Feltre: La Galleria d’Arte Moderna Carlo Rizzarda – La Collezione di Vetri Veneziani – Carla Nasci – Ferruccio Franzoia

La Galleria d'Arte Moderna - Carlo Rizzarda
La Collezione di Vetri Veneziani - Carla Nasci - Ferruccio Franzoia

 

The Venetian Glass Collection of the late Carla Nasci and the architect Ferruccio Franzoia, has been generously donated to the permanent collection of the - Carlo Rizzarda - Modern Art Museum in Feltre. The Nasci-Franzoia Collection represents a coherent enrichment to the museum of Decorative Arts established by the famous master of wrought iron, Carlo Rizzarda and expands in perfect harmony with his work, were iron often meets the transparencies of Murano glass elements.

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To exhibit the glass artifacts, purchased with his late wife Carla Nasci in over 30 years of collecting passion, architect Franzoia designed the installation's "whimsical" itinerary himself, along the lines of the qualitative and personal taste choices that inspired the genesis of the collection, letting himself be guided by empathy, emotions and memories.

 

collectors Ferruccio Franzoia and Carla Nasci

 

 

The first room in the exhibition is dedicated to the production of Giacomo Cappellin and Paolo Venini, the Vetri Soffiati Muranesi Cappellin Venini & C., established in 1921, of which the central figure was Vittorio Zecchin, it's first artistic director, who with his extremely elegant transparent blown glass inspired by the Renaissance, impressed a decisive turning point in Contemporary Murano production characterized by and excess of ornamentation.

 

 

Vittorio Zecchin - V.S.M. Cappellin-Venini & C. - 1921-1923

Vetro soffiato - fumo and azzurro 

 

In the second room there are objects referable to the presence in Murano of Carlo Scarpa, creator of successful and innovative glass shapes.  In addition to his work, the room hosts examples of the Venini production between 1925-1960 as well as a miscellany of products from other glassworks active in the lagoon. Here we meet Napoleone Martinuzzi, Tomaso Buzzi, Tyra Lundgren, Paolo Venini, Massimo Vignelli, Fluvio Bianconi, Toni Zuccheri, Alfredo Barbini, Archimede Seguso, Flavio Poli, Tapio Wirkkala, Guido Balsamo Stella, Giuseppe Barovier and Guido Bin, pseudonym Mario Deluigi. There is no Lack of contemporaries such as, Laura de Santillana and Alessandro Diaz de Santillana, Maria Grazia Rosin, Christiano Bianchin, Sergio Asti and Luciano Gaspari.

 

Tapio Wirkkala - Bottiglia Bolle -  Venini - 1966

 

 

The third and last room is dedicated to canteen glass, destined for the tabletop  particularly rare and interesting glasses and bottles mostly designed by Zecchin in the 1920s. There are also centerpieces as well as non-Murano table crystals with a Belle Epoque taste and some examples of Bohemian glassware marketed in Venice for the Compagnia Venezia Murano.

 

Napoleone Martinuzzi - Centrotavola - V.S.M. Venini & C. - 1930

 

 

 

"My favorite piece in the collection is a little black vase, not in production, designed by Carlo Scarpa  which Ginette Venini kept in her boudoir, it's small enough to be kept in your pocket."

Ferruccio Franzoia 

 

 

Carlo Scarpa - Venini & C. - 1942c.

