"...an extraordinary period of freedom, inventiveness, and enthusiasm..."
Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore - Le Stanze Del Vetro
1948-1958 Murano Glass and The Venice Biennale
Exhibition - Party Photos
At Le Stanze del Vetro - on the island of - San Giorgio Maggiore - just across from Piazza San Marco and Palazzo Ducale - the exhibition - 1948–1958 Murano Glass and the Venice Biennale - curator - Marino Barovier - until 22 November. This third chapter in the Murano glass series explores the postwar return of the Venice Biennale, highlighting the creativity and renewed energy of Murano through historic furnaces, new workshops, and independent artists during a decade shaped by economic growth and emerging design culture.
The glass exhibitions of this period reflected the renewed vitality of Murano’s production, in tune with the dynamism of the 1950s economic boom and the rise of design culture. Over 160 works illustrate an extraordinary era of freedom, inventiveness, and enthusiasm, marked by new interpretations of ancient techniques, experimental processes, and exploration of colour and surface. Many pieces are transparent, from heavy sommersi to light blown glass, with rich hues and forms ranging from Nordic-inspired geometry to soft, irregular lines. Others, worked in solid glass, stand out for their sculptural quality and remarkable plasticity.
Aureliano Toso/ Dino Martens - 1950-1956
David Landau, Francesca Nisii and Marino Barovier
Alberto Toso & C./ Vinicio Vianello - 1954c.
Vinicio Vianello - Esplosione Nucleare or Atomico - 1952c.
Gino Seguso
Archimede Seguso - 1952
Historic Glassworks played a central role, including Venini/Fulvio Bianconi and Paolo Venini - Barovier & Toso/Ercole Barovier - Seguso Vetri d’Arte/Flavio Poli - Aureliano Toso/Dino Martens - see above - Fratelli Toso/Ermanno Toso AVEM - Giulio Radi - Giorgio Ferro - Anzolo Fuga - and the engraving firm S.A.L.I.R. The Venice Pavilion also featured newer furnaces such as - Gino Cenedese - and workshops founded by master glassmakers Alfredo Barbini and Archimede Seguso. At the same time, artists including Ezio Rizzetto - Anzolo Fuga and especially Vinicio Vianello a leading member of the Spatialist Movement using glass as a tool for expressive exploration.
Venini/Fulvio Bianconi - 1951-1952
Nicolo Castellini Baldissera and Lisa Hilton
Venini/Paolo Venini - 1954
Dino Martens - drawing for Fermento - Turmoil -vase
Isola di San Giorgio – Monumental Complex
Fondazione Giorgio Cini
Palladian courtyard of the ex Benedictine Monastery
Lunch was served al fresco in one of the two Palladian courtyards
Cristina Beltrami, Jean Blancheart, Adriano Berengo and Katrina Panferova
Justine and Hugues Le Gallais with Claudine Ries
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Bangla Begum and Giorgio Mastinu
