Sticlografii (Glass-o-Graphs) by Alexandra Mureşan by Roberta Nagy,ITA,1st year

Alexandra Mureşan is a visual artist and a  PhD student at the University of Art and Design in Cluj-Napoca where she studied Ceramics. Her creations  have been on display in a lot of exhibitions all over the country but also abroad.

This exhibition of mesmerizing glass art was organized at the cultural café Espresso Studio (at street Baba Novac 27), the café of International Festival of Contemporary Ceramics. The opening was on 25 October at 7 pm, but the exhibition can be visited until December 1^st every day, during the café’s program.

Intermediate between us and the world, glass objects have become quite scarce today and the artist Alexandra Mureşan breaks this absence by melting her glass into visible tangible ideas and objects which embellish our everyday life. Unfortunately, the dual nature of glass– both its beauty and fragility – makes it vulnerable to breakage. If you own or collect glass art sculpture you may find yourself in need of glass restoration or repair.

There are more techniques used for glass making such as glass blowing which uses a combination of sand and soda lime, along with colouring agents, to produce a raw material, which will be melted together to form molten glass. Another technique is hot sculpting which is used after a solid metal rod gathers the molten glass from the furnace; the glass is then shaped with special tools. The hot sculpting process tends to make much larger solid pieces of glass art. Alexandra Muresan joins the select group of European and American masters of this art.