Glimmering Gone is a collaborative installation that takes place at the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, Washington, October 2010 – March 2012. This exhibition uses landscape and artifacts to investigate our connection with nature and collective and personal memory.
Glimmering Gone uses glass to encourage desire, allude to life’s transience, and describe the unattainable.
I and Beth Lipman have taught and lectured collaboratively in Italy, Sweden, and the United States since 2001. Our collaboration has benefited us as coming from different communities greatly, proviided a deeper understanding of cultural similarities and differences and has lead to new ways of thinking about creative processes and relationships.
For the first time in our professional relationship, we are joining together for the creation Glimmering Gone, an exhibition that asks us to walk into the unknown and take risks by relinquishing each individual’s primary working method, and challenge us as artists to connect despite geographical distance, culture differences and time zones.
I and Beth Lipman have taught and lectured collaboratively in Italy, Sweden, and the United States since 2001. Our collaboration has benefited us as coming from different communities greatly, proviided a deeper understanding of cultural similarities and differences and has lead to new ways of thinking about creative processes and relationships.
For the first time in our professional relationship, we are joining together for the creation Glimmering Gone, an exhibition that asks us to walk into the unknown and take risks by relinquishing each individual’s primary working method, and challenge us as artists to connect despite geographical distance, culture differences and time zones.
The exhibition comprises three vignettes, Memento, Landscape and Artifacts.
Memento will feature an assemblage of colorless, cut, polished and fractured “objects of desire,” some seemingly familiar, some abstracted; all unattainable in their glass encasement. In Landscape, a path will meander through sculpted clear glass components that hang from the ceiling and rise up from the floor, creating a veritable curtain of glass. Landscape will reference to the pioneering writings and the paintings of Washingtonian Abby Williams Hill (1861-1943). Finally, in Artifacts, light projections will play over a series of 200 sandblasted white glass components, which will be fractured and embedded into the walls. In these ways, Glimmering Gone will investigate our connection with nature and collective and personal memory. This exhibition invites me and Beth Lipman to walk into the unknown, take risks by relinquishing each individual’s primary working method, It is a challenging and an exiting process to investigate the collaboration and to connect despite, and perhaps in light of, geographical distances and cultural differences.Glimmering Gone will include a small room that has a vitrine filled with sculpted clear glass mementos such as a book, eyeglasses, bottle, brush, as well as other less recognizable objects.
A larger room (50’ x 53’) will hold a three dimensional (14’ x 30’ x 25’) landscape made of sculpted clear glass components that hang from the ceiling and rise up from the floor. The landscape will fill approximately half the room and visitors will walk on a boardwalk that meanders the length of the landscape.
Introduction to the design of the catalog of Glimmering Gone
Ingalena Klenell/Beth Lipman for MUSEUM OF GLASS TACOMA W. USA. OKT 2010
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