The glassy gaze Museum Villa Rot New group exhibition
The glassy gaze Museum Villa RotNew group exhibition. The group exhibition opened on 5 November 2023 with Till Augustin, Peter Dreher, Prof. Markus Lüpertz and others. Together with my partner, I was able to experience a great vernissage in a full house with interesting conversations.
My works can be found on the upper floor, room 04, and the exhibition is really worth a visit. A beautiful house with interesting architecture. The exhibition catalogue published to accompany the exhibition is very special.
The exhibition was curated by: Dr Sabine Heilig
The word glass has several meanings. It can mean the object, e.g. the drinking glass, or the material. If you want to know something about the material glass, you can read that it is a supercooled liquid that solidifies without crystallisation. Strictly speaking, this means that it becomes unstable at some point due to this state of aggregation.
Glass has a wide range of applications. Glass is irreplaceable, not only in architecture, design, arts and crafts and, above all, in everyday materials in many areas of human life. And it is a material that we are very familiar with because we deal with it every day.
The exhibition Der gläserne Blick (The Glassy Eye) takes up the diversity of meanings of this material and shows works by 12 artists. Their works use glass as a visual material, show it in combination with other materials or deal with objects made of glass in very different ways. For example, glass surfaces become carriers of acoustic signals, the mirror a reflective surface of an interrupted and thus incomplete view. One aspect also attracts attention, namely its striking ability to break spectacularly. Based on the fascination of this material, its substance, transparency, optical lightness, fragility and reflection, the exhibits visualise phenomena of perception. The physical, optical and mechanical properties of glass form one thematic area, while a second is characterised by connotations on a thematic level, such as its hardness, sharpness, clarity, its transience and its significance as a material of knowledge that provides a deep insight, combined with aspects of utopia. The exhibition thus offers an attractive, highly aesthetic view of things. However, it also addresses the knowledge of the dubious nature of phenomena and a differentiated experience of the external and internal world. It is a mixture of curiosity and unease - the glassy gaze.
Curator Dr Sabine Heilig
The glassy gaze Museum Villa Rot New group exhibition