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

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 Department – Bonhams - 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.

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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 Department – Bonhams - 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.