Una fornace a Marsiglia

These artists, who are oftenconfronted with a difficult to master material for the first time, develop theirdesigns assisted by the Cirva technical team.Over thirty years, Cirva has hosted around 200 artists for various projects in thefields of contemporary art, design and decorative arts. It also owns a collectionof 700 works exhibited in museums and art centers all over the world.Published on the occasion of the exhibition in Venice and curated by IsabelleReiher, Director of the Cirva of Marseilles, and Chiara Bertola, Curator ofContemporary Art at the Querini Stampalia, the volume proposes an interestinganalysis of the extraordinary relationship between contemporary art and glass.With an introductory essay by Norman Rosenthal, A Furnace in Marseilledocuments three decades of Cirva activity through the works of 17 artists anddesigners, among those who have been in residence at the Cirva in the lastthirty years: Dove Allouche, Larry Bell, Lieven De Boeck, James Lee Byars,Giuseppe Caccavale, Pierre Charpin, Erik Dietman, Hreinn Fridfinnsson,Thomas Kovachevich, Philippe Parreno, Giuseppe Penone, Remo Salvadori,Jana Sterbak, Martin Szekely, Francisco Tropa, Robert Wilson, Terry Winters.