The Glass Study Centre is organising a conference dedicated to the ongoing exhibition at LE STANZE DEL VETRO, on Thursday 31 October at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini.
The conference Glass and the Decorative Arts at the Venice Biennale. 1912-1930 is scheduled for Thursday 31 October from 9.30am at the Giorgio Cini Foundation.
Promoted by the Glass Study Centre, it will examine in detail Murano glass displayed at the Biennale since the early 20th century.
Glass historians and leading experts will recount not only the key figures in Venetian glassmaking and the critical success of some of the most iconic works exhibited at the Venice Biennale, but also the methodological choices in terms of colour and form made by the great artists represented in the exhibition, including Hans Stoltenberg Lerche, Teodoro Wolf Ferrari, Guido Balsamo Stella and Vittorio Zecchin.
The conference will open with an address by the Director of the Institute of Art History of the Giorgio Cini Foundation, Luca Massimo Barbero, followed by contributions from Valerio Terraroli, lecturer in History of Art Criticism, Museology and History of Decorative Arts and History of Contemporary Art at the University of Verona; Davide Lacagnina, Director of the School of Specialization in Historical Artistic Heritage at the University of Siena and lecturer in History of Contemporary Art and History of Contemporary Art Criticism; Massimo De Sabbata, contemporary art historian; and Rosa Barovier Mentasti, art and glass historian.
The afternoon will be dedicated to lectures by Stefania Portinari, lecturer in Contemporary Art History at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice; Carla Sonego, glass historian; Jean-Luc Olivié, curator of the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris; and Stefania Cretella, lecturer in History of Decorative Arts at the University of Verona.
Installation view. Ph. Enrico Fiorese