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With the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union
Graphic design : kidnap your designer / Development : bien � vous
WHEN? 12 - 16 SeptemberWHERE? Nuutajärvi Glass Village (FI)
PARTNER? Iittala
The village is the home of the largest community of independent glass designers and glassblowers with their own hotshops, studios and galleries.
In addition, Iittala Group’s Nuutajärvi Glass Factory, specialized in the company’s glass products requiring the most handcrafted manufacturing processes, is located in this village.
The National Board of Antiquities has listed Nuutajärvi as one of the nationally important built cultural environments. The decorative buildings of the village dating back to the mid 19th century and designed by G.Th. Chiewitz, the most famous architect of his time, are still in active use. The museum owned by the Design Museum of the glass factory is located in a former brewery. The brewery was converted into a museum under the leadership of Artist Professor Kaj Franck.
Alfredo Häberli
Alfredo Häberli (CH)
www.alfredo-haeberli.com
Stabiles, Alfredo Häberli for Alias, 2009
Alfredo Collection, Alfredo Häberli for Georg Jensen, 2011
Origo, Alfredo Häberli for Iittala, 1999
Essence, Alfredo Häberli for Iittala, 2001
Senta, Alfredo Häberli for Iittala, 2004
Antoine Brodin
Antoine Brodin (FR)
Veronese, Jeremy Wintrebert & Antoine Brodin
Spirit Fruit, Jeremy Wintrebert & Antoine Brodin, 2011
Cecilie Manz
Cecilie Manz (DK)
www.ceciliemanz.com
Spectra, Cecilie Manz, 2007
Minima, Cecilie Manz for Holmegaard, 2007
Blosson, Cecilie Manz for Holmegaard, 2010
Nimb, Cecilie Manz
Dan Yeffet
Dan Yeffet (IL)
www.danyeffet.com
Muffin Lamps for Brokis, Lucie Koldova & Dan Yeffet, 2010
Stix table, Lucie Koldova and Dan Yeffet, 2010
Heikki Viinikainen
Heikki Viinikainen (FI)
www.studioviinikainen.com
Jokeri & Kevät, Heikki Viinikainen, 2011
Intrigo, Heikki Viinikainen, 2010
Space Meadow, Heikki Viinikainen, 2011
Intrigo, Heikki Viinikainen, 2010
Space Meadow, Heikki Viinikainen, 2011
Hubert Verstraeten
Hubert Verstraeten (BE)
awa.be
Peppermill, Hubert Verstraeten
Light, Hubert Verstraeten
USB key, Hubert Verstraeten
TW27, Hubert Verstraeten
Jeremy Wintrebert
Jeremy Wintrebert (FR)
www.jeremyglass.com
Spirit Fruit, Jeremy Wintrebert, 2011
Void, Jeremy Wintrebert, 2011
Veronese, Jeremy Wintrebert
Jeremy Wintrebert
Lucie Koldova
Lucie Koldova (CZ)
www.luciekoldova.com
Muffin Lamps for Brokis, Lucie Koldova & Dan Yeffet, 2010
Stix table, Lucie Koldova and Dan Yeffet, 2010
Matteo Gonet
Matteo Gonet (CH)
www.matteogonet.com
Balloons, Matteo Gonet, 2007
Albedo, design by Moritz Schmid for Glassworks, blown by Matteo Gonet
Red Glasses, Matteo Gonet, 2000
Róisín De Buitléar
Róisín De Buitléar (IE)
roisindebuitlear.com
Time spent, Róisín de Buitléar
Molten - Hot formed glass and Valentia Slate, Róisín de Buitléar
Molten - Hot formed glass and Irish Granite, Róisín de Buitléar
Rockpooling, Róisín de Buitléar
Rony Plesl
Sara Hulkkonen
Tadeáš Podracký
Tadeáš Podracký (CZ)
www.tadeaspodracky.com
Tracheae, Tadeáš Podracký
Neuron Glass, Tadeáš Podracký
Light Cross, Tadeáš Podracký
Neuron Vases, Tadeáš Podracký
James Bort (Photo/ video)
stack (stæk)
— n
1. an ordered pile (of glassware)
2. a large orderly pile (of glassware)
3. a large amount: a stack (of glassware)
Stack - able is a combination of words which was born in the 1960s with the evolution of furniture
design and domestic uses at home.
Stack – able in the specific context of GIT can have different meanings:
1. Being stacked like chairs but applied to glass elements which can either be glassware, tableware
or utilitarian objects of the everyday life.Combining functions, forms, shapes, colours in a human-centered
way. Kaj Frank himself stated 100 years ago that “objects should always be appropriate,
durable and functional.”
