The Flamboyant "Intesa" Sculpture
Fabio and Andrea In the
Furnace
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about andrea tagliapietra
Andrea Tagliapietra was born in Murano
on February 17, 1955. At the age of 14 he started working the glass
in a glass factory in Murano island, following the tradition of his
father Erminio, at that time one of the most talented glass masters
at Salviati & C. Since he was a boy he worked hard as a glass
factory servant and attendant and finally became a glass master in
1979.
In 1980 he began a collaboration with the master Renato Anatrà,
under the brand “Arte 80”. In this period, as he loves to assert, he
“lit up” his sensitiveness and art and started creating pieces that
became popular and successful, as years went by, thanks to their
particular expressive autonomy and style, their formal and chromatic
balance that were absolutely comparable to those of the greater
glass masters of the first half of the twentieth century.
In the early nineties he stopped the collaboration with Renato Antrà and continued his production working autonomously. His specialty is lump glass sculpture (sculpture on whole bodies of glass).
about andrea tagliapietra
Andrea Tagliapietra was born in Murano
on February 17, 1955. At the age of 14 he started working the glass
in a glass factory in Murano island, following the tradition of his
father Erminio, at that time one of the most talented glass masters
at Salviati & C. Since he was a boy he worked hard as a glass
factory servant and attendant and finally became a glass master in
1979.
In 1980 he began a collaboration with the master Renato Anatrà,
under the brand “Arte 80”. In this period, as he loves to assert, he
“lit up” his sensitiveness and art and started creating pieces that
became popular and successful, as years went by, thanks to their
particular expressive autonomy and style, their formal and chromatic
balance that were absolutely comparable to those of the greater
glass masters of the first half of the twentieth century.
In the early nineties he stopped the collaboration with Renato Antrà and continued his production working autonomously. His specialty is lump glass sculpture (sculpture on whole bodies of glass).
In order to better understand Andrea Tagliapietra’s artistic path, the peculiarity of his working methodology and of his approach to a difficult and complex material as glass is, we need to go back to his ideal “initiator”, the glass master Ermanno Nason. Ermanno Nason was a Picasso interpreter and indefatigable experimenter of noble but extreme forms, as well as chemical and chromatic revolutionary combinations.
Andrea was able to get precious secrets and suggestions which have definitely made him one of most important avant-garde sculpture masters of the new generation.
He started exposing in 1983. A delicate Motherhood was exposed at “Bevilacqua la Masa Foundation” in Venice, where some of the greatest contemporary art masters took their first steps in the artistic field. For Andrea Tagliapietra it was the beginning of an exhibition path, that took him to Vienna, Linz, Villach, Las Vegas and the prestigious Gallery of Sculpture in Palm Beach, to New York, Chicago, Bern and Tokyo, where a lot of his sculptures are now part of private collections.
There is a permanent collection at: Studio Andrea Tagliapietra; Viale Bressagio 25/a, Murano (Venice)
about fabio tagliapietra
Fabio began working with his Father
Andrea in 1992, thus beginning his education in the “Flying Hand”
technique of Art Glass creation. Because of his name, Fabio has
worked with the best Artisans in Italy, training in various
techniques to become a more well-rounded Artisan. Fabio’s works were
first public show at the “Bevilacqua la Masa” in 1999. Bevilacqua La
Masa Foundation was born in 1899 in Venice to support young artists
from the Veneto region towards the establishment, helping them to
take part in contemporary art exhibitions alternative to the
new-born Biennale. That is to say to promote young independent
artists. In 1999 a big exhibition celebrated the one-hundred year
activity of the Foundation.
Fabio learned the ancient technique of "Teachers Muranesi" at the
Moretti & C, Ulderico Furnace. Fabio completed his apprentice
training by working with SYLVANO SIGNORETTO, thus completing his
learning and receiving all of the credentials in 2004. Fabio
collaborated with Maestro and teacher MARIO BADIOLI in a new line of
objects for 2005. Fabios works have thus far been displayed in
Dubai, London, and Paris. Although young, he has been touted as “the
next great one” by many in the Art Glass world.
Fabio has a permanent collection at:Avenue Bressaggio 25, Murano
(Venice)
