2022 is the international year of glass. 100% creation devotes an episode to a glassblower artist: Jeremy Maxwell Wintrebert. This Franco-American artist creates works with poetic power and technical complexity. His work is a journey, a dialogue with the material, which is, for this artist, a living material. His favorite field: molten glass.
His sculptures are presented, among others, in museums in the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Germany and in Musverre in the North of France as well as in private collections.
Creation is a vibration that runs through everything and is the source of everything
Jeremy Maxwell Wintrebert, artist and glass blower
” Creation, as an artist, is a vibration, a frequency that animates me enormously and as a researcher through glass, I only question what creation is, as an orphan, I I have this thirst to go find myself or justify myself or recreate myself because I am also made of creation but my creation disappeared when I was young. Which left, I think, a huge void in my life. »
Born in Paris, Jeremy Maxwell Wintrebert grew up in Gabon, Cameroon and Ivory Coast. At 14, he experienced a violent break with Africa when his parents died. After this major trauma, he returns to Paris with his brother in an unknown country with a culture and social codes that he does not know. After his baccalaureate, he left for the United States. From odd jobs to odd jobs, he works in a blowing workshop with a glassmaker. He began his apprenticeship at the age of 18 in various workshops in the United States, Italy and the Czech Republic. It was in 2015 that this Franco-American artist sets up his studio in Parishe likes to work in a team and pass on this age-old know-how, this tradition of blown glass which constantly plays with gravity, movement and the temperature of the material.
“I had this experience in my life of touching a dead body. A dead body is cold. What defines, somewhere, life as heat. Me, I work with a material which is in motion and which gives off an absolutely insane heat and which reacts to what is around it and which reacts to my gestures. For me, this material is alive, a material that carries a consciousness and a message that is much older and more timeless than our small existence. Glass is made of silica, a constituent of the universe. For me, the mineral is a cosmic matter. An asteroid is a mass of iron that has been forged through an eternal cosmic journey, but in the DNA of this molecular structure there must be a message. “
The transmission of its know-how is not an option for Jeremy Maxwell Wintrebert
“Any craftsman who respects his profession is obliged to pay homage to the transmission, since he exists thanks to a transmission of know-how, which has crossed centuries, even millennia, wars, diseases, borders to reach him. . Why am I working so much? It’s because I would like to create other workshops to welcome other glassmakers around blown glass. It has become a rare, difficult, poor job. In addition to the transmission, I try to give back to this profession a little expansion. »
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