As catalogue published on the occasion of the exposition at Museum Beelden aan Zee, 2011-2012
 
The monumental layout of this well-made book mirrors very well the monumental, architectonic, skeletal sculptures by Jehoshua Rozenman. His valiantly built constructions, in cast glass by the lost wax technique, disavowing all ever-praised qualities of the material glass, stand firm on their bases as silhouettes of abandoned places.

As the shine, brilliance of colours and parallax of transparent glass are not distracting the observer, the subtle tones and stacked layers reveal their strong shapes and forms.
The sculptor, the carver as builder of demolished buildings.
With great photos of the sculptures in the round of works made from 2009 onwards, the book pleads to go and see the real works yourself.

The good essay by Robbert Roos on the process of development of Rozenman’s career is describing terms like decay, ruins, the beauty of ugliness and the material world of Rozenman and make the reader curious to go and see the use of the material by himself.

A book one should read to engrave into your mind which unforgettable shapes and forms the embodiment of glass also can provide. Not as Anti Glass but just obliging the material with one of its diaphanous qualities: opacity and not with the associations Piet Augustijn made with Utopian but just the opposite as warning signs for the dark sides of which humankind’s ideologies are capable of.
 
Angela van der Burght