lino tagliapietra profumo del vetro

traver gallery September, 2013

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LINO TAGLIAPIETRAPROFUMO DEL VETRO

TRAVER GALLERYSEPTEMBER – OCTOBER 2013LINO

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I REMEMBER WHEN I WAS A LITTLE KID, I’D GO TO PLAY AT THE VENINI FACTORY IN MURANO BECAUSE THAT’S WHERE MY FATHER WORKED. THERE I SMELLED THE WOOD BURNING IN THE FURNACE, BECAUSE IN THOSE YEARS WE USED WOOD TO FIRE IT. THE WOOD CAME MOSTLY FROM YUGOSLAVIA AND AUSTRIA, AND IT HAD THE AROMA OF ROSEMARY, SAGE, AND THYME. THE SMELL OF THE HERBS WAS LIKE PERFUME, AND WITH THE SMELL OF THE GLASS GAVE MURANO ITS PARTICULAR SCENT. EVEN NOW, WITH THE GAS-BURNING FURNACE, I CAN STILL SMELL THE SCENT OF THE GLASS AS I DID IN THE PAST. MANY, MANY YEARS HAVE PASSED, AND YET I STILL CAN SENSE THIS PERFUME FROM THOSE DAYS.

I HAVE KNOWN BILL TRAVER FOR MANY YEARS – MORE THAN THIRTY. EVERYONE KNOWS BILL! MY FIRST AMERICAN ADVENTURE STARTED IN SEATTLE WHEN I WAS TEACHING AT

PROFUMO DEL VETRO | LINO TAGLIAPIETRO | TRAVER GALLERY

PILCHUCK. MY SECOND AMERICAN ADVENTURE STARTED WITH BILL SHOWING MY WORKS IN HIS GALLERY.

IN PROFUMO DEL VETRO, WE ARE PRESENTING SOME NEW WORKS. I TOOK THE INSPIRATION FOR MANY OF THESE PIECES FROM A RECENT TRIP TO AUSTRALIA. I MUST SAY THAT MY EXPERIENCE THERE HAS COME THROUGH STRONGLY HERE. THEY EMBODY MY PERSONALITY. I RESPONDED INTENSELY TO MY EXPERIENCE OF AUSTRALIA AND THAT’S EMBODIED IN THESE WORKS. THESE NEW WORKS ALSO REPRESENT MY PERSONALITY IN A HAPPY WAY BECAUSE MAKING THEM GAVE ME A LOT OF ENERGY. I FEEL THAT I AM STILL YOUNG ENOUGH TO ABSORB NEW THINGS. AND TODAY I HOPE MY THIRD AMERICAN ADVENTURE WILL SOON START – CREATING GLASS WITH MY OWN PERSONAL MARKS. J U N E 3 0 , 2 0 13 , L I N O TA G L I A P I E T R A

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Growing up on Murano surrounded by the world’s most famous glass designers and artists and steeped in the Venetian glass traditions of the island, Lino has been at the center of the world of glass art since childhood. From his first time teaching at Pilchuck thirty-four years ago, he has played a pivotal role in the American Studio Glass movement, inspiring and educating generations of glass artists with his technical expertise and his extraordinary sculptures. Lino’s passion for glass is evident not only in the work itself, but in his willingness to share his knowledge and passion with the larger community. And in sharing his hard-earned skills with multitudes of students around the world he has helped to create an international glass community. As the community expands it seems Lino expands along with it. His exuberance for teaching is matched only by his excitement for discovery and learning—at seventy-nine Lino maintains a childlike curiosity in his work and about the world. Whether in the hot-shop, at the kiln, at the stove in the kitchen, or at the concert hall, Lino is always trying new things and asking questions. His inquisitiveness about the world and about the medium of glass has led him to a multitude of discoveries, and ultimately to the creation of many of the world’s most spectacular works of glass sculpture.

The pieces selected for this exhibition exemplify this spirit of inquiry and Lino’s ever-evolving style. Notable throughout the exhibition is a sense of restraint, scale, and pattern. Lino, known for his long-necked, graceful, reaching and twirling vessels, is more reserved in his gestures here. The vessels—pregnant, round forms with beautiful, simple surfaces reference bottles, jugs, and baskets. With their long, thin necks, elegant shoulders, broad hips, perfectly round bellies, they

PREGNANT ROUND FORMS WITH BEAUTIFUL SIMPLE SURFACES — LONG AND THIN NECKS, ELEGANT SHOULDERS, BROAD HIPS, PERFECTLY ROUND BELLIES

stand upright and strong like figures in a room, while their quiet and pristine surfaces make way for intensely detailed, layered, and faceted patterning. The intensity of the color, the precision of the canework, and the sheer scale of the pieces demand our attention. As you approach the work your eye is drawn in to a complex and intricately structured constellation of color and line; in many, thin black canes lace together loose, painterly swathes of color and tight groups of intricately patterned murrini.