Kartio, Kaj Franck for Iittala, 1958
2. The orientation on consumerist values of the 60s, but seen through the eyes of Iittala with its
'Against Throw-Away-Ism" philosophy. The world is oriented on consuming but there are strong
tendencies that value keeping, transmitting and reinventing the daily living environment. Putting
value again on design-led crafts and long-lasting glassware pieces.
Purnukka, Kaj Franck for Iittala, 1953
3. Assorting glassware with existing elements in the Iittala/Fiskars Home Collection and Archives
(which can be either glassware but also ceramics from Arabia or pans from Hackman) or taking an
autonomous way of looking at glass design’s future.
Oma, Harri Koskinen for Arabia, 2007
4. Designing and/or glass blowing a product which can be stored and transported as efficient as
possible without damage.
Vitriini, Anu Penttinen for Iittala, 2010
5. Being efficient and/or effective in the production process of the glassware by stacking elements
on one another: add-ons in shape, in function or in colours, introduced at different time schedules
in the glass blowing process.
Art works, Harri Koskinen for Iittala, 2009
WHEN? 29 January - 3 February 2011
WHERE? Nový Bor Glass school (CZ)
LOCAL PARTNER? VERREUM
The actual Glass School was inaugurated on 1 January 2004, merging the two historical Nový Bor glass schools, whose history dates back to 1763. The school offers Czech students secondary and higher professional education in glass blowing, engraving, cutting, facetting, painting and stained glass. For foreigners and Czech applicants the school also offers workshops in glass blowing, engraving, cutting, facetting, painting and stained glass, fusing, mould melted glass as well as Czech conversation.
Antoine Brodin
Antoine Brodin (FR)
Veronese, Jeremy Wintrebert & Antoine Brodin
Spirit Fruit, Jeremy Wintrebert & Antoine Brodin, 2011
Arik Levy
Arik Levy (FR)
Intangible Smoke, Arik Levy for Baccarat, 2007
Rock paperweight, Arik Levy for Baccarat, 2007
Mistic Medium, Arik Levy for Gaia & Gino
Volcano, Arik Levy for Gaia & Gino
Dagmar Pánková
Dagmar Pánková (CZ)
Leoš Smejkal & Dagmar Pánková
Leoš Smejkal & Dagmar Pánková
Leoš Smejkal & Dagmar Pánková
Jean Marc Schilt
Jean Marc Schilt (FR)
EAT ME, design by FABIEN VERSCHAERE, blown by Jean Marc Schilt & Sébastien Maurer
COQ & POULE, design by BOREK SIPEK, blown by Jean Marc Schilt & Sébastien Maurer
Jeremy Wintrebert
Jeremy Wintrebert (FR)
www.jeremyglass.com
Spirit Fruit, Jeremy Wintrebert, 2011
Void, Jeremy Wintrebert, 2011
Veronese, Jeremy Wintrebert
Jeremy Wintrebert
Klára Horáčková
Martin Štěfánek
Matteo Gonet
Matteo Gonet (CH)
www.matteogonet.com
Balloons, Matteo Gonet, 2007
Albedo, design by Moritz Schmid for Glassworks, blown by Matteo Gonet
Red Glasses, Matteo Gonet, 2000
Maxim Velčovský
Mendel Heit
Pierre Bindreiff
Pierre Favresse
Pierre Favresse (FR)
An Eclipse Day, Pierre Favresse
© Benjamin Le Du
Horloge Jean, Pierre Favresse
© BLD
Pearl, Pierre Favresse
Tidelight, Pierre Favresse
Rea Moisio
Róisín De Buitléar
Róisín De Buitléar (IE)
roisindebuitlear.com
Time spent, Róisín de Buitléar
Molten - Hot formed glass and Valentia Slate, Róisín de Buitléar
Molten - Hot formed glass and Irish Granite, Róisín de Buitléar
Rockpooling, Róisín de Buitléar
Rony Plesl
Sara Hulkkonen
Sébastien Geissert
Sébastien Geissert (FR)
Hélium, V8 designers
Oscar, V8 designers
Verres, V8 designers for Saint Louis
Sébastien Maurer
Sébastien Maurer (FR)
EAT ME, design by FABIEN VERSCHAERE, blown by Jean Marc Schilt & Sébastien Maurer
COQ & POULE, DESIGN by BOREK SIPEK, blown by Jean Marc Schilt & Sébastien Maurer
Wing Lam Kwok
Wing Lam Kwok (BE)
Story of an Invisible Wound, Wing Lam Kwok
Story of an Invisible Wound, Wing Lam Kwok
James Bort (Photo/ video)
WHEN? 1st - 7th July 2012WHERE? Meisenthal (FR)
PARTNER? Centre International d'Art Verrier [CIAV]
Meisenthal, the cradle of “art nouveau”
glass enabled Emile Gallé to revolutionize the glass industry. This tradition
for innovation lives on… The Centre International d’Art Verrier [CIAV] was
created in 1992 in order to preserve the skills of the Noth-Eastern French glass region. It gave new
contemporary perspectives to the traditional branches of the glass industry. In
perpetual contact with the region, the [CIAV] is the dignified heir to 5
centuries of glass industry in the North Vosges. It lit its furnace in the stone
of the Meisenthal glassworks that had previously been closed since 1969.
