Founded together in 1999, Maestro
Silvano Signoretto and his then Master Assistant and son-in-law
Mirco Bastianello formed Signoretto & Bastianello, a partnership to
produce high-end Murano Art Glass, with sculptures and the
Calcedonia technique being the focal points of the partnership. They
form a unique relationship that specializes in the collaboration
with only reputable artists and designers from around the globe, who
come to the furnace to have their art or artistic concepts realized
in glass form. All pieces created by both Signoretto and Bastianello
are worked exclusively by hand, using the same technologies and
unchanged tools from hundred of years.
Most of their work may be found in museums and important art
galleries...and they continue to collaborate with well-renowned
artists such as Lindstrom, Robert Zeppel-Sperl, Martin Bradley,
Elvira Bach, Reinhoud, Luigi Benzoni, Juan Ripolles, Paolo Valle,
Koen Vanmechelen, Shan Shan Shengs, Paul Attersee, Fotis, Coignard,
through Berengo Fine Arts. Borengo's owner and director Adriano
Berengo recognizes the technical skill and physical strength which
allow Bastianello to make extraordinary sculptures.
The graphic sign that you see under each piece, “Mirco Bastianello” is the actual signature of the artist, Maestro (master glassmaker) Bastianello, who uses a particular diamond wheel point to handwrite it under each and every piece that is made by him. This is your guarantee that the objects you’ve acquired are created using the ancient techniques of 100% hand glass making and guarantees the genuineness and the singleness of the Art Piece using the centuries old tradition that is perpetuated, by Maestros like Bastianello and Maestro Signoretto, in Murano, Italy. These “Objet d’Art” are hence mouth blown and hand made entirely.
The principal components of glass are silica sand, soda, potassium which, joined to other particular matters and oxides, fuse and become glass at a temperature of around 2.500 Fahrenheit. From the incandescent magma, blown and forged by expert hands, the world famous and renowned Murano glass objects are born.
In the specific case of Bastianello, Signoretto, has handed down his artistic style of one of the greatest exponent of the “mano volante” , (literally “flying hand”), technique; from a mass of incandescent magma he “sculpts” with glass makers tools his figures, with no possibility of mistake; with a lump of fusing glass that must be finished at once, timing and precision are essential. If we add to all this the creativity, the imagination and the dedication that Signoretto has given to “his” glass we find one of the finest glass masters in history.
Bastianello and Signoretto have worked, and still work with many exponents of contemporary art from all over the world such as; Ernest Fuschs, Steve Tobin, Ginny Ruffner, Peter Shire, Fulvio Bianconi, Scarpa, James Coignard, Ernest Bilgreen, Berit Johansson and dozens of others.
Maestro Bastianello is, in actual fact, a sculptor of glass above all else, an artist who manipulates glass paste with rare strength and skill. Entering his world, by visiting a showroom or a gallery that exhibits his pieces, is like entering in a brilliant glass menagerie, in which the immobile figures of horses, birds, human beings and heads seem to have vital forces that are seeking to escape from the glass masses in which they are imprisoned.
Bastianello, again, who trained at the side of his father-in-law, the great Signoretto, is now a Master himself. He attempts everything in glass because, he says, “A master must be capable of making anything”. His production is variegated and even unusual sometimes as he lets his mind drift into his dream and those dreams become the Art which is shared and admired with the world.
Silvano working at his Murano Furnace
Silvano's holding a Lover's Sculpture
Silvano with Red Stick Founder
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Silvano's Murano Gallery
Silvano's Murano Gallery