Janne Rahunen specializes in the reticello-technique of glass blowing. In reticello-technique glass, canes are used to create a net pattern and regular air bubbles. Most of reticello-sculptures are solid art works, which gives lot of optical dimensions to the sculptures. Janne Rahunen also works with silvered glass works. The silver-plated sculptures evoke thoughts about the conflict between nature and general development. - "We see nature and its protection as important, but we develop life and society to be more and more clinical and finer."
Janne Rahunen (b. 1987) from Nuutajärvi is part of a young generation of glassmakers. Rahunen is originally from Vantaa and started making glass by studying at the Nuutajärvi Glass School from 2011 to 2016. Tavastia Vocational College's glass programme is the first degree-level vocational education programme in the field of glass in Finland and was launched in 1993 on the initiative of the late Oiva Toikka. Before glass, I worked in the pharmaceutical industry. But the job didn't feel like me and I was looking for my calling. I had previously studied poetry and played the drums and had an interest in working artistically. I wanted to work with my hands and came across glass online. I read a lot of literature on the subject and found a glass school in Nuutajärvi. I was accepted into the glass school, left my job and started studying in Nuutajärvi. His studies in poetry and later lectures by visual artist Jukka Teittinen at the Glass School taught him about approaches to art and how to interpret it.
SUKELLUS II
reticello-technique, free-blown glass
2025
Janna Rahunen
Finland
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