{"id":2650,"date":"2023-01-20T20:08:01","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T19:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sleepinmurano.com\/?p=2650"},"modified":"2023-05-05T20:26:53","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T18:26:53","slug":"shattering-beauty-simon-berger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sleepinmurano.com\/en\/shattering-beauty-simon-berger\/","title":{"rendered":"SHATTERING BEAUTY Simon Berger\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Exhibition<\/strong> at the GLASS Museum<\/em><\/strong>
from 28 January to 7 May 2023
curated by Sandrine Welte and Chiara Squarcina<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exhibition Simon Berger: Shattering Beauty, organised in collaboration with Berengo Studio at the Museo del Vetro, contains a series of new portraits by the artist in glass, presenting his pioneering technique to the Venetian lagoon for the very first time. <\/strong>

In his hyper realistic portraits Berger recreates the lines of the human face by breaking the material. In a mesmerising process he refers to as \u201cmorphogenesis,\u201d he re-situates the medium as an animated \u201ccanvas,\u201d using sculptural tools such as a hammer to physically work at its surface to \u201cetch\u201d and \u201cdraw\u201d haunting human faces. Reinforced safety glass, which holds at its core a crucial layer of plastic, ensures that the material, though broken, stays in place. This highly controlled sculptural technique originates from the artist\u2019s classical training in carpentry, and is a moving example of how many artists are now translating techniques from other mediums into the world of glass. Berger\u2019s unique technique of deliberate \u201cshattering,\u201d contradicts years of teaching, whereby broken glass has been seen as wasted or ruined. On the contrary, he instead turns the material\u2019s so-called weakness into its most vital asset. Its ability to break becomes reframed as its ability to change, to be altered, and to be recast as something new. To watch the artist create these works is to witness a vivid \u201cperformance,\u201d not dissimilar to that of the glass maestros in the furnace. In a way, Berger\u2019s craft provides an enticing extension of tradition, continuing the animated life of glass, into what had previously been viewed as its death. The exquisite shattering of Berger\u2019s work becomes representative of how powerful revitalising and reanimating our own relationship to the material can be. Each artwork becomes a reminder of the process of breaking down barriers, a physical urge encouraging audiences to view glass \u2013 and the world within which it exists \u2013 in a different way. The trauma and pain typically associated with broken glass are inverted. The shattering of the material is not an end point for Berger: it is just the beginning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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