Collection Exhibition: Mingling Materials

I believe first of all that artists in future will not work with glass alone: they will get involved in other media and different working techniques – thus there will no longer exist a strictly defined category of glass artist. I think rather that there will be artists who work with glass as well as with other materials.*

So said Czech glass artist Bohumil ELIÁŠ (1937–2005) in a 1994 interview, in response to a question about the future of glass art. Thirty years later one can safely say that precisely as Eliáš predicted, it is now commonplace to combine glass with other materials, and work with different materials and methods alongside glass production. This exhibition of works from the collection celebrates the vast breadth of expression born out of encounters between glass and other materials and means of production.

* “30th September 1994, Interview with Bohumil Eliáš” by Takeda Atsushi, in Expanded Glass: Traditional and Contemporary, exh. cat. (Yokohama Museum of Art, 1995), p. 250.

Venue:

Toyama Glass Art Museum, Floors 4, Exhibition Room 4 & Transparent Storage

Dates:

2024.6.8 Sat – 2024.12.1 Sun

Hours:

Sun-Thu 9:30-18:00

(admission until 17:30), Fri-Sat 9:30-20:00 (admission until 19:30)

Closed:

First and third Wednesdays

Organizer:

Toyama Glass Art Museum

Artists

Bohumil ELIÁŠ, KOBAYASHI Chisa, SUGASAWA Toshio, IWATA Toshichi, Josef MAREK, Jaromír RYBÁK, TASHIMA Etsuko, KOJIRO Yoshiaki, TSUMORI Hidenori, TSUKADA Midori, Vladimír KOPECKÝ, Brian HIRST, Brian PIKE, Bertil VALLIEN (in the order of display)

Admission

200 yen (170 yen)

*Price in brackets for groups of 20 or more.

*Admission fee is free for high school students and younger.

*Tickets also allow admission to the Glass Art Garden at the 6 floor.

Bohumil ELIÁŠ, *Motherhood*, 2003, photo by SUEMASA Mareo

KOJIRO Yoshiaki, *Structural Blue 60.2*, 2021, photo by SUEMASA Mareo

Vladimír KOPECKÝ, *Strange Table*, 1985-1988, photo by SUEMASA Mareo

Josef MAREK, *The way out*, 1997, photo by SUEMASA Mareo

TASHIMA Etsuko, *Cornucopia 05-Ⅶ*, 2005, photo by SAIKI Taku

TSUMORI Hidenori, *Oscillation ’17-4*, 2017, photo by SUEMASA Mareo

KOBAYASHI Chisa, *《The Form of Black; The Form of white 2021-1》*, 2021, photo by SUEMASA Mareo

*Reproduction of photos are prohibited.

Access

[From Toyama Station]

○20-minute walk.

○Take the tram (Shinaidensha) for Minamitoyamaeki-mae. Get off at Nishicho. 1-minute walk.

○Take the Loop Line tram (Shinaidensha Kanjō-sen). Get off at Grand Plaza-mae. 2-minute walk. (Tram takes approx. 10 minutes from Toyama Sta. to Nishicho/Grand Plaza-mae.)

[From Toyama Airport]

○Take the Airport Bus to Toyama Station (Airport Express Bus/Local Bus (Route no.36)) and get off at Sogawa. 4-minute walk.

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5-1 Nishicho, Toyama City, Toyama 930-0062, Japan

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