Paolo Venini and his Furnace opens to the public

Venice, Island of San Giorgio Maggiore

11 September, 2016 - 8 January, 2017

With 300 works on show, the exhibition, curated by Marino Barovier, is dedicated to Paolo Venini, enlightened and creative entrepreneur



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Paolo Venini and his Furnace, the autumn exhibition at LE STANZE DEL VETRO, will be opened to the public on the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice from 11 September, 2016 to 8 January, 2017. The exhibition, curated by Marino Barovier, is dedicated to Paolo Venini, enlightened and creative entrepreneur. Milanese by birth and Muranese by choice, Venini (1895-1959) was a leading figure in twentieth-century artistic glass production, which thrived thanks to his significant contribution over the course of his almost forty years of activity. With 300 works on show, the exhibition recounts his creative vision as well as of those artists who collaborated with him over the years, such as Tyra Lundgren, Gio Ponti, Riccardo Licata, Ken Scott, Massimo Vignelli and Tobia Scarpa.

To coincide with the exhibition, a catalogue raisonné edited by Marino Barovier and Carla Sonego is published by Skira for LE STANZE DEL VETRO. In addition, for this fifth exhibition dedicated to the history of the Murano furnace, the film director Gian Luigi Calderone has made a documentary entitled Paolo Venini. L’uomo di notte. Through the use of anecdotes and first-hand accounts, it describes the extraordinary attention of the Venini company to the colours and not just to the shapes of the glass pieces.

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