It was the colorful and luminous stained glass painting by Lorenzo Ghiberti in the Florentine Cathedral Santa Maria del Fiore.
Numerous exhibitions and commissions in Germany and abroad as well as work in the private and public sector have made his glass art famous.
The subject of his work finds its origins in real life: defining experiences, revolutionary encounters, shocking news and the contradictions of our complex world.
Placing his colorful motifs in the middle of the picture on different levels of the sandblasted support glass is characteristic.
Connecting the panes into a single work makes it possible for Nabo Gass to unite his past experiences with the present and to confront them.
He has also immersed himself in the field of solar technology and designed the façade of a high bay warehouse in Coeseld-Lette using photovoltaic modules.
The facade is constructed out of deep-black solar modules and greenish-blue sparkling crash glass, two contrasting components generating an electrifying force.
A unique and exemplary symbiosis of engineering and design, his artistic approach to the photovoltaic facade received the architecture award of the Stiftung Deutsche Pfandbriefbank.
The comprehensible and enigmatic are cognate to each other by ever changing emphasis and interpretive reversal.” Dorothee Baer-Bogenschütz, journalist and art historian[2] “The persuasive power of Nabo Gass’ artwork is manifested in the symbiosis of glass and painting.