Wunderglas Laura de Santillana Alessandro Diaz de Santillana Special exhibition 17 March to 3 July 2016 daily, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Picture: SLEEVES, 2015 KHM-Museumsverband and are two of the most highly regarded artists to be working with glass today. Grandchildren of the famous Paolo Venini, they possess a profound knowledge of the Venetian traditions. For the exhibition at Schloss Ambras Innsbruck they relate their objects to the great collector Archduke Ferdinand II and the Renaissance world view. In the castle their fascinating artworks have been positioned as interventions amongst the treasures of the Ambras collections: in the Chamber of Art and Curiosities, the Spanish Hall, the Bathing Chamber of Philippine Welser, St Nicholas s chapel, the Strasser Glass Collection, and the Habsburg Portrait Gallery, their works have become the very epitome of»wunderglas«. The exhibition is curated by Claudia Lehner-Jobst. An English- German catalogue will accompany this show.
Wunderglas LAURA DE SANTILLANA ALESSANDRO DIAZ DE SANTILLANA 17. MÄRZ BIS 3. JULI 2016, TÄGLICH 10 BIS 17 UHR (b. 1955) and Alessandro Diaz de Santillana (b. 1959) grew up in one of Venice s most important glassmaking families. Subsequently, they worked as designers for the family business founded by their grandfather Paolo Venini on the island of Murano in 1921, which from 1959 was directed by their father Ludovico Diaz de Santillana. In 1986, after the Venini company was sold, the family founded the firm EoS. After EoS passed out of their hands in 1993, they turned away from design and devoted themselves exclusively to fine art. Today and are numbered amongst the most internationally celebrated practitioners of autonomous glass art. They experiment with new glass technology, bringing into being subtle works marked by a certain minimalism of form. The location of the exhibition is the Renaissance castle of Archduke Ferdinand II of Tyrol (1529 1595), son of Emperor Ferdinand I. one of the most important collectors of all time, Archduke Ferdinand housed his world-famous collections in a museum building constructed especially for this purpose. Glass exerted a particularly strong fascination upon him in Innsbruck he founded a court glasshouse with blowers from Murano, because the Venetian island was so famous in the Renaissance for its incomparably clear glass. Furthermore, he collected valuable glass objects from the glasshouse of Hall in Tyrol, from Bohemia, and from Venice itself. Many of these precious treasures can still be admired in the Chamber of Art and Curiosities at Ambras Castle. picture: exhibition poster KhM-MuSeuMSVerband The two artists enthusiasm for this special place grew constantly. Their artworks are exhibited throughout the castle as interventions at selected locations, where they interact subtly with the light and historical objects in their respective rooms and also with the imagination of the exhibition s visitors. www.schlossambras-innsbruck.at, info@schlossambras-innsbruck.at, T +43 1 525 24-4802, www.facebook/schlossambras
LaurA de Santillana was born in Venice in 1955. In 1975, after studies in Architecture and Classics, she began training as a designer with Vignelli Associates and at the School of Visual Arts in New York. Between 1975 and 1985 Laura provided numerous designs for her family s firm of Venini, Murano; until 1993 she was Art Director of the design firm Eos founded in 1986. Since 1998 has regularly exhibited her art works at international museums and galleries; in addition, her work is represented in important public and private collections. Her first shared exhibition with her brother, Scapes, took place in 2012 at the Tacoma Museum of Glass, and was followed in 2014 by I Santillana at the Stanze del Vetro, Venice, and the MAK, Vienna. lives and works in Venice. Alessandro Diaz de Santillana Picture: exhibition poster KHM-Museumsverband was born in Paris in 1959. Even as a ten-year-old he provided his parents firm, Venini, with two designs for glass vases, which were followed by a multiplicity of different objects between 1979 and 1985. In that year his career took him to New York to work for NYEG (now UrbanGlass, Brooklyn), and from 1986 to 1992 he was creatively involved in the family business Eos. From 1997 to 1999 he held a guest professorship at the University of San Diego, California. From 1992 Alessandro s artworks have been seen regularly at exhibitions in the USA, Europe and Asia. Amongst his international commissions are the light fittings he created in 2012 for the newly founded Stanze del Vetro, Venice, a joint initiative of the Fondazione Georgio Cini and the Pentagram Stiftung. His art works can be seen in some of the world s most important museums and in numerous private collections.
Entrance Fees December March April October Annual Ticket 34 34 Annual Ticket U25 (19 25) 19 19 Adults 7 10 Concessions 5 7 Group Ticket p.p. 5 7 (groups of 10, or over) Family Ticket 12 18 Children and teens under 19 free free Guided tour p.p. 3 3 Press Information ABBILDUNG: HS, 2015 KHM-MUSEUMSVERBAND Dr. Armin Berger Press & Communications Schloss Ambras Innsbruck Schlossstrasse 20 A-6020 Innsbruck Austria T +43 1 525 24-4803 armin.berger@schlossambras-innsbruck.at
Press Photos Press Photos: www.schlossambras-innsbruck.at/ entdecken/organisation/presse/ STRUMENTO MUSICALE 2013 2016 Hand-blown glass, gold leaf, on marine plywood S8 (ITALO) 2014 Hand-blown glass, patina, on marine plywood, black Venetian lacquer UNTITLED (NG1) 2013 2015 Hand-blown glass, gold leaf, on marine plywood, black Venetian lacquer S8 (ITALO) 2014 Hand-blown glass, patina, on marine plywood, black Venetian lacquer
Press Photos Installation in the Spanish Hall HS 2015 13 hand-blown glass panels, mirrored, on marine plywood, white Venetian lacquer VANITAS 2009 Hand-blown glass panel, patina, on marine plywood, black Venetian lacquer LIGHT SOUL (ANIMA) 1996 Hand-shaped glass, corroded BLUE 2 June 2003 Hand-blown cobalt glass, mirrored, on plywood, electrified
Press Photos SLEEVES 2015 3 hand-blown glass cylinders, layers of coloured glass, uranium glass SLEEVES 2015 3 hand-blown glass cylinders, layers of coloured glass, uranium glass Installation in the Spanish Hall SLEEVES 2015 Installation in the Habsburg Portrait Gallery, (Detail) LIBRARY 2005-2016 Painted steel construction with glass objects
Press Photos Installation in the Habsburg Portrait Gallery LIBRARY 2005-2016 Painted steel construction with glass objects Installation in the Antiquarium TESTE 2012 1016 Solid hand-shaped coloured glass, partly metal, partly iridescence Installation the Bathing Chambers of Philippine Welser UNTITLED 2014 2015 11 elements, shaped hand-blown glass Installation in the Chamber of Art and Curiosities UNTITLED (TAGLI), UNTITLED (SPINA) 2005, 2017 Glass, hand-blown and cut, gold leaf and silver leaf, respectivily. Lost-wax bronze cast. Wax