Newsletter 2018 2019 1
BERENGO STUDIO AND FONDAZIONE BERENGO Berengo Studio and Fondazione Berengo close 2018, a year that was filled with new projects and new collaborations together with old artists and new contemporary artists who approach the world of glass for the first time. Ai Weiwei, Thomas Schütte, Monica Bonvicini, Erwin Wurm, Jaume Plensa, and Vik Muniz began new projects with us. Our new artists include Francesco Clemente, Sebastian Brajkovic, Renate Bertlmann, and the young Swedish artist Åsa Jungnelius. Fondazione Berengo strengthened its bonds with Murano s glass traditions and contemporary art and design by sponsoring two new exhibitions: MEMPHIS - Plastic Field at the Palazzo Franchetti in Venice and LUX- LUMEN at the Berengo Exhibition Space on Murano. It promoted new initiatives with EIUC and Global Campus of Human Rights and presented a new edition of Glasstress. Curious? Leaf through the following pages and we ll tell you everything about a 2018 that s about to close and a 2019 that s about to begin! 2 1
GILDED CAGE, VENICE 24.05 25.11.2018 Directly from Central Park, New York, the monumental sculpture Gilded Cage by Ai Weiwei traveled to the garden of Palazzo Franchetti and for the first time visitors can enter and experience the power of this sculpture from inside the bars. The project was made possible with the support of Banca Mediolanum and Michael Frahm. Ai Weiwei Gilded Cage, 2016 135.3 731.6 ø cm next page, from top Ai Weiwei and Adriano Berengo in Berlin, Los Angeles, and São Paulo Michelangelo Pistoletto, Marcello Dantas, and Ai Weiwei Prototypes, Berengo Studio, Murano AI WEIWEI 2 Ai Weiwei is a tornado of ideas! During 2018, we traveled across the world to meet with him and plan new projects that we will announce soon. 3
LUIGI BENZONI Luigi Benzoni has returned to the furnace for new experimentations and to renew his most traditional sculptures. RENATE BERTLMANN Renate Bertlmann is the official artist for the Austrian Pavilion for the Art Biennale 2019. We re honored and proud to be with the Austrian Pavilion again with an extraordinary creative project in glass. MONICA BONVICINI IN VIENNA 31.08 04.11.2018 Monica Bonvicini opened All Day Night Smoke, a public installation located in Graben in Vienna. 4 Luigi Benzoni, Berengo Studio, Murano Adriano Berengo and Renate Bertlmann, Berengo Studio, Murano 5
A CASTING WORKSHOP ON MURANO The island of Murano is famous throughout the world for blown glass and solid glass crafting. In order to satisfy artists need for sculptural realism, we created a new experimental casting workshop to develop the technique of lost wax. This technique will allow us to create large-format artworks in glass that are as close as possible to the original models. FRANCESCO CLEMENTE, BETWEEN NEW YORK AND MURANO After a visit by Adriano Berengo to the New York studio of the painter Francesco Clemente, a major proponent of the Italian Transavanguardia movement, he pleasantly surprised us by visiting Murano with the goal of collaborating with us in the future. The experimental casting workshop, Murano Studio Francesco Clemente, New York 6 7
MAT COLLISHAW ACROSS EUROPE! In St. Moritz 03.02 11.03.2018, in Prague 10.04 08.07.2018, in Rome 16.05 07.10.2018 For the British artist Mat Collishaw, 2018 was a year full of events, including an exhibition at the gallery Robilant&Voena in St. Moritz and at the Curiosity Shop by Bulgari in Rome. The Galerie Rudolfinium in Prague also organized his retrospective, held at the same time his black mirror sculpture A Different Self was on exhibition at the National Gallery of Prague. 8 Mat Collishaw A Different Self, 2014 270 150 50 cm Berengo Collection, Murano Detail of the work at the National Gallery (Národní galerie), Prague 9
LAURE PROUVOST Once again we congratulate Laure Prouvost for being selected as the official artist for the French Pavilion this upcoming Art Biennale 2019, but above all for her marvelous wedding that we attended in France in July. NEW PROJECTS Fondazione Berengo in collaboration with the Gallerie degli Uffizi in Florence will hold an outdoor sculpture exhibition of Tony Cragg in the famous Giardino di Boboli, Florence, in the summer of 2019. In Wuppertal, director Eike Schmidt and sculptor Tony Cragg came up with fantastic ideas for the show. Tony Cragg and Eike Schmidt in the sculptor s studio in Wuppertal, Germany Laure Prouvost Bum Glasses, 2018 22 11.5 ø cm Special edition for Laure Prouvost s wedding 10 11
