Lino Tagliapietra - Profumo del Vetro

LINO lino tagliapietra profumo del vetro traver gallery September, 2013

LINO TAGLIAPIETRA PROFUMO DEL VETRO TRAVER GALLERY SEPTEMBER – OCTOBER 2013

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I REMEMBER WHEN I WAS A LIT TLE KID, I’D GO TO PL AY AT THE VENINI FACTORY IN MURANO BECAUSE THAT’S WHERE MY FATHER WORKED. THERE I SMELLED THE WOOD BURNING IN THE FURNACE, BECAUSE IN THOSE YEARS WE USED WOOD TO FIRE IT. THE WOOD CAME MOSTLY FROM YUGOSL AVIA AND AUSTRIA, AND IT HAD THE AROMA OF ROSEMARY, SAGE, AND THYME. THE SMELL OF THE HERBS WAS LIKE PERFUME, AND WITH THE SMELL OF THE GL ASS GAVE MURANO ITS PARTICUL AR SCENT. EVEN NOW, WITH THE GAS-BURNING FURNACE, I CAN STILL SMELL THE SCENT OF THE GL ASS AS I DID IN THE PAST. MANY, MANY YEARS HAVE PASSED, AND YET I STILL CAN SENSE THIS PERFUME FROM THOSE DAYS. I HAVE KNOWN BILL TRAVER FOR MANY YEARS – MORE THAN THIRT Y. EVERYONE KNOWS BILL! MY FIRST AMERICAN ADVENTURE STARTED IN SEAT TLE WHEN I WAS TEACHING AT

PROFUMO DEL VETRO | LINO TAGLIAPIETRO | TRAVER GALLERY PILCHUCK. MY SECOND AMERICAN ADVENTURE STARTED WITH BILL SHOWING MY WORKS IN HIS GALLERY. IN PROFUMO DEL VETRO, WE ARE PRESENTING SOME NEW WORKS. I TOOK THE INSPIRATION FOR MANY OF THESE PIECES FROM A RECENT TRIP TO AUSTRALIA. I MUST SAY THAT MY E XPERIENCE THERE HAS COME THROUGH STRONGLY HERE. THEY EMBODY MY PERSONALIT Y. I RESPONDED INTENSELY TO MY E XPERIENCE OF AUSTRALIA AND THAT’S EMBODIED IN THESE WORKS. THESE NEW WORKS ALSO REPRESENT MY PERSONALIT Y IN A HAPPY WAY BECAUSE MAKING THEM GAVE ME A LOT OF ENERGY. I FEEL THAT I AM STILL YOUNG ENOUGH TO ABSORB NEW THINGS. AND TODAY I HOPE MY THIRD AMERICAN ADVENTURE WILL SOON START – CREATING GL ASS WITH MY OWN PERSONAL MARKS. J U N E 3 0 , 2 0 13 , L I N O TA G L I A P I E T R A 3

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SEATTLE SUNSET 2010 26.75 X 17 X 7 INCHES

Growing up on Murano surrounded by the world’s most famous glass designers and artists and steeped in the Venetian glass traditions of the island, Lino has been at the center of the world of glass art since childhood. From his first time teaching at Pilchuck thirty-four years ago, he has played a pivotal role in the American Studio Glass movement, inspiring and educating generations of glass artists with his technical expertise and his extraordinary sculptures. Lino’s passion for glass is evident not only in the work itself, but in his willingness to share his knowledge and passion with the larger community. And in sharing his hard-earned skills with multitudes of students around the world he has helped to create an international glass community. As the community expands it seems Lino expands along with it. His exuberance for teaching is matched only by his excitement for discovery and learning—at seventy-nine Lino maintains a childlike curiosity in his work and about the world. Whether in the hot-shop, at the kiln, at the stove in the kitchen, or at the concert hall, Lino is always trying new things and asking questions. His inquisitiveness about the world and about the medium of glass has led him to a multitude of discoveries, and ultimately to the creation of many of the world’s most spectacular works of glass sculpture.

The pieces selected for this exhibition exemplify this spirit of inquiry and Lino’s ever-evolving style. Notable throughout the exhibition is a sense of restraint, scale, and pattern. Lino, known for his long-necked, graceful, reaching and twirling vessels, is more reserved in his gestures here.

