Gallery Marbella
The first gallery in Marbella, in the south of Spain, is currently showing the newest sculptures made of Vitrum Vivum glass technology created in collaboration with artists. In the gallery there are exhibited art design objects from the Translucent Collection designed by Czech sculptor Rony Plesl, the uranium glass wall painting by the artist duo Ondrash & Kašpárek, and biomorphic objects by sculptor Jan Kovářík and many more. The SIN Studio Gallery Marbella is open every day from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., except Mondays and Sundays.
Currently, Jiří Šín and his team are building a studio with gallery spaces in the Central Bohemia region to present the technology to the public. The studio’s centerpiece will be the world’s largest glass casting furnace with revolutionary autonomous cooling.
Vitrum Vivum
Invented by Jiří Šín, the unique technology is based on a groundbreaking
method of cast glass production. It employs the revolutionary process of
pouring hot glass into a closed mold enabling the creation of a faithful
cast of any object.
During his studies in Kamenický Šenov, Jiří Šín faced the limitations of the
production technologies in the field of glass sculpture available at the time.
He would not accept these limitations preventing artists from free creative
expression as fact and built his own furnace to explore and push the limits of
glass production. He went on to set up a workshop in the Czech borderlands where
he built large furnaces and spent twelve years recreating and enhancing established
methods until he developed a groundbreaking glassmaking technology which allows
artists to bring all their creative ideas to life.
This is an essential shift in the field of cast glass sculpture, perfected and promoted by Professor Stanislav Libenský in the early days. The new technology invented by Jiří Šín takes the craft of glassmaking to the next level, making it possible to create three-dimensional glass sculptures with a realistic structure without any limitations in size and shape for the first time in history.