GLASSTRESS PTUJ, SLOVENIA 06.07 09.09.2018 Glasstress continues with its travels. After Stockholm, Riga, New York, Beirut, and Boca Raton, the exhibition was presented at Ptuj, Slovenia, for the Art Stays Festival 2018. The Belgian artist Koen Vanmechelen curated the exhibition. Koen Vanmechelen Black Medusa, 2015 88 50 ø cm 12 13
ÅSA JUNGNELIUS S FIRST EXPERIENCE ON MURANO As part of the artist residence program, Åsa Jungnelius tried her hand at blown glass works and lost wax works. Her sculptures were presented at ArkDes, Stockholm, and are currently on display in Shanghai in an exhibition curated by Feng Boyi. HUMAN RIGHTS PAVILION: NEWS 06.10.2018 On October 6, 2018, Fondazione Berengo in collaboration with EIUC was pleased to host a charity event with world music, a dancer, and entertainment in the Sala del Portego of the Palazzo Franchetti. On this occasion, which was to support a pavilion for art involving human rights during the next Art Biennale in 2019, we officially announced that Koen Vanmechelen would be the curator. A small auction with artworks in glass donated by Berengo Studio was held to support the pavilion. Åsa Jungnelius s studio 14 Jane Rushton, Fondazione Berengo Director, Human Rights Pavilion party, Sala del Portego, Palazzo Franchetti, Venice 15
EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS ON MURANO RIA LUSSI AT MACRO, ROME 16.05 25.11.2018 Thanks to the financial and logistic support of Berengo Studio, the Glass Art Society (GAS), an American not-forprofit association that promotes glass art across the world, was able to organize its annual conference for the first time on Murano. Fondazione Berengo presented an exhibition entitled LUX-LUMEN with Ai Weiwei, Song Dong, Yuichi Higashionna, Zaha Hadid, Richard Jolley, and others revisiting what for many is the genius loci of Venice, the chandelier. Hundreds of GAS members and visitors had access to this special installation of chandeliers which was designed by CONCEPTICON Studio. A special project by Han De Kluijver and an exhibition by neon glass artists, Vetro Illuminato, were also shown in the Berengo Exhibition Space on Murano. 16 Lively sculptures showing Giordano Bruno at different ages are the subject of Ria Lussi s new works for her artist residency at MACRO in Rome. She worked at the Berengo Studio furnace on Murano during the month of September. LUX-LUMEN, Berengo Exhibition Space, Murano GAS 2018 official committee Adriano Berengo and Ria Lussi in the Berengo Studio furnace, Murano Zaha Hadid design for Lasvit, Dune 62.5 26 ø cm 17
Masanori Umeda Tawaraya, 1981 120 280 280 cm MEMPHIS - Plastic Field, Palazzo Franchetti, Venezia Adriano Berengo and Jean Blanchaert, exhibition curators, MEMPHIS - Plastic Field, Palazzo Franchetti, Venice Ettore Sottsass Carlton, 1981 196 190 40 cm MEMPHIS - Plastic Field, Palazzo Franchetti, Venice MEMPHIS - PLASTIC FIELD, VENICE 24.05 25.11.2018 Fondazione Berengo presented MEMPHIS - Plastic Field, an exhibition of design from the legendary movement in Milan born in the 1980s and based on an idea by Ettore Sottsass. The exhibition was presented in collaboration with Memphis S.r.l. which produces the designs today in Milan. Carpets, ceramics, glass, silver works, and furniture all conceived by a group of designers including Ettore Sottsass, Michele de Lucchi, Matteo Thun, Peter Shire, and Nathalie du Pasquier. The show, concurrent with the Architecture Biennale, was curated by Jean Blanchaert and Adriano Berengo and the installation design was courtesy of IB Studio. Deyan Sudjic, director of the Design Museum in London, contributed to the project with an important scholarly text. 18 19
