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Ca 'Rezzonico - Museum of the Venetian eighteenth century verified

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The show

Curated by the Lino Tagliapietra Foundation together with the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia , the exhibition intends to pay homage to Lino Tagliapietra , an artist traveller, experimenter, in constant search of stimuli to transfer into his works, between passionate research, technical improvement and sublimation of the beauty of glass . Today this journey made of creativity, color and manufacturing ability finds a new temporary home in the renovated rooms of the Ca' Rezzonico Museum in Venice .


Arranged along a path designed by the architect Chiara Lamonarca between the first and second floors of the building, the 21 works on display offer a cross-section of the Maestro's vast production created over the last thirty years in open dialogue with the eighteenth-century masterpieces that surround them. Alongside iconic works such as Dinosaur with a long-limbed neck, Fuji, Asola, Niomea, Oca, Africa, Hopi tell of traditional Murano techniques such as blown glass with rods, filigree, murrine, incalmo, extreme skills such as double blowing or again typical processes of the second processing such as beating and grinding. Sculptural works that have led Lino Tagliapietra to establish himself as an independent artist, a forerunner of new seasons and generations of glass artists. Also on display is a careful selection of panels created between 1999 and 2012, real two-dimensional paintings in molten glass created by superimposing different techniques and colours.


The initial suggestions - already declared in the titles Finestra sul campiello, Ponticello, Rio Grande - not only represent gateways to places dear to the master but also tell of great passions, such as Rothko 's painting. In this case pictorial rather than sculptural works, in contrast with the practice of an artist who has almost never made preparatory drawings. Made with glass grit with solid glass inserts or by means of the use of canes and zanfirico murrine, the panels are undoubtedly among the most experimental and challenging works by Lino Tagliapietra, those in which emerges the unstoppable, imaginative, experimental creative drive. The Judith panel closes the exhibition on the second floor. Like a glass altarpiece installed between two altarpieces, the work is distinguished by the bright colors and the stylized profile that characterizes the subject. A prayer and thanksgiving for a life spent in the color and art of glass.


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Dorsoduro, 3136
30123 Venice

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