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Glass Italian Style
Centuries’ worth of technique meet modern aesthetics to create the incredibly beautiful and complex pieces of 20th-century and contemporary glass art that Venice is famous for.
Ercole Barovier, monumental Intarsio vase
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- Yoichi Ohira, “Canale di Venezia N. 3” vase, 2009 , hand-blown glass murrine with granular inserts, carved and polished surface, 11 7 /8 x 5 ¾ x 5 inches , Maestro Andrea Zilio and Maestro Giacomo Barbini;
- Yoichi Ohira, “Cristallo Sommerso N. 72 – Scolpito” Vase, 2009, hand-blown glass canes, partial battuto and inciso surface, 11 1/8 x 5 ½ x 5 inches, Maestro Andrea Zilio and Maestro Giacomo Barbini
- Ercole Barovier, monumental Intarsio vase
- Ercole Barovier, Lenti vase
- Ercole Barovier, monumental Rostrati vase
It’s 1926 in Italy, on the legendary island of Murano. Your family name is one of the oldest and most revered in the history of Italian glass-blowing, dating back to the 14th century. Your father and your uncle have delighted the world by updating Roman-era techniques to make breathtakingly gorgeous and complex works of glass, but now it’s your turn to lead. Can you live up t
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Colata di Lava n. 4” Vase
2005
Photo Credit: Barry Friedman, Ltd.
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Yoichi Ohira |
Japanese Venetian Glass Master
| By Roderick Conway Morris | VENICE 9 February 1995 |
The responses to Yoichi Ohira's initial attempts to investigate the mysteries of Venetian glass making were far from encouraging.
'It was in 1973, and I was already enrolled at the Fine Arts Academy here in Venice to study sculpture,' said Ohira. 'One of the professors offered to introduce me to a good glass workshop on Murano. But when we got there the owner said he would never allow a Japanese into his factory - because ''they just steal your ideas and go off and copy them and ruin other people's industries!'' '
Happily the Japanese artist's resources of dedication and determination were matched by his charm and good humor, and he took this and other early rebuffs in his stride. For he is now one of Venice's most influential and highly-regarded glass-makers, and his designs are not only widely admired but, ironically, also extensively imitated and copied.
'There are two types of artist that work in Venetian glass,' said Ohira. 'The first is the Muranese glass-master, who designs for himself and blows his own work. The second is the artist who designs the work and then has it executed by a glass-maste