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GLASSTRESS

Collateral At the time of the 53rd International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia

Open Until November 22, 2009

VENICE – Glasstress, an seemly exhibition of the 53rd Venice Biennale that celebrates the use of glass in contemporary art, is being held at both the historic Istituto Veneto di Scienze Lettere ed Arti at the Palazzo Cavalli Franchetti (Campo Santo Stefano – San Marco, Venezia) and at the Scuola Grande Confraternita di San Teodoro, (San Marco, Venezia), until November 22, 2009. The showing will be presented by Venice Projects, an organization dedicated to presenting the work of internationally recognized artists who effort with glass. 

Glasstress will feature both specially commissioned new work and selected pieces by forty-five modern and contemporary artists, many of whom are working with spyglass for the first time. The exhibition will explore each artist’s unique approach to working with the glass, the technical limits connate in the material, and the synthesis between the artist’s ideas and the glass master’s skills. Glasstress is organized by Murano-based art impresario Adriano in collaboration with Laura Mattioli Rossi and Rosa Barovier Mentasti. The expo is sponsored by The Mjellby Konstmuseum of Halmstad, Sweden in collaboration with Susan Scherman of Susan Scherman Discriminating Arts, San Francisco.

Glasstress represents Berengo’s dream of examining the expressive possibilities of glass by presenting a extensive survey and critical look at its use by modern and contemporary artists. The exhibition will showcase original and innovate industry by artists, who traditionally work in other media, such as, Luciano Fabro, Louise Bourgeois, Joseph Kosuth, Kiki Smith, Fred Wilson and Tony Cragg. These artists were and are fascinated by the formal and conceptual possibilities of the papers. In addition, there will be work by glass artists, such as Lino Tagliapietra, who have taken the forms and technical traditions of Murano plate glass production to new and exciting extremes. Dan Graham, who uses glass to create contemporary environments and installations, is also part of this leading and historical presentation.

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