Yoichi Ohira has lived and worked in Venice for many years. The most compelling of the latest collection of Ohira is the sensitivity with which the artist has been able to bring out the infinite potential of mimetic glass, which can become, giving body to specific forms, ivory, jade, alabaster, turquoise, lapis lazuli, coral, onyx; or recall, in its fine texture, the precise grain of the wood, the plots delicate bamboo, rather than the glowing light of the mosaics and the fascinating splendor of precious stones.