Giochi di sponda. Una collezione di vetro contemporaneo

Opening  October 8th

9.10 - 10.12.2022
every day 9:30 am - 5:30 pm

This exhibition tells the story of a collection established between 1990 and 2020 that is still unique in Italy in documenting the International Studio Glass art movement. The exhibition itinerary testifies to the work of 53 international artists with a corpus of 106 works in glass made between the 1950s and the present in Venice, as well as in academies and glassworks in Bohemia, in European research centers, and in the studio-furnaces of American, Canadian and Australian artists.

The collection reflects the friendship between a gallerist and a collector who have cultivated a shared passion for the city of Venice and artistic glass. It bears witness to an artistic practice resting on the encounter between free creativity and the rules of an ancient craft.

«Collection: a group of accumulated objects of the same nature, valuable, curious, or otherwise interesting, if only subjectively. That is the Zingarelli Italian dictionary’s definition, and it strikes me as droll that the close – “if only subjectively” – expresses the true and profound meaning of every collection!
I started buying glass objects when I was just a little girl, in Trieste, my hometown. [...]»
Serena Coloni

«From 1991 to the present my work has been a long journey in the company of Serena. Together we have created a splendid collection, hers, and a solid gallery, mine, both alone in dealing with contemporary glass in Italy in those decades. [...]»
Caterina Tognon

Emmanuel Babled, Howard Ben Tré, Giles Bettison, Cristiano Bianchin, Fulvio Bianconi, Barbara Bloom, Alessandro Cadamuro, Dale Chihuly, Václav Cigler Tessa Clegg, Brad Copping, Joan Crous, Alessandro Diaz de Santillana, Bruna Esposito, Claire Falkenstein, Paul Flora, Hanneke Fokkelman, Ernst Fuchs, Marie Aimée Grimaldi, Mieke Groot, Danny Lane, Edward Leibovitz, Silvia Levenson, Stanislav Libenský & Jaroslava Brychtová, Ivan Mareš, Richard Marquis, Paolo Martinuzzi, Richard Meitner, Ritsue Mishima, Massimo Nordio, Yoichi Ohira, Ico Parisi, Gaetano Pesce, Carole Pilon, Giò Pomodoro, Ezio Rizzetto, Maria Grazia Rosin, René Roubíček, Miluše Roubíčková, Gizela Šabóková, Filomena Sammartini Lopez y Royo, Laura de Santillana, Daniela Schönbächler, Bořek Šípek, Ettore Sottsass, Jana Sterbak, Lilla Tabasso, Lino Tagliapietra, Claudio Tiozzo, Bertil Vallien, Luciano Vistosi, Toni Zuccheri,Toots Zynsky

Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti
Campo Santo Stefano 2945
Venice