Lino’s newest body of work is undeniably modern. His use of color and simplified forms calls to mind the moody and chromatic works of the modernist painters and sculptors of the twentieth century. We can see their resonance in his use of broads strokes of color to create a mood, explore surface, and to define a two-dimensional composition; using reductive gestural forms to explore the relationship of the object to the surrounding space, and to imply figure, history, and action. But unlike his modernist predecessors, Lino, as a glass artist, also paints and sculpts using light. For Lino, color, transparency, opacity, and reflectivity are primary elements, concerns which, when taken up and fused together, are largely unique to the medium of glass. As we look at this exhibition it is clear that Lino is the master of this medium—the work is as evocative as it is beautiful, as complex as it is refined, and as unique as it is reverential.

We are proud to present the newest body of work by Maestro Lino Tagliapietra, Il Profumo del Vetro. Congratulations, Lino, on this stunning and exciting new body of work. You never cease to amaze us. J U N E 3 0 , 2 0 1 3 , S A R A H T R A V E R A N D W I L L I A M T R A V E R

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SELECTED AWARDS AND EXHIBITIONS2013 Visionary Award, ArtPalmBeach, Palm Beach, FL, USA

2012 Phoenix Award, USA

2011 Master of Medium Award, James Renwick Alliance, Washington, DC, USA

2011 Honorary Degree, Doctor of Fine Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

2011 Lino Tagliapietra: From Murano to Studio Glass, Works from 1954 – 2011, Instituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Palazzo Franchetti, Venice, Italy

Master of Medium Award, James Renwick Alliance, Washington, DC, USA

Honorary Degree, Doctor of Fine Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

2010 Master Teacher/Master Artist, Hite Art Institute, University of Louisville, KY, USA

2009 IIC Lifetime Acheivment Award, Instituto Italiano di Cultura, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy

2008 Lino Tagliapietra in Retrospect: A Modern Renaissance in Glass, Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA, USA. (Between 2008 and 2010 the exhibition traveled to: The Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery, Washington, DC, USA; the Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, USA; Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA, USA; Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI, USA)

Il Bianco e Il Nero, Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA, USA

Lino for Aldo, Galleria Scaletta di Vetro, Milan Italy

2007 Cristal Award, Museo del Vidrio, Monterrey, Mexico

2006 Distinguished Educator Award, James Renwick Alliance, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, USA

Il Mito della Fenice, Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA, USA

2004 Honorary Doctor of Humane Lettters, Centre College, Danville, KY, USA

Artist as Hero Award, National Liberty Museum, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Artist Visionaries! Lifetime Achievement Award, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY, USA

Passione e Vetro, Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA, USA

The President's Distinguished Artist Award, University of The Arts, Philadelphia, PA, USA

2001 Medal for Excellence in Craft Award, Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA, USA

2000 Humana Distinguished Professor, Centre College, KY, USA

A. D. Copier & Lino Tagliapietra: Inspiratie in Glass, Museum Het Paleis, The Hague, The Netherlands

1998 Libensky Glass Art Award, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA, USA

Festa della Sensa, Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA, USA

Venezia Aperto Vetro, Guest of Honor, Invited Guest, Venice, Italy

1997 Lifetime Achievement Award, Glass Art Society

Urkunde Goldmedaille, Munich, Germany

1996 The Rakow Commission, Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, USA

Lino Tagliapietra, Glasmuseet, Ebeltoft, Denmark

Venezia Aperto Vetro, Guest of Honor, Invited Guest, Venice, Italy

SELECTED COLLECTIONSAperto Vetro, Venice, Italy

Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA, USA

Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, USA

Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH, USA

Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, USA

Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA, USA

Danish Royal Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark

The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH, USA

The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI, USA

Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI, USA

Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA, USA

Glasmuseum, Ebeltoft, Denmark

Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan

Hunter Art Museum, Chattanooga, TN, USA

Kestner Museum, Hannover, Germany

Kitazawa Museum of Arts, Takane-cho, Japan

Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Manhattan, KS, USA

Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Chicago, IL, USA

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA

Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Charlotte, NC, USA

Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL, USA

Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Lausanne, Switzerland

Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France

Museo del Vidrio, Monterrey, Mexico

Museum of Art, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA

Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY, USA

Museum Boymans, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, USA

Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA, USA

Museum of Het Paleis, The Hague, The Netherlands

National Museum of Ceramic Art and Glass, Baltimore, MD, USA

Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL, USA

Palazzo Cavalli Franchetti, Venice, Italy

Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy

Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA, USA

Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI, USA

Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, USA

Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ, USA

Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, USA

Shanghai Museum of Glass, Shanghai, PRC

Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA

Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA

Tokyo National Modern Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH, USA

Toyama City Institute of Glass, Toyama, Japan

Victoria And Albert Museum, London, UK

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Lino Tagliapietra was born in Murano, Italy, in 1934. At the age of 12 he began an apprenticeship with Archimede Seguso and became a maestro at 21. Throughout the past 40 years, he has taught at some of the most important glass schools in the United States and around the world.

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