This was a fascinating exhibit about glass that I had a chance to visit. Glass is part of our daily lives and most of the time we don’t even notice it!
Glass: Material Matters is the first exhibition of contemporary glass organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and incorporates more than fifty works from LACMA’s permanent collection. This eclectic presentation is organized to reflect a spectrum of thematic, formal, and technical directions in glass primarily from the mid-1980s to the present; the works of such artists as Zaha Hadid, Norman Foster, Maya Lin, and Rem Koolhaas, who have been important innovators in glass. This show with its diversity of subjects will underscore LACMA’s commitment to the collection and display of contemporary works in glass.
Howard N. Fox, LACMA’s curator of Contemporary Art, said in an interview; “Glass is so ubiquitous in our daily lives that we often don’t even notice it right in front of us. When you look out of a window in your home or in the car, the glass that you depend on to keep you sheltered becomes virtually invisible, forgettable. When we look in the mirror, we are aware of looking at images of ourselves, not at the glass that forms the mirror. But, as the objects in this show reveal, glass can be one of the most exotic, multifarious, beautiful, and downright amazing of materials. In the hands of a virtuoso technician, and put at the service of an artistic imagination, glass can be made to do some incredible things”
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