Toyama Glass Art Museum Collection Exhibition

Toyama Glass Art Museum Collection Exhibition
Vessels of Light: Exploring Forms of Expression through Glass

Glass interacts with light in distinctive ways: allowing it to pass through, capturing it, refracting it, or reflecting it. This trait sets it apart from other crafting materials like ceramics, textiles, wood, or bamboo. Contemporary artists engage in a dialogue with the glass, exploring the kinds of expression that can be achieved through its unique characteristics.

Some artists base their works on principles of optics such as the color spectrum and prisms, while others create works inspired by scenes of nature illuminated by light, and still others, upon taking in light, artistically transform both their form and the light itself. In these works, glass plays a role as a kind of device that amplifies light and the artist’s view of the world through which it shines. Glass is an indispensable part of each work in this exhibition, serving both as a vessel for light and as a medium for its messages. This allows for a wide range of expression not limited to forms we would consider “containers” in the literal sense, enabling the production of remarkable works for the contemporary age.

This exhibition explores how contemporary artists have tackled the relationship between light and glass in their work, through a selection of works from the museum’s collection.

Venue:

Exhibition Room 4 & Transparent Storage, Floor 4

Dates:

2024.12.7. Sat. - 2025.6.1 Sun.

Hours:

9:30 - 18:00, [Fri. - Sat.] 9:30 - 20:00, [January 2 - 3] 9:30 - 17:00

(Admission ends 30 mins. before closing time)

Closed:

First and Third Wednesdays, December 29, 2024 - January 1, 8, 2025

Organizer:

Toyama Glass Art Museum

Artists

Pavel HLAVA, JANG Kyung Nam, Marian KAREL, Vladimír KLEIN, KOJIMA Yukako, Stanislav LIBENSKÝ & Jaroslava BRYCHTOVÁ, Alena MATĒJKA, MATSUSHIMA Iwao, NODA Yumiko, OHGITA Katsuya, SHIBUYA Ryoji, Pavel TRNKA, TSUKADA Midori, YAMASHINA Shoko, YOSHIMOTO Yumiko (arranged in alphabetical order of the artists’ family name)

Admission

Adults, College and University students ¥200 (¥170)

*Price in brackets for groups of 20 or more.

*Admission fee is free for high school students and younger, and those with Disability Certificates and one caregiver accompanying each of them.

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

*Special Exhibition Tickets of the Museum also allow admission to the Collection Exhibition on the 4th floor and the Glass Art Garden on the 6th floor on the day of issue only.

MATSUSHIMA Iwao, *Luminous pool*, 1999, Photo by SUEMASA Mareo

NODA Yumiko, *Moon Light*, 1999, Photo by MUROSAWA Toshiharu

Stanislav LIBENSKÝ & Jaroslava BRYCHTOVÁ, *Spectrum*, 1996, Photo by SAIKI Taku

Pavel TRNKA, *from cycle "Spectrum"*, 2006, Photo by MUROSAWA Toshiharu

YOSHIMOTO Yumiko, *memory - the laputa*, 1997, Photo by SUEMASA Mareo

OHGITA Katsuya, *HOUSE*, 2013, Photo by SUEMASA Mareo

*Reproduction of photos are prohibited.

All works in this exhibition are the collection of the Toyama Glass Art Museum

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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