Bottega Cini
Marisa Convento
Marisa Convento is the resident artisan at the concept store, Bottega Cini. She is the queen of the Impiraresse, Venetian glass beads threaders, as well as, vice-president of the Committee for the Safeguarding of the Art of Venetian Glass Beads which recently obtained the IHC Unesco recognition for the Art of Glass Bead. During TVGW she held a workshop called - One bead my World - the Art of Glass Beads in the spaces of D3082 Woman Art Venice, the project promoted by Domus Civica Acisjf, aims to exhibit and share women arts and creativity.
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Bottega Cini
Assia Karaguiozova for Nason Moretti
The designer-artist, Assia Karaguiozova, works mainly on the versatility of materials, combined with chromatic interpretations of the subjects she narrates. Her creations are a combination of innovation and tradition and, thanks to the skill of Nason Moretti's master glassmakers, represent a perfect balance between art and design.
Demarco Arte
Judi Harvest - Harvest 2021
At Demarco Arte the solo exhibition Harvest 2021 of painter, sculpture and beekeeper Judi Harvest. Her works are inspired by nature, specifically the pollinators; bees and bats. For example the beekeeper side of her, keeps her honeybees in the garden of the Giorgio Guiman glass blowing factory, in Murano, each year they produce approximately 100 kilos of honey, stored, numbered and signed in glass jars. This is where she also held her Murano Honey Garden Picnic which included a guided visit through the working glass factory by Guiman himself and honeybee a talk between her and Luca Polo. During the festival Harvest presented new paintings using the encaustic technique, these for her as well as, Murano glass have a lot in common; they both involve beeswax and require heat, specific tools, timing and skill. Both are magical and offer great surprises.
"Does art serve a purpose beyond the aesthetic? Judi Harvest thinks so. She wants her art not only to be beautiful but to do nothing less than change the world, or at least our perception of the world. Chief among her preoccupations is how humans interact with nature, now challenging the survival of the human race. Her research first into how bees are responsible for pollinating plants and flowers and now how bats, creatures of the night, help us live, inspire her art. Thus, her current Murano glass and encaustic artworks which involves both species, has an ecological as well as an aesthetic meaning. She uses beauty to focus our attention on the danger of extinction that face both flying species."
Barbara Rose
Judi Now
Judi Harvest
Harvest 2021
new encaustic painting
new encaustic painting
Harvest 201
hand-blown Murano glass works
Harvest has been working in Murano with maestro Giorgio Guiman since 1988, her first sculpture titled Stromboli Vase was inspired by the Aeolian Islands and Murano Island.
Stefano Demarco
photo - Claudio Franzini - courtesy Judi Harvest
Judi Harvest - Harvest 2021
"A matter in between state, liquid and solid, that can be heat and
transform
over and over again".
Nadja Romain
Magazzino Gallery di Palazzo Contarini Polignac
Lucia Vallejo Garay - Fragilite'
At Palazzo Contarini Polignac the exhibition Fragilite' by Spanish artist and historian Lucia Vallejo Garay curated by Nadia Romain, presented new works and the first exploration of glass by the artist in dialog with Murano glass and inspired by the legacy of Venetian master Giorgione.
"Death is the apotheosis of temporality. In previous exhibitions I have addressed the circularity of time that unites life and death. The destiny of soul is recurrent in my work. I was drawn to work with glass as a conceptual representation of my quest. Bubbles of time, glass bubbles represent a timeless place without time were souls, canvases sometimes intact, sometimes burned, leave their mark. The souls encapsulated in their new crystal world see through their transparency and see without being seen, listen without being heard and wherever they go they represent the fragility of life. The nobel and transparent but fragile material glass melts on the canvas with its heat and turns them into ashes, leaving a deep imprint on the glass. A trace that remains for eternity".
Lucia Vallejo Garay
Fragility of the Soul
Murano Glass
Lucia Vallejo Garay - Giorgione - oil - canvas
Marignana Arte
Lorenzo Passi - Roots-Radici
In the Marignana Project Room, Lorenzo Passi, artist who lives and works in Venice, presented his work, Roots-Radici. A quest for identity stems from the wish to have deep roots in a place wherein self-identification may freely express itself. Roots starts from a tree stump that is used by the artist as a mold to create a series of cubic modules of various colors. When displayed, these create a negative image of the stump, through which light projects the image of the tree, on the ground. Confidence in the past wherein the tree has lived, which is also the artist's own past, is the starting point from which he uses light to disassemble, divide, modify colors, and finally reassemble the metaphor of the illusion of existence.
Lorenzo Passi
