The 'new Murano', represented by the glass artists Cristiano Bianchin, Yoichi Ohira and Laura de Santillana, all of whom work in Murano, is attracting attention by widening the range of traditional techniques, forms and styles. All three artists have their own distinctive ideas on working with glass so their pieces are some of the most exciting studio glass being produced anywhere in the world. Cristiano Bianchin began his career as an artist with the vivid colours once so typical of Murano glass. By now, however, he is ...
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The 'new Murano', represented by the glass artists Cristiano Bianchin, Yoichi Ohira and Laura de Santillana, all of whom work in Murano, is attracting attention by widening the range of traditional techniques, forms and styles. All three artists have their own distinctive ideas on working with glass so their pieces are some of the most exciting studio glass being produced anywhere in the world. Cristiano Bianchin began his career as an artist with the vivid colours once so typical of Murano glass. By now, however, he is working in black-and-white and especially in shades of brown. He is adept at working in touches of colour and deploying transparency to emphasise earthy tones. Laura de Santillana, a granddaughter of Paolo Venini, founder of the celebrated Venini Venetian art glass works, is one of the few women glass designers in Murano. Her works are notable for striking sculptural forms and colours reminiscent of 1950s Colour Field painting. Born in Japan, Yoichi Ohara has been living and working in Murano for more than thirty years. The synthesis he has achieved of traditional Japanese aesthetics and Murano art glass makes him one of the most important contemporary creators of art glass worldwide.
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VG, some shelf wear to DJ and small nicks from the paper. Light gray laminate boards with color pictorial DJ, 468pp, hundreds of color plates and figures. From the jacket--Venice. 3 Visions in Glass provides an illustrative and critical view of work by three of the most important contemporary artists working with glass today: Cristiano Bianchin, Yoichi Ohira and Laura de Santillana. All three artists live in Venice and work on the Island of Murano and all are represented in major public and private collections worldwide. The three Venetian artists featured have broken from tradition to work outside the expected forms, styles, and techniques of traditional Murano glassmakers. Even when compared to contemporary American glass artists, Bianchin, Ohira, and de Santillana are groundbreaking in their techniques. They eschew the narrative, employ strong and emphatic forms and resist showy demonstrations. Bianchin, Ohira, and de Santillana are consistently reinventing what it means to work in the medium of contemporary glass.