{"id":549,"date":"2020-04-25T08:39:35","date_gmt":"2020-04-25T08:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uj.ac.za\/artsdev\/?p=549"},"modified":"2023-01-18T08:42:16","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T08:42:16","slug":"the-pandemic-project-lothar-bottcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uj.ac.za\/artsdev\/the-pandemic-project-lothar-bottcher\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pandemic Project :: Lothar B\u00f6ttcher"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<p>Today\u2019s featured artist is South African visual artist Lothar B\u00f6ttcher, who uses his skills and passion to give glass a voice as a contemporary art medium. B\u00f6ttcher was also inspired by the West African song Sedjedo sung by the UJ Choir and the fear of the times. \u201cI wanted to merge these dichotomies, unifying them in one sculpture which resembles a head with open mouth and eye surrounded by dots\u2026 exhaling notes or inhaling symbolic \u201cviruses\u201d. \u201cWe are in the midst of global change for humankind and even if I\u2019m unable to understand the sung words of Sedjedo I comprehend the beauty and fallibility of what makes us human in this new dawn\u201d, says B\u00f6ttcher<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t<div class=\"wpb_video_widget wpb_content_element vc_clearfix   vc_video-aspect-ratio-169 vc_video-el-width-100 vc_video-align-center\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wpb_video_wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Pandemic Project ::  Lothar B\u00f6ttcher\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C4BHtuyYees?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<p><b>About Lothar B\u00f6ttcher<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Born to German immigrants in 1973, Lothar grew up in Pretoria, South Africa. He studied Fine and Applied Arts at the Tshwane University of Technology, completing Sculpture, Glass, Photography and Printmaking. In 1997, Lothar enrolled at the Staatliche Glasfachschule Hadamar, Germany, where he graduated as a journeyman with the title Glasveredler \u2013 Fachrichtung Schliff (Glass cutter &amp; cold worker) with flying colours in 2000.<\/p>\n<p>He returned to his hometown, Pretoria, in 2001 and founded his company, Obsidian Glass. Since then, Lothar is an active participant in the South African art scene, using his skills and passion to give glass a voice as a contemporary art medium.<\/p>\n<p>Lothar launched Blow Your Sculpture in 2014, a collaborative project introducing glass as sculptural medium to South African artists, with its fourth iteration planned for 2021. Lothar is a long time member of the Glass Art Society, The Association of Arts, Pretoria (of which he is also a committee member) as well as Glasspool e.V. and Bundesverband Kunsthandwerk in Germany. Pocket Lens was selected for the New Glass Now exhibition in 2019 at the Corning Museum of Glass.<\/p>\n<p>His work was also selected for New Glass Review 32 &amp; 38 and published in the Schiffer Art Book Glass Art: 112 Contemporary Artists. Lothar is represented in several museums locally and internationally.<\/p>\n<p>#UJPandemic<\/p>\n<p>#CloseToHeART<\/p>\n<p>#UJChoir<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Today\u2019s featured artist is South African visual artist Lothar B\u00f6ttcher, who uses his skills and passion to give glass a voice as a contemporary art medium. 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