"Vladimir Klein, born in Czechoslovakia in 1950, studied at the Academy of Applied Arts in Prague under the noted Czech glass artist Stanislav Libensky. Klein taught and subsequently directed at the glassmaking school in Kamenicky Senov for fourteen years and served as a visiting professor at the prestigious Toyama Institute of Glass Art in Japan which has since become a major hub for artists from the “Heart of Europe”.
Klein also spent nine years as the chief designer for major utility glassmaker Crystalex. He has received many awards for his glass sculptures, which are exhibited in public collections around the world. He has also presented solo exhibitions in the Czech Republic, Germany, the Netherlands, Turkey, Japan and the USA.
Globally renown, Vladimir Klein creates his objects using a unique and challenging technique which he developed himself, involving the use of a hammer and chisel. He frequently combines the resultant surface structure with perfectly polished surfaces, creating a play of lights which fills his objects with life.
Why glass? There's no other material that allows you to express abstract themes so well. With its glitter, transparency, reflections and other specific luminescent traits, you can materialise the immaterial.
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