L' Essenza Lino Tagliapietra

Lino Tagliapietra L’ Essenza

Oca

2002 50 1/4 x 8 3/4 x 6 1/2”

L’ Essenza Lino Tagliapietra is truly an explorer in touch with the essence of his art. Throughout the past four decades, Lino has continued to evolve as an artist by challenging himself and pushing past the limits of the glass medium through his imagination and ingenuity. Through his art, he has been a major influence and inspiration to the Contemporary Glass Movement in the United States. In many ways Lino’s evolution symbolizes the identity and essence of that movement in America.

Schantz Galleries is honored to present this catalog of selected works that span a 12 year period, ranging from Tagliapietra’s newest works, to his glass sculpture and panels that were featured in his major retrospective exhibition*.

In 2011 Lino will be honored with a major one person exhibition at the Palazzo Cavilli Franchetti on the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy. His talent and unlimited vision continue to inspire us all.

* Lino’s retrospective exhibition was curated and presented at the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, WA in 2008. The exhibition traveled for the next two years to: the Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC; The Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA; The Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA; and the Flint Museum of Arts, Flint MI.

Notte a Ravenna

1999 53 3/4 x 20 1/4 x 1”

Bisanzio,

1999 20 x 29 x 1�

...I think of these pieces as paintings.

The original idea was a painting, or something like a native American blanket, but, many things are possible.�

George

1999 60 1/4 x 30”

“What intrigues me more than the energy is the division of space.... where it is possible to be shocked. I translate energy into a kind of space, a color.”

Risaia

1999 39 1/2� diameter

Medusa

2006 15 3/4 x 17 1/4 x 6�

Batman

2008 13 1/4 x 12 1/4 x 3 3/4”

Atlantis

2003 25 1/2 x 12 1/4 x 6 1/4�

Mandara

2006 16 3/4 x 11 x 5 1/2�

Tholtico

1998 18 1/2 x 18 1/2 x 8 1/2�

Puffin

2002 17 3/4 x 9 3/4 x 6 3/4”

“I work out my dreams in the glass. That is my way.”

Dinosaur

2006 39 1/4 x 19 1/2 x 6 1/2”

Angel Tear

2010 29 1/2 x 21 1/2 x 6 1/4”

Makah 2010 23 1/2 x 11 1/2 x 5 3/4�

Piccadilly

2005 23” x 19 1/4 x 7”

Ostuni

2010 24 1/2 x 11 1/2 x 9 3//4�

Dinosaur

2010 54 x 10 1/2 x 6 1/4�

Lino Tagliapietra

Selected Museum Exhibitions and Collections China Shanghai Museum of Glass, Shanghai Denmark Glasmuseum, Ebeltoft France Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris GERMANY Kestner Museum Italy Aperto Vetro, Venice Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Biennale di Venezia Palazzo Grassi, Venice JAPAN Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo Kitazawa Museum of Arts, Takane-cho Tokyo National Modern Art Museum, Tokyo Toyama City Institute of Glass, Toyama Mexico Museo del Vidrio, Monterrey The Netherlands Danish Royal Museum, Copenhagen Museum Boymans, Rotterdam Museum Het Paleis, The Haag Switzerland Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Losanna uNITED KINGDOM Victoria and Albert Museum, London United States Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk Columbia Museum, Columbia Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton The Jewish Museum, San Francisco M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art New York Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Chicago The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Charlotte Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Museum of Glass, Tacoma The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York National Museum of Ceramic Art and Glass, Baltimore Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach Orlando Museum, Orlando Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs Racine Art Museum, Racine Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale Seattle Art Museum, Seattle Spencer Museum of Art, T University of Kansas, Lawrence Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Photography: Russell Johnson A Schantz Galleries Publication

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