We have escaped Titan, thoughts are rapidly turning to spring. Grab your diary and block out June 14th for 'THE' New Canaan Glass House Summer Party:
The Glass House Summer Party will take place on Saturday, June 14 from 12:00pm to 4:00pm. With support from Swarovski, the Summer Party will feature a festive picnic lunch, lawn games, music, and silent auction along with opportunities to experience *Fujiko Nakaya: Veil and the entire Glass House campus.
$25,000 VIP Table Host* (Includes ten VIP seats and two signed benefit edition prints by Candida Höfer).
$10,000 Table Host* (Includes ten seats)
$5,000 VIP Friend* (Includes one signed benefit edition print by Candida Höfer)
$1,000 VIP Individual Ticket
$500 Individual Ticket
Tickets can be purchased HERE
For more information, please contact events@theglasshouse.org or call 203.594.9884 x33335.
Coinciding with the 65th anniversary of the Glass House and its 2014 tour season, the Glass House will present *Fujiko Nakaya: Veil. This exhibition is the first site-specific artist project to engage the iconic Glass House itself, designed by Philip Johnson and completed in 1949.
Veil will stage a potent dialogue with the Glass House, producing an opaque atmosphere to meet the building's extreme transparency and temporal effects that complement its timelessness.The Glass House, situated on a promontory overlooking a valley, is subject to changing wind patterns, as well as variable temperature and humidity, that will continually influence the interchange between Veil and the building it shrouds. Fresh water, pumped at high pressure through 600 nozzles, will produce an immersive environment that reveals these dynamic conditions. According to Nakaya, "Fog responds constantly to its own surroundings, revealing and concealing the features of the environment. Fog makes visible things become invisible and invisible things — like wind — become visible." The drama of Nakaya's work rests in the continuous interplay between what is visible and what is not. Known coordinates vanish, only to be replaced by a miasma, rich in changing phenomenological effects, that evoke a sense of mystery, foreboding, and wonder.
Fujiko Nakaya was born in Sapporo, Japan in 1933. Her father, Ukichiro Nakaya, a physicist credited with making the first artificial snowflakes, had an impact on her work and, as a young art student, she became interested in working with cloud-like forms. In 1970, at the World Expo in Osaka, Japan, Nakaya created the world's first fog sculpture when she enveloped the Pepsi Pavilion in a vaporous mist, in collaboration with the legendary artist collaborative Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.).
Nakaya has created fog installations around the world, including projects for the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao; the Grand Palais, Paris; the Australian National Gallery, Canberra; and the Exploratorium, San Francisco, among others. She consulted with architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro on the Blur Building for the 2002 Swiss Expo, and has worked with numerous artists (including Trisha Brown, David Tudor, and Bill Viola) on environments for music and performance. This will be her first large-scale installation on the east coast of the United States and the first time her work has been presented at an internationally renowned historic site.
Organized by Henry Urbach, Director and Chief Curator, and Irene Shum Allen, Curator and Collections Manager, Fujiko Nakaya: Veil is generously supported by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. Additional support is provided by Mee Industries, Inc.
Fujiko Nakaya: Veil is on view May 1 - November 30, 2014