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Spotlight on the colours in Mudac’s contemporary art glass collection - Chromatic explores the world of colour from three different perspectives

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Spotlight on the colours in mudac’s #contemporaryart glass collection!
Chromatic explores the world of colour from three different perspectives: the scientific, the sensory and the playful. The scientific aspect reveals glass colouring techniques and also highlights the role of vision in our colour perception. The sensory perspective can be experienced through works whose presentation is inspired by the colour wheel created by Swiss theoretician Johannes Itten. Finally, just as every artistic encounter should be informed by pleasure and humour, the exhibition includes a playful sector.
Early glass articles were coloured because of tiny percentages of metallic oxides that occur naturally in its basic compo- nents. However, we frequently associate glass as a material with transparency and an absence of colour. The exhibition shatters this popular misconception by focussing on fifty or so pieces in sparkling colours. It showcases a wide range of forms, techniques and renowned artists.
Shield your eyes, make way for colour!
Artists : Jean Arp (FR), Lubomir Artzt (SK), Jacqueline Badord (FR), Philip Baldwin (US) & Monica Guggisberg (CH), Thomas Blank (CH), Sydney Cash (US), Bernard Citroën (NL), Dan Dailey (US), Salvador Dali (ES), Laura de Santillana (IT), Jean-Pierre Demarchi (FR), Pierre Dmitrienko (FR), Jodoc Elmiger (CH), Matteo Gonet (CH), Claude Goutin (FR), Milan Handl (CZ), Camille Jacobs (LU), Valérie Jacquemet (CH), Marian Karel (CZ), Stanislav Libensky & Jaroslava Brychtova (CZ), Harvey K. Littleton (US), Steven Michael Mccarroll (US), Barbara Nanning (NL), Jr. Bretislav Novak (CZ), Yann Oulevay (CH), Mark Peiser (US), Bruno Peinado (FR), Gaetano Pesce (IT), Tobias Rehberger (DE), Maurice Ruche (CH), Gernot Schluifer (AT), Paul Seide (US), Denji Takeuchi (JP), Vladimir Tom (CZ), Jozef Tomecko (CZ), Kunitaro Uchida (JP), Tora Urup (DK), Durk Valkema (NL), Ales Vasicek (CZ), Frantisek Vizner (CZ), Claude Wetzsein (FR),
Jeff Zimmerman (US).
CONTEMPORARY GLASS
Architecture began resorting to glass already in the late 19th century and even more so during the 20th. Moreover, since 1950, this material itself has evolved in unique fashion, as documented by the #mudac collection over the last forty years. Be it for monumental sculpture, art works or #design pieces, glass has in fact become a choice material that is truly contemporary.
The properties of glass are as singular as they are fascinating—ever intimating the paradoxical and challenging our perception of mass, volume and space. Like no other medium, glass brings into play metaphor, and even the temporal dimension. Moreover, not only does it easily imitate other materials, but it also can be turned into whimsy, be transformed into kitsch, or else serve to inspire contemplation. Essentially a plain material, in its crystalline form glass becomes precious. Certainly it comes as no surprise that a material that is so proteiform, so highly expressive, is held in great esteem by such a diversity of creators.
Today’s artists, designers and the public at large are showing renewed interest in glass, reflecting their curiosity about the creative process, a certain form of tradition and the handcrafting of a material. The #mudac conservation department has done its canvassing in different realms of creativity, discovering sculpture pieces directly tied to the studio glass movement (generally entailing impressively large one-off works), #contemporaryart works that often avail themselves of this medium to metaphorical ends and, finally, the #design field’s explorations devoted to lighting fixtures, mirrors and vases. By definition, glass sits at the intersection of art, #design and handicrafts. Therefore it is all the more suited to such transdisciplinary realms of creative endeavor as “design d’auteur” or art #design.
CHROMATIC
29 June 2016 – 24 September 2017
Place de la Cathédrale 6 CH-1005 Lausanne
t +41 315 25 30
f +41 315 25 39 info@mudac.ch www.mudac.ch

 

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