Saturday, September 28, 2019

Venice: The Venice Glass Week – HUB - Palazzo Loredan - Palazzo Franchetti - Highlights

 
The Venice Glass Week
Palazzo Loredan - Palazzo Franchetti – Highlights

The Venice Glass Week HUBs hosted a series of installations in the two venues of the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti at Palazzo Loredan and Palazzo Franchetti, in Campo Santo Stefano. The HUBs were curated by Rosa Barovier Mentasti and realized in collaboration with the company Green Spin and students from the Curatorial Practice course of IED Venezia, one of the official partners of the festival.

Palazzo Loredan – Tanja Pak – InBetweenness – In-BetweenBreath



 
 Palazzo Loredan – Venini Collective 2019

For The Venice Glass Week, Venini presented, Venini Collective 2019, with the collections of Emmanuel Babled, Michela Cattai, Giorgio Vigna, Dan Dailey and Benjamin Moore. A series of works representing a marriage of art and culture that were realised by Venini’s master glassmakers using various techniques, while the design of the objects are a mirror of the artists’ creativity.

Giorgio Vigna – Fuochi Borreali




Palazzo Loredan – Venini Collective 2019
 Michela Cattai - Acqua and Contrast Collections

 
Palazzo Loredan – Venini Collective 2019
Dan Dailey – Soft


Palazzo Loredan
Emmanuel Babled - Azoici


Palazzo Loredan
Peter Borkovics - The Genezis Set

 
Palazzo Loredan
Leslie Ann Genninger – Fragments of Reflections



Palazzo Loredan
Eva Moosbrugger – Relitti - Beachcombing Series


Palazzo Loredan – Atrium
Massimo Micheluzzi – Simone Cenedese

In the picturesque setting of the atrium of Palazzo Loredan, immersed among the marble effigies of the Panteon Veneto that brings together the busts of illustrious characters born or who lived long in Venice, the works of prize-winning 2019 Glass in Venice artists, Massimo Micheluzzi and Simone Cenedese.

Massimo Micheluzzi – Opus Sectile

 
Palazzo Loredan – Atrium
Simone Cenedese - Flames in the Wind



Palazzo Franchetti
Lara Lutke – Imperfections

 
Palazzo Franchetti
Andre Laurenti – Elements of Glass … Elements of Thought

 
Palazzo Franchetti
Marcello Panza - Mythos - Arcade





Palazzo Franchetti
Ivan Baj – Aqua - Arcade





Curator of The Venice Glass Week HUBs Rosa Barovier Mentasti and gallerist Giordana Naccari










Wednesday, September 25, 2019

Venice: Palazzo Franchetti – The Venice Glass Week – Glass in Venice - Bonhams Prize - Awards – Party Photos

Massimo Micheluzzi  
  Simone Cenedese
 
 Palazzo Franchetti - Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti
The Venice Glass Week - Glass in Venice - Bonhams Prize  Awards

A ceremony and party were held at Palazzo Franchetti, home of the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, to coincide with the eighth edition of the Glass in Venice Prize, awarded by the Istituto Veneto and the Fondazione MUVE this year, to Simone Cenedese and Massimo Micheluzzi, as well as, the first edition of the Bonhams Prize for The Venice Glass Week awarded to Materia Eterea - Ethereal Matter - a project conceived and promoted by Barbini Specchi Veneziani. The jury of the Bonhams Prize was composed of Jean Blanchaert - curator and member of the Curatorial Committee of The Venice Glass Week - Giovanna Palandri - Chancellor of the IVSLA and President of the Organizing Committee of The Venice Glass Week and Dan Tolson - International Director of the Modern Decorative Art and Design DepartmentBonhams - New York – the jury also decided to give Special Commendations to two projects deemed to be particularly interesting and emblematic of the spirit of the festival: Isolani by Roisin de Buitlear, and Autonoma.

