ELEMENTAL ELEGANCE:
BRONZE SCULPTURES BY ISABELLE SCHELTJENS
A New Dimension
Belgian artist Isabelle Scheltjens, internationally recognized as a leading glass artist, continues to expand her artistic language with a compelling series of bronze sculptures. After more than a decade of acclaim for her distinctive glass art and layered wall compositions, she introduces a new spatial dimension to her work.
While her iconic portraits were once expressed through glass mosaics on a two-dimensional surface, they now evolve into three-dimensional forms in bronze and marble. This transition is not a departure, but a natural progression within her artistic journey, a continuous exploration of depth, perception and material within contemporary art.
Her sculptural work exists in dialogue with her glass artworks, each medium enriching the other.
A Reinvented Sculptural Language
With her bronze sculptures, Isabelle Scheltjens challenges the traditional conventions of sculpture. Rather than striving for classical harmony and recognizability, she redefines the human form through distortion, fragmentation and abstraction.
Her iconic faces are stretched, reshaped and deconstructed into powerful compositions that create a striking trompe-l’oeil effect. These sculptures invite the viewer to question perception itself, blurring the boundaries between beauty and distortion, between reality and illusion.
From Surface to Form
Through this sculptural evolution, Isabelle Scheltjens deepens her exploration of form and perception. While her bronze sculptures introduce volume and physical presence, and her marble works emphasize purity and timelessness, both remain closely connected to the visual language of her glass art.
All three mediums share the same fascination for layering, transformation and emotional expression, one through light and transparency, the others through mass, texture and structure. This dual practice allows her to move seamlessly between surface and form, between still image and spatial experience.
Each sculpture captures a moment in transformation, inviting the viewer into a world where art is not only observed, but truly experienced.
