25 november 2007 – 30 march 2008
The exhibition Vinicio Vianello: il design del vetro is devoted
to one of the most interesting artists of the ’fifties and ’sixties
and a leader of Italian “planning culture”. Installed in the
spaces of the Sala Boggian in the museum of Castelvecchio,
the show is part of the activities promoted by the cultural affairs
department of the city council, and by the direction of
the city monuments and art museums, together with the Carlo
Scarpa joint committee. Vianello, like Lucio Fontana an
exponent of Spatialism, worked in Venice where he collaborated
with the Cavallino gallery, but his career ran counter to
officialdom and artistic trends in general: he cannot be labelled.
He shared with Fontana an interest in avant-garde
research and in experimenting with all possible materials in
order to discover new shapes and artistic forms. It was due to
this experimentation and close interest in a dialogue between
the arts that, in 1950, Vianello began to try out new
constructions and techniques in the sector of glass and industrial
design, with the help of various master glass-makers
from Murano. This interest was to stay with him throughout
his life and was to lead him to an involvement with ceramics,
glass, light fittings, design objects, and to solutions in the
field of architecture which even included research into alternative
and solar energy. In Venice he was also involved by
Giulio Carlo Argan, Carlo Scarpa, and Franco Albini, in a forward-
looking experimental course for industrial craftsmen
and designers which was aimed at a specific grounding for
designing industrially-produced objects. Vinicio Vianello was
born in Venice 1923 and he died in 1999.
The show is curated by Alberto Bassi, Paola Marini, and Alba
di Lieto and outlines the unique activity of Vianello, which is
mostly unknown to the public, through a careful choice of 50
glass works exhibited next to such design objects as lamps and
ceramics created between the ’forties and the ’eighties. Placed
inside showcases designed by Carlo Scarpa for the Castelvecchio
museum, and installed by the Studio Follina according to
Sergio Brugiolo’s graphic project, such pieces as Vasi asimmetrici,
Reazione nucleare, and Scoppio a Las Vegas will allow a
vision of Vianello’s innovative research into materials, techniques,
and forms; there will also be the possibility of seeing
such fundamental designs by Vianello as the extraordinary
“variante” vases which, in 1957, were awarded the Compasso
d’oro prize, or the Nelson lamps with their patented modular
construction. This exhibition of objects which, since the early
’fifties, have been seen in the Venice Biennale and the Milan
Triennial as well as in solo and group shows in various parts of
the world, will be completed by a conspicuous documentation
– drawings, contemporary photos, preparatory sketches, books,
catalogues, and patents – which, like the glass works on
show, have been lent by the Vinicio Vianello Archive now conserved
in Treviso by Toni Follina. The show will also be enriched
by two publications: the monograph Vinicio Vianello, Pittura,
vetro e design, edited by Luca Massimo Barbero (pub. Skira,
Milan, 2004), and the booklet Vinicio Vianello: il design del
vetro, edited by Alberto Bassi, Paola Marini, and Alba Di Lieto,
published by Marsilio specifically for this show.
photo Foto Attualità, Cameraphoto, Interfoto, Bianconero, Archivio Fondazione Guggenheim
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opening hours
from Tuesday to Sunday 8.30 a.m. to 7.30 p.m.Monday 1.30 p.m. to 7.30 p.m.
admission to the exhibition
full
price ¤ 3,00
reduced
price ¤ 2,00 (groups, visitors aged under 18 or over 65,
primary
and secondary school children)
admission
to the castelvecchio museum and the exhibition
reduced price ¤ 4,00 (groups, visitors aged under 18 or over 65)
school group reductions ¤ 2,00 (primary and secondary school children)
free children under seven years old; attendant for each groups of visitors;two attendants for each class; the disabled; helper for the disabled
booking for guided tours
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free
guided tours of the exhibition (entrance ticket to be paid)
each
Sunday at 4 p.m.
Data inizio: 10-10-2007
Data fine: 30-03-2008
Orario: lu. 13.30-19.30 - da ma. a do. 8.30-19.30
Luogo: MUSEO DI CASTELVECCHIO - SALA BOGGIAN
Indirizzo: C.so Castelvecchio 2
Telefono: 045/8062611
Fax: 045/8010729