Udo Zembok

Udo ZEMBOK – glass, glass sculpture.

Permanent artist of the Capazza Gallery since 2016.

“After studying painting, I quickly devoted myself to working with glass. A material that offers unparalleled possibilities in terms of light and color. Painters have always tried to capture light. I very quickly took on this historic quest for light.

I discovered glass techniques in a workshop that carried out commissions for artists in Amsterdam. This medium has fascinated me and for almost 40 years I have been pursuing my personal research. I have developed a special technique for superimposing glass plates, each of which is pigmented with colored glass powders. This block of fused glass, revealed by the light passing through it, expresses color in three dimensions. Our eye defines its physical and scientific reality, but our individual perception opens us up, reveals to us, teaches us who we are. »

- Udo Zembok

“Traditionally, stained glass is revealed by light passing through it. My research proposes a broadening of this concept. A second light source illuminates them from the front and provides a different reading, completing the first One imposes itself naturally on the gaze and the other calls for the active participation of the spectator".

- Udo Zembok

Biography

Born in 1951 in Braunschweig, Germany

1972-1973 Studies of graphic arts with Malte Sartorius at the Ecole Supérieure des Beaux

Braunschweig Arts

1973-1976 Studies in painting with Wilfried Ogilvie at the Alanus des

Bonn/Alfter Arts, Germany

1976-1978 Study and work stay in Amsterdam, Netherlands

Collaboration with the institute of psychology Bout+Partners for the integration of

artistic practices in the training of industry managers.

1978 Settles in France

He lives and works in Menton

Udo Zembok is the winner, with Pascale Zembok, of the competition for the design of a glass arch for the "deployed" Cathedral of Créteil. Architects: AS Architecture Studio, Paris. The artistic proposal is based on a new interpretation of the three constituent colors of light: green-blue-red and their concordance with the symbolism of the Trinity.

The illustrations show the impact of the colored “bands" on the atmosphere and the luminosity of the architectural space.

Dimensions of the glass arch: 57 m long and 2 m wide The realization was entrusted to Peters Glass Studios, Paderborn, Germany.

Honors

2015 Award of Excellence, Habatat Galleries, Royal Oak MI, USA

2009 Kanazawa Glass Award Finalist, Kanazawa, Japan

2006 Coburg Prize for contemporary Glass in Europe, Coburg, Germany

2001 Liliane Bettencourt Prize, Paris

Personal exhibitions (selection)

2022 Guillaume Gallery, Paris

2021 Latitude 43 with Lise Braun Gallery, Saint Tropez, France

Adrian Sassoon Gallery, London, United Kingdom

2018 Capazza Gallery, Nançay, France

MusVerre, Sars Potteries, France

2016 Faymoreau Mining Center, Vendée, France

Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Indiana, USA

2015 Yolenn White Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland

André Contemporary Art Space, Colmar, France

2013 Habatat Galleries, Royal Oak, Michigan, USA

2010 Ernsting Foundation – Alter Hof Museum, Coesfeld, Germany

2008 The spaces of light, International Center of Stained Glass, Chartres, France

Helene Poree Gallery, Paris, France

2006 Hélène Porée Gallery, Paris, France

Complementary Object Gallery, Martot/Rouen, France

Mariska Dirkx Gallery, Roermond, Netherlands

2004 Die Trippe Gallery, Nürtingen, Germany

2003 Espai Vidre Gallery, Barcelona – Spain

Nadir Gallery, Annecy

2001 Complementary Object Gallery, Martot/Rouen, France

Rosenhauer Gallery, Göttingen- Germany

1999 Museum of Fine Arts, Roermond – Netherlands

Mariska Dirkx Gallery, Roermond, Netherlands

1998 Glassworks and Gallery, New Orleans, USA

1997 Complementary Object Gallery, Martot/Rouen, France

1996 Lizard Gallery, Colmar

1992 City Hall, Saint-Louis, France

1983 Bellefontaine Gallery, Lausanne, Switzerland

Works in public collections and museums

2018 Musverre, Sars Potteries, France

2016 Palm Springs Art Museum (Kaplan-Ostergaard collection), Palm Springs CA, USA

2013 Seven Bridges Foundation, Greenwich CT, USA

Cafesjian Foundation, Minneapolis MN, USA

2012 Seven Bridges Foundation, Greenwich CT, USA

2010 Alexander Tutsek Foundation, Munich, Germany

2009 Ernsting Foundation – Alter Hof MUSEUM, Coesfeld, Germany

2008 Musverre, Sars-Poteries, France

2006 Coburg Art Museum, Coburg, Germany

Ernsting Foundation Museum, Coesfeld, Germany

2005 Art Museum Mobile, Alabama, USA

2002 Museo del Vidre AlcorcoN Museum, Madrid, Spain

City of Strasbourg, France

2001 Musverre, Sars Potteries, France

1998 Entergy Collection, New Orleans, USA

1989 City of Saint-Just-Saint Rambert, France

1988 Departmental Council of Allier, Moulins, France

1985 FRAC Upper Normandy, Rouen, France