MUNICH.- The Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung is celebrating its 25th anniversary with the exhibition Future Horizons. Glass in Contemporary Art. It features impressive sculptures and installations by around 50 international artists. It is a celebration of abundance and diversity, a manifestation of imagination and inventiveness. Each work has its own story, embodied in its intention, meaning, origin, material, and technique. In addition, when viewed together and in specific proximity to other works, small stories unfold associatively, describing maxims for a humane future. They deal with hospitality, empathy, and courage; beauty, curiosity, and wonder; the ritual of everyday gestures; dignity and reconciliation; wit and humor; history and preservation; invention and experimentation.
All of the works share a material that is rarely used in art: glass. It unfolds its specific effect through light and color, through haptic qualities and technical sophistication, a narrative potential, and its emotional aura. The exhibits on view, almost all of which belong to the Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung collection, reveal the exciting artistic practices of working with glass—whether molded, blown, cut, uncut, freely formed, or sandblasted.
The exhibition presents on two spatial levels works that have emerged from the studio glass movement as well as from the field of contemporary art. According to the curatorial concept, the selection of exhibits and the exhibition architecture open up two spaces for reflection and resonance: the BlackBox—spacious and dynamic, bright and energetic—contains the sculptures, mostly silver, transparent, white or black, freely arranged in the space, lying on the floor or suspended from the ceiling. Others, smaller in size, are arranged in an “endless” linear choreography: like SILVER LININGS. VISIONS, they appear on the reflective horizon.
The BlackBox FirstFloor surprises with the unfolding of objects in a rich palette of colors, whether blue, green, yellow, or pink, and with a different design: ABUNDANCE. EXPANSION OF THE MIND, could be the title of this space.
With their different energies and “temperatures,” both exhibition levels invite the audience to “wander,” to physically experience walking around: primarily to view the artworks, but also to relate to themselves—in relation to the work and in relation to others—and thus, through movement and reflection, to become part of the whole.
Artists: Philip Baldwin/Monica Guggisberg, Monica Bonvicini, Mark Bradford, Dale Chihuly, Tony Cragg, Erwin Eisch, Simone Fezer, Sayo Fujita, Sachi Fujikake, Josepha Gasch-Muche, Donghai Guan, Jens Gussek, Mona Hatoum, Franz Xaver Höller, Shirazeh Houshiary, Tao Hui, Ann Veronica Janssens, Hassan Khan, Ju Young Kim, Shima Koike, Yoshiaki Kojiro, Alicja Kwade, Antoine Leperlier, Stanislav Libenský/Jaroslava Brychtová, Jessica Loughlin, Tanya Lyons, Haroon Mirza, Masayo Odahashi, Sibylle Peretti, Laure Prouvost, Gizela Šabóková, Masahiro Sasaki, Kiki Smith, Jana Sterbak, Neringa Vasiliauskaitė, František Vízner, Ursula von Rydingsvard, Janusz Walentynowicz, Qin Wang, Pae White, Terry Winters, Ann Wolff. / Curators: Petra Giloy-Hirtz, Eva-Maria Fahrner-Tutsek. / Exhibition architecture: Bruzkus Greenberg, Berlin.
