Glassworks – Luciano Micallef

Glassworks – Luciano Micallef

“Glass holds a paradoxical quality: while delicate, it defies decay, resisting the natural decomposition that affects other materials. Its transparency invites the viewer to see beyond its surface, making the surrounding environment an integral part of the work. This is reminiscent of stainless steel—though in reverse. With glass, the focus shifts to what lies behind and beyond. Contrary to painting, which blocks light, glass floats over a surface, its transparency allowing it to dissolve into the background, becoming part of its context.

Glass has given me the opportunity to create unconventional artworks with a unique personality. Each piece is a testament to the transformative power of light as it penetrates the material, revealing its profound beauty. Glass becomes a finely nuanced material language—one that is purely abstract yet capable of embodying poetic resonances between mind and matter, between the materiality of glass and
the immateriality of consciousness. While glass may lack the expressive, gestural scope of painting, it compensates through qualities less available to painting: the transformative power of light, the sculptural plasticity of three dimensional form, and the immersive allure of depth and internal structure.” – Luciano Micallef

By: Luciano Micallef, Conrad Thake, David Cooper

Format: hardback

No of pages: 224