Glass +A

On September 27 was opened Vitraria Glass +A Museum, a new museum in the heart of Venice, located at the beginning of the "museum mile" between the Academy and the Zattere: its openness enhances one of the most suggestive part of the city.
The inaugural exhibition, entitled Glass +A and edited by Ewald Stastny, presents a group of artists from around the world, whose different languages, the expression of an investigation into the contemporary, are placed in relation to the glass considered in its holistic nature . The glass is proposed as a metaphor to build a suggestive dialogue between past and present, exploring some of its key features such as the fragility, transparency and convertibility. The exhibition will remain open until 25 January 2015. The museum as a platform Vitraria Glass +A Museum aims to create a meeting place for artists, designers, collectors, art lovers from around the world. A museum open to the polyphony of contemporary where they can talk to each other many fields and disciplines, which was created with the intent to encourage the active participation and experimentation in support of knowledge and talents and where they can grow new ideas, relationships and business over the traditional boundaries classifiers. The permanent home of the Palazzo Barbarigo Nani Mocenigo, already old "museum" of the archaeological collection of the family Nani, wants to restore light to the identity traced filigree in a place where culture can take new paths and can cause a search process lively and purposeful through which establish relationships and still unexplored possibilities.

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