 

 

Fabrizia Lanza and Paola Marini

 

Alba Di Lieto

 

 
Laura de Santillana - Vases - series - Cardinali - Diavoli - Eos 1988

 

 

Maria Grazia Rosin - Tre Bicchieri Placebo - series - Glasses in Pills - 2000

 

La Collezione di Vetri Veneziani - Carla Nasci - Ferruccio Franzoia

Vittorio Zecchin - M.V.M. Cappellin & C. - Vases - 1920s

Flavio Poli - Coppa - I.V.A.M. - 1929

 

The mayor of Feltre - Paolo Perenzin

 

 

Tomaso Buzzi - Piatti - Venini & C. - 1932-1933

 

 

Costanza Tasca Sallier de la Tour di Camporeale

 

Massimiliano Conzada

 

 

Vittorio Zecchin - Vaso - V.S.M. Cappellin-Venini & C. - 1924-1925

 

 

Pamela Berry

 

 

Cristiano Bianchin
Raccoglitore di Pensieri: Ligam - 2013
Cisaliforme - 2005

maestro - Andrea Zilio - maestro Giacomo Barbini - Fornace Anfora Murano

 

 

Alessandro Diaz de Santillana - Vaso Kyria - Eos - 1987

 

 

 Alessandro Tusset

Virginia Pietromarchi and Petra Gogna

 

 

Massimo Vignelli - Bicchieri - Caraffa - Venini & C. - Christofle Italia - 1957

 

Luca and Stefania Rento

 

 

Valentina and Antonella Morassutti

 

 

The Catalogue

The catalogue Vetri Veneziani - La Collezione Cara Nasci - Ferruccio Franzoia is published in English and Italian by Silvana Editoriale and is curated by Tiziana Casagrande and Ferruccio Franzoia with essays by Alessandro Del Bianco, Tiziana Casagrande, Rosa Barovier Mentasti, Mariateresa Chirico, Marino Barovier, J.K. Mauro Pierconti, Lucio Valerio Barbera, Marco Arosio and Antonio Foscari.

 

 

Tiziana Casagrande

 

Galleria d'Arte Moderna - Carlo Rizzarda

 

 

The After Party Lunch 

 The after preview lunch was held al fresco in a garden in the center of Feltre on a beautiful sunny day enjoyed by all after lockdown.

 

Special Treat

Among other delicious food a Gateau di Patate was made by Fabrizia Lanza director of the Anna Tasca Lanza cooking school and cookbook author.

 

 

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Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore – Le Stanze del Vetro – The Glass Ark. Animals in the Pierre Rosenberg Collection

 

"The fascination of a collection lies just as much in what it reveals as in what it conceals of the secret urge that led to its creation."

Italo Calvino

Collection of Sand - 1974 

 

Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore - Le Stanze del Vetro
The Glass Ark. Animals in the Pierre Rosenberg Collection

 

At Le Stanze del Vetro - until August 1 - the exhibition The Glass Ark. Animals in the Pierre Rosenberg Collection is curated by Giordana Naccari and Cristina Beltrami and retraces - in an interesting and fascinating way - the history of 20th-century Murano glass from an unusual angle: the glass animal. Over 750 works of art - representing among others, elephants, hippos, cats, giraffes, bears, parrots, fish, turtles, foxes and tiny, lamp-worked life-sized insects belonging to the personal collection which Pierre Rosenberg, art historian and former director and president of the Louvre in Paris which he has put together over the past thirty years. 

 

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Some of the most famous series are on show, with pieces by Napoleone Martinuzzi, birds by Tyra Lundgren and Toni Zuccheri for Venini. Alongside the Zebrati series by Barovier & Toso, the aquariums by Alfredo Barbini, the well-known examples of Seguso Vetri d'Arte, as well as, lesser-known but equally interesting glassworks from the technical point of view with regard to the formal experimentation of the 20th-Century Murano glass production.  This child friendly exhibition also showcases works by living artists such as Cristiano Bianchin, Isabelle Poilprez, Maria Grazia Rosin and Giorgio Vigna that demonstrate the inexhaustible source of inspiration that the glass animal has to offer.

The Savannah and Desert Room

 

 

"I was at the Al Covo restaurant, when I noticed a small glass display case and so, at the end of lunch, I asked the owner about the objects in it. My attention was particularly taken by a fish, which they told me was made by Licio Zanetti and, seeing my enthusiasm, the owners, very generously made me a present of it."

