| Biography | Inventory
Catalogue | Artists
Represented | Vincent Breed
Glass Artist & Craftsman for Creative People
Advisor
at the French Art & Craft Federation: Ateliers d’Art de France
National Delegate at the
World Craft Council Europe
Co-founder of the
« Griffes Lyonnaises »
Member of
« Comité Bellecour »
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Born in 1971, Haarlem (Netherlands)
in an artist’s
family, graduated in industrial design in 1992, Vincent Breed discovers glass
blowing at the High School of
Decorative Arts of Strasbourg, in 1992. A trade-guild near well-known
glass
Masters leads him to start his own workshop in Lyon, in 1999.
He is made known by his creations in
the universe of
the tableware, in a pure, ludic and coloured esthetic.
Vincent
Breed develops an always
poetic universe in the field of custom designed luminary. He starts to
approach
it in spectacular dimensions, and makes the glass dancing.
Concentrated on contemporary creations, the sculptural
work of Vincent is monumental,
daring, sweet and sensual. These sculptures play with the light of
space
surrounding and disorder the perception of the spectator. The human
dimensions
push back the limits of blown glass.
Vincent Breed
collaborates with
architects, designers and artists, for whom he makes prototypes and
small
series.
Jean Nouvel, Matali Crasset, Noe Duchauffour-Lawrence, Hilton Mc Connico, Tony Chi and other artists called upon his services.
Vincent Breed represents French
Art and Craft at the World Craft Council - Europe.
Rewards:
| 1999 |
"congratulations" from the Challenge-Young persons jury, by the Ministry for Youth and Sports. |
| 2002 |
Prize winner of the "Young creator" contest, by the French Federation of Art & Craft |
| 2003 |
Prize winner of the "Lyon’s claw" decreed by the Mayor of Lyon |
| 2007 |
Price winner of Contemporary Art work by SEMA |
Artist
Statement
"Fertility"
The
main concept of the works is ‘FERTILITY’.
The
pieces signify ‘positive energy’ from nature. Energy that
overrides
all difficult and challenging conditions. Life forces that grow beyond
imagination and can be fermented in any circumstance and environment
- like a tree growth on a concrete roof or a seed that prospers
through
stone cracks. These objects are born to an impaired situation.
The
dynamic, energetic, lively, organic glass objects are grown out of a
contradictory substance ‘concrete’ which denote hardness, solidity,
coldness
and lifeless. Building up a strong life
force that demonstrates NATURE always WINS.
Mankind can be so arrogant. Nuclear power plants are built to replace natural energy but this results in world beauty being destroyed with their own hands.
Glass is a living subject; its molecules are always moving. The materials are alive and are morphing and changing continuously. The internal movements are subtle and unseen but when we are close to it, the reflection of people together with its surrounding, makes the objects become active; reciprocating the movement around it.
The existence of life force is interactive with the adjacent environment - the light, the shadow, the people; all coexist within an infinitive space.
