Tristano di Robilant: Spontaneous Beauty
Meditation Hut
August 28 - October 3, 2020
"I like the idea of that place can be inhabited and then become inhabited again, which is like our place in the world. There is a sense of emptiness but at the same time, a sense of being."
Tristano di Robilant
These two glass sculptures were created in Murano and feel at home in the silence of the woods. 1600 with raindrops is named after the sculpture of the heretic Giordano Bruno in Campo dei Fiori in Rome, where Bruno was burned at the stake on February 17, 1600. The amber glass shapes echo the hood of the sculpture, which was installed in 1889. Tristano's message is one of optimism: You can kill a person, but you cannot kill ideas. The shapes of Tristano's sculpture seem to emanate upward and outward. The clear glass sculpture 'Inheritance' feels almost like it's a bird house, a place in which things could flit in and out, or perch on the little stoops that the artist has folded down with the glass. We are exploring new and exciting ways to exhibit art in proximity to nature and outside the traditional white box.