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Glasstress is a collateral exhibition of the Venice Biennale of Arts. It has taken place in the 2009 and 2011 editions. The mission of Glasstress is to show how contemporary artists use glass as an incomparable medium for their expression. For a long time, especially in Venice and Murano, glass has been generally associated to decoration, whereas its relevance for outstanding accomplishments by great artists was neglected. The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even, also known as The Large Glass by Marcel Duchamp (1915-23, Philadelphia Museum of Art) might be considered as a seminal milestone. But in recent years an increasing number of artists have taken up working with glass for their creations, and Glasstress is the first initiative aimed at documenting and promoting this trend.

Glasstress 2009
Glasstress 2009 (June 6 - November 24), curated by the glass expert Rosa Barovier Mentasti and the art historian Laura Mattioli Rossi, was mainly a historical display of masterpieces of art glass from 1920 to the present times. The rooms of Palazzo Cavalli-Franchetti, facing the Canal Grande, hosted artworks by  Josef Albers,  Man Ray,  Anton Pevsner,  Jean Arp,  Lucio Fontana,  Robert Rauschenberg,  Richard Hamilton,  Joseph Kosuth,  Louise Bourgeois. Some of the artworks had been expressly made for Glasstress by artists such as Tony Cragg,  Jan Fabre,  Orlan, and  Fred Wilson, who have been invited to work in his glass studio in Murano by Adriano Berengo, the inventor of  Glasstress.

Glasstress 2011
Glasstress 2011 [www.iconeye.com/read-previous-issues/icon-095-|-may-2011/shatter-island] (June 4 – November 27) has been curated by Bonnie Clearwater, Lidewij Edelkoort, Peter Noever and Demetrio Paparoni. The 2011 edition took place in two different sites, Palazzo Cavalli-Franchetti, and the Berengo Centre for Contemporary Art and Glass, in Murano. Glasstress 2011 focused on the complex relationship that ties art, design and architecture together in an age thought to have moved beyond modernism .. The exhibition, produced by Venice Projects, a partnership between Adriano Berengo and Susan Scherman, was presented in collaboration with MAD, the Museum of Arts & Design, New York. 

Artists and designers on display:


 * Zaha Hadid,
 * Vik Muniz,
 * Pharrell Williams,
 * Javier Perez,
 * Starn Brothers,
 * Patricia Urquiola,
 * Atelier van Lieshout,
 * Kiki Smith,
 * Tony Oursler,
 * Fred Wilson,
 * Jan Fabre,
 * Zhang Huan,
 * Jaume Plensa,
 * Erwin Wurm,
 * Shi Yong,
 * Tokujin Yoshioka,
 * Jaime Hayon,
 * Recycle Group,
 * Barbara Bloom,
 * Kendell Geers,
 * Ernst Billgren,
 * Thomas Schutte,
 * 5.5 designers,
 * Andrea Salvador,
 * Kimiko Yoshida,
 * Paula Hayes,
 * Oleg Kulik,
 * Michael Joo,
 * Jean-Luc Moerman ,
 * Nawa Kohei,
 * Atelier Ted Noten,
 * Monica Bonvicini,
 * Anton Beeke,
 * Urs Luthi,
 * Ursula von Rydingsvard,
 * Judith Schaechter,
 * Koen Vanmechelen,
 * Yutaka Sone,
 * Pieke Bergmans,
 * Luke Jerram,
 * Antonio Riello,
 * Jan De Vliegher,
 * Kiki van Eijk,
 * Hye Rim Lee,
 * Bernardi Roig,
 * Massimo Lunardon,
 * Tomas Libertiny,
 * Nabil Nahas,
 * Domenico Bianchi,
 * Liu Jianhua,
 * Maria Roosen,
 * Joost van Bleiswijk,
 * Charlotte Gyllenhammar,
 * Anne Peabody,
 * Marta Klonowska,
 * Magdalena Jetelova,
 * Michael Kienzer,
 * Marya Kazoun,
 * Yuichi Higashionna,
 * Antje Rieck,
 * Konstantin Khudyakov,
 * Anatoly Shuravlev,
 * Hitoshi Kuriyama,
 * Tania Saeter.