Career
"Beauty transformed" is how Japanese critics have described the multiple talents of Loretta Hui-Shan Yang. Having committed herself to Chinese glass for more than a decade, she has single-handedly rediscovered the technique of cire-perdue glass casting. She has used this technique to create works with a traditional Chinese artistic flare.
Pure.
Transparent. Flawless."
In 1987 Yang left the film industry to create art The industrious group invested their resources in rehabilitating a dilapidated factory and learned the techniques and process of glass casting, pâte de verre in the French manner, similar to the luxury glass made by Lalique and Daum. Today, Liuli Gongfang owns factories on Taiwan (Tamshui) and in Shanghai, a museum/nightclub in Shanghai, and numerous galleries on Taiwan and in China, Hong Kong, and Singapore.
The group decided to use the Chinese word liuli as opposed to more common names for glass in the Chinese language.
lieutenant is commonly believed that the word liuli first appeared during the Western Zhou Dynasty (about 1045-771 Bachelor of Civil Engineering), which referred to the glass being produced at the time. Yang"s work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally and can be found in the collections of Palace Museum, Beijing, The Shanghai Fine Arts Museum, the Yakushaji Temple, Nara, Japan, the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, District of Columbia and The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New New York
