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Wunderglas
Laura
de Santillana
Alessandro Diaz
de Santillana
Special exhibition
17 March to 3 July 2016
daily, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Picture: SLEEVES, 2015
Laura de Santillana
© KHM-Museumsverband
Laura de Santillana and Alessandro Diaz de Santillana are
two of the most highly regarded artists to be working with
glass today. Grandchildren of the famous Paolo Venini, they
possess a profound knowledge of the Venetian traditions. For
the exhibition at Schloss Ambras Innsbruck they relate their
objects to the great collector Archduke Ferdinand II and the
Renaissance world view.
In the castle their fascinating artworks have been positioned as
interventions amongst the treasures of the Ambras collections:
in the Chamber of Art and Curiosities, the Spanish Hall, the
Bathing Chamber of Philippine Welser, St Nicholas’s chapel, the
Strasser Glass Collection, and the Habsburg Portrait Gallery,
their works have become the very epitome of »Wunderglas«.
The exhibition is curated by Claudia Lehner-Jobst. An EnglishGerman catalogue will accompany this show.
Schloss Ambras Innsbruck, Schlossstraße 20, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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Wunderglas
LAURA DE SANTILLANA
ALESSANDRO DIAZ DE SANTILLANA
17. MÄRZ BIS 3. JULI 2016, TÄGLICH 10 BIS 17 UHR
Laura de Santillana (b. 1955) and Alessandro Diaz de
Santillana (b. 1959) grew up in one of Venice’s most important
glassmaking families. Subsequently, they worked as designers
for the family business founded by their grandfather Paolo
Venini on the island of Murano in 1921, which from 1959 was
directed by their father Ludovico Diaz de Santillana. In 1986,
after the Venini company was sold, the family founded the
firm EoS. After EoS passed out of their hands in 1993, they
turned away from design and devoted themselves exclusively
to fine art.
Today Laura de Santillana and Alessandro Diaz de Santillana
are numbered amongst the most internationally celebrated
practitioners of autonomous glass art. They experiment with
new glass technology, bringing into being subtle works marked
by a certain minimalism of form.
The location of the exhibition is the Renaissance castle of
Archduke Ferdinand II of Tyrol (1529–1595), son of Emperor
Ferdinand I. one of the most important collectors of all time,
Archduke Ferdinand housed his world-famous collections in
a museum building constructed especially for this purpose.
Glass exerted a particularly strong fascination upon him – in
Innsbruck he founded a court glasshouse with blowers from
Murano, because the Venetian island was so famous in the
Renaissance for its incomparably clear glass. Furthermore, he
collected valuable glass objects from the glasshouse of Hall in
Tyrol, from Bohemia, and from Venice itself. Many of these
precious treasures can still be admired in the Chamber of Art
and Curiosities at Ambras Castle.
The two artists’ enthusiasm for this special place grew
constantly. Their artworks are exhibited throughout the castle
as interventions at selected locations, where they interact
subtly with the light and historical objects in their respective
rooms – and also with the imagination of the exhibition’s
visitors.
picture:
exhibition poSter
© KhM-MuSeuMSVerband
Schloss Ambras Innsbruck, Schlossstraße 20, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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LaurA
de Santillana
Laura de Santillana was born in Venice in 1955. In
1975, after studies in Architecture and Classics, she began
training as a designer with Vignelli Associates and at the
School of Visual Arts in New York. Between 1975 and 1985
Laura provided numerous designs for her family’s firm of
Venini, Murano; until 1993 she was Art Director of the design
firm Eos founded in 1986.
Since 1998 Laura de Santillana has regularly exhibited her
art works at international museums and galleries; in addition,
her work is represented in important public and private
collections. Her first shared exhibition with her brother
Alessandro Diaz de Santillana, Scapes, took place in 2012 at
the Tacoma Museum of Glass, and was followed in 2014 by
I Santillana at the Stanze del Vetro, Venice, and the MAK,
Vienna. Laura de Santillana lives and works in Venice.
Alessandro
Diaz de Santillana
Alessandro Diaz de Santillana was born in Paris
in 1959. Even as a ten-year-old he provided his parents’ firm,
Venini, with two designs for glass vases, which were followed
by a multiplicity of different objects between 1979 and 1985.
