The Venice Glass Week - Beatrice Burati Anderson Gallery - My Fragility, My Strength - Marta Sforni - Nataliya Chernakova - Exhibition and Party Photos

Marta Sforni

Nataliya Chernakova

 

"Your fargility is also your strength."

Pina Bausch

 

Beatrice Burati Anderson Art Space and Gallery 

My Fragility, My Strength

Marta Sforni - Nataliya Chernakova

 

In the context of The Venice Glass Week, Beatrice Burati Anderson Art Space and Gallery presented the exhibition -  My Fragility, My Strength - until October 7 - inaugurating it's new Venetian gallery in Calle della Madonna - San Polo 1976 in addition to the Corte Petriana Art Space.  Two females, Marta Sforni and Nataliya Chernakova in dialogue on the provocatory theme of seduction, considered in its complementary aspects of both force and fragility, of which glass - whether it is blown, cast or painted - is the perfect metaphor.  The title of the exhibition is a tribute to the famous Pina Bausch's quote " Your fragility is also your strength".

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Beatrice Burati Anderson

 

Gallery - Calle della Madonna - San Polo 1976

across the canal

Art Space - Corte Petriana - San Polo 1448

 

Marta Sforni

 

Marta Sforni is an internationally renowned artist, she deepens a lifelong research rooted in the great period of Flemish still life, dedicated to transparency in painting and constantly sensitive to beauty that survives time.

 

Nataliya Chernakova

 

Nataliya Chernakova develops her own inquiry on art forms as instruments for crowd manipulation, evolution of perception and the limit between kitsch and fine arts. Her exploration is essentially about the stereotypes of attraction.

 

 Andrew Huston and Karole Vail

 

 

Laura Onofri

 

Hughes le Gallais and Alexander Oppersdorff

 

Francesco Calzolaio and Caroline Pagani 

 

 

Isabel Trafton and Martina Chiggato

 

Nataliya Chernakova

 

 

 Jane Rushton and Sigrid Gloerfelt

Clemens Kusch 

Rossella Macchioni, Maruzza Bianchi Michiel and Gaby Wagner

 

 

Judi Harvest

 

 

Marta Sforni

 

 

Laurel Francois and Xavier Saint Pierre

 

 

Leslie Genninger and Pamela Berry

 

 

Costanza Longanesi Cattani

 

 

Marta Nardi and Annina Orsini Cammerata

 

 

Across the Canal

 from the Gallery to the Art Space
 

 

 

 

 

 

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The Venice Glass Week - Awards - Honorable Mentions - Cristina Beltrami - Hugh Findletar - La Bocca del Fuoco

  

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 

 

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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

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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

 

photograph - Cristina Beltrami

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

 

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

photograph - Massimo Pistore - courtesy The Venice Glass Week 

 

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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