Tove Storch: Glassy Eyes, Glass
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Tove Storch
Glassy EyesNovember 23, 2024 – March 9, 2025
Glass – Museum of Glass Art, Ebeltoft, DKBe captivated by brand new works in glass created by renowned Danish artist Tove Storch, who over the past six months has explored the fragile and explosive, liquid and solid material.
Glass as an artistic material is new to Tove Storch, but make no mistake. The Danish artist is an unrivaled experienced material explorer. For a number of years, she has created sculptures that demonstrate unique investigations into the properties of different materials. Especially metal, plaster, paper and textile and their interrelationships have occupied Tove Storch for many years. How the materials work together or resist each other. How they buckle, stretch, collapse or give in.
In Glassy Eyes, Tove Storch stretches the glass to its limits and the material is allowed to tell its own inherent story as holes left by the tool become pupils with a view of the depths beyond.
A central theme of Storch's new glass works is the body as container and shaper for the movements of the mind. Large, blood-red drops, tears and shiny eyes, round spheres, obstacles and long arcs evoke a condensed drama about the body and the common language of the psyche through the delicate but also explosive fragility of glass.
The brand new works in glass have been created over the past six months in Glas' own glass workshop, where Tove Storch and the museum's glassblower Chris Lowry have tested the possibilities and limitations of glass. The many hours in the glass workshop have opened up new paths and given Storch a solid insight into the nature of glass.
The exhibition is the first visible result of a new collaboration between Glas and the international art institution Art Hub Copenhagen, which under the title Liquid Exchange gives a number of contemporary artists who have not previously worked with glass the opportunity to create glass works and thus expand and develop their practice in a concrete new direction.
The exhibition is curated by art critic Maria Kjær Themsen, who has also written the exhibition texts.
Photos: David Stjernholm
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