Juraj Opršal: Pseudonym?
by Viera Kleinová
Juraj Opršal is the visual artist who is recognised particularly in the field of art glass and as a member of Cigler´s glass school. As a graduate at the goldsmithing and silversmithing department of the Secondary School of Applied Arts in Kremnica, he has remained faithful to jewellery design. However, he has engaged himself in other types of projects – for example, he is a co-organiser of travelling symposiums around Slovak water-mills. Recently, he has started to design handbags. Similarly to his glass work, he combines geometric shapes such as cylinders, spheres, cones, squares into dynamic and surprising objects. His handbags remind of, to say it a bit pathetically, boxes for secrets. To make them real, Juraj has invited Zuzana Polačková for the cooperation on the insides of handbags. He designs outside part of the handbags and comes with inspirations for the overall image of a handbag. Besides, Juraj Opršal has currently prepared exhibition of his glass works in the Netherlands.
Further articles in the magazine Craft, Art, Design 03/2012:
- Kohútik jarabý/Spotted rooster - The exhibition of tinkery sculptures in the town of Žilina
- Ján Granec: I am not afraid that ceramics will end...
- Karol Plicka, the master of photography
- Military motives in folk art
- Painted songs by Zuzana Vaňousová
- Jewellery about people and for people
- Folk clothes as the expression of folklorism
- Denamit Design Days 2012
- Banality and nobility
- Porcelain June in Pezinok
- Two exhibitions – two forms of textile
- Juraj Opršal: Pseudonym?
- PARTER Gallery in Bratislava