Patchwork
Vase
1950 (made)
1950 (made)
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| Place of origin |
Vase, Italy, Venice (Murano), designed by Fulvio Bianconi, for Venini & C., 1950-1951
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Fused coloured glass squares |
| Brief description | Vase, Italy, Venice (Murano), designed by Fulvio Bianconi, for Venini & C., 1950-1951 |
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| Gallery label | The first 'Pezzato' designs were made in 1950 and were shown at the Galleria del Naviglio, Milan as part of the 1951 Triennale. They were shown in the Venice Biennale 1952. In essence, the technique is as invented in the Hellenistic period (see Bay 2), in which pieces (in this case squares) of coloured glass are laid together on a metal sheet, heated and fused. With the 'Pezzato' series these squares are then rolled into a cylinder, picked up on the blowing iron, reheated and worked into the designed shape. Fulvio Bianconi (b.1915) studied in Venice and is a painter, graphic artist and caricaturist as well as a trained glass decorator. These skills are combined in the lightness of touch and sense of comedy which he brought so successfully to his designs for Venini. |
| Bibliographic reference | Mentasti, Rosa Barovier: Venetian Glass 1890-1990, Venice 1992, p110 |
| Other number | 9645 - Glass gallery number |
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| Accession number | C.150-1991 |
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| Record created | December 13, 1997 |
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