Landscape

The work of Anna Kola is an object made of fused thin strips of glass. The glass elements are mounted in a metal frame in the shape of a square without the upper side. They are arranged in a dense and rhythmic configuration, predominantly in a vertical arrangement, sometimes intersecting at different angles. Resembling a kind of network composed of icicles, it looks like a mineral find, a rock crystal with a regular structure. The wealth of glosses and light reflexes bouncing in the glass, and the repetition of rhythms and directions by the falling shadow, are the key elements of the used means of expression and shape the ephemeral nature of the object, whose impact is subjected to the variability of lighting. However, the form of the work and its two-dimensional character, referring to the picture formula, demands the proper exhibiting conditions, consisting of maintaining a distance from the wall. This distance, by allowing a defined and limited scope, is a prerequisite for full resonance of this glass design in the exhibition space. [F. Pręgowski]