PAUL MCCARTHY IN LOS ANGELES We visited Paul McCarthy s studio in Los Angeles and showed the artist prototypes of his famous Trees in glass. MEXICO, MEXICO! Together with Mexican artists Francesco Toledo and Pedro Friedeberg, we finished several projects and planned new and exciting works for the upcoming year. MURANO MAGMA AT THE TEATRINO DI PALAZZO GRASSI, VENICE 21.07.2018 Fondazione Berengo took part in a conference on contemporary art and glass entitled Murano Magma at the Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi, an event conceived and realized by the artist duo Penzo+Fiore. The event was attended by curators, scholars, glass masters, and contemporary artists and featured discussions on crucial themes such as contemporary languages related to glass and the identity of Murano as an island of production. Paul McCarthy in his Los Angeles studio 20 Murano Magma, Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi 21
PENZO+FIORE Time, a work by Penzo+Fiore fabricated by Berengo Studio, is a chandelier/sculpture in which white glass was combined with wax and animal skulls to create a ritual object used by the artists in a performance by the same name held at the Galleria massimodeluca during Venice Glass Week 2018. The artists swung the work like a pendulum marking a countdown back from today to 1903, the year the oldest person still alive was born and junction between matter and time. The work was initially conceived for LUX-LUMEN. JAUME PLENSA A monumental work by Jaume Plensa and a new edition of sculptures saw light in 2018. The enormous work seen in the photo will be on display in 2019 at The Hague Museum, the Netherlands. Penzo+Fiore Time, 2018, performance and installation in glass, courtesy Galleria massimodeluca and Berengo Studio Jaume Plensa, Berengo Studio, Murano 22 23
RADICAL Fondazione Berengo will present a new exhibition series dedicated to experimental contemporary art. The project, directed by the artist duo Penzo+Fiore, will include a series of exhibitions with radical contents, entrusted to curators who read signs of contemporaneity with attention and rigor. The first show, Linea di principio, will be curated by Daniele Capra and offers a twin solo event by Nemanja Cvijanović and Giovanni Morbi, followed by works by Pietro Gaglianò and Matteo Bergamini. The exhibitions will alternate with encounters, seminars, and guided talks by the curators. ANDREA SALVADOR S MOSAICS Once again this year, the mosaic artist Andrea Salvador created a series of commissioned works and protraits, as the one shown in the picture. Giovanni Morbin Fioriera (Flowerpot), 2008 90 90 12 cm AGI Collection, Verona 24 Andrea Salvador Teorema, 2018 64.5 75 cm 25
THOMAS SCHÜTTE We re really delighted that the sculptor Thomas Schütte has entrusted us with two new projects. ADRIANA VAREJÃO We met the great Adriana Varejão at the vernissage of her recent exhibition at the new gallery of Victoria Miro in Venice. BERTIL VALLIEN IN VENICE We thank Bertil Vallien who visited us at Palazzo Franchetti and took part in the charity dinner organized for the project Human Rights Pavilion. Adriano Berengo and Thomas Schütte Adriana Varejão and Adriano Berengo Bertil Vallien during the Human Rights Pavilion party 26 27
JOANA VASCONCELOS The Guggenheim in Bilbao, Spain, staged the show Joana Vasconcelos: I m Your Mirror. The artist has shown her glass works in Glasstress in Venice and abroad ( Glasstress Boca Raton ). Her chandelier of blue and gold was featured in the show LUX-LUMEN on Murano. ERWIN WURM Until 25.11.2018 After the great success at the Art Biennale 2017, Erwin Wurm has dedicated an exhibition to his legendary one minute sculptures at the Ludwig Múzeum in Budapest, Hungary. In Venice, the sculpture Salatgurken Modernistische 2 was exhibited on the central pier of the Palazzo Franchetti during the Architecture Biennale. 28 Erwin Wurm Salatgurken Modernistische 2, 2016 372 159 50 cm 29
UNITED STATES The works of Monica Bonvicini, Abdulnasser Gharem, and Erwin Wurm were selected to be displayed inside a famous American museum, to be announced. VENEZIANO POP AT CA PESARO 20.01 18.02.2018 The Galleria Internazionale d Arte Moderna Ca Pesaro dedicated a solo show to Luciano Zarotti titled Veneziano Pop. We feel a strong bond with Zarotti, thanks to his unforgettable participation in the Fucina Degli Angeli by Egidio Costantini. We had the privilege of re-issuing some of his works in glass from 1970 1980. Monica Bonvicini Bonded, 2017 84 47 ø cm Erwin Wurm Mutter, 2016 2017 39 11 18 cm Luciano Zarotti Ciano Bifronte, 2017 42 30 14 cm 30 Abdulnasser Gharem The Stamp (Moujaz), 2017 120 90 ø cm 31
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