Museum of Ancient Glass in Zadar
Exhibition marking the 15th anniversary and Day of the Museum of Ancient Glass in Zadar:
HELMI REMES and SLATE GROVE "Narrative reflections / Inspiration from Finland"
6 May – 6 August 2024.
The Museum of Ancient
Glass in Zadar is adding the Helmi Remes and Slate Grove exhibition
"Narrative reflections / Inspiration from Finland" to the rich program
marking the 15th anniversary of its opening. It is an exhibition of two
artists from Finland, Helmi Remes, a native Finnish woman, and Slate
Grove, an American living in Finland.
In the past work of the Museum, one of the most notable international collaborations was the organization of the exhibition "Touch of Glass / Exhibition of Contemporary Nordic Glass" in 2015. Among the authors of works exhibited in the Museum in 2015, Helmi Remes also exhibited her work. How truly special are the bonds of all those who feel and love glass as an artistic medium, and especially within such a comprehensive and proactive institution as the Museum of Ancient Glass in Zadar, Helmi Remes was recognized as an artist who will at the exhibition in Zadar with her artistic and life with partner Slate Grove to show all the beauty of life in Finland, the connection with nature and tradition through contemporary glass art forms.
Helmi Remes and Slate Grove are young people, life partners, trained glassblowers, artists who live a modern life in accordance with the Finnish way of life, connection with nature both in the private and artistic sense. Remes and Grove are independent artists, who for the first time in Zadar, in the Museum of Ancient Glass, present their works at the joint exhibition "Narrative reflections / Inspiration from Finland". The common concept of the exhibition binds them both to convey their inspiration through individual works in glass by the Finnish landscape, nature, the miraculous changes of the seasons, which inevitably affect the way of life, but also the philosophy of life. The weaving of tradition into everyday life, the discovery of Finnish history, heritage, myths and legends, the search for light, so important for life, that balance between darkness in winter days and uninterrupted day in summer, bring the marvelous works in glass of these two artists, who the exhibition concept is shown for the first time far from Finland, in the Mediterranean, in Zadar and the Museum that inherits ancient glass, glass full of stories and traditions, a universal material that knows no boundaries, especially the boundaries of artistic inspiration.
The exhibition opens on Monday 6 May 2024 in the large exhibition hall of the Museum. The curator of the exhibition and the author of the catalog is Jadranka Belevski, museum consultant documentarian of the Museum of Ancient Glass in Zadar.
