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From Venice to Boca Museum of Art,

“Glasstress 2025” Exhibit Opens April 23rd

The Boca Raton Museum
of Art’s popular Glasstress
exhibition series, the 2025
edition of which runs
from April 23rd through
October 26th, brings
together internationally
renowned artists with master
glassmakers of Venice to push
the boundaries of glass art.
This is the museum’s third
iteration of the exhibition.
Contributions from artists
such as Ai Weiwei, Sean
Scully, and María Magdalena Campos-Pons are among a
diverse range of glass art on display, from small and delicate
to monumental.
The Glasstress project was launched in 2009 as a collateral enduring prestige of glass Weiwei, as well as his mock-heroic self-portrait bust. Fiona
event at the Venice Biennale, an international cultural as a fine art and integrates Banner also addresses scale. Her scaffold—a piece of
exhibition hosted annually in Venice. Glasstress brings Murano’s rich traditions equipment common to construction sites as well as museums,
contemporary artists from around the globe to collaborate with into the modern art world. where Banner often creates wall murals—is made of fragile
its master glassmakers, many of whom are exploring glass as a Irish artist Sean Scully, glass instead of metal, foretelling catastrophe if climbed.
medium for the first time. By blending centuries-old techniques known for lush abstract Another large work is an 8 × 8 ft. brilliantly colored glass
with contemporary artistic visions, the project highlights the paintings, turned to mural with tarot characters and occult symbols by Mexican
sculpture as an artist-in- Surrealist Pedro Friedeberg.
residence at the Berengo

As a special feature of this iteration of Glasstress, the
Delray Beach studio. His Venice Stack is Boca Raton Museum of Art has commissioned Florida artist
a totemic tower consisting
Jose Alvarez (D.O.P.A) to create his first work in glass with
Brings Pop of handmade glass slabs of Berengo’s glass experts especially for this exhibition. It is a
vibrant colors measuring
radiantly colored mirror, titled Echoes of Silence in the Galactic
nearly eight feet tall. The
Garden, featuring complex floral patterns and spectacular gold
Culture to Life German artist Thomas embellishments.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue and is

Schütte, whose work
was the subject of a 2024
curated by Kathleen Goncharov, Senior Curator of the Boca
This Summer with retrospective at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, Raton Museum of Art.
About Adriano Berengo. Adriano Berengo is a passionate
contributes an installation of similarly vividly colored urns.

and visionary Venetian whose mission is to revitalize the
Afro-Cuban artist and MacArthur Fellow María Magdalena

Art and Music Campos-Pons’ interest in the forms and colors of butterflies ancient tradition of Murano glass, encourage technical
innovation and encourage cutting-edge contemporary artists
is reflected in two works: a mobile dedicated to the memory
of Breonna Taylor and a more recent work, a stabile titled
to experiment with a new medium. In 1989 Berengo acquired
Reservoir for Love that evokes both human tears and insect an abandoned glass furnace in Murano, and a few years later
The fact that tickets are going on sale now, in mid-April, wings. Laure Prouvost, winner of the prestigious Turner Prize, established Fondazione Berengo and his Glasstress project,
for an event that begins on July 5th says a great deal about represented France in the 2019 Venice Biennale and has since an innovative program whose mission is to encourage the
the anticipated demand for the “Pop Culture” celebration collaborated regularly with Berengo’s artisans in Murano. Her medium of glass within the world of contemporary art. This
planned by the Delray Beach Downtown Development installation of aquatic birds situated in a tropical landscape is project continues a tradition begun by Peggy Guggenheim and
Authority. The event will feature a bold new exhibition at her homage to our endangered natural environment. artist and master glassmaker Egidio Constantino who invited
the Cornell Art Museum and an electrifying POP 2000 Tour Another spectacular work in the exhibition is a monumental artists such as Pablo Picasso and Marc Chagall to work with
Concert at The Amphitheatre at Old School Square. chandelier by internationally renowned Chinese artist Ai glass in Venice in the 1960s.
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(donations welcome), inviting visitors to explore vibrant
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Gwak – a Sarasota-based artist whose 15-year journey in the
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Ashleigh Walters – A Palm Beach County painter and
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