“Touch Of Glass” Aruba Glass Beads by Marian Abath

In 2005 Marian Abath started with lampworking (melting glass behind a torch). Now, in 2008, she runs a well equipped glass studio together with her husband Ciro Abath with weekly workshops with only last year over a 100 participants.

Marian has developed her style and this will show from this new exhibition.

Working behind the flame is a way of meditation, a way of stopping the world from running too fast. With glass you work faster when working slow. The melting process and the caracteristiques of the material are a unique way to express oneself.  In this exhibition discarded glass found in the cunucu is used as well as colorful Moretti Glass from Italy, Lausha and Borosilicate or laboratory glass from the US.
Nature is a mayor source of inspiration, but many times it is the glass and the process itself that decide the outcome for Marian.

The Artist:
Marian Abath (1970) has participated in several glass workshops from international renown glass artists during the last couple of years, beside of a lot of experiments and research. She gives workshops glass bead making for beginners and advanced. Recently Marian and Ciro established the Foundation ‘Terrafuse – Arubaglassceramics’ to promote the art of glass, ceramics and metals, where fire is an important unifying forming element.

• The glass furnace, Istanbul/Turkey (2006)
• Michaela Maria Moller, Germany (2006, 2007, 2008)
• JanHein van Stiphout, Netherlands (2006, 2007)
• Jens Muller, Germany, (2007)
• Frans Meeuwsen, the Netherlands (2008)
• Mieke van Schaijk, the Netherlands (ArtSilverClay, 2008)

Unoca, Prins Bernard Cultuurfonds and Stipglas have been and will be supporting this development.

The official opening of “Touch of Glass” will be on Wednesday July 2nd  at 8:00pm at Access Art Gallery located in Caya G.F. Betico Croes 16-18 (mainstreet) in Oranjestad and the collection will be on view (and available for purchase) at the gallery from 10:00am to 8:00 pm from Monday to Saturday.

Also on exhibit will be new works by Ursula Kunst ,Alfonso de Windt, Eef van Der Straten, Elisa Le Juez, and Jean Girigori.

This exhibition will be open from July 2nd to August 15th 2008
Access Art gallery
Caya G.F. Betico Croes 16-18
Oranjestad Aruba
Tel:5887837
accessart@setarnet.aw