Palazzo Loredan - Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti
Glass In Venice Prize 2021 - Life Achievement Award
Autonoma Residency Prize
In the magnificent
setting of the entrance hall of Palazzo Loredan, home to the Istituto Veneto di Scienze ed Arti, among the marble effigies of
the Venetian Pantheon comprising the busts of famous people who were born or
lived in Venice, the works of the recipients of the Glass in Venice Prize 2021 for Lifetime Achievement Award artists Federica Marangoni and Mauro Bonaventura.
Federica Marangoni
photograph - Massimo Pistore - courtesy - The Venice Glass week
Glass In Venice Prize 2021 - Life Achievement Award
The Glass in Venice Prize 2021 for Lifetime Achievement, promoted by the Istituto Veneto di Scienze,
Lettere ed Arti and by Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, was awarded to Federica Marangoni, an artist who since the 1970s has been creating
works and large installations of high conceptual impact in which she
uses glass alongside or instead of other expressive media. She has also
worked in the Murano glassworks to make absolutely original decorative and
design pieces. Her works have been shown and collected in public spaces
and museums all over the world. Marangoni proclaimed in one of her
installations that Art has no sex and has demonstrated this with all her
intense and incisive artistic production.
Rosa Barovier, Federica Marangoni and Gabriella Belli
Glass In Venice Prize 2021
Mauro Bonaventura is a glass artist who has shown extraordinary
technical-executive and creative abilities in his flameworked glass
pieces. Having come to the world of Murano glass almost by chance in the
1980s, he was excited by this material and in the following decade
decided to devote himself to flameworking and open his own studio.
Bonaventura’s intelligence and obstinacy have allowed him to develop an
extraordinary technical skill and create works of unusual shape and
size, thanks to his very personal talent.
Rosa Barovier, Mauro Bonaventura and Gabriella Belli
Autonoma Residency Prize
The winner of the Autonoma Residency Prize which awards a residency at the Pilchuck Glass School in Seattle, went to the young Czech artist Vendulka Prchalova, who took part in The Venice Glass Week HUB under35, for inclusive innovative research underlying the Smesi project which combines diverse sculpting methods and 3D technology. The objects in this series are based on the 3D model of a dog: the forms created are printed in 3D and then transformed into glass.
Marcantonio Brandolini d'Adda and Vendulka Prchalova
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