Saturday, May 28, 2011

The Riga Stock Exchange House - Venetian Glassworks

The Riga Stock Exchange House will be opened with three international exhibition projects: Venetian Glassworks - Contemporary art exhibition, Oriental Porcelain and the Netherlands and Interaction between  East and West in the 17th century.
Now I want to tell more about the first. 

Venetian Glassworks - from 20th August till 18th December.

The exhibition will form a bridge between Venetian biennale and Riga. Twelve  internationaly known artists will participate at this exhibition. These artists in Berengo studio (Murano)  will create artworks  simultaneously for two exhibition halls - Palazzo Cavalli-Franchetti (1565) and for the Riga Stock Exchange House (1855).  Both buildings are examples of Venetian architecture: the first -real, the latter - imitation. One - in Italy, the other in Latvia. Exhibition is intended as a dialogue between  the present and the past - the contemporary and the classical. 
The exhibition is being  realized together  with the Veneto region (Italy).
The project is lead by the Berengo studio.

Source: www.lmm.lv

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