Le Stanze del Vetro
Vittorio Zecchin: Transparent Glass for Cappellin and Venini
One wouldn’t expect on the idyllic Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, just across from Piazza San Marco, hidden, right next to the moored yachts, one of the most outstanding museums devoted to glass. The autumn exhibition at Le Stanze del Vetro is dedicated to the artist Vittorio Zecchinwho, in the 1920s, revisited the classical trends of the time to relaunch and revive the art of glass making in Murano.
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Vittorio Zecchin: Transparent Glass for Cappellin and Venini
Vittorio Zecchin (1878 – 1947) was an artist and painter from Murano. He is an important figure of twentieth-century glass, which he contributed to revive during the 1920s with the support of two enlightened entrepreneurs - Giacomo Cappellin andPaolo Venini - producing elegant hand-blown mostly monochrome glass works which reinterpreted the classical trend of the time, often drawing inspiration from glass or paintings by XVI-century Venetian artists. The Autumn exhibition, Vittorio Zecchin: Transparent Glass for Cappellin and Venini, is curated by Marino Barovier, above, and on show until 7 January.
Vittorio Zecchin: Transparent Glass for Cappellin and Venini
Costolati - 1921-1926
“A beautiful shape is reborn thanks to a beautiful material: one complements the other because line and shape are conceived and felt in the presence and almost by virtue of the material.”
G. Lorenzetti
1925
Susan Kleinberg, David Landau and Laura de Santillana
Silvia Damiani
Tonci Foscari, Massimo Micheluzzi and Brandino Brandolini d’Adda
Vittorio Zecchin: Transparent Glass for Cappellin and Venini
Con Decorazione - 1921-1925
The exhibition focuses on Zecchin’s extremely refined glass production. It was a turning point in twentieth-century Murano and contributed to breathe new life into glass making which, with rare exceptions, had been lingering in the sterile repetition of dated models. In particular, the exhibition Vittorio Zecchin: Transparent Glass for Cappellin and Venini features his glass production starting in 1921, when he was appointed Artistic Director at the V.S.M. Cappellin Venini and Co. glassware company, which the Venetian antiquarian Giacomo Cappellin had founded that year together with the young Milanese lawyer Paolo Venini with the aim of offering new products to an upper-middle class clientele.
Caterina Tognon, Barry and Patricia Friedman
Federica Marangoni
Emmanuel Babled
Vittorio Zecchin: Transparent Glass for Cappellin and Venin
Senza Decorazione - 1921-1925
Jean Blanchaert and Rinaldo Invernizzi
Leslie Genninger
Paolo Cuniberti and Marcantonio Brandolini d’Adda
Le Stanze del Vetro
Vittorio Zecchin: Transparent Glass for Cappellin and Venini
Costolati - 1921-1926
Marco Arosio, Alberica Archinto and Marco Ceresa
Alessandro Favaretto Rubelli
To coincide with the exhibition Vittorio Zecchin: Transparent Glass for Cappellin and Venini, a catalogue, edited by Marino Barovier and Carla Sonego, has been published by Skira for Le Stanze del Vetro.
Antonio Pintus and film director Gian Luigi Calderone
Who made the documentary Vittorio Zecchin. La Maravegia to reimagine the world of Vittorio Zecchin.
Vittorio Zecchin: Transparent Glass for Cappellin and Venin
Senza Decorazione - 1921-1925
Paola Marini
