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A huge centerpiece good-quality Seguso Murano (probably 1970s or 1980s, Memphis Milano era) elliptical-form clear glass sculptural bowl with striated rainbow colors of blue, orange, pink, red, yellow and green; the thick clear glass bowl with layers of embedded colors.
Designed by Livio Seguso, produced by Seguso A.V.
Murano glass modernist sculpture vase; clear ovoid body with vertical polychrome applied canework and a black fasce swatch. Label and engraved signature. "Arte Vetro" sculpture They also did work for Cartier- a number of fine mid century craftsmen and artists did work under the Seguso name amongst them Flavio Poli, Barovier Archimede Seguso, Livio Seguso and Mario Pinzoni. This is an incredible piece.
Livio Seguso
Born in 1930 in Murano, where he still works, Livio Seguso began his life-long affair with glass from a very early age, fascinated by the inexhaustible appeal of that wonderful medium. After having achieved an in-depth knowledge of the traditional glassmaking techniques, and stimulated by his strong artistic sensitivity, this artist turned to plastic forms, and his research led him to explore with avid interest the world of the of the great masters of contemporary sculpture. In those years, glass was not used as a medium of mere depiction, but it was in itself the very object of his artwork. Seguso's mastery of his medium was such that it allowed him to express himself completely without being hampered by the limits of craftsmanship. The artist fully revealed the infinite potentialities of this mysterious material in an endless variation of spaces and thicknesses, always aiming at an absolute purity of forms. Livio Seguso reached his full artistic maturity in the late 70's, when he totally abandoned the Murano Venice glassmaking heritage, however noble, and began to focus on clear crystal, changeable and ambiguous in its transparency, the perfect medium for the artist's uncontaminated imaginative vision. His sculptures could then manifest themselves in forms of absolute purity, non-mimetic and non-representational of anything, reaching out to seize the principle of a visible event that was undisclosed before that moment, and, in doing so, reveal the personality of the artist, attracted by synthesis and icastic form. His sculptures thus became Images of Light that seem to adapt themselves to thought only to fade away into a series of oneiric forms.In recent years, his artistic research overstepped the confines of the medium used, experimenting with other materials like steel, rock, marble, and granite, and, more recently, wood. His artwork also took a departure from his previous rounded or elliptical forms, and he began to conceive volumes in a more geometrical pattern. This in turn was to lead to an ideological turning point, not only in the choice of mediums and their poetical potential, but also to an ideational transmutation that enhanced the artist's expressive possibilities. The new mediums, always used in combination with glass, exalt both the transparency of this material and the intensity of the light, and their ultimate purpose is to create an ideal union between intellectual rigor and the neatness of the volumes, between the sense of refined elegance and poetic imagination.
COLLECTIONS (selected):
Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York
Glasmuseum Frauenau, Frauenau, Germany
Hankyu Gallery, Osaka, Japan
Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Hokkaido, Japan
Kunsthaus Am Museum, Cologne, Germany
Kunstmuseum Dusseldorf, Glasmuseum Hentrich, Dusseldorf, Germany
Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg, Coburg, Germany
Museo D'Arte Moderno Ca'pesaro,Venice, Italy
Narodni Galerie, Prague, Czech Republic
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1986 Heller Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
1987 Galleria Nazionale Tolgyfa, Budapest, Hungary.
1988 Museo Re Stefano, Szekesfhervar, Hungary
1990 Casa dei Congressi Rosengarten, Coburg, Germany.
1991 Habatat Gallery, Detroit, U.S.A.
1991 Bugno & Samueli Art Gallery, Venezia, Italia.
1992 Palazzo Pretorio, Certaldo Alto, Firenze, Italia.
1998 Galleria Traghetto, Venezia, Italia
1998 Mediterranea, Art Contemporain Des Pays Mediterraneens. Bruxelles, Belgium
2001 Habatat Galleries, Pontiac, Michigan.-USA
SELECTED JOINT EXHIBITIONs
1982 Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan.
1991 Musees de Rouen, International exhibition of contemporary glass, Rouen, France.
1994 Treviso, Goldoni su carta / Goldoni on paper 1793-1993.
1995 Tainan, Taipei, Taiwan R.O.C., Chung Ming Center, Contemporary Glass Exhibition.
1995 Venezia, Arte Laguna '95, con il patrocinio di La Biennale Internazionale d'Arte di Venezia.
1998 Bruxelles, Mediterranea, Art Contemporain des Pays Mediterraneens
1998 Arte Fiera, Bologna, Italy
2001 Beijing, China, Millenium Monument Museum
2001 Shanghai, China, Museum of Fine Art
2003 Florida State University Museum Of Fine Arts. trial by fire/Contemporary Glass.
2004 Istituto di Scienze Lettere ed Arti, Palazzo Franchetti, Venezia, (Vetri nel Mondo Oggi)
- Creator:Livio Seguso (1930, Italian)
- Dimensions:Height: 15.5 in (39.37 cm)Width: 19 in (48.26 cm)Depth: 6 in (15.24 cm)
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- Condition:very minor scratches.
- Gallery Location:Surfside, FL
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU38210631012
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