Lino Tagliapietra

LINO TAGLIAPIETRA Fuochi d’Artificio

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First Edition August 2011

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LINO TAGLIAPIETRA Fuochi d’Artificio

This catalogue is being published to celebrate and document the exhibition Fuochi d’Artificio, mounted at my gallery in the fall of 2011. This is Lino Tagliapietra’s fifth exhibition at the gallery. Family, friends, collectors and staff are all excited. When it comes to Lino Tagliapietra’s exhibitions we have come to expect fireworks. We are ready to be moved.

The title of the exhibition reminds us that the act of glass blowing is a fireworks show even as the fireworks themselves might be the wondrous objects that Lino creates.

Then again isn’t the exhibition itself a bit of a fireworks show, too. Opening night there will be the surprise of discovery; exploding, fantastic forms and colors that will illicit gasps and shrieks and laughs. Moments like these move us to rediscover delight, to see with the eyes of children; to be awed by colored light.

These festivities do celebrate something terrifically moving for my staff and me. Every exhibition we have mounted and every project we have assisted on brings with it a sense of pride and personal satisfaction. Jo-Nell Seiren, Joe Salgado, Cecilia Chung and Gina Saunders made a great effort on behalf of the gallery and this exhibition. Once again we find ourselves desperate to admire the pyrotechnics even as we are charged with watching the fuses. Thanks to everyone for their contributions.

Lino’s every gesture has intention and consequence. The results are awe-inspiring.

Like amazed children we raise our eyes to the heavens and await the spectacle.

Ken Saunders

Dada 2008 16 1/2 x 12 x 6 1/2 inches previous Page Maui 2010 26 1/4 x 15 x 6 1/4 inches right

Osaka 2011 13 x 14 x 13 3/4 inches

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Bilbao 2005 26 1/2 x 10 3/4 x 9 inches

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Pago Pago 2009 11 x 23 x 5 3/4 inches

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Contarini 2008 25 x 8 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches

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Angel Tear 2011 33 1/2 x 22 1/4 x 6 inches

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Fuji 2011 22 1/4 x 15 x 9 inches

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Borboleta 2008 16 1/2 x 19 1/4 x 12 1/4 inches

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Dinosaur 2005 65 x 19 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches

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Fuji 2011 18 1/2 x 15 1/2 x 9 inches

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Borboleta 2010 23 1/2 x 21 1/4 x 13 inches

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Bahia 2010 26 1/2 x 9 1/4 x 8 1/4 inches

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Oca 2004 31 x 10 1/2 x 7 3/4 inches

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Piccadilly 2006 17 x 16 3/4 x 8 inches

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Osaka 2011 18 x 11 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches

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Borboleta 2011 25 x 20 1/2 x 10 1/4 inches

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Mandara 2009 31 x 14 x 7 inches

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Lino Tagliapietra, photograpohed at Ken Saunders Gallery in 2009

Lino Taglipietra 1934

Born: Murano, Italy

1946

Apprenticeship with Archimede Seguso, Murano, Italy

Selected Museum Exhibitions and Collections Aperto Vetro, Venice, Italy Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY Danish Royal Museum, Copenhagen, The Netherlands The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA Fondren Library, Rice University, Houston, TX Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA Glasmuseum, Ebeltoft, Denmark Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN Kestner Museum, Hannover, Germany Kitazawa Museum of Arts, Takane-cho, Japan Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL Mint Museum of Craft + Design, Charlotte, NC Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Lausanne, Switzerland Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France Museo del Vidrio, Monterrey, Mexico Museum Boymans, Rotterdam, The Netherlands The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA Museum Het Paleis, The Haag, The Netherlands The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY National Museum of Ceramic Art and Glass, Baltimore, MD Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS Tokyo National Modern Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH Toyama City Institute of Glass, Toyama, Japan Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK

LEFT Lino Tagliapietra working in his studio in 2004.

ABOVE Lino Tagliapietra pictured with his family in San Pietro Martire, Murano when Lino and Lina celebrated their golden anniversary in 2009.

Lino Tagliapietra with his wife, Lina. Photographed at Cipriani Ristorante in Isola di Torcello in 2009.

Lino Tagliapietra pictured with his friend Stephen Powell in 2009.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition Lino Tagliapietra Fuochi d’ Artficio September 2 - October 31, 2011

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