James Bort (Photo/ video)
James Bort (Photo/ video) (FR)
First GIT workshop (Nuutajärvi, FI)
First GIT workshop (Nuutajärvi, FI)
First GIT workshop (Nuutajärvi, FI)
First GIT workshop (Nuutajärvi, FI)
Lena Bergström
Tina Bunyaprasit
Jeremy Wintrebert
Jeremy Wintrebert (FR)
www.jeremyglass.com
Spirit Fruit, Jeremy Wintrebert, 2011
Void, Jeremy Wintrebert, 2011
Veronese, Jeremy Wintrebert
Jeremy Wintrebert
Antoine Brodin
Antoine Brodin (FR)
Veronese, Jeremy Wintrebert & Antoine Brodin
Spirit Fruit, Jeremy Wintrebert & Antoine Brodin, 2011
Werner Aisslinger
Stella Verena Gompf
Studio BrichetZiegler
Sebastian Herkner
Sebastien Cordoleani
Tora Urup
Studio Olgoj chorchoj
CIAV
Michal Mašek
Tim Brauns
OUT OF THE MOULD
The ambition of this workshop is to question through the fresh eye of contemporary designers and makers the ancient typologies of moulds which are preserved by the [CIAV]. Those moulds are containers which have been used to produce objects for tableware («Arts de la table»). Our objective is to invite designers and blowers, who will be working under the direction of Werner Aisslinger and Bernard Petry, to re-interpret with their new meaning the existing moulds. The aim is to initiate innovative uses and new functionalities which have not be explored yet. One last target would be for the [CIAV] to be able to put some of the final products in their edition catalogue.
THE [CIAV] MOULD STORAGE & ‘LIBRARY’
The « Mould » is a fundamental tool which guarantees the option of a reproduction work. It includes the feasibility to repeat an object, a form, a function and to open perspectives of an economic development. The Mould Storage and Library at the [CIAV] is a conservatory of around 1500 ancient forms in steel or in wood. Those moulds are coming from local glassworks which have closed up and have been collected by [CIAV] since 1998-1999.
The collection of moulds is coming from :
- Meisenthal Glassworks (1704 – 1969)
- Cristallerie Lorraine de Lemberg (1925 – 1997)
- Cristallerie d’Harzwiller (1932 – 2004)
- Cristallerie Villeroy et Boch / Wadgassen (D)
On one hand, this Mould Library is considered as a place for preserving in the best conditions of air and humidity a series of technical tools which are belonging to the local heritage.
On another hand, the metal moulds which can be used without alteration risks have become a continuous technical resource which cannot disappear. Based on this heritage and basic moulds kept by the [CIAV], there are infinite possibilities to explore and innovate on glass by using more or less academic processes such as the hot work (adds-on, hot cutting, material and colour effects…) or the cold work (engraving, cutting, sand treatment…). There are also options to modify, demultiply, improve the form or function of an object which was corresponding to the operating mould. This active work can have a more or less ornemental role and can also bring an aesthetic added value to the object.
Exhibition
Exhibition
NOW ON SHOW AT AMPERSAND HOUSE & GALLERY IN BRUSSELS FROM 3 MAY (opening) until 1st JUNE 2013
***
The touring exhibition presents over 60 objects created during the GIT workshops
within the themes Stackability, Silvered Glass and Out of the Mould.
Each piece is the result of a co-creation process between designer and glass blower(s) and are presented as such. Original drawings, sketches and 3D renderings, moulds and other related materials such as colour samples etc., accompany the different pieces.
The videos and photographs by James Bort are also part of the exhibition design, presented on screens and print in large formats. A selection has been made per participant and per workshop in order to recreate the authentic atmosphere of the teamwork and research between the
glass makers and designers.
Pro Materia and its co-organizing partners, [CIAV]- CentreInternational d’Art Verrier, VERREUM, Iittala and Vessel Gallery, are proud to announce the participation of the exhibition GLASS IS TOMORROW to the MOST SALONE during the prestigious Milan Design Week. GLASS IS TOMORROW’s collection will be hosted from 9 until 14 April 2013 at the Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia in Milan where MOST takes place.
WHERE?
