contessanally: Venice: Bonhams Prize for The Venice Glass Week – Special Recognition Prize - Man in the Glass + Alessandro Zoppi Gallery

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

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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

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

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