Published on June 17, 2024 at 1:20 p.m. / Modified on June 17, 2024 at 1:21 p.m.
It’s a bronze mirror that comes from Crimea. It was made around 2500 years ago. On the cover of the exhibition catalog Transparent, which is held at the Barbier-Mueller Museum in Geneva, it hides part of the face of the Geneva artist John Armleder. On the back of the book, Charybdisa glass sculpture, created in 2011 in Murano near Venice by John Armleder in Signoretto’s workshop, allows us to guess, through transparency, despite the glass bubbles and streaks of color, the artist’s face.
What is there to see? To hide, to show? What do we see and how do we look? These questions, the exhibition entitled Transparencies, which brings together glass works by John Armleder and artifacts from the reserves of the Barbier-Mueller collection, revives them, explores them. She opens up avenues but is careful not to respond to them.
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