Most Salone, Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia, Via Olona 6B, 20123 Milan, Italy
Exhibition from 8 until 14 April 2013, 10-21.00 except Wedn 10 and Sund 14 April until 18.00 - Opening: Tuesday 9 April, press preview: Monday 8 April from 3 pm
Linked files
glassistomorrow-96pages_cover-BD__glisse_e_s_.jpg (jpg)GIT-PresseRelease_2013MilanoFR.pdf (pdf)
GIT-PresseRelease_2013MilanoENG.pdf (pdf)
GIT-PresseRelease_portraitdef.pdf (pdf)
GIT-PresseRelease_Lookbook.pdf (pdf)
GIT-PresseRelease_2013_BDDEF.pdf (pdf)
GIT-PresseRelease_Avantpropos.pdf (pdf)
GIT-PresseRelease_Moodboard.pdf (pdf)
Pro Materia, Brussels (BE)
Pro Materia is a Creative Design Consultancy Agency launched in 1999 as a non profit organization. It is for years recognized as a platform and incubator of existing and emerging talents in design and contemporary crafts in Belgium and abroad. With more than 12 years of experience in this field of promoting creative industries, Pro Materia/Lise Coirier has also acted as an international curator and author in the field of contemporary design.
International Books:
- Design in Belgium A>Z, published by MMAP/Fondation pour les Arts, 2001
- Design in Belgium 1945-2000, published by Racine / Lannoo, co-published by IBM, 2004.
- Parckdesign, co-published by Pro Materia and Stichting Kunstboek, 2007
- Materialise.MGX, published by Materialise, 2007
- L’Anverre, Jardin des Délices, published by Tectum Publishers, 2008
- Xavier Lust, published by Stichting Kunstboek, 2008
- Label-Design.be, published by Stichting Kunstboek – GHI – Pro Materia, 2005
- Human Cities, Celebrating Public Space, co-published by Pro Materia – UIRS – Stichting Kunstboek, 2010
- Belgium is Design. Design for Mankind, published by Stichting Kunstboek, 2010
International Exhibitions at Grand-Hornu Images, BE
- Label‐Design.be. Design in Belgium after 2000, Grand-Hornu Images, Oct 2005-Feb 2006 within the 175 years anniversary of Belgium and 25 years of Federalism.
- Belgium is Design. Design for Mankind, Grand-Hornu Images, Nov. 2010-March 2011 within the Belgian Presidency at the European Commission
Pro Materia's recent events and in-house concepts have included in the past five years:
- Glass is Tomorrow from June 2011 until June 2013
Pro Materia leads the European project funded by the European Commission – Culture Programme in partnership with Iittala (FI), CIAV (FR), Verreum (CZ) and Vessel Gallery (UK). The project promotes a high level of craft and design in contemporary glass. Glass aesthetics and techniques will be explored during 3 workshops organised in Finland, France and Czech Republic by teams of designers‐glassmakers in order to lead to new typologies of objects. Beyond arts and craft, glass design will reflect innovative collaborations between glass makers and designers in terms of conception, production and distribution.
www.glassistomorrow.eu
- Creative Space Kreon-Pro Materia from end 2008 until June 2010
Organisation of quarterly exhibitions on design and crafts from Belgium as well as workshops with Kirkpatrick, specialized in intellectual property rights (branding, packaging, fashion and design brand developments and protection…)
- Anna Torfs, contemporary glass design, 13/12/2008 – 15/3/2009
- LivingSilver, Thalen & Thalen + Mei Lee, 20/3-10/6/2009, Cha Tao (Special tea ceremonies)
- OVO editions / Pol Quadens, 25/6-12/9/2009, OVO Editions is the label for the design furniture collection by Pol Quadens. Produced in Corian® and carbon fiber in his Brussels workshop, this collection reflects the search for beauty, balance and purity of the Belgian designer. Connection with the public design installation “Les Portes Louise” on the Pro Winko site bd de Waterloo in Brussels.
- Charlotte Walry + Chrystl Fischer, jeux textiles, 15/6-19/8/2009
- Luc Druez, Metamorphosis, 16/9 – 31/10/2009, textile creations, a limited edition of fabrics made from “hijacked” technical fibers, mixing textile and copper. With the support of Detrois.
- Thalen & Thalen, Mandarin Balls, 21/12/2009 — 23/1/2010
- Craft Wood, 29/1-12/3/2010: Kaspar Hamacher & Norayr Khachatryan
- Human Cities: Celebrating Public Space, 15/3-16/5/2010
- Authentic Belgian Creativity (ABC from Belgium) from 2007 until 2010, four exhibitions at Spazio Herno on Belgian design.
www.abc‐design.be
- The Belgian Designers Rooms at thewhitehotel since 2006, a renewable selection every 2 years of the best emerging talents from Belgium which are customizing the 60 hotel rooms
www.promateria.be/bde, www.thewhitehotel.be
- The Design-rdv Brussels, organised since 2007 at thewhitehotel. They aim at creating a dynamic design platform in Belgium and at an international level. Designers, brands and all kind of design protagonists are selling directly to more or less 3,000 potential clients and are promoting their products actively inside an uncommon design hotel environment. These weekends are welcoming a hundred of design and applied arts professionals and are offering a great palet of the creative productions to a public that is as large as possible.
