Yossi Sagi
Glass artist. Caesarea.For 14 years, I have found complete creative freedom in the tumultuous encounter between raw glass, color, and extreme fire. Every piece in my studio is born from a deep passion for the material, meticulous planning, and alchemy in the kiln – an attempt to capture light and movement and give them eternal presence in space.
Yossi's Story
Yossi Sagie's story is one of a deep, almost mesmerizing connection to material, color, and light. For the past decade and a half, Yossi has been exploring the boundaries of glass in his private studio in Caesarea, driven by insatiable curiosity and a passion for finding new visual languages in the world of fusing. After a long career in photography and editing, he found his true calling in the quiet of the studio and in this meticulous and precise, almost Sisyphean, craft.
Yossi's work is characterized by endless patience, uncompromising meticulousness, and a unique artistic vision. His creations are not produced for the mass commercial market; they are carefully preserved, displayed in private collections, and sparingly released for collectors, galleries, and interior designers who are looking for an original premium piece that will bring depth, soul, and a timeless presence to a space.
From sketch to fire
Yossi's works are based on the fusing technique – the complex multi-layered merging of glass at high temperatures. The process begins with meticulous planning: Yossi creates a visual vision, breaks it down into components, and manually cuts unique premium glass sheets, specially imported from the United States, with millimeter precision. In the next stage, he concocts combinations of material layers, frits, and pigments to create rich textures. The crucial stage takes place in the firing kilns, where, at an extreme temperature of nearly 750 degrees Celsius, the layers melt and merge into a single entity, through a slow and controlled cooling process that lasts dozens of hours. The tiny air bubbles trapped inside, the varying heights of the layers, and the shifting reflections of light are the artist's signature – conclusive evidence that each work required months of skilled labor, and that, organically, there is no other like it in the world.
Sketch and Planning
Every creation begins with a meticulous sketch on Bristol paper – outlines, colors, structure. A stage that can take weeks.
Cut and assemble
The sketch is cut into pieces of glass imported from the USA and assembled in layers to a controlled thickness of approximately 6 mm.
Kiln fire
24 hours of controlled firing between 720° and 780°. The final shades are born in the fire - they cannot be replicated.
"I am drawn to the most precise work – to the delicate cutting with knives and the significance of the material. What ultimately connects me to glass is the result: when I see a finished, striking, and exciting image that speaks not only to me but also to other people, I know that this is exactly what I love to do."
- Yossi Sagi