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Glasstress-NY.Pdf NEW ART FROM THE VENICE BIENNALES OPEN PROJECT BY ADRIANO BERENGO …I I WWASAS RREALLYEALLY LLOOKINGOOKING FFOROR A WWAYAY TTHATHAT TTRANSMITSRANSMITS LLIGHTIGHT DDIFFERENTLYIFFERENTLY IINN MMYY AARTWORKRTWORK AANDND WWHATHAT BBETTERETTER WWAYAY TTHANHAN GGLASS!LASS! JOYCE J. SCO JOYCE J. SCOTT (ARTIST) Cover First published in Italy in 2012 Editorial Coordination GLASSTRESS NEW YORK Supported and Cooperated by Exhibition Management – Special thanks to Studio Urquiola, Milan Jaume Plensa, by Skira editore S.p.A. Laura Bresolin New Art from the Venice The Museum of Arts and Design Shintaro Akatsu Kosuke Mori Laura’s Hands, 2011 Palazzo Casati Stampa Biennales (MAD) Savino Cancellara Triumph Gallery, Moscow via Torino 61 Texts by Max Casacci and Vaghe Stelle Robert and Dianne Moss Back Cover 20123 Milano Adriano Berengo New York, 14th February > 10th General Coordination Ronald and Barbara Cordover Claire Oliver Gallery, New York Javier Pérez, Italy Holly Hotchner June 2012 Elizabeth Kirrane Marcello and Valeria Forin David Zwirner, New York Carroña, 2011 / detail www.skira.net Demetrio Paparoni Paolo Grossi Estate of Robert Rauschenberg, The Museum of Arts and Design Exhibition Staging VeneziaNews New York Editing © 2012 Venice Projects Biographical Notes by 2 Columbus Circle, New York Dorothy Globus Lehmann Maupin Gallery, Emily Ligniti © 2012 Berengo Studio 1989 Beatrice Biagioli USA Contributing Galleries, New York © 2012 the authors for their texts Laura Bresolin Shipping Department Collections, and Institutions Private Collection, New York Translations © 2012 Skira editore Francesca Giubilei Conceived by Ellen Holdorf Gallery Fons Wetters, Amsterdam R 20th Century Gallery, New York Linda Falcone © Louise Bourgeois Trust / VAGA, Patterson Sims Adriano Berengo Brian MacElhose Pieke Bergmans – Design Virus, Tracy Williams ltd., New York Brenda Lea Stone New York by SIAE 2012 (for Joyce Jane Scott) Amsterdam Galerie Lelong, New York-Paris Debra Levine © Fondazione Lucio Fontana, Organized by Communication Angelos Bvba Collection, Antwerp Orrefors Kosta Boda AB, Orrefors Milano by SIAE 2012 Design and Layout The Museum of Arts and Design and Graphic Design Goya Contemporary, Baltimore The Pace Gallery Photo Credits © Estate of Robert Rauschenberg + fortuna / cheste (MAD), New York Linda Florio, Florio Design Private Collection, Baltimore Saazs, Paris Francesco Allegretto by SIAE 2012 Paola Fortuna / Peppe Clemente Venice Projects | Berengo Studio Sponsored by Galleria Toni Tàpies, Barcelona Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery, Chris Amaral © Man Ray Trust by SIAE 2012 with Gloria Zanotti 1989, Venice Info Press Studio Plensa, Barcelona Paris, Salzburg Andrew Atkinson © Josef Albers, Arman, Jean Arp, Cordover Family Foundation Marisa Bartolucci Artbug Gallery, Bassano Private Collection, Piacenza Ela Bialkowska Domenico Bianchi, Ernst Billgren, Pre-Press Curators Shintaro Akatsu School of Design Private Collection, Bassano Collection Lise and Thierry Prevot Hélène Binet Monica Bonvicini, Daniel Buren, Puntofotolito, Sara Cupoli Adriano Berengo, Holly Hotchner, Solidere Sponsorship Department Galleria Fumagalli, Bergamo Latvian National Museum of