For his solo exhibition Shattering Beauty, Simon Berger transforms the spaces of the Glass Museum into a suggestive and engaging experience, presenting a series of unpublished works that will dialogue with each other between charm and expressive power. The installation is an invitation to get lost among glass cubes and sculptural works of different sizes. He wants to demonstrate how cracks and breaks can become lines of investigation into ways of seeing and perceiving the world, while glass surfaces are transformed into a reflection of the beholder. The exhibition itinerary also includes a series of glass “canvases”, a symbol of the new portraiture, some created specifically for the exhibition. Berger’s unique technique of deliberate “fragmentation” belies years of culture in which broken glass was viewed as waste or ruin. On the contrary, the artist transforms the so-called weakness into his main feature. Its ability to break becomes the ability to change, to be altered and to be transformed into something new.
