Post #134802 by tikibars on Mon, Jan 10, 2005 11:09 AM

There is a gigantic indoor garden center / greenhouse in Chicago where they hosted a Chihuly exhibition a few yers ago. It was interesting to see all of his glassworks poking out from among the foliage like some sort of giant alien insects. Some sort of weird Venusian man-eating plants.

I think of him more as a master craftsman than an fine artist; while the technical achievement present in his work is astonishing, I don't think there's enough emotional resonance or inner expressiom present in the work to qualify him as a fine artist. Also, as Humu said, he has a team buliding them for him. But this is all semantics now.

The same cultural garden center that hosted his exhibition also hosts weddings and black tie social events. Some moron left the paths among the plants, tried to get up close to one of the Chihulys, and broke it (true). You'll know the one when you see it in the California exhibition, because it's the one with a superglue seam along the edge!