Cristina Beltrami
photograph - Massimo Pistore - courtesy The Venice Glass Week
Palazzo Franchetti - The Venice Glass Week - #VivaVetro! - Awards
Honorable Mentions
Cristina Beltrami - Hugh Findletar - La Bocca del Fuoco
At Palazzo Franchetti, home of the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, the jury of the Fondazione di Venezia Prize composed of Giovanna Palandri, Paola Marini and Jean Blanchaert awarded Honorable
Mentions: to the Jamaican Hugh Findletar
for From My
little Pond Side to the Grand Canal and to La Bocca di Fuoco for the traditional night run between
glass furnaces. Cristina Beltrami was
commended for the quality and dedication of her critical contribution and
curatorship in the field of glass. Cristina has curated three museum shows for the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia for The Venice Glass Week, as well as co-curating, with Giordana Naccari the exhibition The Glass Ark. Animals in the Pierre Rosenberg Collection at the Stanze del Vetro, on show until, November 1.
Paola Marini, Cristina Beltrami and Giovanna Palandri
Museo di Storia Naturale Giancarlo Ligabue di Venezia
More Real than Real - Bruno Amadi
Cristina Beltrami - curator
More Real than Real is the name of the exhibition, a game and a challenge to the visitor in tracking down, the
extraordinary glass miniatures by Bruno Amadi, shown in comparison
with the shells, the roaches, the locusts, the mosquitos, the
butterflies, the crustaceans… of the permanent collection of the Museo di Storia Naturale Giancarlo Ligabue di Venezia. The exhibition - curated by
Cristina Beltrami - presents a selection of about forty unique pieces
realized by the great Master of lampworking, from the Seventies till
today, contributing to keep alive this technique of eternal wonder.
More Real than Real - Bruno Amadi
More Real than Real - Bruno Amadi
Mauro Bon - Research and Scientific Education Head
Museo di Storia Naturale Giancarlo Ligabue di Venezia
Contacts
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RESEARCH AND SCIENTIFIC EDUCATION HEAD
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More Real than Real - Bruno Amadi
Palazzo Mocenigo
Seabead Flowers - Benedetta Gaggia
Cristina Beltrami - curator
In the Portego of Palazzo Mocenigo the extraordinary creation of flowers made with minuscule glass beads is
a “family affair” for Benedetta Gaggia; it’s a passion inherited from
her mother Mariagrazia Gaggia, who learnt this handcraft work from the
legendary Donna Nella Lopez y Royo Sammartini. Benedetta also uses
Murano’s old “conterie” which are now stored in the family Palazzo. She creates buds and multicoloured petals, sometimes inspired by
real flowers other times by the artist’s imagination, revitalizing the
old “conterie” handcraft work, which in olden days was very popular in
Venice. The exhibition was curated by Cristina Beltrami.
Benedetta Gaggia
Palazzo Mocenigo
Seabead Flowers - Benedetta Gaggia
Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Venezia
Ottaviano Augusto in Dialogue with the Antique
Giberto Arrivabene Valenti Gonzaga
Cristina Beltrami - curator
Starting from Ottaviano Augusto’s bronze by Ferdinand Barbedienne
(1810-1892), itself a copy of a classic marble, Giberto Arrivabene
Valenti Gonzaga – in partnership with Master Giorgio Giuman, an expert
in the lost wax technique – created four versions of the bust: in
crystal, amber, avventurina and black with gold leaf eyes. The
production process is quite complex and underlined by presenting the wax
version, the intermediate step between original, also on show, and
glass. The exhibition, curated by Cristina Beltrami, highlights the
glass’ versatility in a game of contrasts between the bright colors of
Ottaviano Augusto and the series of antique marbles in room 9 of the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Venezia.
photograph - Cristina Beltrami
Ottaviano Augusto in Dialogue with the Antique
Giberto Arrivabene Valenti Gonzaga
Le Stanze del Vetro - Fondazione Giorgio Cini
The Glass Ark. Animals in the Pierre Rosenberg Collection
Giordana Naccari and Cristina Beltrami - curators
The Glass Ark. Animals in the Pierre Rosenberg Collection,
curated by Giordana Naccari and Cristina Beltrami, retraces the history
of 20th-century Murano glass from an unusual angle: the glass animal.
The 750 works of art, representing elephants, hippos, cats, giraffes,
bears, parrots, fish, turtles, foxes and tiny, life-sized insects,
belong to the personal collection of Pierre Rosenberg, art historian and
former Director/President of the Louvre in Paris. Some of the most
famous series by Napoleone Martinuzzi, by Tyra Lundgren or Toni Zuccheri
are on show, alongside a vast sample of animals made by lesser-known
but equally interesting glassworks from the point of view of the
experimentation of 20th-century Murano. On show until November 1.
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Hugh Findletar
photograph Massimo Pistore - courtesy The Venice Glass Week
Palazzo Franchetti - The Venice Glass Week - #VivaVetro! - Awards
Honorable Mentions
Hugh Findletar
An Honorable Mention, considered to be of
particular interest, went the glass fish installation From My little Pond Side to the Grand Canal created by the Jamaican artist Hugh Findletar
in collaboration with the Master glassmaker Oscar Zanetti at Palazzo Contarini Polignac.
Paola Marini, Hugh Findletar and Giovanna Palandri
Edmond a Venise - Palazzo Contarini Polignac
From My little Pond Side to the Grand Canal
Hugh Findletar
From photography to the art of flower arrangement and glass blowing,
Hugh Findletar has moved from New York, Kenya, Japan and now Milan where
he lives and works. The artist’s humble beginnings in glass
extrapolated after his time in Murano, Venice - home to the world’s best
glass artisans and it is most apt that he presented his works there during The Venice Glass Week to pay homage to the very masters of the
craft. His glass fish series amplifies not only the
vibrancy of life, but also raises light to underlying semantics of
sustainability, biodiversity and the regeneration of the Venice
ecosystem and the lagoon.
From My little Pond Side to the Grand Canal
Hugh Findletar
From My little Pond Side to the Grand Canal
Hugh Findletar
photograph - Massimo Pistore - courtesy The Venice Glass Week
photograph - Massimo Pistore - courtesy The Venice Glass Week
Palazzo Franchetti - The Venice Glass Week - #VivaVetro! - Awards
Honorable Mention
La Bocca del Fuoco
La Bocca del Fuoco - The Mouth of Fire - was awarded an Horonrable Mention for the traditional night
run between the glass furnaces, that took place in Murano.
Giovanna Palandri, La Bocca del Fuoco and Paola Marini
La Bocca del Fuoco
ASD Venezia Runners Atletica Murano
organisers
Discover Murano by night – one of the most charming islands of Venice
– crossing six glass furnaces by night in full activity on a route lit up with
candles. The tradition of glass making has been jealously kept secret
until the end of the Serenissima Republic when the glass masters were
forced to live on the island and could leave only with a permit … these
incredible secrets were shared with all the runners for one
night only. Upon entering the Opificio - the workshop - they were inebriated
by blasts of hot air coming from the incandescent furnaces and by the
smell of wet wood burned with the heat of the glass. All around
the furnace are the ancient tools of the Glass Master sitting on his Magiosso - the original Venetian word for stool - and the different
components which are then mixed together in big vessels, to make original Venetian glass.
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