Nick Mount: Scent Bottle
2005
Toyama Glass Art Museum
Photo by Okamura Kichiro

Pavel Trnka: From Cycle "Spectrum"
2006
Toyama Glass Art Museum
Photo by Murosawa Toshiharu

Bertil Vallien: Pendulum Ⅲ
1990
Toyama Glass Art Museum
Photo by Saiki Taku

Lada Semecká: Aqua Plate
2009
Toyama Glass Museum
Photo by Murosawa Toshiharu

Exhibition

Movement and Change in PerspectiveGlass Collection of Toyama City

Period: Saturday, Feb. 18, - Sunday, Mar. 26, 2017

Opening Hours: 9:30-18:00
(We are open until 20:00 on Fridays and Saturdays.
Last admission is 30 minutes before closing time.)

Closed: First and Third Wednesdays

Venue: Exhibition Room 1, 2 (2F)

Outline

What will we see in works made of glass? What we discover there are: a form that looks about to move at any moment as if it were liquid, gravity that we are usually unaware of, movement and rhythm that we sense with engraving marks on the surface of the work and bubbles kept inside the work, gradual changes in scenery and time that we see through materials, light and color glowing toward the inside or outside, smooth and rough textures, and so forth. We discover such expressions that are possible because the material is glass. What’s more, by adding the viewer’s physical motion such as going around the work, looking into it, and viewing it from a distance, we can find movement and change as the artist intended or those which exceed the artist’s intention. A dialogue with the other or the self through an artwork is linked to an unexpected conversion of a viewpoint or rich expansion of thoughts and senses. Such movements and changes that we perceive visually, physically and mentally when viewing a work draw our consciousness toward the work and invite us to a deep world of the work.
In this exhibition, we introduce 24 artworks selected according to keywords ‘movement’ and ‘change.’ Through searching for movement and change in the works and visually following them, the viewer might find thoughts of the artists or interesting aspects and materials of the works that were not noticeable before.

Artists: Abiru Shogo, Goto Yohei, Brian Hirst, Warren Langley, Josef Marek, Nick Mount, Motegi Satoe, Pavel Mrkus, Sano Kyoko, Lada Semecká, Pavel Trnka, Bertil Vallien

Information

Admission

General Public ¥400 (¥300), College Student ¥300 (¥200)
※Elem/JH/HS: free

The price in the ( ) is for groups. Those in groups are to be 20 or more.

With this exhibition ticket, you can view both the Collection Exhibition and the Glass Art Garden.

Organized by
Toyama Glass Art Museum

Contact

Toyama Glass Art Museum
bijutsukan-01@city.toyama.lg.jp