The exhibition, organized in collaboration with R & Company, NYC, explores Richard Marquis’s research on Murrine, a millennia-old glassmaking technique. In 1969, the American artist worked at Venini furnace, where he learned the art of assembling hot glass canes, later applying it to his experimental sculptures, which became icons of the International Studio Glass Movement.

The works on display enter into dialogue with the Murrine of Mathieu Grodet, presenting different contemporary approaches to an ancient glassmaking technique of extraordinary complexity and expressive power.
Denise Barr presents her jewelry made from Richard Marquis' murrine.

We are happy to announce the participation of Lilla Tabasso and Václav Cigler in the Presentation of Fondazione Dries Van Noten: The Only True Protest is Beauty.

The Presentation stands as a journey into beauty understood not as resolution but as tension, an intensity that unsettles the familiar and opens space for the unexpected. With a title inspired by the words of singer and activist Phil Ochs, the Presentation invites us to consider beauty not as simple prettiness but as a form of inquiry and a catalyst for reflection, provocation, and transformation.

Set within Palazzo Pisani Moretta, more than two hundred works spanning fashion, jewellery, design, art, photography, glass, ceramics, and material experimentation enter into dialogue with frescoes, ceilings, and the building’s layered histories.