The vessels—pregnant, round forms with beautiful, simple surfaces reference bottles, jugs, and baskets. With their long, thin necks, elegant shoulders, broad hips, perfectly round bellies, they

PREGNANT ROUND FORMS WITH BEAUTIFUL SIMPLE SURFACES — LONG AND THIN NECKS, ELEGANT SHOULDERS, BROAD HIPS, PERFECTLY ROUND BELLIES

stand upright and strong like figures in a room, while their quiet and pristine surfaces make way for intensely detailed, layered, and faceted patterning. The intensity of the color, the precision of the canework, and the sheer scale of the pieces demand our attention. As you approach the work your eye is drawn in to a complex and intricately structured constellation of color and line; in many, thin black canes lace together loose, painterly swathes of color and tight groups of intricately patterned murrini.

Lino’s newest body of work is undeniably modern. His use of color and simplified forms calls to mind the moody and chromatic works of the modernist painters and sculptors of the twentieth century. We can see their resonance in his use of broads strokes of color to create a mood, explore surface, and to define a two-dimensional composition; using reductive gestural forms to explore the relationship of the object to the surrounding space, and to imply figure, history, and action. But unlike his modernist predecessors, Lino, as a glass artist, also paints and sculpts using light. For Lino, color, transparency, opacity, and reflectivity are primary elements, concerns which, when taken up and fused together, are largely unique to the medium of glass. As we look at this exhibition it is clear that Lino is the master of this medium—the work is as evocative as it is beautiful, as complex as it is refined, and as unique as it is reverential.

We are proud to present the newest body of work by Maestro Lino Tagliapietra, Il Profumo del Vetro. Congratulations, Lino, on this stunning and exciting new body of work. You never cease to amaze us. J U N E 3 0 , 2 0 1 3 , S A R A H T R A V E R A N D W I L L I A M T R A V E R

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KATA 2012 28.5 X 17.5 X 6.75 INCHES

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KOOKABURA 2012 14.25 X 18.5 X 9.75 INCHES

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FUJI 2012 22.25 X 16.75 X 12.25 INCHES

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FUJI 2012 22.25 X 13.5 X 7.5 INCHES

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FUJI 2013 22.5 X 14.5 X 8 INCHES

PAGO PAGO 2009 12H X 22W X 5.75D INCHES

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KOOKABURA 2012 30 X 10.25 X 10.25 INCHES

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AFRICA 2013 18.75 X 13.75 X 13.75 INCHES

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FUJI 2012 32.75 X 16.25 X 7.75 INCHES

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FUJI 2012 32.75 X 16.25 X 7.75 INCHES (OPPOSITE SIDE)

20 OSTUNI 2012 20 X 13.25 X 7.25 INCHES

Fuji 2011 20.75h x 15.5w x 8.5d inches

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OSTUNI 2012 23 X 14 X 9.5 INCHES

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FUJI 2013 33.25 X 7.25 X 8.5 INCHES

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KOOKABURRA 2013 28.5 X 15.25 X 15.25 INCHES

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FUJI 2013 41.5 X 16.25 X 8 INCHES

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OSTUNI 2012 22.5 X 16.5 X 9 INCHES

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ANGEL TEAR 2011 41.25 X 23.5 X 6 INCHES

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L: DINOSAUR 2006 41 X 18.25 X 8 INCHES R: DINOSAUR 2011 45.5 X 25.25 X 9.25 INCHES

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OCA 2013 36.75 X 9.75 X 6.75 INCHES

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FENICE 2012 18 X 25.25 X 4.25 INCHES

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FENICE 2013 26.75 X 14.5 X 9.5 INCHES

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KOOKABURRO 2013 26 X 18 X 18 INCHES

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KOOKABURRA 2013 30.25 X 12 X 12 INCHES

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KOOKABURRA 2013 23.5 X 16.25 X 16.25 INCHES

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OSAKA 2013 19 X 11.25 X 11.25 INCHES

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PETRA 2012 7.25 X 16.5 X 4.25 INCHES

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PETRA 2012 10.25 X 16 X 5.25 INCHES

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PETRA 2012 10.25 X 12.75 X 4.75 INCHES

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PETRA 2012 11 X 12.25 X 3.25 INCHES

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ENDEAVOR 2009 9.5 X 64.25 X 7.75 INCHES

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ENDEAVOR 2013 12 X 68 X 6 INCHES

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GIUDITTA 2013 71.25 X 35.75 X 0.75 INCHES

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CALLE LUNGA 2013 39.75 X 31 X 1 INCHES

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ADRIATICO 2012 50.75 X 24 X 1.75 INCHES

Lino Tagliapietra was born in Murano, Italy, in 1934. At the age of 12 he began an apprenticeship with Archimede Seguso and became a maestro at 21. Throughout the past 40 years, he has taught at some of the most important glass schools in the United States and around the world.

