The glass artist Anna Martinková focusses her work on traditional hand-worked glass.
She also dedicated herself to design during her studies, but she now tends more towards the path of applied art and looks for connections between geometry, mathematics and symbolism with historical styles in her work.
Anna Martinková is currently studying in the Glass Studio at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague under Professor Rony Plesl and Klára Horáčková. It is important for the author to adopt traditional craft procedures and principles as part of her work. They are based on the level of the very visual form of the objects that she makes.
Apart from the cold casting technique, which can frequently be found in the author’s works, she often also works with hand cut glass. In her latest work, called Compulsion, we can observe her process of adopting decorative stone cutting which is meant to draw attention to the gradually disappearing traditional methods of working glass.
COMPULSION
Apart from the cold casting technique, which can frequently be found in the author’s works, she often also works with hand cut glass. In her latest work, called Compulsion, we can observe her process of adopting decorative stone cutting which is meant to draw attention to the gradually disappearing traditional methods of working glass.
In her latest work, called Compulsion, we can observe her process of adopting decorative stone cutting which is meant to draw attention to the gradually disappearing traditional methods of working glass.
PHENOMENON
Anna Martinková’s work also includes the experimental Phenomenon, in which she works with sintering discarded rocailles and rocaille tubes. We can observe a given tension in these works, which is intended to indicate the fundamental physical phenomena of gravity or magnetism. This is further supported by a special rocaille processing technique that the author has developed herself.
Anna Martinková’s work also includes the experimental Phenomenon, in which she works with sintering discarded rocailles and rocaille tubes.
We can observe a given tension in these works, which is intended to indicate the fundamental physical phenomena of gravity or magnetism. This is further supported by a special rocaille processing technique that the author has developed herself.
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Phenomenon, Master of Crystal 2023
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Mathematically precisely constructed architecture is the main source of inspiration throughout the author’s works. Her objects are based on the symbolism and geometry of gothic, baroque or brutalist structures. The name that has most influenced her work and continues to do so is that of the baroque-gothic architect Jan Blažej Santini Aichel. Her glass statues honour the genius and beauty of his structures with their purity of glass and shape and as such are devoted precisely to him.
Her glass statues honour the genius and beauty of Santini´s structures with their purity of glass and shape and as such are devoted precisely to him.
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