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Saturday, 9 September 2006 | Levent OZLER
Glassdressing at Ca' Rezzonico-Museo del Settecento Veneziano
Glassdressing will take place at Ca' Rezzonico and will be open to the public, in the Portego on the first floor, from September 9 through October 9, 2006 during the museum's visiting hours.
Organized by the Trieste Contemporanea Committee in coproduction with the Scuola del Vetro Abate Zanetti of Murano and in collaboration with the Civici Musei Veneziani, the exhibiton is an integral part of the Seventh International Design Competition, founded by the Triestine committee in collaboration with the Scuola del Vetro Abate Zanetti.
The event is under the patronage of CEI (Central European Initiative), Regione del Veneto, Regione Autonoma Friuli Venezia Giulia, Provincia di Venezia, Provincia di Trieste, Comune di Venezia, Comune di Trieste, and with the support of the Regione Autonoma Friuli Venezia Giulia, Fondazione CRTrieste, CEI (Central European Initiative), Provincia di Venezia, Fondazione BEBA, iGuzzini illuminazione Spa, Videonew - Trieste; media partner DROME magazine.
To study, through the production of a piece of jewelry in glass, the relationship between the human body and glass material, through its particular molding capabilities, versatility and "wearability" which has always made it a protagonist of the body's ornamentation: this is the theme of the Seventh International Design Competition Trieste Contemporanea 2006 given to designers from Italy and middle-eastern Europe. The current edition has involved over two hundred designers coming from Albania, Austria, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Italy, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Ukraine, Hungary, Estonia, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania.
The exhibition (which will be followed by a second appointment in October in Trieste) displays a selection of twenty-six pieces of glass jewelry created by the same corresponding number of artists and chosen by an international jury presided by Gillo Dorles: nineteen were chosen from the ones in the competition and executed in the laboratories of the Scuola del Vetro Abate Zanetti of Murano, and seven were created especially for this occasion by a reserved group of important designers on invitation by the commission.
Hosted in the palace of Ca' Rezzonico - a true cult venue of the historical Venetian creative capacities, in which extraordinary examples of decoratively refined and technically precious pieces of furnishings are preserved (and where in 2004 a similar exhibitional event took place for the sixth edition of the competition) - the exhibition offers an important added value in respects to the already noted objectives of the competition: to get to know the most original expression of design of the Middle-Eastern European countries, thus contributing in giving added impetus to the research of new esthetic and formal avenues of the art of glass-making.
Winning Designers and Finalists
Marina Bologni (Italy), the group Bratovic/Bacun/Izevic (Croatia), Alessandro Calogero (Italy), the group De Grossi/Oki (Italy/Japan), Milan Deliyski (Bulgaria), Ines Paola Fontana (Italy), Michael Geldmacher (Germany, First Prize Trieste Contemporanea Design 2006 ex aequo), Ida Grimaldi (Italy), Marija Hristovska (Macedonia, CEI Prize 2006), Manuela Maria Marazzani (Italy), Martin Necas (Czech Republic, Beba Prize 2006), Barbara Paganin (Italy, Prize Provincia di Venezia), Massimo Premuda (Italy, Prize Fondazione Crtrieste), Tomoko Sakai (Czech Republic), the group Schäffer/Eguchi/Ardu (Italy/Japan), Antonio Terranova (Italy), Osvaldo Tiberti (Italy), Markéta Váradiová (Czech Republic, First Prize Trieste Contemporanea Design 2006 ex aequo), Annamaria Zanella (Italy)
Invited Artists
Antonio Dei Rossi, Mario Dei Rossi, Gaetano Mainenti, Andrea Morucchio, Maria Grazia Rosin, Marina e Susanna Sent, Giorgio Vigna
Place: Venice, Ca' Rezzonico - Museo del Settecento veneziano (Dorsoduro 3136)
Opening: September 9, 2006 at 12:00 p.m.
Period: September 9 - October 9, 2006
Hours: 10-18 (ticket office 10-17). Closed Tuesdays
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