STRASBOURG.- Initiated by the European Studio Glass Art Association (ESGAA) and its president, Laurent Schmoll, the International Glass Biennale has organized, from October 15 to November 29 2015, its sixth edition: Lux Aeterna.

This Biennale has become the major event of the glass medium, the Biennale traces a rich journey of exhibitions and cultural events, made possible through the cooperation of many public sites, museums, galleries or ephemeral spaces, such as the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Strasbourg (MAMCS), the European Center for Contemporary Artistic Actions (CEAAC), the Barrage Vauban, the Regional Fund for Contemporary Art in Alsace (FRAC), the Lalique Museum and the Cathedral of Strasbourg, which in 2015 celebrates the millennium of its foundation.

For six weeks, the International Glass Biennale will present in 21 different cultural locations, more than 60 artists, from Marc Chagall to Daniel Buren, to regional artists such as Sylvie Lander or Mathilde Caylou and a new generation of artists combining heritage and modernity. The Biennale takes place not only at the crossroads of Europe, but also at that of studio glass practices as Alsace-Lorraine is its historical home with major glass names and producers such as Lalique, Meisenthal, Baccarat and Saint-Louis. This region has established itself as the real reference of savoir-faire , mastery and expertise of this delicate art.

If the glass is an old medium it keeps renewing and investing innovative and multidisciplinary domains. It comes through the Biennales in endless forms and varieties, including all mediums: video, sculpture, design, architecture... Glass brings its singular vision in contemporary art creation and a new generation of artists emerges from it: glassmakers, glass blowers, stained-glass window makers... Real glass artists are now graduating from the HEAR (High School of the Arts of Rhine) or from the CERFAV (European Center for Research and Training in Glass Arts) of Vannes-le-Châtel. They perpetuate glass skills and techniques, rich from a new prospective vision and resolutely turned towards contemporary creation.

The International Glass Biennale, the only event dedicated to this medium, is a reflection of this art and these new techniques.
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