"Where" Wall Sculpture Murano Glass, Giampaolo Seguso

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The garden of the soul by Giampaolo Seguso "Where" I follow you. I do not know where I will meet you, but that light calling me and I want to meet her. Glass, soul, poetry and emotions. Giampaolo Seguso, was born in Venice in 1942, known in the world, as “the Poet of the Glass” is, as we have seen, the son of Archimede of the old glassmaking dynasty of Murano; for Giampaolo workshop that does not become just a place for new creations but was and is a place of study of ancient glass techniques. The Garden of the Soul which represents a series of wall sculptures in wood and glass, whose play on perspectives is a metaphor of a couple’s eternal life, displayed at the Art Lowe Museum in Miami. His works have been displayed in various international exhibitions at prestigious institutions, including the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Museum fu¨r Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, the Musée Maillol in Paris, and are permanently shown at the Museo del Vetro in Murano, Corning Museum of Glass, New York and Chrysler Museum Norfolk, VA. Giampaolo lives and works in Venice, has been the subject of study and thesis of many University students and received an honorary degree from the University of Rome, he often holds lectures and readings for all kinds of audiences, which turn into lively discussions involving both poetry and glass, matter and spirituality.

Creator:

Seguso Vetri d'Arte (Manufacturer),Pierpaolo Seguso (Designer)

Dimensions:

Height: 53.1 in (134.88 cm)Width: 45.7 in (116.08 cm)Depth: 1.96 in (4.98 cm)

Materials and Techniques:

Murano Glass,Hand-Crafted

Place of Origin:

Italy

Period:

21st Century

Date of Manufacture:

Contemporary

Production Type:

New & Custom(Current Production)

Estimated Production Time:

2-3 weeks

Condition:

Seller Location:

Murano-Venice, IT

Reference Number:

1stDibs: LU3673117190091

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Seguso Vetri d'Arte

Members of the Seguso family have been leading figures in the manufacture of glass on the Venetian island of Murano since the late 1300s, but for most collectors of vintage design the name evokes two companies formed in the first half of the 20th century. Seguso Vetri d’Arte, born from a small consortium of master glass artisans that included Archimede Seguso (1909–99), thrived under the artistic directorship of Flavio Poli (1900–84), a designer with an eye for modern forms, color and pattern. Vetreria Archimede Seguso, meanwhile, was founded in 1946, when Seguso opened his own atelier in order to employ classical techniques in the making of modern glassware.

The owners of Seguso Vetri d’Arte were justly proud of their skills as craftsmen, but they were not worldly aesthetes — and they knew it. Poli had studied at the Art Institute of Venice, originally working in ceramics before switching mediums and taking up the art of glass. He introduced new simple forms to the genre — the best known of his designs being the Valva, which resembles a clamshell in profile — and employed several novel techniques such as corroso, which gives glass a rough, emery-board-like finish. Poli’s most collectible works are his sommerso pieces, made with a layering process in which clear and colored-glass vessels are “submerged” within one another, producing a kind of nesting-doll effect in striking, elegant vases with bands of separate and overlapped hues.

At his eponymous workshop, Archimede Seguso often favored highly decorative, age-old techniques employed with modern restraint. His layered-glass Losanghe vessels have the look of an abstract checkerboard while his free-form Merletto vases have delicate, lacy patterns created by painstakingly twisting two heated glass straws to create helixes around the walls of the piece.

Though different in their scope and mission, both of these furnaces bearing the Seguso name created some of the most beautiful, alluring and exquisitely crafted works in all of modern design.