“I’ve tried to get away from the
everyday object and sought to make Glass works with a capital G. Of course,
that’s a dangerous approach, because I don’t want to be an artist, or a
sculptor, but in the end the objects I produce look like glass sculptures, and
yet they aren’t: they’re a mix that’s hard to fathom.”
Ettore Sottsass
Venice - Le Stanze del Vetro
Ettore Sottsass: The Glass
Just arriving on the Isola di San
Giorgio and the Fondazione Giorgio Cini is a magical experience, especially on
a beautiful day crossing the Bacino di San Marco and then walking by the yachts
moored on the fondamenta and arriving at the Stanze del Vetro to see the
wonderful exhibition Ettore Sottsass: The Glass, until July 30, curated by Luca
Massimo Barbero, is just heavenly. The exhibition, on the
occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Italian architect, celebrates his glass
and crystal production with more than 200 works on display.
“Sottsass’s glass pieces are complex
organisms, designed as if they were characters’. The artist-architect breaks
through the technical boundaries of the objects using materials such as glass,
plastic and polycarbonates and brings them to life. They are beings made of
many elements that create a lively yet imaginary world.”
Luca Massimo Barbero – curator
David Landau and Luca Massimo Barbero
Le
Stanze del Vetro
Ettore
Sottsass: The Glass
The
brilliant architect and designer Ettore Sottsass “made glass” from 1947 until
the end of his career. This volume documents the entire period of his glass
oeuvre, from the series he designed in the 1970s for Vistosi to the Memphis
collections of the 1980s, the symbolic forms of the 1990s, the stunning
constructions for the Millennium House in Qatar, and the famous Kachinas.
Marie-Rose Kahane
Marino Barovier, Roberta Camerino and Pasquale Gagliardi
Ettore
Sottsass: The Glass
1999-2006
Barbara
Radice
Alberto Bianchi Albrici and Aldo Cibic
Martine
Bedin
Santi
Caleca and Aurora Di Girolamo
Riccardo
Quarti, Grazia Montesi and Jean Blanchaert
Elisabetta
Zevi and Franco Raggi
Ettore
Sottsass: The Glass
2004-2006
Laura
de Santillana and Matz Soren
Emanuela
Bassetti and Rosa Barovier Mentasti
Daria
Caccia Dominioni
Luisa
Loro Piane, Luca Massimo Barbero, Elisabeth Swig, Robert Stilin and Sebastian
Sanchez
Massimo
Micheluzzi and Ketty Alvera
Ettore
Sottsass: The Glass
2000
Drawings
for the glass pieces for Sheikh Saud-al-Thani
Donata
Grimani, Beatrice Rosenberg, Alessandra Zoppi, Pierre Rosenberg and Alessandro
Zoppi
Paris and Germano Celant
Alma
Zevi and David Hrankovic
Luca
Bombassei
Ettore
Sottsass: The Glass
Kachina
Notebook
2004
Massimo
Giacon
Rodolfo
Dordoni and Alessandro Palwer
Giorgio
Vigna, Sabrina Damassa, Paola Marini and Roberto Gasperotto
Jos
and Joe Tilson
Ettore
Sottsass: The Glass
1997-1998
Pier Luigi Pizzi
Giberto
Arrivabene Valenti Gonzaga, Luca Massimo Barbero, Elisabeth Swig and Giangaleazzo
Visconti di Modrone
Piergiorgio
Coin and Caterina Tognon
Ettore
Sottsass: The Glass
Fabio
Zonta and Jean Blanchaert
Tristano
di Robilant
Cristina
Beltrami, Giordana Naccari and Angelo Gandolfi
Ettore
Sottsass: The Glass
Nori
Vaccari Starck
Alessandra
and Andrea di Robilant
Roberto
De Feo
France
Thierard and Tristian d’Avezac
Franca
Coin
Francesca
Marzotto Caotorta and Jane da Mosto
Isola
di San Giorgio – Monumental Complex
Fondazione
Giorgio Cini
Palladian
courtyard of the ex Benedictine Monastery
Lunch
was served al fresco in one of the two Palladian courtyards
Nina
Baier-Bischofberger, Valentina Nasi Marini Clarelli, Toto Bergamo Rossi,
Marie-Rose Kahane
Marco
Arosio and Fulvio Ferrari
Charles
Zana, Barbara Radice and Giulia Cervo
Lorcan
O’Neill, Domitilla Getty and Luca Cipelletti
Daniela
Ferretti, Adele Re Rebaudengo, Paola Marini and Alma Chiarelli
