Exhibition three – Museu do Vidro da Marinha Grande – 13.12.2014 – 22.2.2015
European Glass Experience continues its
tour with a new exhibition, after stops at the Finnish Glass Museum
(Riihimaki, Finland), and the Royal Glass Factory, Segovia, arriving in
Portugal, at the Museu do Vidrio da Marinha Grande (Glass Museum of
Marinha Granda).
The exhibition, curated by Catarina de
Sousa Carvalho, arrives in Portugal at the request of its organizers,
and in close collaboration and succession upon the exhibition preceding
it in Segovia. It features a selection of the winners of the EGE
competition, chosen by an international jury composed of museum
directors, curators, and glass experts.
As in Finland and Spain, all the winning sketches as well as 20 glass pieces will be exhibited.
The exhibition represents many European
nations, with works by Austrian, Czech, Finnish, French, English,
Irish, Italian, Lithuanian, Dutch, Polish, Swedish, German, Hungarian
but also Argentinian, Israeli and Turkish artists.
EGE is an international project
dedicated to contemporary art and glass, and conceived to valorize the
artisanal role of glass as a patrimony to safeguard and promote, born
from a collaboration between the City of Venice and the Consortium
Promovetro Murano as well as the Museum of Glass, Venice, Fondazione
Musei Civici di Venezia, and scientific coordination by Cornelia Lauf.
The program began in 2013 with an
international competition, co financed by the Culture Program 2007-2013
of the European Commission, oriented toward young artists, between 18
and 40 years of age, who presented a work realized in the prior two
years or a project (study or sketch), which, if selected, will then be
realized by the master craftsmen of the Promovetro Consortium.
European Glass Experience will continue
its tour through Europe, with stops foreseen in Poland, England, and
Sweden, after the Spring 2015 exhibition, to be held at the Museum of
Glass, Murano, where all selected works will be exhibited.
Kamila Mróz art work.