{"id":3993,"date":"2013-10-20T17:01:16","date_gmt":"2013-10-20T21:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/?p=3993"},"modified":"2013-10-24T22:08:05","modified_gmt":"2013-10-25T02:08:05","slug":"dale-chihuly-utterly-breathtaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/20\/dale-chihuly-utterly-breathtaking\/","title":{"rendered":"Dale Chihuly – Utterly Breathtaking"},"content":{"rendered":"

I went to the Mus\u00e9e des Beaux-Arts<\/a> (aka the Montreal Museum of Fine Art<\/a>) today to see the Dale Chihuly <\/a>show, Utterly Breathtaking<\/a>. It was pretty impressive (breathtaking even). To be honest, the idea of going to see an exhibition of hand-blown glass art made me expect some yawneriffic decorative ho-hummery but boy, was I wrong. More like strange visions of distant worlds, represented in light and colour.<\/p>\n

Without blathering on at great length, here are a few photos I took of the many pieces at the show to blow your mind a little in advance. It’s worth noting that the hanging pieces are quite monumental – roughly 25 feet tall or so – and for hand-blown glass, that’s an impressive technical feat, straight-up eye-candy appeal aside. It runs until October 27 so if you happen to be in Montreal I strongly recommend that you haul yourself down to the Mus\u00e9e des Beaux-Arts and check it out for yourself.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t