Smart artists, architects and designers who creatively express their thoughts and ideas through a new medium: glass.
In short, this is what the Glasstress exhibition, which opens in Venice in June, is about.
The exhibition to be held at Palazzo Cavalli Franchetti and the Berengo Centre for Contemporary Art and Glass will include sculptures, installations and design objects.
Conceived by Adriano Berengo and produced by Venice Projects, Glasstress 2011 will be curated by Bonnie Clearwater, Lidewij Edelkoort, Peter Noever and Demetrio Paparoni. On show will be sculptures and glass installations especially created by renowned artists, including Thomas Schütte (see video below), Barbara Bloom, Domenico Bianchi, Tony Cragg, Jan Fabre, Vik Muniz and many others.
The theme of this year’s exhibition is the complex relationship that ties art, design and architecture together in an age thought to have moved beyond modernism. Glasstress 2011 offers the viewer food for thought about complex themes. It poses the need for a critical reassessment of the main tenets of modernism, the majority of which were still very much present in the art of the 1980s and questioned in the next decade by the second generation of post-modernism.
Opening on 4 June, Glasstress will be open to the public until 27 November 2011.
More information: www.glasstress.org
