• Ilja creates dynamic sculptural compositions
• His works merge geometric and flowing forms
• He demonstrates excellent craftsmanship

Ilja Bílek works entirely in glass, a material he loves for its myriad qualities – its transparency, reflectiveness, opacity, strength and fragility. Since the mid-1980s he has developed a distinct artistic language based on the compositional qualities of spatial segments of molten glass and glass panels. He is bringing together opposing principles, rethinking new ways of dynamic composition, for example by the intermingling of kindred forms of polyhedrons, often hollow trihedral prisms. A number of the artist's newest sculptures, stereo-metric principles are present only in detail, in the form of cut-glass elements. Until 2017, Ilja Bílek also shared his expertise with students at the J.E.P. University in Ústí n./L., where he was the head of the glass art studio.