www.designr-rdv.be
- Commerce Design Brussels Award since 2008, a biannual event and award prizing 10 laureates ex-aequo which are co-creating innovative environments in the field of retail design. This award is part of an international network initiated by the City of Montreal and taken over by Saint-Etienne, Lyon, Marseille, Nantes, Toulon and in the North of Europe, Brussels, Luxemburg and Eindhoven.
www.commercedesignbrussels.be
- Human Cities on sustainable urban design has started in 2007 and is now a European project supported by the EU Culture Programme since 2008. Partners:La Cambre ULB Horta (BE), Pro Materia (BE), Cité du Design de Saint-Etienne (FR), Urban Planning Center of Ljubjana (SLO) and Politecnico di Milano (IT). Combining both a scientific and a practical/artistic and cross-over practices in public spaces using design as a toolbox and methodology, Human Cities is also organising a biannual festival which happened in Brussels and in Istanbul in 2010. Next Human Cities Festival on Reclaiming Public Space will be organised in Brussels in Spring 2012.
www.humancities.eu
Iittala, Helsinki (FI)
The Iittala Company was founded in 1881 by a Swede named Petrus Magnus Abrahamsson. Due to Finland’s lack of skilled glassblowers, the original Iittala workforce was brought over from Sweden, Belgium and Germany. Abrahamsson was a notoriously quarrelsome man, who eventually lost control of the company, but it was his vision that brought the Iittala Company into being.
During the first decades glass factory was producing mainly household items based on old models from Sweden and Central-Europe.ish and The company went through a variety of transitions, beginning with its purchase by A. Ahlstöm, owner of the famous Karhula glass factory. Still, it was not until the 1920s and 30s, that Iittala as we know it came into being. In that era of burgeoning creativity, Iittala began to produce more artistic pieces. Artists like Alvar and Aino Aalto led the way in creating glassware that was beautiful, modern and functional.
Products of note include Alvar Aalto’s stunning vase, which is said to mimic the Finnish coastline. Aino Aalto also set the bar in 1932 for modern glassware with her unique line of everyday glasses, which are still in production today. Other artists joined the Iittala company, introducing their own unique visions to the Scandinavian glassware aesthetic. Tapio Wirkkala, Timo Sarpaneva, and Oiva Toikka were all a part of making Iittala one of the frontrunners in the world of modern design.
Today Iittala continues to create glassware that is as attractive as it is functional. In 2003 Iittala added other materials like ceramics and metal into its product portfolio. Nowadays, Iittala is offering its consumers not only glass, but all the essential items one needs for cooking, setting the table and even decorating one’s home. Timeless design since 1881.
VERREUM, Prague (CZ)
In 2009, SPACE CZ created its own brand, VERREUM, to promote and sell hand-made Bohemian glass in the Czech Republic as well as abroad. SPACE CZ doesn't have its own glassworks but collaborates with different Czech studios to keep the traditional glassmaking techniques alive. VERREUM mixes these old techniques used in the Czech Republic for many centuries with ideas of todays' famous Czech designers. In 2010, the brand launched a new collection of vases in cooperation with leading Czech designers (studio Olgoj Chorchoj and Rony Plesl), which was presented at several international exhibitions and fairs around the world. Throughout 2010, VERREUM addressed foreign designers as well and cooperated with Michael Koenig and Sebastian Herkner on new silvered glass design collections.
The silvered type of glass VERREUM is promoting, was first made in the 1840s and became the focus of glassworks in the Bohemian Forest from 1860 onwards. For many years, glass manufacturers had been trying to produce silvered glassware by using tin, lead, bismuth, mercury and other compounds but it took until 1849 before a satisfactory procedure was developed and patented. Early pieces used mercury amalgams, based on techniques used for silvering mirrors but these proved unsuitable. Nevertheless, the name 'mercury glass' remains the term to describe all kinds of silvered glass which is double-walled glassware with a silver coating inside the walls. The silvering liquid is poured into the space between the walls of the glass vessel through a hole in the bottom where it adheres to the glass. The residue is drained off, the inside dries, and finally a seal in paper, glass or metal is placed over the hole.
Centre International d'Art Verrier [CIAV], Meisenthal (FR)
THE [CIAV] : A LABORATORY FOR CONTEMPORARY DESIGN
prototypes for industrial application, research work for designers, artists’ residence, seminars for art college students (accommodation)…
THE [CIAV] : A PUBLISHING HOUSE FOR LIMITED EDITIONS
manufacturer of historical, contemporary and “jeunes pousses de verre” (“young shoots”) editions, unique pieces and trophies...
