Casket sculpture model Sasso designed and produced by Giorgio Vigna.
In copper, signature and date on the inner edge .
Biography
Giorgio Vigna was born in Verona in 1955 and artistically formed among his hometown, Venice, Rome and Milan. He is an artist who, at the boundary between reality and imagination, creating natural forms capable of manifesting primary and primordial aspects. Adventures of earth and water, fire and wind where combines natural and artificial, poor and precious. Vigna moves on the border between the real and the imaginary, between what is and what appears. His works, from sculptures to jewelry, the works on paper or the site specific installations, reflect the breadth and depth of his constant research. Using various materials such as glass, metals and paper, treated always new and surprising mode. Vigna explores and seeks them to reveal hidden possibilities.The forms are the primary expression of the elements he works with. Strong and natural, universal and timeless, full of symbolic meanings. In 2003 Giorgio Vigna created the site specific installation La Radura for Nancy Olnick and Giorgio Spanu which started the Olnick Spanu Art Program. In 2013 the Museum of Castelvecchio in Verona hosted the exhibition Stati Naturali, for which Giorgio Vigna has created for the fountain of Carlo Scarpa the permanent installation in glass Acquaria, donated to Verona Municipality. In 2017 he has created for the Galleria dell’Accademia in Venice the work Fuochi di Rugiada, made by Vetreria VENINI.
Since 2018 he has been called to be part of the Scientific Committee of Le Stanze del Vetro, a project of the Giorgio Cini Foundation with the support of Pentagram Stiftung. In 2022 he donated his thirty-year archive of drawings and sketches linked to his experience with the materia of glass to the Giorgio Cini Foundation onlus. In June 2023 it inaugurated the solo exhibition Analogie at the Eremitani Museum in Padua, the natural continuation of the journey begun in 2022 with the Sassi exhibition at the Oratorio di San Rocco in Padua.
His work has been exhibited in galleries and museums in Argentina, Austria...
Category
Early 2000s Italian Modern Copper Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass