Exhibiton: The Heart Forever Yearns Away

Zeitgenössisches Studioglas Contemporary Studio Glass

Internationally Acclaimed Sculpture Exhibition at Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung in Munich

Quest and yearning are the subjects of the new exhibition at the Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung in Munich. In the show entitled Und immer sehnt sich fort das Herz (The Heart Forever Yearns Away), the renowned foundation for contemporary glass displays more than thirty glass sculptures from
12 October 2007 to 31 March 2008. The internationally recognized artists Christiane Budig, Jens Gussek, Ursula Huth, and Sibylle Peretti made the objects especially for this thematic exhibition from Germany. The Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung thus continues its series of ambitious exhibitions. With its last show Das verlorene Gesicht wieder gefunden (The Face – Lost and Found Again), the foundation aroused international attention.

Chairwoman Eva-Maria Fahrner-Tutsek says: "The quest is for human beings one of the motivating forces for the spiritual, intellectual and technical development of humankind. The quest for that which is distant, for the other, for freedom, truth, new or strong feelings, transcendental moments, as well as for happiness are the essential motifs that determine life and life's journey."

Quest and Yearning

The exhibition title Und immer sehnt sich fort das Herz, taken from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's East-West Divan, expresses humankind's constant quest very poetically. Glass, a material that is not yet well known in modern art, conveys this theme in a very special way.
Eva-Maria Fahrner-Tutsek: "Although glass is something commonplace for
us – we can hardly imagine our lifestyle today without glass – it has had something very magical throughout the millennia. Glass is sensuous. Depending on how it has been made, glass feels completely smooth and cool, it can be rough and can injure, or it can be as soft as velvet."

Compared to other media such as ceramics, metal, stone, synthetics, or the virtual images that dominate modern art increasingly, glass has a special quality, an additional dimension – its optical depth. Alternating between clear, opaque, translucent, colored, cut, and uncut glass, artists have infinite possibilities to allow different perceptions and perspectives."

New Ways

The exhibition title indicates the long way that art with glass has taken in the last few decades since leaving behind functional forms such as vases or bowls. Subjects like this would have been unthinkable just a little while ago. Today's tendencies show that not only have artists accepted glass as a medium but glass has also developed into an independent form of art. The objects make multilayered statements today. Subtle, abstract, transcendental, or mythological ideas and subjects are important. The individual objects in the exhibition give rise to inner stories and illustrate that artists are venturing into new thematic and emotional realms. 

Contemporary Glass is Still Unknown

The Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung was founded in Munich in December 2000. When Alexander Tutsek and his wife Eva-Maria Fahrner-Tutsek, who had both always been enthusiastic about the material glass, started building up their private collection of studio glass, it quickly became clear to them that this material has not yet found its place in art. Studio glass, a young form of glass, is not yet as popular here as in the art scene in America or in some other European countries.

With the goal of supporting contemporary glass and due to their professional experience, the couple aspires to support scientific research, particularly in the areas of glass, ceramics, stones, and industrial minerals.

An important task the foundation has set itself is to build up a top-class collection of contemporary glass. The collection covers as broad a spectrum of the current movements in studio glass as possible, represented by works of well-known international artists. Contemporary glass from Germany sets a special accent.

Eva-Maria Fahrner-Tutsek: "Only when a wider public recognizes the artistic potential in glass and when a market comparable to that in the USA develops can studio glass in Germany grow beyond its local dimensions and really flourish as a form of art in Europe.

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
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Opening ours:
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