In that year his career took him to New York to work for
NYEG (now UrbanGlass, Brooklyn), and from 1986 to 1992
he was creatively involved in the family business Eos. From
1997 to 1999 he held a guest professorship at the University
of San Diego, California.
From 1992 Alessandro’s artworks have been seen regularly
at exhibitions in the USA, Europe and Asia. Amongst his
international commissions are the light fittings he created in
2012 for the newly founded Stanze del Vetro, Venice, a joint
initiative of the Fondazione Georgio Cini and the Pentagram
Stiftung. His art works can be seen in some of the world’s most
important museums and in numerous private collections.
Picture:
exhibition poster
© KHM-Museumsverband
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Entrance Fees
Press Information
ABBILDUNG: HS, 2015
Alessandro Diaz de Santillana
© KHM-MUSEUMSVERBAND
December – March
Annual Ticket
€ 34
Annual Ticket U25 (19–25)
€ 19
April – October
€ 34
€ 19
Adults
Concessions
Group Ticket p.p.
(groups of 10, or over)
Family Ticket Children and teens under 19
€
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€ 10
€ 7
€ 7
€ 12
free
€ 18
free
Guided tour p.P.
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Dr. Armin Berger
Press & Communications
Schloss Ambras Innsbruck
Schlossstrasse 20
A-6020 Innsbruck
Austria
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Press Photos
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STRUMENTO MUSICALE
Alessandro Diaz de Santillana
2013–2016
Hand-blown glass, gold leaf, on marine plywood
S8 (ITALO)
Alessandro Diaz de Santillana
2014
Hand-blown glass, patina, on marine plywood, black Venetian lacquer
UNTITLED (NG1)
Alessandro Diaz de Santillana
2013–2015
Hand-blown glass, gold leaf, on marine plywood, black Venetian lacquer
S8 (ITALO)
Alessandro Diaz de Santillana
2014
Hand-blown glass, patina, on marine plywood, black Venetian lacquer
Schloss Ambras Innsbruck, Schlossstraße 20, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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Press Photos
Installation in the Spanish Hall
HS
Alessandro Diaz de Santillana
2015
13 hand-blown glass panels, mirrored, on marine plywood, white Venetian
lacquer
VANITAS
Alessandro Diaz de Santillana
2009
Hand-blown glass panel, patina, on marine plywood, black Venetian lacquer
LIGHT SOUL (ANIMA)
Alessandro Diaz de Santillana
1996
Hand-shaped glass, corroded
BLUE 2
Alessandro Diaz de Santillana
June 2003
Hand-blown cobalt glass, mirrored, on plywood, electrified
Schloss Ambras Innsbruck, Schlossstraße 20, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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Press Photos
SLEEVES
Laura de Santillana
2015
3 hand-blown glass cylinders, layers of coloured glass, uranium
glass
SLEEVES
Laura de Santillana
2015
3 hand-blown glass cylinders, layers of coloured glass, uranium
glass
Installation in the Spanish Hall
SLEEVES
Laura de Santillana
2015
Installation in the Habsburg Portrait Gallery, (Detail)
LIBRARY
Laura de Santillana
2005-2016
Painted steel construction with glass objects
Schloss Ambras Innsbruck, Schlossstraße 20, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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Press Photos
Installation in the Habsburg Portrait Gallery
LIBRARY
Laura de Santillana
2005-2016
Painted steel construction with glass objects
Installation in the Antiquarium
TESTE
Laura de Santillana
2012–1016
Solid hand-shaped coloured glass, partly metal, partly iridescence
Installation the Bathing Chambers of Philippine Welser
UNTITLED
Laura de Santillana
2014–2015
11 elements, shaped hand-blown glass
Installation in the Chamber of Art and Curiosities
UNTITLED (TAGLI), UNTITLED (SPINA)
Laura de Santillana
2005, 2017
Glass, hand-blown and cut, gold leaf and silver leaf, respectivily. Lost-wax
bronze cast. Wax
Schloss Ambras Innsbruck, Schlossstraße 20, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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