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Review of Groninger Ontwerpers

The world famous American artist Dale Chihuly (194...

The world famous American artist Dale Chihuly (1941). A spectacle of glass, light and color for the whole family. The exhibition has been put together especially for the museum in collaboration with Chihuly Studio. It is the largest Chihuly museum exhibition in Europe in the last 20 years. Constructed from 16 installations, both inside and outside the museum, it offers a complete overview of all the highlights from the artist's oeuvre.
For the exhibition, an audio tour with four music themes that have a link with Seattle has been developed.

About Dale Chihuly

Dale Chihuly (1941, Tacoma, Washington) is known for his pioneering influence on studio glass art and the enhancement of the glass experience. During his 50-year career he became famous with iconic glass sculptures, a medium that appeals to him because it is one of the few light-transmitting materials. Because it is solid but at the same time fragile and fragile, the artist has always found the material to be challenging and he is constantly looking for limits in terms of shape and size. Glass, however, is not the only material the artist uses to realize his vision: he also draws and paints and has made large installations with, for example, neon, ice and Polivitro - a plastic with visual properties comparable to glass.

Installations outside

Works are not only exhibited inside, but also around the Groninger Museum building. Two installations are built outside: Red Reeds (2010), consisting of a collection of culms up to three meters high made of red glass blown in Finland and Neon 206 (2017), glass tubes in angular shapes filled with neon and argon gas and of provide power.