This experience requires focus, concentration, and timing to not only travel as far as you can, but also break
the beautiful glass objects that stand in your way.
Not exact matches
The exhibition offers a series of puzzling and
beautiful objects made from cast
glass, fine metals and gemstones, along with nontraditional materials like ash and soap, to highlight the unexpected relationship between Surrealism and craft.
Like many other shows, it had political content but it also came with feeling — for the underappreciated and underpaid Venetian labor force that makes the lagoon city such a lovely place for tourists like us, represented by way of strange and
beautiful objects made from broken bits of old Murano
glass.
There are a few names we already know, guaranteeing weight: Nayland Blake (disconcerting wall pieces made with
glass beads, buttons, feathers, and sequins), Louise Bourgeois (two tapestry and aluminum heads), Leonardo Drew (a
beautiful wall of cases containing cast - paper
objects), Glenn Ligon (a Warholian silkscreen painting of Malcolm X), Vik Muniz (a photo of a chocolate - syrup drawing of Cassius Clay), Roxy Paine (a startling mushroom wallpiece) and Fred Tomaselli (splendiferous collages).
The VIPP shelter is a
beautiful object, all
glass and steel, 50,000 pounds of superior workmanship and design.
The way a collection of white dishes look all piled behind a
glass cupboard, the way a reading chair can invite you in to a moment of solitude because of the way it positioned in a room, the beauty of simplicity when you see a pleasing arrangement of
beautiful objects on top of a console table, the joy of a burst of color in a mostly neutral room.