Glasstress
White Light / White Heat
55th International Art Exhibition in Venice
June 1 - November 13 2013
Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti,
Palazzo Franchetti
Berengo Centre for Contemporary Art and Glass, Campiello della Pescheria Murano
Scuola Grande Confraternita di San Teodoro, San Marco, 4810 Venezia

Curated by
Adriano Berengo, James Putnam

Exhibition details
Venue
Palazzo Cavalli-Franchetti / Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti Campo S. Stefano, 2847, VE

and also
- Berengo Centre for Contemporary Art and Glass Campiello della Pescheria Murano, VE
- Scuola Grande Confraternita di San Teodoro San Marco, 4810, VE

Catalogue with texts byi Adriano Berengo, James Putnam, Frances Corner

Entrance ticket
Full price ticket 10 euros, reduced price ticket 8 euros group, over 65 and children

Press Release, April 11th 2013 Contemporary 
Artists + glass = GLASSTRESS 

Glasstress, ,  in its third appearance in the lagoon, has been opened to the public from May 31st to November 24th 2013.Glasstress. White Light / White Heat, curated by Adriano Berengo and James Putnam, has proposed the participating artists to deal with light and heat, intrinsic aspects of glass and its working. Glassis born from the creative and destructive force of fire, which transforms the basic chemical elements into a mouldable fluid. The result is a matter solid, yet with a chaotic molecular structure providing light with a limitless variety of surfaces, colours, transparencies and reflections.Glasstress was conceived by Adriano Berengo. It started with the 2009 edition of the International Art Exhibition-La Biennale di Venezia to allow glass “escape” from its ornamental prison, restoring it to the artists’ expressive process. Among the artists invited to participate in Glasstress from all over the world, many have been confronted for the first time with this material.

The following 65 artists will participate:
AES+F, Alice Anderson, Polly Apfelbaum, Ron Arad, Ayman Baalbaki, Miroslaw Balka, RinaBanerjee, Fiona Banner, Pieke Bergmans, Budicca, Pedro Cabrita Reis, Loris Cecchini,Hussein Chalayan, Mat Chivers, Oliver Clegg, Mat Collishaw, Tony Cragg, Tracey Emin, PaulFryer, Francesco Gennari, Recycle Group, Cai Guo-Qiang, Dmitri Gutov, Stuart Haygarth,Mona Hatoum, Charlotte Hodes, Shirazeh Houshiary, Shih Chieh Huang, John Isaacs,Michael Joo, Ilya&Emilia Kabakov, Kiki&Joost, Joseph Kosuth, Hew Locke, Delphine Lucielle, Alastair Mackie, Jason Martin, Kris Martin, Oksana Mas, Whitney McVeigh, AldoMondino, Mariko Mori, Tim Noble & Sue Webster, Tony Oursler, Lucy Orta, Mimmo Paladino, Cornelia Parker, Javier Pérez, Jaume Plensa, Karim Rashid, Ursula von Rydingsvard,Thomas Schutte, Joyce Scott, Conrad Shawcross, Sudarshan Shetty, Meekyoung Shin,Helen Storey, Zak Timan, Gavin Turk, Koen Vanmechelen, Joana Vasconcelos, MartinWalde, Zhan Wang, Zak Ové, and Marta Klonowska. Ron Arad will present with the special project Last Train

Glasstress 2013 has been promoted by LCF-London College of Fashion, with the support of Venice Projects, Berengo Studio 1989, Wallace Collection, Julius Baer Bank, Steinmetz Diamonds, and Valmont. In the two previous editions of the International Art Exhibition-La Biennale di Venezia, Glasstress involved more than 150 artists, including: Josef Albers, Arman, Jean Arp, Barbara Bloom, Monica Bonvicini, Louise Bourgeois, Daniel Buren, Lawrence Carroll, Cèsar, Tony Cragg, Jan Fabre, Lucio Fontana, Kendell Geers, Dan Graham, Zaha Hadid, Richard Hamilton, Zhang Huan, Joseph Kosuth, Jannis Kounellis, Oleg Kulik, VikMuniz, Orlan, Jean Michel Othoniel, Luca Pancrazzi, Giuseppe Penone, Anton Pevsner, Robert Rauschenberg, Man Ray, Kiki Smith, Patricia Urquiola, Fred Wilson, Erwin Wurm, and Chen Zhen.

Berengo Studio
The Berengo Studio, founded in 1989 by Adriano Berengo, aims at bringing contemporaryinternational artists closer to the world of glass so that, in collaboration with master glassmakers,they can translate their artistic research into the three-dimensional language of glass paste. The Studio works primarily with established or emerging authors, whose works are mostly exhibited in major museums and private collections, without neglecting, however, the young artistsmaking their debut. The artists who work with the Berengo Studio normally use a variety of expressive materials other than glass, that’s why in their approach to this new medium they always contribute an original andfreer interpretation of the possibilities offered by this extraordinary material.

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