THE [CIAV] : AN EDUCATIONAL WORKSHOP
glasswork demonstrations complement the glass museum visit, contemporary glass artwork exhibitions, glassblowing for adults, discovery days and courses for the young…
THE [CIAV] : HANDING DOWN THE TRADITIONS
knowledge transfer sessions with experienced glassblowers, resurrection of old production techniques, preservation of old moulds, editions…
Vessel Gallery, London (UK)
Vessel is a store-cum-gallery based in Notting Hill, London. We aim to be a modern Mecca for all those who appreciate good design & beauty in their life, both to look at and to use. The best contemporary glass and ceramic pieces available have been sourced globally. Here you can view a taster selection of our ranges which cover iconic Scandinavian functional design, (Hackman, Stelton, Iittala, Orrefors, Arabia), flamboyant, collectible Italian art glass (Venini, Salviati, Arcade), plus the best of home grown talent.
Publications
Publications
Enjoy the atmosphere of the workshops by reading these 96
pages of full content. Through beautiful images, stories and portraits, discover the amazing collection
of glass objects that have been created by the GIT participants in Finland,
France and Czech Republic.
Linked files
PUBLICATION GIT (pdf)Contact
Pro Materia
lise@promateria.be
rue Notre-Dame-du-Sommeil 2
B-1000 Brussels
+32 (0)2 768 25 10
contact@glassistomorrow.eu
About
Glass is Tomorrow EU Project
Linked files
Press release (pdf)Moodboard (pdf)
CONTACT US
You want to participate in the next steps of the project as a designer or a glassblower, please do not hesitate to contact us: lise@promateria.be
For media requests: contact@glassistomorrow.eu
T. +32 (0) 2 768 25 10, www.glassistomorrow.eu
WHEN? 12 – 16 September
WHERE? Nuutajärvi Glass Village (FI)
PARTICIPANTS?
Jeremy Wintrebert (FR) www.jeremyglass.com
Antoine Brodin (FR) www.jeremyglass.com
Matteo Gonet (CH) www.matteogonet.com
Sara Hulkkonen (FI) www.studiosara.fi
Roisin de Buitlear (IR) www.roisindebuitlear.com
Heikki Viinikainen (FI) www.studioviinikainen.com
Hubert Verstraeten (B) www.tamawa.be
Alfredo Häberli (CH) www.alfredo-haeberli.com
Lucie Koldova (CZ) www.luciekoldova.com
Dan Yeffet (ISR) www.danyeffet.com
Rony Plesl (CZ) www.ronyplesl.com
Tadeas Podracky (CZ) www.ronyplesl.com
Cecilie Manz (DK) www.ceciliemanz.com
Glass is Tomorrow is curated by Pro Materia, supported by organizing partners Iittala, VERREUM, CIAV and Vessel Gallery. The project enjoys the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union.
Discover GIT Workshop in Novy Bor, Feb 2012
Video by James Bort, www.jamesbort.com
Workshop Glass is Tomorrow
Novy Bor, Czech Republic
Theme: Silvering: Silvered glass (also known as Mercury Glass) is double‐walled glass with a silver
coating inside the walls. The silvering liquid is poured into the space between the walls of the glass vessel through an opening, it adheres to the glass wall creating an opaque mirrored surface. The residue is drained off, the inside dried, and some form of seal placed over the opening.
Glass Blowers
Jeremy Wintrebert & Antoine Brodin (FR), www.jeremyglass.com
Matteo Gonet (CH), www.mattegonet.com
Sébastien Maurer & Jean Marc Schilt (FR),
Sara Hulkkonen (FI), www.studiosara.fi
Rea Moiso (FI), www.iittala.com
Róisín de Buitléar (IRL), www.roisindebuitlear.com
Martin Štěpánek (CZ)
Designers
Arik Levy (FR), www.ariklevy.fr
Maxim Velčovský (CZ), www.lasvit.com
Pierre Favresse (FR), www.pierrefavresse.com, www.habitat.com
Dagmar Pánková & Leoš Smejkal (CZ)
Klára Horáčková (CZ)
Wing Lam Kwok (HK/B), www.winglamkwok.com
Mendel Heit (DE), www.mendelheit.com
Rony Plesl (CZ), www.ronyplesl.com
Sébastien Geissert & Pierre Bindreiff (FR),
Linked files
Press Release GIT Meisenthal - 1-7/7/2012 (pdf)Discover GIT Workshop in Meisenthal, July 2012
News
News
TOURING EXHIBITION GLASS IS TOMORROW
Lise Coirier, lise@promateria.be
Ike Udechuku, ike@ampersandhouse.com
Kathryn Smith, kathryn@ampersandhouse.com
Linked files
GLASS IS TOMORROW AMPERSAND HOUSE INVITATION (jpg)MEISENTHAL LE FEU SACRE-EXPOSITION
EXPOSITION
MEISENTHAL, LE FEU SACRÉ
1992-2012 / 20 ans de création au Centre International d’Art Verrier de Meisenthal
SITE DU GRAND HORNU (BELGIQUE)
24 JUIN – 07 OCTOBRE 2012
A / PRESENTATION
La Verrerie de Meisenthal voit le jour en 1704, dans les Vosges du Nord, dans l’Est de la France. Elle produira des dizaines de millions de pièces de verre utilitaire, de gobeleterie bon marché. Entre 1867 et 1894 la verrerie sert de laboratoire à Emile Gallé, chef de file de
l’Ecole de Nancy, qui y effectue des recherches techniques et artistiques sans précédent,
conférant à Meisenthal le statut de « berceau du verre Art Nouveau ».
