# @simonberger.art on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DdZql1NIwu3
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/71152459-simonbergerart-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-09-17T20:01:28.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Simon Berger (@simonberger.art) — https://gondola.cc/simonberger.art

## Caption

My newest exhibition builds on Ferdinand Hodler’s wonderful sketches and portrait studies of the collection from the National Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Instead of copying his unfinished faces, I translated his century-old lines into portraits on glass, giving fading paper contours a tangible, light-filled presence.

Glass forgives nothing - a strike cannot be undone. Where Hodler searched for a face across paper studies, my process happens entirely in my head before the hammer falls. His work is thinking made visible sheet by sheet; mine is thinking made permanent in a single, unrepeatable pass.
By layering staggered glass panes, I echoed Hodler’s concept of „Parallelism.“ Recreating his iconic Lumberjack held special weight for me, directly connecting his depiction of labor to my background as a trained carpenter.

The Persistence of Presence is about the endurance of an image across time - from paper to glass, and from one artist to the next.

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#SimonBerger #SimonBergerArt #GlassArt

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