Napoleone Martinuzzi. Venini 1925-1931

The exhibition is the second of the series of exhibitions dedicated to the history of the glassworks Venini and organized by Le Stanze del Vetro, multi-year cultural project initiated from Fondazione Giorgio Cini and Pentagram Stiftung for the study and appreciation of glass art of the twentieth century.
As for the exhibition Carlo Scarpa. Venini 1932 - 1947 in San Giorgio in August 2012 and in November hosted at the Metropolitan Museum of Contemporary Art in New York (November 5, 2013 - March 2, 2014) the exhibition dedicated to Napoleon Martinuzzi is made possible thanks to a careful search documentary, taken by Marino Barovier, assisted by a group of scholars on the history of Murano glassware and great designers that have made it famous throughout the world. The study and the cross-checking of various documentary sources (photographs, catalogs, drawings furnace ) and comparing these with the real objects made ??available by museums, public and private institutions, Italian and foreign collectors, made ??it possible to achieve a comprehensive review of the glasses designed by Napoleone Martinuzzi between 1925 and 1931, a period in which he was the artistic director of Venini.
During the period when Martinuzzi collaborated with Paolo Venini created splendid objects, inspired by the classic shape but innovative glassmaking techniques and the use of glass paste. The exhibition Napoleone Martinuzzi. Venini 1925-1931 exhibition chronicles his entire production: from elegant blown transparent to unpublished works from the matte texture, from the experiments with glass bubbles in dense pulegoso and those with matte glass from the intense colors and compact .
The works on display are around 200 , representing the most significant glassware realized thanks to the inventiveness of the sculptor Murano . Many of these works were presented at the Venice Biennale from 1926 to 1930 , and the great events of decorative arts, in particular the Biennale and Triennale di Monza. 1930 was an important year in the history of Venini : thanks to the ingenuity of Martinuzzi , production was distinguished by the particular richness of the works proposed on the occasion of these great shows. They were presented the classic transparent glass, along with a collection of glass pulegosi archaic flavor , the unique aquariums together with brightly colored pots veiled; succulents together in a colorful bestiary.
The exhibition also devotes attention to the bond Martinuzzi had with the poet Gabriele D' Annunzio , who commissioned the artist Murano not only works but also various sculptural works glassmaking. To return this particular bond and the artistic project shared by these two personalities in a room of the exhibition is statariproposta Vittoriale , set up by production designer Pierluigi Pizzi, with some of the most important specimens that Martinuzzi designed for the poet . Examples are the bright pumpkin glass encased , Martinuzzi realized that at the specific request of D' Annunzio for his residence , the vase with large loops and ribbed basket with fruit , the cup in transparent light blue and the elephant in the dough red glassy . Each of these objects is a unique piece .

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