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THE COLLECTION OF FRANCESCO AND CHIARA CARRARO, VENICE
FULVIO BIANCONI (1915-1996)
A CON MACCHIE VASE, MODEL N. 4325, CIRCA 1950
Details
FULVIO BIANCONI (1915-1996)
A CON MACCHIE VASE, MODEL N. 4325, CIRCA 1950
executed by Venini, hand-blown glass internally decorated with irregular fields of aquamarine and amethyst
9 in. (23 cm.) high
acid stamp venini MURANO ITALIA
A CON MACCHIE VASE, MODEL N. 4325, CIRCA 1950
executed by Venini, hand-blown glass internally decorated with irregular fields of aquamarine and amethyst
9 in. (23 cm.) high
acid stamp venini MURANO ITALIA
Literature
M. Barovier, C. Sonego (eds.), Fulvio Bianconi at Venini, exhibition catalogue, Venice, Le Stanze del Vetro, Milan, 2015, pp. 109 and 118 for the present vase, p. 38 for another vase of this model.
Domus, n. 251, October 1950, p. 39, pl. 14, for a period image of another example at the XXV Venice Biennale, 1950;
M. Heiremans, Art Glass from Murano 1910-1970, Stuttgart, 1993, p. 265 for another example.
Venini, red catalogue, n. 4325.
Domus, n. 251, October 1950, p. 39, pl. 14, for a period image of another example at the XXV Venice Biennale, 1950;
M. Heiremans, Art Glass from Murano 1910-1970, Stuttgart, 1993, p. 265 for another example.
Venini, red catalogue, n. 4325.
Exhibited
Venice, Le Stanze del Vetro, Fulvio Bianconi alla Venini, September 2015 - January 2016.
Further details
Replete with an all-together painterly, modern spirit, the a Macchie (stains or spots) series speaks to Fulvio Bianconi’s keen awareness of the radical developments taking shape in the contemporary art world. These vessels demonstrate an uninhibited treatment of glass and are imbued with the imagination and exuberance of paintings by artists such as Joan Miró and Paul Klee. The globules of dark colored glass that are worked into the wall of this particular vase achieve a marvelous sense of spontaneity, as well as an extraordinary interplay between front and back, and translucency and opacity.