Adriano Berengo
president of the Berengo studio’s, Murano:
‘It is interesting to translate the work of Wouter Stips into glass because it radiates, it is articulate. It is full of humour and stimulates you to be happy. Glass is an appropriate material for Wouter because it enables eloquent expression of his creativity.
Dr Helmut Ricke, the director of the Kunst Palast and Glasmuseum Hentrich in Düsseldorf believes that only truly great artists qualify to have their work translated into glass. I am convinced that Wouter Stips is one of those artists.
He has a completely different personality to an artist such as Ripollés or Picasso. The tension, the stratification, the play with and within his work, is his play. It is an interplay between himself and present-day art. I believe that the success of his work is something very personal.”
A few examples of (sold) sculptures made with Italian and Tsjech glassmasters