Pierre Rosenberg

 

 Licio Zanetti - Fish - Vetreria Artistica Zanetti - 1970s-1980s

"Knowing that my mother-in-law loved Dachshunds, I bought it, even though it was rather expensive, but ended up hanging onto the piece. These are the two glass animals that started my collection, in a rather random manner, linked to chance occasions in my life, as is often the case."

Pierre Rosenberg

 

 Dachshund - ASV - Barovier Seguso Ferro - 1937c 

 

photograph courtesy Le Stanze del Vetro

"I may have chosen animals because they were less fashionable than vases and also because they are more fun as well as revealing an inventiveness and host of unique inspirations that are well represented by the different furnaces in Murano. I'm fascinated by the way that the artists from Murano - and my use of the word "artist" here is deliberate - recreate these subjects, understanding them, going beyond mere representation, giving them a distinctive pose or borrowed gesture. I believe this reveals incredible observation skills, like those of great artists."

 The "Instinctive Collector" 
Pierre Rosenberg at home in Paris

 

 

"Cats are undoubtedly difficult to portray in glass as much as in painting."

The Pets Room
Franck Ehrler - Cat - Zaccaria - Vetreria Anfora - Murano - 1999

 

 

"I found in someone's home, a Barovier & Toso dog, which I knew would appeal to Pierre;  I was so pleased with my purchase that I put it in the display case...In no time at all, I received several offers for it from other clients so I ended up removing it because I wanted it to become part of Pierre's collection."

Giordana Naccari
creator and co-curator of the exhibition 

The Pets Room
Barovier & Toso - Fox Terrier - 1947
on the bridge

 

Flavio Poli - Poodle - Seguso Vetri d'Arte - 1956 -1954
Seguso Vetri d'Arte - Drawing for Poodle model  

 

 

 

"Flavio Poli's Fox, one of my favorite pieces, is evoked in the single pose of an animal curled up to rest: just a few details and a single piece joining head and tail, almost tempting you to caress it.  I believe that my awareness of this particular aspect of movement frozen in glass is something I share with Rosenberg, a point of view that has brought us together."
Giordana Naccari
co-curator

Flavio Poli - Fox - ASV - Barovier Seguso Ferro - 1935 

photograph by Enrico Fiorese - courtesy Le Stanze del Vetro

  

"Dino Marten's Eel is a splendid piece for me, because it is sinuous and in a certain sense holds the fluidity of the glass.. It has a sweet and very expressive nose.  Martens has been able to create glass with pictorial sensitivity."

Cristina Beltrami

co-curator

 

Luciano Gaspari - Fish - Salviati & C. - 1970s-1980s

Dino Martens - Eel -Vetreria Aureliano Toso - 1960s-1970s

Alfredo Barbini - Aquarium with Shrimps - 1960s 

 

photograph by Enrico Fiorese - courtesy Le Stanze del Vetro

 

The exhibition installation is designed by Denise Carnini and Francesca Pedrotti, two designers who have engaged in setting up a glass zoo tailor made for young visitors.

 

 

The Jungle Room

Ercole Barovier - Monkey - Vetreria Artistica Barovier & C. - 1928-1930

 

 

"Animals have always been considered easy to give as gifts or take home as a souvenir after the classic honeymoon in Venice; in fact, we find glass animals in the most far-flung corners of the world, brought back by friends and relations after a visit to Murano."

 

 The Farm Room

Cockerel - Pauly & C. - 1970s 

 

 

 

The Farm Room

Napoleone Martinuzzi - Horses - 1928-1933

 

photograph by Enrico Fiorese - courtesy Le Stanze del Vetro

 

 

The Woods Room

Toni Zuccheri - A Little Owl - Venini & C. - 1980s

Vetreria Formia or Badioli - Little Owl - 1980s

Vetreria Formia - Little Owl - 1980s

 

 

Flavio Poli - Fox - Barovier Seguso Ferro - 1934c.

