Page 2 - Boca Exposure - April '25

Page 2, Boca Exposure
From Venice To Boca Museum Of Art,

“Glasstress 2025” Exhibit Opens April 23rd

T he Boc a Ra t on
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 event at the Venice Biennale, an international
cultural exhibition hosted annually in Venice. Glasstress Irish artist Sean Scully, known for lush abstract
brings contemporary artists from around the globe to paintings, turned to sculpture as an artist-in-residence at
collaborate with its master glassmakers, many of whom the Berengo studio. His Venice Stack is a totemic tower
are exploring glass as a medium for the first time. By consisting of handmade glass slabs of vibrant colors
blending centuries-old techniques with contemporary measuring nearly eight feet tall. The German artist Thomas
artistic visions, the project highlights the enduring Schütte, whose work was the subject of a 2024 retrospective
prestige of glass as a fine art and integrates Murano’s at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, contributes an
rich traditions into the modern art world. installation of similarly vividly colored urns.
Afro-Cuban artist and MacArthur Fellow María
Magdalena Campos-Pons’ interest in the forms and colors
Roll The Dice from page 1 of butterflies is reflected in two works: a mobile dedicated artist Jose Alvarez (D.O.P.A) to create his first work in
to the memory of Breonna Taylor and a more recent work, glass with Berengo’s glass experts especially for this
own ace skills to the table—to create an event inspired a stabile titled Reservoir for Love that evokes both human exhibition. It is a radiantly colored mirror, titled Echoes
by Gatsby glamour. Get ready to roll the dice, dance tears and insect wings. Laure Prouvost, winner of the of Silence in the Galactic Garden, featuring complex
the Charleston and support an amazing organization prestigious Turner Prize, represented France in the 2019 floral patterns and spectacular gold embellishments.
in true Roaring Twenties style!” – Jessica Price and Venice Biennale and has since collaborated regularly with The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue
Yvette Palermo. Berengo’s artisans in Murano. Her installation of aquatic and is curated by Kathleen Goncharov, Senior Curator
The unique theme of the gala was inspired by birds situated in a tropical landscape is her homage to of the Boca Raton Museum of Art.
Boca Helping Hands’ Board President Gary Peters, a our endangered natural environment. About Adriano Berengo. Adriano Berengo is a
two-time National MONOPOLY Champion. When Another spectacular work in the exhibition is a passionate and visionary Venetian whose mission is to
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Peters joined the Board, he envisioned hosting a monumental chandelier by internationally renowned revitalize the ancient tradition of Murano glass, encourage
MONOPOLY tournament as a fun and creative way Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, as well as his mock-heroic technical innovation and encourage cutting-edge
to raise funds for the organization. Over the years, self-portrait bust. Fiona Banner also addresses scale. Her contemporary artists to experiment with a new medium.
this event has grown into a sophisticated affair scaffold—a piece of equipment common to construction In 1989 Berengo acquired an abandoned glass furnace
while continuing to honor its original concept. The sites as well as museums, where Banner often creates in Murano, and a few years later established Fondazione
MONOPOLY Championship is played at this gala wall murals—is made of fragile glass instead of metal, Berengo and his Glasstress project, an innovative program
event on April 26 with MONOPOLY qualifiers playing foretelling catastrophe if climbed. Another large work whose mission is to encourage the medium of glass within
at the VIP event on April 2 where they will vie for the is an 8 × 8 ft. brilliantly colored glass mural with tarot the world of contemporary art. This project continues
chance to become this year’s winner. characters and occult symbols by Mexican Surrealist a tradition begun by Peggy Guggenheim and artist and
Boca Helping Hands is proud to recognize JM Pedro Friedeberg. master glassmaker Egidio Constantino who invited artists
Family Enterprises as the event’s overall sponsor, As a special feature of this iteration of Glasstress, the such as Pablo Picasso and Marc Chagall to work with
whose generosity and commitment to the community Boca Raton Museum of Art has commissioned Florida glass in Venice in the 1960s.
help make this extraordinary evening possible.
Proceeds from the event will provide vital
assistance to 35,000 people in the South Florida
community through BHH’s programs, including
hunger relief, job training, healthcare, emergency
financial assistance, childcare and weekend meals for
Palm Beach County school children.
This year’s gala promises an evening of glitz,
glamour and giving back—all while embracing the
charm and exuberance of the Roaring Twenties.
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