Glass blower Dale Chihuly likes oversize art and vibrant colors. "I'm obsessed with color," he says. "Never saw one I didn't like." These preferences are obvious in his new exhibition at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, "Utterly Breathtaking," an immersive experience that transforms the museum into a bright, breakable jungle. Visitors will first be greeted by The Sun , a 13-foot wide squiggly-armed glass sculpture in two aggressive shades of yellow with highlights of red. The exhibition also includes a stairway intertwined with glass flowers, a hallway of glass lilies that lead up to a bed of turquoise reeds, and a glass ceiling crowded with fantastical glass plants that has museum visitors craning their necks to the extreme. The exhibit...
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