Polly Afelbaum, I Tip My Hat to You, 2013. Venetian glass. courtesy: berengo gallery
Ron Arad, Mat Collishaw, Tracey Emin, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Tim Noble & Sue Webster, Cornelia Parker, Conrad Shawcross, Joanna Vasconcelos, Miroslaw Balka, Cai Guo Quiang and others create their first glass works in Murano, curated by Adriano Berengo and James Putnam. In a unique collaboration between the Berengo Studio (Venice), Venice Projects (Venice), London College of Fashion and the Wallace Collection (London), “Glasstress: White Light/White Heat“ presents the newly commissioned work of some of today’s most important contemporary artists, most of whom will be working in glass for the first time.
The exhibition builds on the success of two previous Venice Art Biennale Glasstress shows (2009, 2011), with some fifty artists invited to respond to the theme of light and heat, the components of fire, the fundamental elements involved in the formation of the universe and also the essence of glassblowing. Light is integral to our perception of glass, while heat is required to shape it.
“Glasstress: White Light/White Heat” will open at the preview of the Venice Biennale on 30 May at the Palazzo Cavalli Franchetti on the Grand Canal and at the Berengo Centre for Contemporary Art and Glass accompanied by dynamic performances from Alice Anderson and Cai Guo Qiang.
For more information: www.glasstress.org
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