A competition to honor the widely-hailed sculptor Stanislav Libensky seeks submissions from students. The winner, to be announced September
The competion is designed for art universities students allowing them to present their graduate works created by any glasswork technique. A part of the competition is the creation of printed catalogue and one months period exhibition of the works in Prague. The prizes will be handed over to the winners along with a ceremony held on the 23th of September 2010.
The competition serves for an international presentation of young artists. The aim of the competition is to help with a development of glass art in the Czech Republic.
The promoter of the competiton is Prague Gallery of the Czech glass – PGČS, o.p.s. whose vision is to deepen a good relationship to the glass, inspire passion for art glassworks and thus to help co-create the Czech perfection – „Czech Excellence“ – at glasswork arts.
PGČS’ mission, focused on past, present and future is to establish an informational and presentation center of the world’s glasswork arts in Central Europe. The goal of Prague Gallery is to enhance Prague to the position of glasswork arts capital in Central Europe and to become a center for presentation of art glass and innovations of glasswork techniques.