策展人：霍莉·威廉姆斯

展览时间：2019年4月28日 – 2019年10月13日

展览地点：上海玻璃博物馆 设计新馆 H5临展厅

展览规划及平面设计：协调亚洲

Curator: Holly Williams

Duration: April 28, 2019 – October 13, 2019

Venue: H5 Temporary Exhibition Hall, Design Wing ,Shanghai Museum of Glass

Exhibition Planning and Graphic Design: COORDINATION ASIA Ltd.

“光域”触及未知之事物。理查德·怀特利用玻璃浇铸出柔和的色调，让人联想到自然现象，似乎焕发有一种难以捉摸的内在光芒。这些铸造玻璃作品在外部强硬的几何线条，与内部显现出的柔和而近乎转瞬即逝的形态之间形成了一种张力。通过打通真实空间和认知空间的感觉，怀特利创造了一个虚空和实体之间的对话——负形被点亮成为了正形。

理查德·怀特利从十六岁起在一家彩窗玻璃工作室做学徒，三十多年来一直与玻璃打交道，成为了目前澳大利亚最重要的窑制玻璃艺术家之一。在整个职业生涯中，他一直致力于探索光线穿过玻璃的方式——无论被捕捉或被折射——他精于此道，经常会有惊艳之举。

在本次展览中，怀特利探讨了三个主题：有机的身体结构、建筑中的虚空间和想象中的理想空间。他用生动的造型提醒着我们对于看穿并了解我们身体内部运行方式的渴望。每件作品都要花费数月的时间，用掉几十公斤的玻璃，所有作品的创作都经历过一个在加法和减法之间取得平衡的过程。从模型制作到漫长的铸造和冷加工过程，怀特利由内而外构思他的作品，超越了物质性，将光线封存进实体之中。

Illuminated Space touches into the unknowable. Cast in muted colour tones reminiscent of natural phenomena, Richard Whiteley creates forms that appear to glow with an elusive inner light. These cast glass works hold the tension between the strong geometric lines that define the exterior and the soft, almost ephemeral shapes that emerge from the inside. Disrupting the sense of real and perceived space, Whiteley creates a dialogue between voids and solids – negative space becomes illuminated positive.

Richard Whiteley became an apprentice in a stained-glass studio at the age of sixteen and has spent more than 30 years working with glass, becoming one of Australia’s foremost kiln cast glass artists. Across his career he has been driven to explore the way light moves through glass – either trapped or refracted – has mastered its ability to conjure a sense of wonder.

In this exhibition, Whiteley explores three themes: organic bodily structures, architectural voids and an imagined ideal of space. His visual gestures are a reminder of our desire to see within and know the inner workings of our bodies. Each taking many months to produce and dozens of kilograms of glass, each of these works is made through a balancing act between additive and subtractive processes. From model making through to lengthy casting and cold working processes, Whiteley conceives his objects from the inside out, transcending materiality to encapsulate light in solid form.