1950年代中期，羅傑・馬萊伯・納瓦爾的工作室鑽研法國畫家尚・克羅蒂製作的燈箱，透過組合、層疊和黏貼彩色玻璃片，將畢加索的畫作轉化為玻璃畫，並配合光線投射，製作成燈箱，重新演繹大師的卓越作品。
In the mid-1950s, the workshops of Roger Malherbe-Navarre expanded on the light boxes of French painter Jean Crotti by layering pieces of glass into pictorial depictions (gemmail, French for ‘enamel gem’) of several of Picasso’s paintings.
Why it matters:
香港大學（港大）美術博物館榮幸舉辦「巴勃羅・畢加索：玻璃畫像」展覽，並獲法國五月藝術節及置地廣塲支持，展出二十世紀藝術大師畢加索與光影技術專家共同製作的玻璃光影裝置。。此類玻璃畫名為「gemmail」，是法文琺瑯彩料（émail）和寶石 （gemme）所組成的混合詞。畢加索對「gemmail」玻璃畫工匠精巧的組裝和搭配驚嘆不已，稱之為「一種新藝術的誕生」，也親身探索這種媒介的可能性。
The University Museum and Art Gallery (UMAG) of the University of Hong Kong (HKU) is honoured to present Pablo Picasso: Paintings in Glass, an unprecedented display of works by the world-famous twentieth-century painter, supported by the French May Arts Festival and Hongkong Land. Impressed by the gemmistes’ masterful assembling and fusing of carefully selected glass, Picasso declared ‘A new art is born!’ Made and exhibited to explore and display the medium’s artistic possibilities, the results are simply astonishing.
Background – Pablo Picasso:
巴布羅·魯伊斯·畢加索（西班牙語：Pablo Ruiz Picasso，1881年10月25日—1973年4月8日），西班牙著名的藝術家、畫家、雕塑家、版畫家、舞台設計師、作家和前法國共產黨黨員，出名於法國，和喬治·布拉克同為立體主義的創始者，是20世紀現代藝術的主要代表人物之一，遺作逾兩萬件。畢加索、馬塞爾·杜象和亨利·馬蒂斯是三位在二十世紀初期開始造型藝術革命性發展的藝術家，在繪畫、雕塑、版畫及陶瓷上都有顯著的進展。在西班牙與薩爾瓦多·達利和胡安·米羅被譽為西班牙後三大藝術家。
Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907), and the anti-war painting Guernica (1937), a dramatic portrayal of the bombing of Guernica by German and Italian air forces during the Spanish Civil War.
Final Tips:
是次展覽精選畢加索較少人熟悉的玻璃畫創作，均來自私人收藏，並讓大眾於港大美術博物館一睹藝術家的另類非凡之作。
The selection of works on loan from a private collection, and on view at UMAG during the French May Arts Festival 2023, shed a new light on some of Picasso’s most renowned painterly compositions.
巴勃羅・畢加索：玻璃畫像
Pablo Picasso: Paintings in Glass
Date:
2023.5.18 – 8.27
Venue:
港大美術博物館
香港薄扶林般咸道90號港大美術博物館馮平山樓1樓及2樓
University Museum and Art Gallery of the University of Hong Kong
1/F & 2/F, Fung Ping Shan Building, UMAG, HKU, 90 Bonham Road, Pokfulam, Hong Kong
Courtesy to the gallery