Denmark, Copenhagen, *1960

Stig Persson was born in 1960 in Copenhagen, Denmark, where he now lives and works. In 1993 he graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation in Copenhagen and has since had solo and group exhibitions in Europe, China, Korea, Russia and the USA.

His works have been acquired by Albert & Victoria, London, and the Hempel Glass Museum, Denmark, among others, and in 2022 his works were also included in the collections of the Veste Coburg Art Collections, the European Museum of Modern Glass in Germany, the National Nordic Museum in Seattle and the Lowe Art Museum in Miami.

His fascination with glass arose at the beginning of his art studies, where glass as a

material quickly became his preferred direction. The transparency and color magic of glass offered unimagined possibilities for expression.

ARTIST STATEMENT

Stig Persson works with a strictly abstract constructivist and minimalist expression in his glass works, occasionally containing reminiscences of identifiable environments.

The experience of the individual work is based on repetition, i.e. repeated

shapes of circles, squares, rectangles or cylinders. Whether the shapes are flat or plastically cast, they are always defined within a strictly geometric framework of constellations of these basic shapes, often placed within each other. All surfaces are matte, giving a sense of gravity, which in reality is true of any shape, and the figures are vaguely translucent. The glass material is slightly heterogeneous with small bubbles and irregularities. The number, colors and sizes of the elements vary, effectively creating a sense of movement from block to block.

His minimalist sculptures are first created as sketches, after which a prototype is built from EPS. He then creates the mold from a special casting mixture called HydroCast. Each mold can only be used once. The mold is created on the EPS to get the textured surface and the actual firing of the glass elements takes 12 to 13 days in the glass kiln. The elements are finished, cut and polished to be assembled into the final work. It is a slow process, which is why it is not possible to create more than a few works per month.

His works are made of solid cast glass, and yet the material is fragile. This wonderful, complex contrast reinforces the constructivist and abstract expression that runs like a thread through Stig's 30-year career.