Summary
Željka and Boris Rogić: Colored light
Željka and Boris Rogić started making their luminous objects in the 80s. The model in their creation, the starting point and the backbone was Louis Comfort Tiffany, an American art deco artist through whose work they discovered the magic of colored glass.
Each lamp made in their studio was a marvelous replica that proudly carried a certificate guaranteeing the authenticity of the design, the materials used, and the craftsmanship itself. Their story begins in Zurich in 1988, where they graduated from the glass carving school, which is considered the heir to Tiffany's unique legacy.
Already a year later, Željka and Boris Rogić had their first solo exhibition of stained glass in 1989 in the History and Maritime Museum, and in 1993 in Klović's palaces, which were followed by other exhibitions. Let's mention the one from 2005 at the Mimar Museum, after which they also made the decision to open a Rijeka studio in Užarska Street.
The exhibition "The Light of Glagolitic" was set up in the Museum of the City of Rijeka in 2010, and it traveled to the National University Library in Zagreb, and also to the Museum of Ancient Glass in Zadar, where it remained in the exhibit for a full six months.
The monograph, according to Feđa Vukić, is "an important document about a creative oeuvre, about the constant improvement of technique and work method, but also about the search for a new standard within which the same function can be purposefully used or symbolically experienced in a new way.
The creations of Željka and Boris Rogić could be labeled with the term applied art, craft or design."
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