View of Fondazione Berengo Art Space, Campiello della Pescheria 4
Bill just returned from visiting Venice and can give us great insights into how glass is being used in art today by artists from around the world. He will also talk about Glasstress, a project by Adriano Berengo to further Berengo’s mission to promote the use of glass in the world of contemporary art. The first Glasstress exhibition was launched in 2009 to establish a new platform for art made with glass and was founded as a collateral event of the Venice Biennale. This is the seventh edition of Glasstress, where Berengo Studios has brought together a group of leading contemporary artists from Europe, the United States, Latin America, Africa and China in an ambitious exhibition that explores the infinite creative possibilities of glass. The works are hosted inside the Berengo Art Space Foundation in Murano, an old abandoned furnace transformed a few years ago into a suggestive exhibition space.
“There’s A Big Hole In The Sky” – Collaborative sculpture by Tim Tate, Michael Janis, and Chris Shea.
The Venice Biennale is an international art exhibition featuring architecture, visual arts, cinema, dance, music, and theatre that is held in the Castello district of Venice, Italy every two years during the summer. This year’s Venice Biennale includes a collateral event – ‘Glasstress’ – held at the historic Berengo Studios in Murano, Italy.
The 59th International Art Exhibition features a sculptural collaboration between DC glass artists Tim Tate, Michael Janis and Brandywine metal sculptor Chris Shea, representing the USA.
Detail of Tate,Janis,Shea artwork showing cast glass and metalwork .
Chris Shea’s incredible metal work frames out Tim Tate’s lush fields of cast glass elements (detailed figures, flowers, insects) and in center, a glass sgraffito panel by Michael Janis.
A central concern in “There’s a Big Hole in The Sky” is that viewers need to abandon their apathy towards climate change. This monumental sculpture brings to light the effects of global warming on the earth as most areas will be facing frequent flooding. Despite the growing evidence of climate change, and humanity as the driver of that change, there remains a hardcore 20 percent or so that reject the whole notion of it and a healthy percentage that remain unconvinced that humans are causing it. And on top of those dismal statistics, many believe that climate change does not represent a threat to them. The artwork is an invitation to understand, to act, and to prepare. But if political solutions to climate change don’t materialize soon, it may also be an invitation to come to terms with loss.
Image of installation at Berengo Studios in Murano, Italy.
From Biennale Press Release
GLASSTRESS 2022
2 JUNE – 27 NOVEMBER 2022
BERENGO ART SPACE FOUNDATION
Venice, 2022
At the same time as the 59th Venice Biennale, the seventh edition of GLASSTRESS, scheduled from June 2 to November 27, 2022, brings together a group of important contemporary artists from Europe, the United States, Latin America, Africa and China in an ambitious exhibition that explores the infinite creative possibilities of glass.
The works will be housed in the Berengo Art Space Foundation in Murano, an old abandoned furnace transformed a few years ago into an evocative exhibition space. On display will be works by artists who have already collaborated and exhibited at GLASSTRESS with Berengo Studio, such as Ai Weiwei, Jimmie Durham, Tony Cragg, Monira Al Qadiri, Thomas Schütte, as well as first-time attendees Vanessa Beecroft, María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Tim Tate, Paloma Varga Weisz and eL Seed, among others.
GLASSTRESS is a project by Adriano Berengo dedicated to promoting new connections between contemporary art and glass. Starting from its debut in 2009 as a side event of the Venice Biennale, over the years GLASSTRESS has made dozens of internationally renowned artists and designers passionate about the traditional craft of Murano glass blowing, who have tried their hand at creating suggestive and innovative works in glass with the support of the masters of Berengo Studio.
GLASSTRESS 2022 – ARTISTS
NEW ARTISTS
Vanessa Beecroft (Italy), María Magdalena Campos-Pons (Cuba), Judy Chicago (United States), Chiara Dynys (Italy), eL Seed (France), Leandro Erlich (Argentina), Ryan Gander (Great Britain), Michael Janis (United States), Alexander Evgenievich Ponomarev (Russia), Laurent Reypens (Belgium), Liam Scully (Great Britain), Chris Shea (United States), Paloma Varga Weisz (Germany), Osman Yousefzada (Great Britain).
RETURNING ARTISTS
Ai Weiwei (China), Monira Al Qadiri (Kuwait), Ayman Baalbaki (Lebanon), Tony Cragg (Great Britain), Jimmie Durham (United States), Jan Fabre (Belgium), Josepha Gasch-Muche (Germany), Kendell Geers ( South Africa), Marya Kazoun (Lebanon / Canada), Brigitte Kowanz (Austria), Karen LaMonte (United States), Tomáš Libertiny (Slovak Republic), Massimo Lunardon (Italy), Federica Marangoni (Italy), Prune Nourry (France), Anne Peabody (United States), Jaume Plensa (Spain), Laure Prouvost (France), Thomas Schütte (Germany), Sean Scully (United States), Wael Shawky (Egypt), Lino Tagliapietra (Italy), Tim Tate (United States) , Koen Vanmechelen (Belgium), Robert Wilson (United States), Rose Wylie (Great Britain), Erwin Wurm (Austria).
