Liliane Lijn

In 1987 Lijn began to work with hot glass in the Hergiswil Glassi on a series of torn exploding heads. The Glassi is a traditional glass factory on the shore of Lake Luzern, a huge wooden building where glass is blown by a number of craftsmen all grouped on a stage around a central furnace or pot where the glass is melte
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It seems that the origins of saintly halos derive from the historical fact that bees were seen to swarm around the heads of Hindu and Buddhist saints.
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Lijn sees Head-Dresses as extensions of the Head. Anything worn on the head is also part of it and expresses it’s powers and restrictions. As in the veil or the mask worn by women to conceal and suppress them.
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Both Night and Day and She's so Blue take their titles from songs imbued with melancholy: the blues. In these works she blends geometry with African art and sound with Art Deco from the 30’s and 40’s. Lijn wants her work to be as many layered as possible.
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Lijn sees Head-Dresses as extensions of the Head. Anything worn on the head is also part of it and expresses it’s powers and restrictions. As in the veil or the mask worn by women to conceal and suppress them.
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