Exhibition: Glass – A New Experience [1]

Zeitgenössisches Studioglas Contemporary Studio Glass

Contemporary glass art in a studio located in München-Schwabing

A private initiative for studio glass / The first exhibition of a new foundation
With the exhibition Glass – A New Experience the Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung, still a young foundation, inaugurates its new exhibition rooms located in a former studio of an Art Nouveau villa in München-Schwabing

International artists with a focus on Czech works

The selection will give an overall view of the Studio Glass movement, which is still quite unknown in Germany. The exhibits have been made by artists from Western and Eastern Europe, the USA, Australia and Japan. Dale Chihuly (USA), Erwin Eisch (Germany), Stanislav Libensky & Jaroslava Brychtová (Tschechien) are among these artists. They are already considered classics in glass art. The first exhibition comprises two parts. The first part will mainly focus on Czech artists. The second part, which will be exhibited in 2005, will concentrate on works of American and Australian artists. 

The exhibition’s catalogue

A catalogue excellently designed and published in a German/English edition shows more than 40 Studio Glass sculptures photographed in a masterly manner. Experts like Prof. Dr. Florian Hufnagl (Neue Sammlung, München) and Dr. Helmut Ricke (museum kunstpalast and Glasmuseum Hentrich, Düsseldorf) discuss the development and perception of the medium glass in their contributions.

The catalogue can be bought at bookstores or be ordered directly at the Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung (plus postage) under info@atutsekstiftung.de

Eva-Maria Fahrner-Tutsek
Katalog eins
Glas der Gegenwart Contemporary Gass
ISBN 3-937220-00-3, German/English edition
with contributions from Eva-Maria Fahrner-Tutsek, Florian Hufnagl, Helmut Ricke and photographs from Hans-Jürgen Becker
2004, Edition EMF published by the Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung
126 pages, 96 color photos, paperback, 24.5 x 24.5 cm
Euro 24.- / USD 30.-

The press photos on CD as well as the catalogue will be sent to you upon request.
The press release and the photos can also be downloaded from our website.

Press Contact:

Horst Koppelstätter

Koppelstätter Kommunikation GmbH
Friedrichstraße 2
76530 Baden-Baden | Germany

Phone +49-7221-97372-0
Fax: +49-7221-97372-22
E-Mail: hok@koppelstaetter-kommunikation.de

BACKGROUND INFORMATION: 

What is Studio Glass?

Studio Glass is a young direction in art, which started in the sixties when the small melting furnace was invented for the studios. The artists were thus given the technical possibility to form their own glass to pieces of art free from any function or purpose and to work independently from large furnaces of glass manufacturers and industrial production methods. Up to this time they were only able to design their glass sculptures (as Picasso did for example) and had to leave the final making in the hands of a glassmaker. By processing glass themselves, the artists were able to develop this material and to lead it away from conventional vessels to more abstract forms with a higher individuality. The material glass thus set off to be an own and individual form of art.

Glass – a special material

Compared to other materials such as ceramic, metals, stone, plastic, or virtual images, which are becoming increasingly prevalent in modern art, glass has a special quality, an added dimension: optical depth. It is based on the perception itself, and is not a result of sensorial memory or a mental act. By alternating clear, opaque, translucent, colored, polished and unpolished glass, artists have succeeded in creating different perceptions and views.

Studio Glass thrives on the optical multi-dimensionality and multi-layers of the levels, but also on the multifaceted forms and surface structures. The visual perception is enhanced by the tactile experience: depending on how it is processed, glass can feel completely smooth and cool, rough, or soft as silk. And in addition there is the preciously mentioned relationship with light: the interplay of light and color, surface and detail structures, as well as a deeper spatial dimension encourages visual, emotional, and physical discovery.

Studio Glass – a new and interesting form of art

The exhibits show clearly that Studio Glass "today is not only a very individual and fascinating branch of the large international art movements“ (Ricke) but also a form of art which enriches and widens our way of perception by new, surprising and aesthetic categories.

Information:

Address:
Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung
Karl-Theodor-Straße 27
80803 München | Germany
Contact:
Phone +49-89-343856
Fax +49-89-342876
info@atutsek-stiftung.de
www.atutsek-stiftung.de
Press preview:
by appointment
Opening:
May 12, 2004   6.00 pm
Duration of exhibition:
May 14 to November 14, 2004
Opening ours:
Tuesday to Thursday 10 am to 1.30 pm and by appointment
Public transport:
Subway to the stops Münchner Freiheit or Bonner Platz

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