"Collection: a group of accumulated objects of the same nature, valuable, curious, or otherwise interesting, if only subjectively. That is the Zingarelli Italian dictionary’s definition, and it strikes me as droll that the close – “if only subjectively” – expresses the true and profound meaning of every collection!
I started buying glass objects when I was just a little girl, in Trieste, my hometown."
Serena Coloni
collector
Palazzo Loredan - Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti
Giochi di Sponda - Una Collezione di vetro Contemporaneo
Double Act - A Contemporary Glass Collection
The exhibition Double Act curated by gallerist Caterina Tognon and collector Serena Coloni which was on show at Palazzo Loredan in Campo Santo Stefano told the story of her collection established between 1990 and 2020 that is still unique in Italy in documenting the International Studio Glass art movement. The exhibition itinerary testified the work of 53 international artists with a corpus of 106 works in glass made between the 1950s and the present in Venice, as well as in academies and glassworks in Bohemia, in European research centers, and in the studio-furnaces of American, Canadian and Australian artists.
Laura de Santillana
Caterina Tognon
gallerist
The collection reflects the friendship between a gallerist and a collector who have cultivated a shared passion for the city of Venice and artistic glass. It bears witness to an artistic practice resting on the encounter between free creativity and the rules of an ancient craft.
Cristiano Bianchin
Alessandro Diaz de Santillana
Silvia Levenson
Richard Meitner
Massimo Nordio
Daniela Schonbachler
Ivan Mares
Borek Sipek
