Two thousand years ago, a story circulated in the ancient Roman world about a moldable, yet unbreakable, material unlike anything that had come before. In the 7th century, the bishop scholar Isidore of Seville featured this tale in his Etymologies: They claim that under Tiberius Caesar a certain craftsman devised a formula for glass so that it would be flexible […]
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SPACES is pleased to welcome Everlasting Plastics back to its Cleveland home. Originally premiering in the U. Pavilion at the 2023 Venice Biennale of Architecture, and then travelling on to the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh in 2024, this compelling group exhibition brings together a diverse group of artists and designers to examine our complex relationship with plastic. This […]
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A swirling, circular tangle of twisting black lines, Simon Anton’s Orologio (Plastic Time) (Fig. 1) looms above the heads of visitors to the U.S. Pavilion in the Giardini of the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale. Comprised of bits of black and white salvaged plastic waste fused to a metal armature, Anton’s sculpture is on view as part of the exhibition Everlasting […]
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