Spectrum
glass, yellow and blue, cut, square aluminum base, made in 2000, overall height 92.5 cm, prism diameter 10 x 10 cm (Zí)

Exhibited: Stanislav Libenský and His School, Grand Crystal museum, Tai Pei, Taiwan, 2002; Stanislav Libenský and His School, The Museum of Arts and Design, New York, 2003
Literature: Palata O., Stanislav Libenský a jeho škola, Prague 2001, reproduced in color

After studying at the Glassmaking Secondary School in Železný Brod, he continued his studies in Prague at the AAAD in prof. Libenský’s studio, where he graduated in 1973. Together with his peers Oldřich Plíva, Yan Zoritchak, Aleš Vašíček, and Marian Karel, he represented new cut “prismatic” sculptures. The authors wanted to use the optical qualities of cut glass, most often crystal. Pavel Trnka has remained loyal to this concept of creation. He has an innovative approach to the examination of the additive counting of colors in the light spectrum in cut objects. The author creates minimalistic works composed of many separate colorful parts of cut glass. The result is wonderfully perfect (Sylvia Petrová). The viewer then sees a different color depending on the angle due to the layering of individual colors.
The work on offer, Spectrum, has precisely these same optical qualities.