"Glass can have qualities beyond human experience. It manages to put both the observer and its creator in doubt, and in almost the same moment, in the conviction that it is exactly as present as it appears," she continues. The conceptual center of gravity of Tereza Šváchová's design is a pane glass with a dichroic effect reacting to light, creating the impression of constant movement.
"Like the sun at the first snow in the Jizera Mountains," says the Czech architect. Any color intervention that implies a reinterpretation of an otherwise sovereign work is a bold one, so Šváchová's new work retains the original boundaries and purposefully creates a dynamic contrast with the white background.
Pelant's 1960s staircase, attached to the museum, is stylistically true and characterized by a monochrome white and a geometrically pure grid. The original blue-green mosaic, filling in the now blind parts of the grid, has been removed over time.
As the seasons change, and as observers move past the space or wait motionless, the glass lends an ever-evolving interplay of light and shade.
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