2 December 2013
Venetian Glass by Carlo Scarpa: The Venini Company, 1932-1947 is the adaptation for New York of the exhibition staged by the Fondazione Giorgio Cini at the end of 2012, to a design by Marino Barovier, at Le Stanze del Vetro in Venice. It has been adapted for the occasion by the curator Nicholas Cullinan. The exhibition, presented at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, comprises around 300 works, divided into groups on the basis of the type of glass and technique utilized, and covers the fifteen years of the Venetian architect and designer’s activity as artistic director of the Venini glassworks. Over that period, Carlo Scarpa was given the freedom to experiment, introducing new techniques intended to renew the Murano tradition: techniques for the blowing and decoration of glass known as sommerso, battuto, inciso, corroso and a pennellate, along with half-filigree vases and a revival of the ancient Roman murrine. An extraordinary production that confirms the architect’s genius and the inventive capacities of the company that supported him in his creativity. Not to be missed. Until March 2, 2014.
Carlo Scarpa for Venini, 1938-1948.
Carlo Scarpa for Venini, 1934-1936.
Carlo Scarpa for Venini, 1940, 1947.
Carlo Scarpa for Venini, 1940.
Carlo Scarpa for Venini, 1938.
Carlo Scarpa for Venini, 1936.
Carlo Scarpa for Venini, 1940.
Carlo Scarpa for Venini, 1940.
Carlo Scarpa (on right) with Arturo Biasutto, Murano, 1943. Archivio Storico Luce.