Monumentality I. object

Name: Monumentality I. object
Brand: Johan Pertl
Availability: InStock

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Monumentality explores the theme of apparent scale — how an ordinary object can make a viewer feel they're standing before something far larger than it actually is. Johan sets cast crystal glass against marble — two materials that are, paradoxically, very heavy, yet both read to the eye as fragile, as if they might crack or collapse under their own weight at any moment. Each object in the collection works with this instability and the tension between weight and transparency: forms that look as though they could give way at any second, and yet remain completely stable; mass that should feel heavy, and yet lets light pass straight through it. It's exactly this contradiction that produces a sense of threat and imbalance, one that stops the viewer for a moment — a reminder that scale isn't really a matter of size, but of how strongly something manages to affect us.

Details

Cast glass, ruby marble
Made to order
One-of-a-kind

x 35 x 140 cm

35

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Designer

Johan Pertl

Glass carried from a landscape

Johan Pertl was born and raised in Vysočina, a landscape shaped by generations of glassmakers before him — the material was never a discovery so much as an inheritance, something already running through the ground he grew up on.

Between 2015 and 2018 he studied at the Czech Technical University while working alongside DECHEM studio, before entering the Glass Studio at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, where he graduated in 2022. He is currently pursuing his doctoral studies there.

That landscape never really leaves his work. Johan is drawn to the natural and social mechanisms that quietly shape us — the slow pressure of erosion, the pull of gravity, the way a place wears down or builds up over time — and he takes them apart piece by piece, searching for a way to carry them into glass. Beyond the collections he makes for collectors, his focus lies primarily in site-specific projects: sculptures and objects conceived for one particular place, whether a private interior or an open exterior. The work never starts with the material. It starts with the site itself — its architecture, its light, the atmosphere that already lives there before he arrives. What he makes afterward doesn't try to dominate that space. It settles into it, the way a landscape settles around whatever stands in it, until the piece and its surroundings are hard to tell apart.