Wisdom

Over the past 20 years, Richard Meitner has steadfastly used the blown glass vessel as the basis of his sculpture. Here the subtly altered cylindrical form appears fluid and light, as it is delicately anchored by the inexplicable chained carrot shape. Like much of the artist's work, Wisdom is elegant, ghostly, and somewhat mystifying. As Meitner stated in 1984, "What I am attempting to stress and to manifest in my work is more the ambiguity than the meaning." An American citizen, Richard Meitner has lived in Amsterdam since the mid-1970s. He is a professor at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, and he has also worked as a designer for the glass manufacturers Royal Leerdam Crystal and Val-Saint-Lambert.