Art, Alessio Buldrin César, Tony Cragg, Marie-Louise David McFadden The Amb Way Judith Kamien lorch+seidel contemporary, Berlin Riga Christopher Burke Ekman, Jan Fabre, Charlotte Photo Credits The Inner Circle, leadership Max Hetzler Gallery, Berlin Joseph Kosuth Studio, Rome Savino Cancellara Gyllenhammar, Richard Hamilton, Glasstress New York Section support group of MAD Buchmann Galerie, Berlin/Lugano Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Geoffrey Clements Joseph Kosuth, Jannis Kounellis, Francesco Allegretto Exhibition Management – Josef Albers Museum Quadrat Beijing, Le Moulin Grant Delin Raimund Kummer, Vik Muniz, Venice Projects Bottrop, Bottrop Susan and Fred Sanders Alex Deyaert Orlan, Jean-Michel Othoniel, Andrew Atkinson, pp. 34 › 37 Berengo Studio 1989 Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia Kukje Gallery, Seoul Steve Double Giuseppe Penone, Javier Pérez, Hélène Binet, p. 8 Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Shanghart Gallery, Shanghai Lars Ekdahl, © Millesgården Anton Pevsner, Jaume Plensa, Alex Deyaert, p. 139 General Coordination Brussels Zhang Huan Studio, Shanghai Francesco Ferruzzi Maria Roosen, Anatoly Shuravlev, Francesco Ferruzzi, pp. 92/130 Marco Berengo Xavier Hufkens Gallery, Brussels Galerie Karsten Greve AG, Andrea Fiesoli Mike + Doug Starn, Erwin Wurm, Gasull Fotografia, p. 93 Laura Bresolin Goodman Gallery, St. Moritz Fondazione Marconi Chen Zhen by SIAE 2012 Stoffel Hias, pp. 140 › 141 Johannesburg, Cape Town Angelika Knapper Gallery, Gasull Fotografia ICA, Maine College of Art, Exhibition Staging Collection Cingoli Stockholm David Heald pp. 76 › 79 Koen Vanmechelen Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Stockholm Stoffel Hias All rights reserved under Luke Jerram, pp. 48 › 51/90 › 91 Giovanni Scarpa De Nul Collection Millesgården Museum, Stockholm ICA, Maine College of Art international copyright Russell Johnson, courtesy Stefano Dono Joanne Katz Private Collection, SCAI, The Bathhouse, Tokyo Luke Jerram conventions. Museum of Glass, Tacoma, Florida Tokujin Yoshioka inc., Tokyo Mimmo Jodice No part of this book may be Washington, pp. 118 › 121 Shipping Department Keith Johnson Yumiko Chiba Associates, Tokyo Russell Johnson reproduced or utilized in any Michael Koryta, Stefano Dono Marlborough Gallery, London Tucci Russo Studio per l’Arte Michael Koryta form or by any means, electronic pp. 2 › 3/112 › 116 Mauro Falcier Spring Projects, London Contemporanea, Torre Pellice, Jos Kottmann or mechanical, including Jos Kottmann, This catalogue was made possible Gianni Gallo Stephen Friedman Gallery, London Turin Liedeke Kruk photocopying, recording, or any pp. 74 › 75/110 › 111 through the generosity of Roberto Lazzari Zaha Hadid Architects, London Galleria Michela Rizzo, Venice Joerg Lohse information storage and retrieval Joerg Lohse, courtesy Goya Contemporary Gallery, Marino Zaffalon Urs Meile Gallery, Beijing, Lucerne Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere Gints Malderis system, without permission The Pace Gallery, pp. 122 › 123 Suzi Cordish, Moss Private Collection, Miami ed Arti, Venice Attilio Maranzano in writing from the publisher. Attilio Maranzano, pp. 38/40 › 41 and an anonymous donor. Thanks to our collaborators Collection