zora palova
Zora Palova was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, in 1947. She studied at the School of Applied Arts in Bratislava (1967) and taught at the Public School of Arts in Nitra (1969). She then resumed her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, Bratislava, specialising in painting (1971) and later in glass and architecture (1975). She became President of the Association of Applied Arts and Designers in 1995 and Research Professor at the University of Sunderland in 1996.Retour ligne manuel Retour ligne manuel She has received awards including the WCC Prize, Interplays 92, Bratislava (1992) and the Triennial Prix, Glass Sculpture Triennial, Nuremberg (1993). Exhibiting widely throughout Europe, her sculpture is in many public and private collections around the world. She has also worked extensively to commission, and her glass pieces feature in prominent public spaces as far afield as Bratislava, Rotterdam and Sunderland. Palova initially trained as a painter, but now makes sculptures, which replicate the fluid gesture of a brushstroke. Her works break and pierce surfaces. These perforations remove any sense of solid rigid form and instead create more open works, permitting interpretation and intellectual malleability. A glass pinnacle, for example, curves gracefully at the top, its surface sandblasted so that it absorbs rather than reflects light, giving the viewer the sense of an inner glow and power. Palova works almost entirely in glass, a material that she loves for its myriad qualities - its transparency, its reflectiveness, its opacity, its strength and fragility. She completely understands her medium and uses it with great simplicity and directness in sculptures that are abstract and compelling. TEXT CS Foundation
Painting with glass • Zora's glass sculptures are influenced by her training as a painter • She draws her inspiration from nature, water and everyday life • She uses traditional techniques to create her works Slovakian glass sculptor Zora Palova studied at the School of Applied Arts in Bratislava from 1967. She later specialised in painting and then in glass and architecture. Zora became a research professor and glass sculpture teacher at the University of Sunderland, UK, in 1996, later becoming a visiting professor in order to focus more on the development of her own work. Her early training as a painter greatly influences her glass sculptures, since she attempts to replicate the movement of brushstrokes in glass. She primarily works with glass due to its numerous qualities and characteristics, such as its large range of colours and textures, as well as its strength and fragility. Michelangelo Foundation