Palazzo Loredan - Glass in Venice Prize Awards




Glass in Venice Prize Awards
Massimo Micheluzzi and Simone Cenedese




Camilla Purdon, David Landau and Roisin de Buitlear





Melba Ruffo di Calabria and Massimo Losio



  
Cristina Beltrami

 
Patricia Pastor Friedman, Viretta Micheluzzi, Barry Friedman,
Antonia Miletto


Autonoma
Special Commendation Prize

A Special Commendation was assigned by the Prize Jury to Autonoma, an experimental project born in 2017 as an exchange programme with Pilchuck Glass School in Seattle, USA.  This year Autonoma provided six international artists with the opportunity to come to Venice to collaborate on the construction of a unique, collective, site-specific installation Autonoma - Build Up - Structure, currently installed in the garden of the Glass Museum on Murano, and realised in collaboration with glass masters from the Effedue furnace. The work was constructed from a metal structure created with a digital algorithm bubble and inspired by the Venetian architectural arch, incorporating discarded materials and elements of recycled glass. Autonoma received the Special Jury Commendation for its ambitious mission of preserving and disseminating the historic tradition of Murano glassmaking, while at the same time enriching it further with new techniques and ideas, for its capacity to create a bridge between Murano and the rest of the world, for its desire to celebrate the tradition of Murano glass whilst at the same time looking to the future without fear of innovations, with particular attention to environmental sustainability

 
Benjamin Walker, Rosa Barovier Mentasti and Marcantonio Brandolini d’Adda



Felicity Menadue and Olinda Adeane

 
Roisin de Buitlear – Isolani
Special Commendation Prize

A Special Commendation Prize was assigned to the Irish artist Roisin de Buitlear, who with Isolani has given life to a mapping project involving more than 50 glass artists from islands around the world, using original works of art created on miniature glass slides. It was presented to the public with a cinematographic light projection on Murano. The project received recognition for its ambitious and collaborative character, for its capacity of connect Murano Glass artists with colleagues from all over the world, from the Maldives to Japan, from Scotland to Sardegna; for its unique and visionary concept conceived and presented expressly for The Venice Glass Week - for its capacity to combine traditional techniques with new technologies and to encourage collaboration and discussion within the Muranese community.

 Trondur Patursson, Roisin de Buitlear and Brandur Patursson



Barry Friedman and Jean Blanchaert

 
Antonia Miletto, Maria Grazia Rosin and Sarah Nichols

 
Maria Novella Pappafava dei Carraresi


 
Muriel Balensi and Bikem de Montebello


Elena Casadoro, Camilla Purdon and Francesca Fungher

Photograph courtesy the Venice Glass week

Bonhams Prize – The Venice Glass Week
Barbini Specchi Veneziani – Materia Eterea

The first edition of the Bonhams Prize for The Venice Glass Week went to Materia Eterea - Ethereal Matter - a project conceived and promoted by Barbini Specchi Veneziani. The exhibition resulting from the project is on show at Palazzetto Tito, home of the Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation, until September 27. Materia Eterea, curated by Barbini Specchi Veneziani and Babau Bureau, presents 14 works created by Barbini Specchi Veneziani in collaboration with ten glass masters and four designers. The project was chosen for its ability to combine tradition – production of mirrors - and innovation, for its collaborative spirit, its strong concept and the high quality of all aspects of exhibition presentation and communication. The Bonhams Prize for The Venice Glass Week provided a €1,000 cash prize.


The Jury
Dan Tolson - International Director of the Modern Decorative Art and Design DepartmentBonhams - New York, Giovanna Palandri - Chancellor of the IVSLA and President of the Organizing Committee of The Venice Glass Week and Jean Blanchaert - curator and member of the Curatorial Committee of The Venice Glass Week.

 
Simone Cenedese – Nynpha
Barbini Specchi Veneziani – Materia Eterea


 
Lucio Bubacco – Ignonito Riflesso
Barbini Specchi Veneziani – Materia Eterea


Sara forte – Kosei
Barbini Specchi Veneziani – Materia Eterea


Lucia Massari – Teste Composte
Barbini Specchi Veneziani – Materia Eterea