Orsi, Segrate, Milan Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Bo Mathisen Eric Tschernow, pp. 68 › 69 Danilo Zanella E. Righi Collection, Milan Venice OMOTE Nobutada Printed and bound in Italy. Koen Vanmechelen, Dawn Bennett Fondazione Marconi, Milan Museum of Glass, Tacoma, Andrea Penisto First edition pp. 138/142 › 143 Metal Riv- Giuseppe Bonini Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan Washington Anders Qwarnström Romano De Angeli Chris Sanders ISBN: 978-88-572-1406-1 Photo Credits Daniele Donà Special thanks to all the artists Paolo Semprucci Glasstress Ambients Massimo Lunardon for the enthusiasm they brought Studio Marangoni Distributed in USA, Canada, Francesco Allegretto, Jane Rushton to this project Studio Shinji Kimura Central & South America by pp. 152 › 169, 172 › 177 Falegnameria Santini Nadia Taiga Rizzoli International Lars Ekdahl, © Millesgården, Andrea e Paolo Thes Publications, Inc., pp. 182 › 185 Valle Romano Hugo Thomassen 300 Park Avenue South, Gints Malderis, pp. 178 › 181 di Valle Alessio Markus Tretter New York, NY 10010, USA. Andrea Penisto, pp. 170 › 171 Eric Tschernow Distributed elsewhere in the world Paolo Vandrasch by Thames and Hudson Ltd., Koen Vanmechelen 181A High Holborn, London WC1V Stig Weston 7QX, United Kingdom. Oliviero Zane The publisher is at the disposal of the entitled parties as regards all unidentified iconographic sources. CONTENTS GLASSTRESS NEW YORK GLASSTRESS ANTHOLOGY 10 FOREWORD 28 BARBARA BLOOM 144 GLASSTRESS ANTHOLOGY Holly Hotchner 34 EL ULTIMO GRITO Laura Bresolin 38 JAN FABRE 14 GLASS, MON AMOUR 42 JAIME HAYON 187 GLASSTRESS WORKS: Adriano Berengo 48 LUKE JERRAM Glasstress 2009 52 MICHAEL JOO at the 53rd Venice Biennale 16 GLASSTRESS IN NEW YORK 58 MARYA KAZOUN Glasstress 2011 Demetrio Paparoni 64 MARTA KLONOWSKA at the 54th Venice Biennale 72 TOMÁŠ LIBERTÍNY Glasstress Riga 2011 76 BETH LIPMAN Glasstress Stockholm 2011 80 VIK MUNIZ Glasstress New York 2012 84 TONY OURSLER 86 JAVIER PÉREZ 92 JAUME PLENSA 96 SILVANO RUBINO 102 URSULA VON RYDINGSVARD 104 JUDITH SCHAECHTER 106 THOMAS SCHÜTTE 112 JOYCE JANE SCOTT 118 KIKI SMITH 126 YUTAKA SONE 128 MIKE + DOUG STARN 130 PATRICIA URQUIOLA 138 KOEN VANMECHELEN NEW ART FROM THE VENICE BIENNALES The Museum of Arts and Design (MAD, then known as the Museum of Throughout the history of glass as an art and design medium, the majority Contemporary Crafts) opened in 1956. Two years later the museum organized of the skilled practitioners capable of working this demanding (and often Louis Comfort Tiffany, a groundbreaking retrospective of America’s most dangerous) superheated material have remained anonymous. By the renowned and influential glass designer around the year 1900. Since that nineteenth century, industrial methods of glass production and a complex time, the museum has been a pioneer in the United States, organizing system of distribution of glass rendered this formerly prized material exhibitions that have explored glass in its many forms. The exhibitions have available to a massive audience of middle-class consumers. At the same time, focused both on individual studio practitioners and thematic overviews of this democratization of the material rendered it
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