Venice: Palazzo Loredan - Maria Grazia Rosin – Virux Landscape exhibition
opening.
In the enchanting atmosphere of Palazzo Loredan,
Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, one of the most beautiful venues
of Venice, Caterina Tognon presents Maria Grazia Rosin – Virux Landscape,
until May 1, a retrospective.
Above. Maria Grazia Rosin’s
latest artworks - I
Boreali - 2016, created site-specifically for the Sala delle Collezioni in the palazzo.
Maria Grazia Rosin
The award winning artist was
identified by IVSLA as the Best International Artist of The Year and awarded
her its prestigious Glass in Venice Prize. Rosin’s work has been shown in
prestigious institutes in Italy and around the world since 1982. Studying under
Emilio Vedova at the Accademia di Belle, In 1991, Rosin began collaborating
with Murano’s Master Glassblowers and produced her first glass art. This
experience led her to broaden the visionary bi-dimensional concepts she had
explored in her earlier large-scale paintings and to embrace the
three-dimensional potential that glass offered. Today, glass is the focus of
her uniquely probing experimentation. In “Fractal Lace” (2013), her strikingly
imaginative Water Artwork, Rosin launched a call to action to address the
ecological crisis facing the Venetian lagoon and stimulate debate.
“The boreal color, a beautiful shade of blue,
which I elaborated with mirrors, with more or less transparency, with
opacity, with form and with spots of white; I wanted it to become a bit
cumbersome somewhat mechanical; the exposed frames becomes protagonist, those
joints mechanical elements."
Maria Grazia Rosin - I Boreali – 2016
Master glassblower Andrea Zilio
I Boreali are a pair of
dark blue suspended luminous sculptures, inspired by phytomorphic organisms
whose outstretched arms float lithely in the air, striving for contact with
each other. The surface of the glass was subjected to interference processes to
create a reflecting satin finish, which combines with the work’s opaque,
transparent or translucent variances to achieve a mysteriously disquieting
effect.
David
Landau and Caterina Tognon
Rosa
Barovier and Sandro Franchini
Franca
Coin
Maria
Grazia Rosin - Moretto Rosso – 2007-2010
Master
glassblower - Sergio Tiozzo
Ziva
Kraus
Jean-Claude
and Alla Bondi
Daniela
Ferretti and Sandrina Rubelli
Maria
Grazia Rosin – Ossessione Tentacolare
series 2004-2016
Master
glassblowers - Davide Fuin, Gianni Seguso and Andrea Zilio
A collection of tableware items, in glass and
pottery, that plays on the features of invertebrate species with their
tentacles and suckers – a theme that has recurred in Venetian art through
the
centuries.
Sue, Simon, Paul, Sarah and Rachel Nichols
and Leon Joseph
“One
of my favorite and reoccurring themes is the squid. The Folpo chandelier
comes from my observation of a traditional chandelier inspired by a squid.”
Maria Grazia Rosin - Ossessione Tentacolare
series 2004-2016
Master glassblowers - Davide
Fuin, Gianni Seguso and Andrea Zilio
The shadow of Folpo -
suspended luminous sculpture 2000-2008 –Clearly referencing the morphology of squid –
“folpo” in the dialect of Venice – this work is a humorous, pop-art inspired re-visitation of the traditional Murano chandelier.
Maria
Grazia Rosin - Ossessione Tentacolare
Portacandele
Tentacolari – Calici Tentacolari - Coppa Tentacolare
2004-2016
Master
glassblowers Davide Fuin,
Gianni Seguso and Andrea Zilio
Piatto Tenticolare
– 2004-2016 – pottery - hand painted by the artist – Antiche Ceramiche d’Este
Federica
Marangoni and Simona Morini
Katia
Margoles and Robin Saikia
Pamela
Berry – Alessandra Zoppi – Peggy Reimer
Alexandrine
de Mun and Maruzza Bianchi Michiel
Maria
Grazia Rosin and Anna Lisa Gianturco
Maria Grazia
Rosin – Siderali n°4
2007-2010
Series of
four luminous sculptures
Master
glassblower Sergio Tiozzo
Maria
Grazia Rosin - Kela Granda
and
Kela Piccola
2007-2010
Master
glassblower Sergio Tiozzo
Rosa Borgia Collice
“After the discovery of active prehistoric bacteria, I imagined these creatures and gave them life.”
Maria
Grazia Rosin - Ice Virux n°9
2009
Master
glassblower Sergio Tiozzo
The Ice-Virux are the product of the artist’s reflections on prehistoric
viruses unearthed by boring into the furthest depths of the Arctic Ice Pack and
reanimated in a laboratory. The artwork consists of a swarm of suspended
elements that suggest a snowfall of ethereal off-white and silver ice crystal
creatures.
Michel
Broutin, Liselotte Hohs, Eraldo Salmieri and Gosy Broutin
Lola
Savini, France Thierard and Nadja Noack
Maria Novella Papafava dei Carraresi and Pierandrea Moro
We Drank
Gris dei
Colli Euganei
Maria Teresa Granata
Maria
Grazia Rosin - Detergens
1992-2016
Master
glassblower - Andrea Zilio
The Detergens Series are sculpted containers crafted in color
glass paste that playfully reference flacons of domestic cleaning products.
Deprived of their mundane function, the sculptures are a Duchamp-ian taunt that
takes the everyday into the exceptional.
“Fascinated by the bacteriological world, I
imagine these molds resurfacing from the Venetian terrazzo.”
Maria
Grazia Rosin - Virux landscape
2016
Virux Landscape narrates the findings of an
astro-nautical voyage in reverse: not into outer space but into the human body,
to microscopically explore the essence of our cellular landscape.
Sigrid
de Montrond
Alessandro
Tusset
Valentina
Palumbo Tagliapietra
Tommaso
Bagnati
Maria
Grazia Rosin - Venussiano Blu and Venussiano de Arzento
1999
Master
glassblowers Pino Signoretto and Silvano Signoretto
The Venussiani series – 1999, are glass orbs that voluptuously
emanate from sensual floral forms, insatiable valves and macroscopic pistils
that underscore their phytomorphic origins.
Maria
Grazia Rosin - Venussiano Blu
Suzanne
Press and Jane da Mosto
Maria
Grazia Rosin - Venussiano Rosa
1999
Master
glassblowers Pino Signoretto and Silvano Signoretto
France
Thierard, Lilli Doriguzzi and Alessandra Pianon
Palazzo
Loredan - Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti
The Dinner
Maria
Grazia Rosin, Alessandro Tusset and Rosa Borgia Collice
Dinner for Maria Grazia Rosin was graciously hosted at the Venetian
apartment of Maria Grazia’s collector Rosa Borgia, who wears one of her
necklaces depicting a squid, in keeping with the theme of the exhibition
amateur cook and Elzeviro publisher Alessandro Tusset also cooked a squid salad,
amongst other delicious dishes.