L’unité de production traverse les conflits mondiaux mais ne faisant pas le choix de la modernisation de l’outil de production, vient s’échouer à l’aube des années 70. L’usine qui compta jusqu’à 650 salariés ferme ses portes le 31 décembre 1969, laissant dans son sillage une sirène
aphone, l’église noire de fumées, une friche désossée par les ferrailleurs et les souvenirs
friables d’une aventure ouvrière désormais éteinte.
Plein emploi oblige, pas de mouvements sociaux, pas de révolte. Juste la petite mort anodine d’une société anonyme.
En apparence seulement. Parce que là-bas, au creux des montagnes, quelque chose d’invisible a guidé la foi des hommes, entrepreneurs, verriers virtuoses et créateurs. Alors quand ferme l’usine, il reste là, silencieux, tapi dans l’humus, hors-gel, prêt à ressurgir le moment venu.
En 1983 le Musée du Verre de Meisenthal voit le jour et témoigne de l’aventure créative de cette verrerie. Lorsqu’en 1992, sur la friche, le Centre International d’Art Verrier (CIAV) est créé et un premier four rallumé, il s’est réveillé, en sursaut. D’abord furibond puis
rapidement farouche, le feu sacré, depuis, n’a plus quitté Meisenthal.
Le Centre International d'Art Verrier, a, dès son premier souffle, eu l’ambition de réinscrire la production verrière traditionnelle dans son époque. Ainsi, dans différents contextes collaboratifs, des créateurs contemporains, confirmés ou en devenir (artistes, designers,
étudiants en Ecoles d’Art…), travaillent de concert avec les verriers, réinterprètent les
savoir-faire et enclenchent de nouvelles histoires d’objets. Le CIAV a toujours entretenu la porosité entre design et art contemporain, permis à leurs expressions les plus composites de puiser autant dans la virtuosité des verriers que dans les héritages de process industriels.
Au bout de 20 ans de croisements le résultat est impressionnant… des milliers de formes, de
pièces uniques, d’essais, de prototypes, de micro-séries, de questionnements sont sorti des fours.
A chaque rencontre s’écrit une nouvelle histoire et une occasion à chaque fois plus enthousiasmante d’entretenir et attiser…le feu sacré.
B. OBJECTIF
L’exposition aura comme objet principal de marquer le 20ème anniversaire du CIAV par la présentation d’une sélection de pièces en verre conçues par plus d’une cinquantaine d’artistes et de designers en collaboration avec le CIAV.
Pour cette exposition (600m2) notre ambition est de proposer aux visiteurs, dans un même espace, à la fois des objets conçu par des designers (fabriqués en série ouverte ou limitée, prototypes) et des oeuvres (uniques, multiples ou installations) imaginées par des artistes-plasticiens.
Un certain nombre de pièces n’ont jamais été montrées par le CIAV (mais par les artistes eux-mêmes, dans des galeries, des centre d’art ou des musées) et de surcroit ensemble dans un même espace-temps.
Cette exposition poursuivra par ailleurs divers autres objectifs :
- Montrer au grand public et au public averti l’étendue des travaux réalisés au CIAV depuis 20 ans
- Incarner un évènement-référence pour le CIAV, à l’échelle européenne, dans un lieu à la programmation
reconnue internationalement
- Partager l’ambition du CIAV qui consiste à croiser savoir-faire traditionnel et création contemporaine
- Valoriser le territoire verrier des Vosges du Nord
C. LIEU DE PRESENTATION
> SITE DU GRAND HORNU (BELGIQUE)
Site industriel reconverti en Centre de promotion du Design et musée d’Art Contemporain
Installé au coeur de la Province de Hainaut, à quelques kilomètres des villes de Mons et de Valenciennes,
le Grand-Hornu compte parmi les plus beaux lieux de patrimoine industriel néo-classique d’Europe.
Cet ensemble monumental fut bâti au 19ièmesiècle par Henri Degorge, capitaine d’entreprise français
tenté par l’aventure du charbon.
