Glasstress
Glasstress is a recurring exhibition that brings together art by contemporary artists made with glass. Launched in 2009 as a collateral exhibition of the Venice Biennale of Arts by Adriano Berengo as a way of showcasing the works produced by Berengo Studio, it has since had editions take place in 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021 and 2022. The mission of Glasstress is to show how contemporary artists use glass as an incomparable medium for their expression. For a long time, especially in Venice and Murano, glass has been generally associated to decoration, whereas its relevance for outstanding accomplishments by great artists was neglected. '' The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even'', also known as ''The Large Glas''s by Marcel Duchamp (1915–23, Philadelphia Museum of Art) might be considered as a seminal milestone. But in recent years an increasing number of artists have taken up working with glass for their creations, and Glasstress is the first initiative aimed at doc ...
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Berengo Studio
Berengo Studio is a glass studio transforming the art of glass and glass art through collaborations with contemporary artists based in Murano, Venice, Italy. History Berengo Studio
was established in 1989 by Adriano Berengo, a Venetian entrepreneur whose goal was to renovate the tradition of by crossbreeding it with the global culture of . Berengo took inspiration from the work of Egidio Costantini and his ''Fucina degli Angeli'', where in the 1960s artists such as Picasso,