Bonhams Prize for
The Venice Glass Week
Special Recognition
Marcin Gierat -
Man in the Glass
Zuecca Projects
The jury
of the Bonhams Prize for The Venice Glass Week awarded a Special Recognition to the Venetian
organization Zuecca Projects who presented
the exhibition Man in the Glass by Marcin Gierat - until October 10 – curated
by Marica Denora and Alessandro Possati at the Squero Castello.
Marcin Gierat –
portrait - Mariano Cervellin – NasonMoretti
Marcin Gierat -
Man in the Glass
The project involves a selection of historical and
prestigious furnaces from Murano -
NasonMoretti, Schiavon Art Team, Barovier e Toso. The Polish artist Marcin Gierat created a photographic
series that celebrates the great artisanal tradition of Murano glass-makers: a
series of portraits of the masters, directly captured on glass plates made by
them. Through the Wet-Collodion
process, an early photographic technique, and the use of a camera from the XIX Century, Gierat realizes his
pictures on glass plates, instead of photographic film. The result is a unique
work that can’t be reproduced.
Marcin Gierat
Portrait -
Giorgio Valentini – Schiavon Art Team
Marcin Gierat -
Portrait of Luigi Lucchetta - Barovier e Toso
Marcin Gierat -
Portrait of Marco Nason – NasonMoretti
Bonhams Prize for
The Venice Glass Week
Special Recognition
Curators - Marica
Denora and Alessandro Possati
The jury
of the Bonhams Prize for The Venice Glass Week, 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
- Dan Tolson - International Director of the Modern Decorative Art and Design Department of Bonhams, New
York - and Benedetta Alpini - Head of Bonhams Milan and Northern Italy.
The Venice Glass
Week
Alessandro Zoppi Gallery
Alessandro Zoppi Gallery
In the Eye of the Iris
In the Eye of
the Iris is the title of the exhibition
at the Alessandro Zoppi Gallery which
presents a selection of pieces in iridescent, girasol and opal glass. The captivating title that works as a play
on words to describe an exhibition intended as a journey inside this ancient,
yet irreproducible, technique that makes glass a surface with metallic nuances,
therefore elusive and throbbing when caressed by light. The forty pieces were presented
in a very suggestive setting, curated by Umberto
Branchini, designed to highlight the different shapes and infinite nuances
of this opalescent material.
Alfredo Barbini
- V.A.M.S.A - grande
gabbiano iridato e ambra – 1930s
Alessandro Zoppi and Umberto
Bianchini
Alessandro Zoppi Gallery
Pino Signoretto – busto feminile in vetro opale -1970s
Salviati – caraffa in vetro opale o “girasol” con fili
acquamare – XIX
Alessandro Zoppi Gallery
Seguso Vetri D’Arte – Colomba in vetro opale e acquamare – 1950s
The Zoppi Family
Adriano, Alessandro, Alessandra and Ascanio
Adriano, Alessandro, Alessandra and Ascanio
Alessandro Zoppi Gallery
Design Seguso
Vetri D’Arte – piatto a
forma di conciglia in vetro iridato e oro – 1945c.
