Major collateral event focuses on glass
Event includes works by Bourgeois, Rauschenberg, Man Ray and others
By Charmaine Picard. Published online: 29 May 2009
No other city in the world is more closely associated with the art of glassmaking than Venice, so it is fitting that "Glass Stress", a new survey of modern and contemporary glass art, opens on 6 June. The show brings together commissioned pieces by artists such as Fred Wilson, Tony Cragg and Orlan with rare objects made by Jean Arp, Louise Bourgeois, Jan Fabre, Mona Hatoum, Man Ray, Robert Rauschenberg and Lino Tagliapietra, among others.
Adriano Berengo, a local curator and art dealer, devised the exhibition to draw attention to the use of glass in installation and sculpture art today. Mr Berengo has been committed to revitalizing the art of glassmaking since the 1980s when he founded Berengo Studio, an organisation designed to help artists learn about the potential uses of glass in contemporary work. Since that time he has invited over 140 international artists to his studio to collaborate with expert glassblowers, many of who are included in the show.
The exhibition is co-organised by Mr Berengo, Laura Mattioli Rossi and Rosa Barovier Mentasti and is sponsored by the Mjellby Konstmuseum of Halmstad, Sweden, in collaboration with Susan Scherman Fine Arts, San Francisco.
Glass Stress, Istituto Veneto di Scienze Lettere ed Arti at the Palazzo Cavalli Franchetti and at the Scuola Grande Confraternita di San Teodoro, San Marco (6 June–22 November 2009).
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