Three Solo Shows
Despite the visual diversity, these artists converge in the respect that they clearly use glass for its almost limitless potential to realize form, but only within the limits of the conviction that the material and its use must remain subordinate to the perception of art
The Belgian glass museum Glazenhuis invited four internationally renowned artists for the summer exhibition 2013, entitled: 3 Solo Shows. The brothers Jamex and Einar de la Torre (MX/US), Petr Stanický (CZ) and Richard Meitner (US/NL) were offered the basement floor, the ground floor and the first floor exhibition space respectively to present a 'solo show'.
This exhibition will undoubtedly result in remarkable confrontations of three very different approaches to art, glass and the museum environment. Jamex and Einar De La Torre will transform the grey environment into a colourful and vast spectacle imbued very liberally with references to both Mexican folk art and Flemish folklore.
Despite the visual diversity, these artists converge in the respect that they clearly use glass for its almost limitless potential to realize form, but only within the limits of the conviction that the material and its use must remain subordinate to the perception of art. It is clear that they are freed of any obligations with regard to the material, both in choice and in use. Reaching this point it is therefore obviously superfluous to speak about glass art.
GlazenHuis
The GlazenHuis of Lommel is presenting itself as the Flemish Centre for Contemporary Glass Art. However the GlazenHuis is committing itself a lot further than this subtitle is suggesting. It is a dynamic centre which wants to promote glass in all its forms and focusses on all its appearances and functionalities: Glass in daily use, glass in design, glass through history, glass in the future, glass within contemporary art. Especially giving this last 'glass as an artistic medium' a place within contemporary art is one of our main goals. The GlazenHuis shows that glass can be what it wants to be: an object or a painting, bronze or gemstone, art or design, unique or ordinary, colourful or transparent.
Group Exhibition: 3 Solo Shows
Jamex and Einar De La Torre, Petr Stanický and Richard Meitner
March 31 – September 15, 2013
Glazenhuis, 14b Dorp, Lommel, Vlaanderen, 3920 Belgium
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