ABOUT ARTIST:

Art is not about communication, it’s everything concepts can’t access.
I want to let this work speak for itself, with its own language and all meanings. I also want to invite the
spectator to create the meanings for him with the interaction with the piece, mixed with all the symbols and experiences of his/hers life.

Renato Japi is a Brazilian Glass artist based in Lisbon Portugal with a master in Glass Art & Science and currently doing a PhD in Fine arts where glass is once again his main material of choice. His experimental work is non-conceptual, and walks in the line between abstraction and symbolism. 

SUBMISSION: Star Drop

A certain amount of light that goes inside glass, never leave it. This amorphous material is very mysterious and fascinating. Star Drop is a Borosilicate glass sculpture that plays with the notion of glass being at the same time liquid and solid, organic and geometrical. It will bring some of earth’s elements and protons to the moon and then it will absorb the light from there.