SPECIAL MOMENT,SPECIAL SHOW
LINO TAGLIAPETRA, born in Murano Italy in 1934, is likely the greatest living
glass artist and master blower of our century. He is the last working practicioner who, at age twelve, was apprenticed to a master. His elegant, powerful glass sculptures will show at HAWK gallery, 153 East Main Street, Columbus, Ohio, thru July 31. The show is titled FROM VENICE TO COLUMBUS, Da Venezia a Colombus, and it's a don't miss, the chance of a life time! Abstracted glass "dinosaurs" form a series, as do sea crafts, gondola-shapes, in the "endeavor" series. "Bilbao" reflects images from Spain.
For our troubled times: ANGEL TEARs (there's more than one) is at least 4'tall.
Its long stem stands straight up, heavenward, from its lute-shaped globe.--Inside the globe? Ribans, ribbands, ribbons.--Bright, slender, variegated, sky blue, green, scarlet, rose, webbed, cellular--they curve, winding upward into the stem.
Once streams of molten glass, these ribans run the curved gamut of a Tear.
They flow, touching each other but not overlapping, inside glass as clear as a raindrop, almost invisible.
Lino's unassuming yet debonair presence graced the opening on June 11. It was an honor to see him quietly discussing glass art with awed students and visitors, and making an effort to shake each hand.
glass artist and master blower of our century. He is the last working practicioner who, at age twelve, was apprenticed to a master. His elegant, powerful glass sculptures will show at HAWK gallery, 153 East Main Street, Columbus, Ohio, thru July 31. The show is titled FROM VENICE TO COLUMBUS, Da Venezia a Colombus, and it's a don't miss, the chance of a life time! Abstracted glass "dinosaurs" form a series, as do sea crafts, gondola-shapes, in the "endeavor" series. "Bilbao" reflects images from Spain.
For our troubled times: ANGEL TEARs (there's more than one) is at least 4'tall.
Its long stem stands straight up, heavenward, from its lute-shaped globe.--Inside the globe? Ribans, ribbands, ribbons.--Bright, slender, variegated, sky blue, green, scarlet, rose, webbed, cellular--they curve, winding upward into the stem.
Once streams of molten glass, these ribans run the curved gamut of a Tear.
They flow, touching each other but not overlapping, inside glass as clear as a raindrop, almost invisible.
Lino's unassuming yet debonair presence graced the opening on June 11. It was an honor to see him quietly discussing glass art with awed students and visitors, and making an effort to shake each hand.
posted by Liz James at 12:33 PM
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