Le site naît en pleine révolution industrielle dans une région qui est, à l’époque, la seconde place industrielle du monde !
Les débuts seront difficiles mais très vite les Charbonnages du Grand-Hornu vont devenir une des plus grosses entreprises houillères de la toute jeune Belgique produisant et exportant plus de 50% des besoins en charbon d’un grand territoire allant du Nord de la France au sud de la région parisienne.
Devenus symbole de l’industrie du charbon dans tout le Hainaut belge et français, ils seront aussi un fabuleux laboratoire technologique, social et humain.
On invente à Hornu de nouvelles techniques d’extraction, de nouvelles machines utilisant la vapeur et on y installe le premier chemin de fer privé du pays pour soutenir le développement économique de l’entreprise.
On bâtit aussi un quartier, le coron, qui avec ses 450 maisons offre un confort de vie meilleur aux ouvriers des Charbonnages du Grand-Hornu. En effet, ces maisons sont bâties en dur, spacieuses, approvisionnées en eau chaude et bénéficient d’un jardin. On crée une école, une salle de danse, des commerces et un dispensaire…Autant de facilités dont aucune autre cité ouvrière proche ne pouvait se targuer.
L’après-guerre va plonger le Grand-Hornu dans un long sommeil quand est conclu le Traité du Charbon et de l’Acier (CECA) en 1954 pour rationaliser la production. L’exploitation industrielle s’arrête et le site est abandonné.
Lorsqu’à la fin des années soixante une poignée de passionnés de patrimoine se battent pour sauver le site d’une destruction programmée, ce dernier n’est plus que l’ombre de lui-même dévasté par le temps et le vandalisme. En 1971, l’architecte Henri Guchez assure définitivement son sauvetage en le rachetant.
Il entame une première phase de rénovation et y installe ses bureaux.
C’est la Province de Hainaut qui entame en 1989 la seconde phase des travaux de rénovation.
A cette époque, elle vient de racheter le site à l’initiative de Claude Durieux, actuel Gouverneur de la Province.
L’ASBL Grand-Hornu Images qui existe depuis 1984, y installe ses bureaux et poursuit sa triple mission :
patrimoniale, touristique et culturelle.
Elle inscrit le Grand-Hornu dans les grandes associations
internationales de patrimoine et anime le lieu afin que le public le redécouvre.
Lorsqu’au début des années 90, la Communauté française décide d’installer son futur Musée des Arts Contemporains à Hornu, elle scelle la fin de la rénovation du Grand-Hornu.
En développant le MAC’s, elle assure la remise en état de la partie du site qui restait à réhabiliter.
Depuis septembre 2002 et l’ouverture du Musée des Arts Contemporains du Grand-Hornu, le site s’offre à nouveau au regard du visiteur dans toute sa splendeur.
Après avoir été un des fleurons de l’industrie belge, le site du Grand-Hornu est aujourd’hui l’un des premiers lieux culturels de Belgique. Il connaît une nouvelle vie et accueille chaque année près de 75000 visiteurs en provenance de toute l’Europe.
C’est en 1984 que l’association sans but lucratif Grand-Hornu Images a été créée et s’est installée au Grand-Hornu.
Elle poursuit depuis une triple mission : la valorisation touristique et patrimoniale du lieu, l’organisation d’expositions internationales dans le domaine du design et des arts appliqués et la constitution d’une collection de design en liaison avec sa politique d’exposition.
L’association est aujourd’hui considérée en Communauté française de Belgique comme l’organe de référence en matière de monstration de design.
D. EXEMPLES DE PIECES PRESENTEES DANS L’EXPOSITION
Présentation d’une sélection d’objets, oeuvres &installations créées par plus de 50 artistes et designers internationaux.
Sélection : Michel François / Enzo Mari / Jasper Morrison / Françoise Petrovitch / Damien Deroubaix /
Andrea Branzi / François Azambourg / Fabien Verschaere / Andreas Brandolini / Borek Sipek / François
Daireaux / Carsten Feil / Pierre Ardouvin / Fred Rieffel / Michel Paysant / Werner Aisslinger / David Dubois /
Christelle Familiari….
Production de l’exposition : Grand Hornu Images & CIAV Meisenthal
Co-commissariat : Grand Hornu Images & CIAV Meisenthal
Scénographie : V8 Designers
Environnement graphique : Stéphane Riedinger
Catalogue : sortie prévue le 20 juin 2012
Vernissage : le 23 juin à 18h30
CONTACTS
CIAV
Place Robert Schuman
57960 Meisenthal / France
T 03 87 96 87 16
ciav-meisenthal.com
ciav@wanadoo.fr
GRAND HORNU
Rue Sainte Louise , 82
7301 Hornu / Belgique
T 00 32 65 61 38 85
www.grand-hornu.be
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(Image: Veronese, Jeremy Wintrebert)