Friday, March 29, 2019

Venice: Le Stanze del Vetro – Maurice Marinot. The Glass, 1911-1934 – Luncheon Party Photos

 
Le Stanze del Vetro
Maurice Marinot.  The Glass, 1911-1934

On the Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore, Le Stanze del Vetro, presents the exhibition Maurice Marinot. The Glass, 1911-1934, until July 28, curated by Jean-Luc Olivie, of the Musee des Arts Decoratifs, and Cristina Beltrami.   It is the first international tribute celebrating Maurice Marinot (1882-1960), a great glass artist, who revolutionized glassmaking techniques and taste. Marinot was a tireless experimenter, whose glass inventions were emulated for decades, he paved the way to contemporary glassmaking, thanks to his experimentation with forms and techniques.  The exhibition features 220 works in glass on loan from prestigious museums, as well as many preparatory drawings, showing the extraordinary ground-breaking production of the glass artist, from the early enamel works to the hand-blown pieces that Marinot created and modeled in person thanks to his remarkable skills and creativity.



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“Marinot thus came to invent a new aesthetic of thick, heavy, “fleshy” glass based on the organic plasticity of the material that two millennia of glassblowing had not previously revealed.”
Jean-Luc Olivie


   
The curators, Jean-Luc Olivie, of the Musee des Arts Decoratifs and Cristina Beltrami with Marino Barovier, center

 
“I started by decorating enamel glassware, and I learned how to do this with great passion.”
Maurice Marinot

Installation View – Enamels 1911-1922
Sketches and variations for vases for Masion Cubiste – c. 1912-13

 
David Landau

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“… I draw in broad strokes with a brush loaded with any material, then I cover each piece sparing the signs I had in mind. The first marks are thus the outline of what will eventually be etched.”
Marinot to G. Janneau – 1925

Vase – Double Masque – 1928

 
Rosa Barovier Mentasti and Michela Cattai
 


Massimo Micheluzzi, Silvia Dainese and Mara Rumiz

 
The glassmaker achieves his final result only by continuous attention and a precise interaction and cooperation with the slightest movements in the life of hot glass.”
M. Marinot – 1920

Flask – Waterfall – 1928
Flask – Stagnant Water – 1928
Flat Flask – 1928


 
Flat Flask – 1932


 
“This matter is born in a struggle, in fire, in smoke, and either defends itself or obeys in turn when I contrain it, while always respecting its nature”
Maurice Marinot  

Installation View - 1923-25


 
Square Bowl – 1928


Sandro Favaretto Rubelli

 
Paolo Diaz de Santillana, Laura de Santillana and Jean Blanchaert



Margherita Alvera and Giovanna Forlanelli Rovati


Fernando Mazzoccha, Marco Arosio and Mariella Motterlini

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“The last years of production were characterized by Marinot’s total control over the material—which almost makes it ‘sing’.”
Leon Rosenthal – 1927

Installation View



Round Flask – 1933
Vase – 1931


Flat Flask – 1933
Flat Flask – 1924


Alberto and Barbara Berlingieri


 Luca De Michelis

 
Alba Di Lieto and Giorgio Vigna



 Chris Mason and Daniela Chiara

 
Projects and Research
Sketches for acid-etched vases - 1925-30
Sketches for vases with hot-shaped ribbon inclusion – c.1920-35


Giorgio Mastinu and Martin Bethenod
 

Manfredi della Gherardesca, Bianca and Gilberto Arrivabene Valenti Gonzaga


 
“Marinot’s manifest interest in technique and his constant experimentation with an innovative approach to glassmaking took on theoretical form … when he publicly distanced himself from ‘the proud feats and juggling tricks of the Venetians’.”
Cristina Beltrami

Flat Flask – 1929
Square Bowl with Base – 1933

 
Flat Flask – 1934



Vase – Mask – 1926
Flask – 1931


  Roberta Camerino


Attilio and Mario Codognato


Elisabetta Barisoni

 
Flat Flask – 1925



Isola di San Giorgio – Monumental Complex
The lunch Party
An Al fresco luncheon was held in one of the two Palladian courtyards of the ex- Benedictine Monastery of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini.

 
Rosi Kahane and Anna Hrankovicova


Fernando Mazzoccha, Francesca Marzotto Coatorta and
Pasquale Gagliardi


Joan Jonas and Ozu

 
Mary Ann Kennedy and Simon Heah



Alain Baczynsky


Victoria Westerman, Marcus Reymann and Natasha Gertler


Gianluigi Calderone 


Feleksan Onar and Giordana Naccari


Roberta Rossi


Jane da Mosto, Monica Beltrametti, Martin Walker,
Anna and Chris Wayman


Maria Grazia Rosin
 
 
Lella Curiel and Adalberto Cremonesi


 
Birkem de Montebello

   
Luigi Macioce and Alessia Allegretti


   
Roberto De Feo

 
David Hrankovic and Alma Zevi

 
Helene de Franchis



Camilla Purdon and Mimi Todhunter

   
Antonella Boralevi


 
Valentina Marangoni, Morella Morelli, Flavia Fossa Margutti, Alessandro Tusset, Pamela Berry and Victoria Diaz de Santillana


Martina and Vettor Grimani 


Chiarastella Cattana


Elio Messi and Souan Keith

Photograph and copyright Manfredi Bellati

Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore
Fondazione Giorgio Cini - Monumental Complex and Maze