Barbaro

 

Barbaro

 

Barbaro

 

Within venice tradition of glass manufacturing, Murano island holds certainly the leading role: it concretely helped in preserving through centuries one among the most evocative arts, keeping in the passing of time its charm and the unreserved devotion required by artistic creation, in particuler in the case of glass art. Among the many glass works born grown in murano one in particular stands out thanks to its good works, the glass works, the glass works Colleoni that, since the beginning of the third millennium, together with the commercial production started also an itinerary of technical reserch and artistic fulfilment.

12 works Alessandro Barbaro, the glass master who gives life to Luigi Moro?s concepts and ideas: using big scissors and heavy tools he shapes glass in a surrounding apparently unsuitable and inhospitable for such a transparent and fragile material. But from heat and colourful sands Alessandro?s touch and ability give birth to elegant moving horses, to powerful and wild lions and tigers and graceful deers and gazelles. Alessandro Barbaro?s talent, emerging also from the more commercial production, finds its natural expression in the different conceptual and figurative creations, such as the peculiar optical effects of vases like aquariums or sculptures depicting human heads and animals. Master Barbaro is supported by talented Diego Bardella, a young glass artist and assistant glass-blower, creating a new unity between the latest tecnique of massiccio and the ancient tradition of soffiato. Among the works to be carried out, after the amazing International success of Colosseo?s sculptural work displayed at Las Vegas? Hotel Venetian and of the double fountain of the Hotel Europa & Regina, Colleoni is working on a series of elephant tusks long one meter and 80 centimeters, half empty, to be used as lamps in a castle in Germany. Alessandro Barbaro?s talent has been already challenged by great enterprises: Murano glass art has finally found an high quality artist, to be included within the ancient artistic tradition of Venice island.