Some of
Dale Chihuly's work is
on display at Tampere. We were there last weekend, and went to see the
exhibition.
It was incredible. It was beautiful.
Finland is a country of world-famous glass blowers (think Timo
Sarpaneva), but Chihuly's work something the kind of which I've never
seen before. The colours, the shapes, scale of the works were totally
different from what I'm used to. No nordic minimalism in sight. A
rowboat full of red glass objects shaped like tentacles, stars and
things totally alien, reaching out in every direction, is such an
full-on assault on your visual cortex that it leaves you breathless.
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