The Venice Glass Week is the first international festival dedicated to glass art in the city.
From the 5th to the 13th of September 2020 will take place the third edition of the initiative, sponsored by Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti e Consorzio Promovetro Murano together with the Comune di Venezia.
The gallery Marco Polo International, a reference point in the international artistic hand-made glass scene, is proud to announce the participation to the festival presenting the project “Cristalli Liquidi” by the artist Jaime Graschinsky curated by Nicola Fortunati.
Cristalli Liquidi
Nowadays the word “liquid crystals” can’t be seen in isolation from the word “display”. Displays are all around us, there is no pocket lacking of one. Our eyes consult them how a fortuneteller questions his crystal ball. This technological New-Middle Age is distinguished by a thought blurred by the led. We become blind in front of the blue light and this tarnishes our sight and confuses our conscience. To see the reality through a display become reality itself. Our brains are conforming to the energy saving age and this produce a restriction to our critical thinking.
Jaime Graschinsky - Circular Life
Today, during this hard historical period that imposes social distancing, we are witnessing an extra orientation toward the digitalization. This affects also those analogical interactions never questioned before. This is a global matter and each context has been hit by this transformation. Moreover, this process’ reversibility seems to be very far not to say impossible. However, if we shift reality to another level free from reality’s qualities itself, how can we experience the real and the tangibility of the substance?
Jaime Graschinsky - Sand In Motion
Liquid Crystals from instrument becomes content, it surpasses the boundaries and invites the observer to perceive the real in the virtual. Although transposing the real into the virtual can be a limit to the expressive skills, can there be a virtual reality that isn’t just a simple digitalization of the analogical support? How can we return into a display all the feelings and emotions that the real experience can generate?
Jaime Graschinsky - Assembling Emotions
Liquid Crystal is the link for connecting the real experience to the virtual one. It is an interpretation of the possible substance’s dematerialization. It established the paradox that enables us to make use of the reality trough the virtual. It is not a simplification, neither one-sided answer. This can’t be certainty but it wants to be an interpretation of the experience. It is critical synthesis. It is suggestion.
Jaime Graschinsky
Jaime Graschinsky was born in Buenos Aires. He worked as a professional photographer and then developed a long activity as a short filmmaker in Argentina and Mexico.
Glass attracted him since his childhood. When he saw, for the first time, his father working on the bevelling of large mirrors he was extremely impressed by the reflections this material makes when it catches the light.
His passion for art and the long activity as filmmaker converged in the making of the short film about the work of Antonio Pujía, shot with Perla Lich. The film received many nationals and internationals prizes.
Alongside the career as filmmaker, he continued to grow his deep connection with the glass and art world. He studied sculpture with Juan Antonio Córdoba and more recently with Carlos Herzberg. He made seminaries in Argentina and Spain with Karina Del Sabio, Silvia Lebenson, Pilar Aldana Mendez.
His search culminates in the combination of glass, transparency and light’s reflections. His artwork is aware of a different look, aware of the time he spent in the photography and the film industry.
About
Event organized by Marco Polo International
In collaboration with The Venice Glass Week
Curated by Nicola Fortunati
Exhibition
MPI - Marco Polo International - Glass Art Gallery
September 5-13, 2020 from 10 am to 7 pm
Free entry