Some have been looking for Tim Tate’s sculpture on exhibit at the Venice Bienale (thru November 24, 2013) Tim Tate’s work is on exhibit at the Palazzo Bembo.
The Palazzo Bembo.All that’s missing is James Bond arriving in a gondola.
Tim’s work had been moved within the exhibition – in case you are in Europe and heading out to Venice – here is a note from the Palazzo to Tim Tate on where the work is and how to get to the Venice pavilion.
Good Morning from Palazzo Bembo in Venice
We have to inform You that Your piece of art is on the center of our saloon on the Gran Canal , I mean , on the best position that we can offer! We are at the third floor of Palazzo Bembo with the lift and we are always open if the people want to visit your piece of art.
All our client arrive easily to our Palace following this instructions :
HOW YOU CAN REACH PALAZZO BEMBO
· FROM THE AIRPORT
· Directly by private water taxi to the Hotel (the cost is about Euros 110,00 for 2-4 people with luggage, and it takes you 25-30 minutes).
· With Alilaguna shuttle boat to Rialto Stop. (The cost is Euros 15,00, per person and it takes you 01 hour and 10 minutes).
· By taxi cab to Piazzale Roma (the cost is about Euros 45,00 and it takes you 20-25 minutes.
· By land, bus N 5 (the cost is Euros 1.50 per person, and it takes you 25-30 minutes)
· FROM PIAZZALE ROMA
· Directly by water taxi to the Hotel (the cost is Euros 80,00 for 2 people with luggage, and it takes you 15 minutes).
· By water bus lines N 1or 2 to Rialto (euro 6,50per pax)
· FROM THE TRAIN STATION
· Directly by private water taxi to the Hotel (the cost is Euros 70,00 for 2 people with luggage, and it takes you 10 minutes).
· By public water bus n. 1or 2 to Rialto stop (euro 6,50 per pax)
· FROM THE HIGHWAY MESTRE – VENEZIA
· You have to take the indications to Venice or Piazzale Roma and Tronchetto.
· FROM THE TROCHETTO ISLAND (Parking)
· Directly by private water taxi to the Hotel (the cost is Euros 80,00 for 2-4 people, and it takes 15- 20 minutes).
· By public water bus N 1 or 2 to Rialto (euro 6,50 per pax)
When you get off from the waterbus, opposite you you will see a pink gothic Palace: that isPALAZZO BEMBO. Ring the bell Palazzo Bembo and go up with the lift to the 3rd floor.
WGS Projects presents Tangents,a show featuring works by artists Christopher Baer and Tim Tate.These 2 artists represent a study in contrasts; yet invite investigation into the complicity of their work.Their work is tangential, yet parallel….both looking deeply below the surface. This compelling show will take place on the 4th floor of the Palazzo Bembo during the Venice Biennale. Opening May 29 through Nov. 24th, 2013; Opening Reception Weds May 29th, 6 – 9pm,Venice, Italy
Left, Christopher Baer; Right, Tim Tate
Christopher Baer
Working between two studios in Washington D.C. and rural Virginia, contemporary artist Christopher Baer is known for his highly expressive, large-scale mixed-media paintings. His works offer the viewer a glimpse into their process, with previous layers and gestural brushstrokes visible beneath the surface.Baer emphasizes the boundaries of the canvas by delineating a band along the edge of each painting; each consecutive layer of paint retreats further and further from the border, revealing earlier incarnations of the work.His long-term series Palisades, named after the part of D.C. where he lives, is a joyful exploration of color, brushwork and line.
Tim Tate
Tim Tate is a Washington, DC native, and has been working with glass as a sculptural medium for the past 25 years. Co-Founder of the Washington Glass School, Tim’s work is in the permanent collections of a number of museums, including the Smithsonian’s American Art Museum, Renwick Gallery and the Mint Museum. He was awarded the title of “Rising Star of the 21st Century” from the Museum of American Glass and was also the recipient of the 2009 Virginia Groot Foundation International award for sculpture. His work has been exhibited at many museums, including the Milwaukee Art Museum and the Museum of Arts and Design in New York. He was a 2012 Fulbright Scholar recipient at Sunderland University in England. Working in both video and glass, he is one of the leading artists in the field working with cross over mixed media.
