For the occasion of the London Design Festival 2014 Gallery FUMI is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of new hand-blown glass works and lighting installations by Jeremy Wintrebert. Born in Paris, raised in Africa and later in the USA, Wintrebert brings a diversity of cultures to his work. With an experience gathered all over the world from freehand glassblowing, Wintrebert brings together the craft of Murano glass blowing together with a contemporary perspective to create beautiful, sensual works. Wintrebert’s Cloud lights entrance the viewer with the juxtaposition between their apparently light, dreamlike quality and the solid, yet fragile, reality of the material used. The extraordinary size of the works and their beautiful filigrana patterns surprise viewers, many who expect the works to be made from paper, textile or plastic. To coincide with the solo exhibition at Gallery FUMI, Wintrebert has also been specially commissioned by Perrier-Jouet to make an installation for The Victoria and Albert Museum during the London Design Festival. ‘What guides me in the creative process of hot blown glass is a multitude of different elements. I am very intrigued by the limits and capacities which blown glass has to offer. When glass is hot and moves at the end of the pipe, it is in its most beautiful state, hiding all its potential behind an incredibly dangerous heat and hard to control movement. My journey in this relationship is mainly based on respect, humility and listening to what the glass wants to do. A conversation that usually takes us to a place we discover together’. Jeremy Wintrebert’s glass work is in the collection of the MUDAC, Lausanne, Switzerland and Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg, Germany as well as in many private collections around the world. He has collaborated amongst others with Swarovski, Veuve Clicquot and Calvin Klein.