Napoleone Barovier - ASV - Barovier Seguso Ferro - 1930s

 

photograph by Enrico Fiorese - courtesy Le Stanze del Vetro

 

Toni Zuccheri - Anteater - Barovier & Toso - 1983

 

 

photograph by Enrico Fiorese - courtesy Le Stanze del Vetro

 

 "Whales are another of my favorite animals and I have been fond of them long before they became "fashionable".  I was fortunate in acquiring quite a large number because they have become rather rare."

Pierre Rosenberg 

 

The Seas and The Poles Room 

Licio Zanetti - Whale - Zanetti Veteria Artistica - 1980s

 

Ercole Barovier - Fish - Vetreria Artistica Barovier & C. - 1929

 

 

"Maria Grazia Rosin's biomorphic sculptures are always alien, with a pronounced dreamlike quality, that engenders highly evocative "intra-extraterrestrial" universes or sensorial machines."

Maria Grazia Rosin - b.1958 - Octupus - Compagnia Vetraria Muranese - Segio Tiozzo - 2007

 

 

"Marcantonio Brandolini d'Adda's Fish is the only blown glass piece in the Rosenberg Collection to be made with cotisse, waste from glassworking, which frequently features in his works."

 

Marcantonio Brandolini d'Adda - b. 1991 - Fish - Dona glassworks

Paolo Rossetto mechanicals - 2020

 

 

The Pond Room

 

"Giorgio Vigna was inspired by an idea of solid glass with colour layers made using the sommerso technique when he designed the blue duck in 2007."

 

Giorgio Vigna - b. 1955 - Duck - Ittala - 2007 

 

 

"Bruno Amadi introduced me to the world of lampworking.  I fell in love with his creations and with his personality, and have lost none of my enthusiasm over the years. I have continued to collect his tiny creations, which he makes with the great skill of an artisan.  An artisan with the approach of an artist, in the sense that the doubts and uncertainties that he experiences during his work are typical of the artistic temperament.  It is the same sensibility that allows him, on the one hand, to carefully create flowers, vegetables, and insects - even highly realistic ants and spiders - and, on the other, to cross the boundaries of technical virtuosity to capture the "intelligence of the object".

Pierre Rosenberg 

 

Bruno Amadi - b. 1946 - Butterflies - 1980s 

 

 

"On Cristiano Bianchin's vase the slim green snake is made using the incamiciatura technique, it clings to a red bottle with a neck that is sunk slightly into the body, giving it the appearance of stylised apple. At this point the sculpture acquires a symbolic value: the vase becomes the biblical apple of sin featuring its slender serpertine tempter."

 

Cristiano Bianchin - b. 1963 - Snake on Vase L'Autunnale - Vetreria Lucio De Maio - Vittorio Ferro - 1995

The exhibition also has an animated video - The Enchanted Menagerie - by Giulia Savorani - visual artist and director who, starting from drawings on glass, has created a fairy tale cartoon, based on an idea by Giordana Naccari for this occasion.

Giulia Savorani - The Enchanted Menagerie - Video 

 

The 3D Virtual Tour

The 3D virtual tour is also available to allow the public to visit the exhibition free of charge from home.

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The Catalogue

The Glass Ark. Animals in the Pierre Rosenberg Collection exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue published by Skira, which opens with an interview revealing the spirit of the collector, together with essays by the curators, Giordana Naccari and Cristina Beltrami, by Jean-Luc Olivie, curator of the Musee des Arts Decoratifs in Paris and by glass historian Rosa Barovier Mentasti. It also includes cataloguing of all the pieces in the exhibition often accompanied by period drawings, photographs and prints.

Note: Some of the text and all of the quotes, for this blog, were taken from the catalogue, without which this blog would not have been made possible. A big THANK YOU goes to Giordana Naccari and Cristina Beltrami  for your precious  essays.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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