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Libenský and Brychtová
Cross Head II, 1999-2003
Red glass melted in a mold
104 x 86 x 26 cm
The Gerard L. Cafesjian Collection

CAFESJIAN CENTER FOR THE ARTS

Libenský  /Brychtová: Light through Space opens in Gallery One at the Cafesjian Center for the Arts on April 26, 2014, at 19:00, presenting a selection of sculptures by the internationally recognized Czech artists Stanislav Libenský (1921-2002) and Jaroslava Brychtová (b. 1924). 

Posted 6 May 2014

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“  Glass allows us to build up a harmony between shapes and penetrating light, and to thus define the essence of light - space and to touch the secret of this space.
Stanislav Libenský  and Jaroslava Brychtová, 1995
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Libenský  / Brychtová: Light through Space opens in Gallery One at the Cafesjian Center for the Arts on April 26, 2014, at 19:00, presenting a selection of sculptures by the internationally recognized Czech artists Stanislav Libenský (1921-2002) and Jaroslava Brychtová (b. 1924).
 
Stanislav Libenský and Jaroslava Brychtová are among the leading figures of modern studio glass. Exploring and reassessing the expressive and physical nature of glass, they created a body of work defined with new forms of color and transparency, volume and space, light and spirituality. Despite the political and creative constraints in their native country during the second half of the last century, their art was welcomed and applauded by the international arts community. The artistic legacy of Stanislav Libenský and Jaroslava Brychtová and their role as a creative force in modern sculpture will endure for generations to come.

Stanislav Libenský  and Jaroslava Brychtová 
Credit: Cafesjian Center for the Arts 

Stanislav Libenský  and Jaroslava Brychtová 
Space I, 1991-92
Gray glass melted in a mold
83 x 80 x 14 cm
The Gerard L. Cafesjian Collection
Credit: Cafesjian Center for the Arts 

Stanislav Libenský  and Jaroslava Brychtová 
Heart/ Flower, 1973
Red glass melted in molds
120 x 60 x 30 cm
The Gerard L. Cafesjian Collection
Credit: Cafesjian Center for the Arts 

“Libenský  / Brychtová: Light through Space” includes seventeen sculptures, representing the stylistic and thematic uniqueness of the artists’ oeuvre. Six reverse-relief glass panels, depicting animals are from an early series by the artists. Featured in the exhibition is a group of three sculptures, Space I, II, and III, which reveals the artists’ search for new spatial relationships, allowing insight into the discovery of inner spaces articulated visually by the penetration of light.
 
“Libenský  / Brychtová: Light through Space” is the third presentation of the artists’ work in Armenia, selected from the Gerard L. Cafesjian Collection which is recognized as possessing the greatest number of large Libenský/Brychtová sculptures in the world.  The exhibition organized in celebration of Jaroslava Brychtová’s 90th birthday anniversary, is an appropriate tribute to the couple, whose long, creative collaboration elevated glass as a fine art medium to a new and dramatic aesthetic for modern sculpture”, said Vahagn Marabyan, the Acting Executive Director of the Cafesjian Center for the Arts.
 

The exhibition was organized in collaboration with the artist, Jaroslava Brychtová, and the Libenský / Brychtová Studio in the Czech Republic.
 

Exposition view
Credit: Cafesjian Center for the Arts 

Exposition view
Credit: Cafesjian Center for the Arts 

Exposition view
Credit: Cafesjian Center for the Arts 

The majority of exhibitions presented by the Cafesjian Center for the Arts are derived from the private collection of its main benefactor, Mr. Gerard L. Cafesjian. This collection of more than 5,000 works includes one of the most comprehensive glass collections in the world. 
 
It is particularly rich in the work of the Czech couple Stanislav Libenský and Jaroslava Brychtová, whose collaborative work revolutionized the use of glass as an artistic medium. Other important glass artists in the collection include Dale Chihuly, Bohumil Elias, Pavel Hlava, Jaromír Rybák, Ivana Srámková, Bertil Vallien, Lino Tagliapietra, Mark Peiser, and Hiroshi Yamano. The collection also has substantial holdings in drawing, painting and sculpture by such influential artists as Fernando Botero, Arshile Gorky, Jennifer Bartlett, Lynn Chadwick, Barry Flanagan, Jaume Plensa and François-Xavier Lalanne. 

The Cafesjian Center for the Arts is dedicated to bringing the best of contemporary art to Armenia and presenting the best of Armenian culture to the world. Inspired by the vision of its founder, Gerard L. Cafesjian, the Center offers a wide variety of exhibitions, derived from the Gerard L. Cafesjian Collection of contemporary art. Having celebrated its grand opening in November 2009, CCA continues to exhibit unique works of modern art and offers a diverse program of lectures, films, concerts, and numerous educational initiatives for adults and children. Over one million people have visited the Center annually since its opening.
 
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Yerevan 0009, Armenia 
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