Presentation
Udo ZEMBOK – glass, glass sculpture.
Permanent artist of the Capazza Gallery since 2016.
“After studying painting, I quickly devoted myself to working with glass. A material that offers unparalleled possibilities in terms of light and color. Painters have always tried to capture light. I very quickly took on this historic quest for light.
I discovered glass techniques in a workshop that carried out commissions for artists in Amsterdam. This medium has fascinated me and for almost 40 years I have been pursuing my personal research. I have developed a special technique for superimposing glass plates, each of which is pigmented with colored glass powders. This block of fused glass, revealed by the light passing through it, expresses color in three dimensions. Our eye defines its physical and scientific reality, but our individual perception opens us up, reveals to us, teaches us who we are. »
- Udo Zembok
“Traditionally, stained glass is revealed by light passing through it. My research proposes a broadening of this concept. A second light source illuminates them from the front and provides a different reading, completing the first One imposes itself naturally on the gaze and the other calls for the active participation of the spectator".
- Udo Zembok
Biography
Born in 1951 in Braunschweig, Germany
1972-1973 Studies of graphic arts with Malte Sartorius at the Ecole Supérieure des Beaux
Braunschweig Arts
1973-1976 Studies in painting with Wilfried Ogilvie at the Alanus des
Bonn/Alfter Arts, Germany
1976-1978 Study and work stay in Amsterdam, Netherlands
Collaboration with the institute of psychology Bout+Partners for the integration of
artistic practices in the training of industry managers.
1978 Settles in France
He lives and works in Menton
Udo Zembok is the winner, with Pascale Zembok, of the competition for the design of a glass arch for the "deployed" Cathedral of Créteil. Architects: AS Architecture Studio, Paris. The artistic proposal is based on a new interpretation of the three constituent colors of light: green-blue-red and their concordance with the symbolism of the Trinity.
The illustrations show the impact of the colored “bands" on the atmosphere and the luminosity of the architectural space.
Dimensions of the glass arch: 57 m long and 2 m wide The realization was entrusted to Peters Glass Studios, Paderborn, Germany.
Honors
2015 Award of Excellence, Habatat Galleries, Royal Oak MI, USA
2009 Kanazawa Glass Award Finalist, Kanazawa, Japan
2006 Coburg Prize for contemporary Glass in Europe, Coburg, Germany
2001 Liliane Bettencourt Prize, Paris
Personal exhibitions (selection)
2022 Guillaume Gallery, Paris
2021 Latitude 43 with Lise Braun Gallery, Saint Tropez, France
Adrian Sassoon Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2018 Capazza Gallery, Nançay, France
MusVerre, Sars Potteries, France
2016 Faymoreau Mining Center, Vendée, France
Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Indiana, USA
2015 Yolenn White Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
André Contemporary Art Space, Colmar, France
2013 Habatat Galleries, Royal Oak, Michigan, USA
2010 Ernsting Foundation – Alter Hof Museum, Coesfeld, Germany
2008 The spaces of light, International Center of Stained Glass, Chartres, France
Helene Poree Gallery, Paris, France
2006 Hélène Porée Gallery, Paris, France
Complementary Object Gallery, Martot/Rouen, France
Mariska Dirkx Gallery, Roermond, Netherlands
2004 Die Trippe Gallery, Nürtingen, Germany
2003 Espai Vidre Gallery, Barcelona – Spain
Nadir Gallery, Annecy
2001 Complementary Object Gallery, Martot/Rouen, France
Rosenhauer Gallery, Göttingen- Germany
1999 Museum of Fine Arts, Roermond – Netherlands
Mariska Dirkx Gallery, Roermond, Netherlands
1998 Glassworks and Gallery, New Orleans, USA
1997 Complementary Object Gallery, Martot/Rouen, France
1996 Lizard Gallery, Colmar
1992 City Hall, Saint-Louis, France
1983 Bellefontaine Gallery, Lausanne, Switzerland
Works in public collections and museums
2018 Musverre, Sars Potteries, France
2016 Palm Springs Art Museum (Kaplan-Ostergaard collection), Palm Springs CA, USA
2013 Seven Bridges Foundation, Greenwich CT, USA
Cafesjian Foundation, Minneapolis MN, USA
2012 Seven Bridges Foundation, Greenwich CT, USA
2010 Alexander Tutsek Foundation, Munich, Germany
2009 Ernsting Foundation – Alter Hof MUSEUM, Coesfeld, Germany
2008 Musverre, Sars-Poteries, France
2006 Coburg Art Museum, Coburg, Germany
Ernsting Foundation Museum, Coesfeld, Germany
2005 Art Museum Mobile, Alabama, USA
2002 Museo del Vidre AlcorcoN Museum, Madrid, Spain
City of Strasbourg, France
2001 Musverre, Sars Potteries, France
1998 Entergy Collection, New Orleans, USA
1989 City of Saint-Just-Saint Rambert, France
1988 Departmental Council of Allier, Moulins, France
1985 FRAC Upper Normandy, Rouen, France