The exhibition of 21 glass artworks entitled Glass Soul / Pietas / Return of Funeral Sculpture presents the first results of the project initiated and realized by Glaz Bridge. The collection includes works by artists who have reflected on the function of funerary sculpture in today's society.

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The intention of Martina Sikorova, the author of the project, was to present the most diverse mosaic of approaches to this topic. Therefore, artists of different ages and professional experience were approached for the realization of the project, whether it was glassmaking, sculpture, painting, architecture, jewellery or photography, fashion design, architecture. By penetrating into a different field, they reveal more of the other qualities of art: the ability to converge different expressive media and, through imagination, to break down the boundaries between stereotypes.

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It is no coincidence that the works were created in Czech glass studios whose reputation is recognized worldwide: the oldest fused sculpture studio in Železný Brod (Studio Lhotský s.r.o.), Janecký studio s.r.o. (Prague) and the jewellery company Belda spol. s.r.o. The Klumpar studio (Železný Brod), headed by Vladimíra Klumpar Pavlik, provided essential support for the idea of the project and applied suggestions inspired by her long-term stay in the USA. The owners of the glass studios not only offered the glassworks for implementation, but as active artists and teachers they themselves became the creators of many of the exhibited artefacts.