SELECTED COLLECTIONS Aperto Vetro, Venice, Italy Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA, USA Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

110 Union Street, Second Floor Seattle, Washington 98101 USA 206 587-6501 travergallery.com

Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, USA

SELECTED AWARDS AND EXHIBITIONS Visionary Award, ArtPalmBeach, Palm Beach, FL, USA

2012

Phoenix Award, USA

2011

Master of Medium Award, James Renwick Alliance, Washington, DC, USA

The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH, USA

2011

Honorary Degree, Doctor of Fine Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI, USA

2011

Lino Tagliapietra: From Murano to Studio Glass, Works from 1954 – 2011, Instituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Palazzo Franchetti, Venice, Italy

Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI, USA

Master of Medium Award, James Renwick Alliance, Washington, DC, USA

Glasmuseum, Ebeltoft, Denmark

Honorary Degree, Doctor of Fine Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan

2010

Master Teacher/Master Artist, Hite Art Institute, University of Louisville, KY, USA

Hunter Art Museum, Chattanooga, TN, USA

Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy

2008

Lino Tagliapietra in Retrospect: A Modern Renaissance in Glass, Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA, USA. (Between 2008 and 2010 the exhibition traveled to: The Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery, Washington, DC, USA; the Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, USA; Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA, USA; Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI, USA)

Il Bianco e Il Nero, Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA, USA

Lino for Aldo, Galleria Scaletta di Vetro, Milan Italy

2007 Cristal Award, Museo del Vidrio, Monterrey, Mexico 2006 Distinguished Educator Award, James Renwick Alliance, Smithsonian American Art

Museum, Washington, DC, USA

Il Mito della Fenice, Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA, USA

2004 Honorary Doctor of Humane Lettters, Centre College, Danville, KY, USA

Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA, USA Danish Royal Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark

Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA, USA

Kestner Museum, Hannover, Germany Kitazawa Museum of Arts, Takane-cho, Japan Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Manhattan, KS, USA Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Chicago, IL, USA The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Charlotte, NC, USA Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL, USA Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Lausanne, Switzerland Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France Museo del Vidrio, Monterrey, Mexico Museum of Art, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY, USA Museum Boymans, Rotterdam, The Netherlands The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, USA

Artist as Hero Award, National Liberty Museum, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA, USA

Artist Visionaries! Lifetime Achievement Award, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY, USA

Museum of Het Paleis, The Hague, The Netherlands

Passione e Vetro, Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA, USA

Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL, USA

National Museum of Ceramic Art and Glass, Baltimore, MD, USA

The President's Distinguished Artist Award, University of The Arts, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Palazzo Cavalli Franchetti, Venice, Italy

2001 Medal for Excellence in Craft Award, Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA, USA

Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA, USA

Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy

2000 Humana Distinguished Professor, Centre College, KY, USA

Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI, USA

Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, USA

A. D. Copier & Lino Tagliapietra: Inspiratie in Glass, Museum Het Paleis, The Hague, The Netherlands

1998 Libensky Glass Art Award, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA, USA

Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ, USA

Festa della Sensa, Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA, USA

Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, USA

Venezia Aperto Vetro, Guest of Honor, Invited Guest, Venice, Italy

1997

Lifetime Achievement Award, Glass Art Society

Urkunde Goldmedaille, Munich, Germany

1996 The Rakow Commission, Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, USA

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Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, USA

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2009 IIC Lifetime Acheivment Award, Instituto Italiano di Cultura, Los Angeles, CA, USA

FRONT AND BACK COVER DETAILS: OSAKA 2013 19 X 11.25 X 11.25 INCHES (P. 41)

Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH, USA

Shanghai Museum of Glass, Shanghai, PRC Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA Tokyo National Modern Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH, USA

Lino Tagliapietra, Glasmuseet, Ebeltoft, Denmark

Toyama City Institute of Glass, Toyama, Japan

Venezia Aperto Vetro, Guest of Honor, Invited Guest, Venice, Italy

Victoria And Albert Museum, London, UK

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