression that depicts neither the reality nor the abstraction of our conscious perception of being, but the imago of an unconscious area of the mind not immediately accessible to analytical intelligence.

BEAUTIFUL ORPHANS

After many years of artistic creation, my head has become an orphanage, inhabited by abandoned shapes, ideas and projects – discarded, not for lack of aesthetic or spiritual value, but for being on the wrong place at the wrong time and, for that reason, not compatible with the artistic project of that particular moment.

Instead of quietly going away, as I told them, these beautiful orphans continue to loudly proclaim their birthright of realisation, to squat my studio and to clutter up my computer and my brain.

So, under duress, I decided to accord them the life on canvas, paper or wood they so obstinately claim and thus let them shape their own reality and their own legend. 

Juliet VLES | Solaris 3 | 2017 | intarsia | glass and acrylic on wood | 80x100cm | 32x40x2in | $2,500

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Juliet VLES | Solaris 1 | 2017 | intarsia | glass and acrylic on wood | 80x100cm | 32x40x2in | $2,150

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Juliet VLES | from the brainscapes series: Cerveaulant | Acrylic, pencil and glue on paper and wood | 86.6 H x 78.7 W x 12.2 in  | $35,000

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Juliet VLES | L 73 ,2013, mixed media | collage | writing on paper glued on plywood | 92x92x14cm / 37x37x6 in | $1,650

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Juliet VLES | from the artist's collection : NUMA or the Geometry of Peace | Acrylic and pencil on Canvas | 87.8 H x 150.4 W x 2.4 in. | 2002 | $6,500

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Juliet VLES | L 104 (ways of perception) | acrylic, pencil and glue on Paper and Wood | 35.4 H x 37.8 W x 2.4 in | 2016 | $1,699

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L107  (beautiful orphans)   2016   wall sculpture    mixed media / collage on paper on wood    132x168x16cm / 52.8 x 67.2 x 6.4in | $4,900

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Juliet VLES | L110 (beautiful orphans) | mixed media/collage on wood  | 80x80x11cm | 31.5x31.5x4.3in | $1,250

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Juliet VLES | L109  2016 |  Wall sculpture  | mixed media / Collage on paper on wood  |  112x170x10cm  | 44.8 x 68 x 4in | $4,000

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Juliet Vles | L3 (Hagen)  | Mixed Media on  Paper on Canvas | 150cm x 115cm  | 60" x 46" | $2,600

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Juliet VLES | L 106 (don't pray for Paris) | acrylic, pencil and glue on Paper and Wood | 63 H x 43.3 W x 6.3 in | $4,000

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DON'T PRAY FOR PARIS

This artwork is dedicated to Giordano Bruno and all those who fight authoritarian religions

The KRYPTA series:

Relief and assemblage work, half-painting half-sculpture - geometrical constructions overlaid with painting, drawing and written panels incrusted, intarsia-like, into the supporting frame. The word «Krypta» (from Greek «hidden», «secret») stands for an artistic expression that depicts neither the reality nor the abstraction of our conscious perception of being, but the imago of an unconscious area of the mind not immediately accessible to analytical intelligence. 

L 1 (Lâmina), 2005 mixed media / collage / writing on paper glued on plywood 240x430x6cm / 96x172x2 in | $35,000

Art Description

Lâmina 1, created in 2005, was the first artwork and as such the matrix of the brainscapes cycle, which later splitted in the abstract Krypta series and the figurative/satirical transCerebral work. Technical information: Because of its weight and dimensions, this artwork has to be shipped in several pieces. The potential buyer should be willing to reassemble the picture by his own means. Of course the artist will furnish detailed instructions.