上海玻璃博物馆执行总裁张琳先生受邀参加IGS2018
2018年10月4日
2018年10月4-7日,上海玻璃博物馆执行总裁张琳先生受捷克布拉格国家工艺美术馆馆长Milan Hlaves先生邀请,前往捷克Novy Bor参加今年举办的国际玻璃论坛,以下简称IGS(International Glass Symposium)。
IGS与此次举办地Novy Bor自1982年起就紧密相连,当地玻璃制作公司Crystalex开始邀请来自世界各地的艺术家和设计师,到访当地的工厂,与经验丰富的玻璃工匠见面,将艺术家和设计师脑中抽象的想法变为现实。自此,IGS每三年在当地举办一次。在今年的10月初,Novy Bor再次举办了第13届国际玻璃论坛,论坛已然成为世界级的玻璃盛世,象征着玻璃艺术的业内聚会、创意作品以及新的可能性。数以百计的著名玻璃艺术家来到Novy Bor,与工厂的密切而良好的合作,不仅促进了当地玻璃制作的发展,向世界推广捷克玻璃和玻璃工艺,更重要的是这也代表了当代政府保护重要文化遗产的决心和努力。
张琳先生在此活动上与来自世界范围内的重要玻璃艺术家进行了交流和沟通,为后续上海玻璃博物馆与捷克玻璃艺术界合作奠定了良好的基础。
SHOMG WAS INVITED TO ATTEND IGS2018
October 4th, 2018
Between October 4th and 7th, Mr. Zhang Lin, director of the Shanghai Museum of Glass, attended the 2018 International Glass Symposium (hereafter IGS) held in Novy Bor, Czech Republic, under the invitation of Dr. Milan Hlaveš, director of the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague (Uměleckoprůmyslové museum).
IGS has been connected with the venue city Novy Bor since 1982, when the local glass manufacturer Crystalex began to invite international artist and designer to local factory, to meet the experienced technicians and to transform the abstract concept into reality. Since then, IGS have been held in Novy Bor triennially. At the beginning of October 2018, Novy Bor held the 13th IGS, which already became a world-class glass event and symbolized the industry gathering, the creativity and the new possibility of glass. Hundreds of famous glass artists came to Novy Bor and collaborated with local factories. This collaboration not only improved the development of local glass manufacturing and promoted the Czech glass to the rest of world, but also symbolized the determination and effort of protecting the local cultural heritage by local government.
Mr. Zhang Lin interacted and communicated with glass artists from all over the world in this event, and this communication shall provide a good basis for further cooperation with the Czech glass artists.