The Glass Mesa Lino in Santa Fe
The Glass Mesa Lino in Santa Fe
Yes, for sure I will be in Santa Fe. There are only a few cities in the world like Santa Fe and its magic. For example: Istanbul, New York, San Francisco and of course, Venice. The magic about Santa Fe is that in a slow and mysterious way it brings you to see things in a completely different way. At Santa Fe, it is the sunset, the sunrise, and the perfume in the air. Friendship is like time. I want to say it is not important how many times we are together, but how we spend our time together. For this reason I like to return to Santa Fe, to meet again all my friends there. I hope we can have a good glass of wine together, red or white, it does not matter. Arrivederci e Salute!
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Lino Tagliapietra
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Holsten Galleries SOFA WEST: SANTA FE
SANTA FE CONVENTION CENTER JULY 7-11, 2010
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I don’t play music, I play glass. It is part of my culture, my brain, my blood. Lino Tagliapietra
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Nubia 2007 20.5” h 11.25” w 7.75” d
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Piccadilly 2007 18.25” h 20.25” w 6
9.25” d
Bilbao 2001 25” h 10.75” w 7.75” d
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Saba 2001 27” h 16.75” w 7.75” d
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Makah 2009 23” h 13” w 10
7.25” d
There is not a single day in the studio that I do not think to myself, ‘How would Lino do it’ ? Dante Marioni
Hopi 2003 13.5” h 16.5” w 16.5” d
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Angel Tear 2008 23.75” h 16.5” w 12
6” d
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Mandara 2003 15.75” h 14.25” w 14
6.5” d
Bilbao 2001 16.25” h 15.75” w 8.75” d
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Borneo 2007 15.75” h 10.25” w 16
10.25” d
Madras 1999 20.75” h 14.5” w 8.25” d
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Dinosaur 2005 38.75” h 10.25” w 18
5.75” d
Dinosaur 2005 47.5” h 14.75” w 7.25” d
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Masai d’Oro 2008 64” h 50” w 20
15” d
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For more than two decades he [Lino] has developed a distinctive style that explores and expands on the most complex traditional Venetian techniques. Juta-Annette Page
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Stromboli 2006 16” h 9.25” w 6” d 23
Endeavor 2007 7” h 54.25” w 24
6.25” d
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Endeavor 2007 7.25” h 63” w 9.25” d
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Endeavor 2009 11” h 61.25” w 28
7.5” d
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Seattle Sunset 2008 20.25” h 11” w 6” d 30
Lino and the mechanics of his practice may be dissected ‘ad nauseum,’ but it will never be possible to understand how he conceives each piece in his head. Susanne K. Frantz
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Kenn Holsten, Holsten Galleries, July, 2010
Lino Tagliapietra is almost universally acknowledged as the world’s greatest living glassblower. In the 25 years that Holsten Galleries has represented Lino, we have witnessed his amazing transformation from a skilled and accomplished but relatively unknown Venetian glass artist to one of the most highly acclaimed and sought after glass artists of all time. It has been my great privilege and honor to have presented numerous one-person exhibitions of Lino’s work at art expositions in Chicago, Palm Beach, Scottsdale and Los Angeles. Now, for the second consecutive year, I am proud to be showing his work once again at the second annual SOFA-WEST in Santa Fe. For me this is particularly gratifying as Santa Fe is the magical city where my wife Christine and I now live year-round. ¶ The body of work that Lino has created for this exhibition represents nearly every major series he has worked on over the past ten years or so. Our idea was to choose one or two outstanding examples from each of the major series: Bilbao, Dinosaur, Endeavor, Hopi, Mandara, Masai d’Oro, Saba, to mention just a few. For this show, Lino’s vast repertoire of color, technique and form has been distilled into a gem of an exhibition of 19 superb works. ¶ Having begun his glassblowing career at the tender age of 11, Lino shows no signs of slowing down at age 75. I often have said that just as we think Lino has done his best work ever, he surprises us with a new vision of what is possible to create with molten glass. ¶ I would like to thank Lino for his great creativity and skill, for his generosity of spirit in sharing his work and his techniques with glass artists from around the world and for his friendship over the years. I would also like to thank Lino’s business manager, Cecilia Chung, for her gracious and skillful cooperation in organizing this and all previous exhibitions. Finally, I wish to thank Peter Chan for creating this beautiful catalog. ¶ We hope that many of you will be
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able to see this work in person and to say hello to Lino in Santa Fe, July 7-11.
SOFAWEST: SANTA FE Santa Fe Convention Center July 7-11, 2010
Holsten Galleries
P R E S E N T I N G
The Glass Mesa Lino in Santa Fe SOFA WEST: SANTA FE Santa Fe Convention Center July 7-11, 2010
Online Gallery: www.holstengalleries.com Gallery Director: Kenn Holsten E-mail: kenn@holstengalleries.com Mailing Address: 369 Montezuma Avenue #314 Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA Tel: 505-992-0270
Lino Tagliapietra
Born in 1934 on Murano, a small island in the Venetian lagoon, Tagliapietra has been surrounded by glass work-shops his entire life. He left school at 11 and began to work in the glassmaking industry, mastering the age-old techniques and working his way up to maestro by the time he was 22. Tagliapietra was developing his own designs by the late 1960s and early 1970s, which were put into production or limited production. In 1977, he became head glass blower, designer and overseer of production at a new company, Effetre International, where he made unique pieces and limited series. Âś In 1979, at the age of 45, Tagliapietra traveled for the first time to the United States to teach at the new Pilchuck Glass School near Seattle. he spoke no English at the time, but Tagliapietra want to explore the artistic opportunities available in America, and American studio glass artists were eager to expand their technical knowledge and skill. Tagliapietra shared his extensive knowledge, returning each summer to the school. Tagliapietra continued to collaborate with various artists and designers until the mid 1990s, when he decided to concentrate on his own work. He developed a visual language and took bold risks in color and form. At 75, Tagliapietra continues to influence studio glass artists around the world through teaching and exhibitions of his work.
Selected Museum Exhibitions and Collections Aperto Vetro, Venice, Italy Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, USA Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, USA Columbia Museum, Columbia, USA Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, USA Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, USA Danish Royal Museum, Copenhagen, The Netherlands The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, USA The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, USA Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, USA Glasmuseum, Ebeltoft, Denmark Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan Hunter Art Museum, Chattanooga, USA The Jewish Museum, San Francisco, USA Kestner Museum, Hannover, Germany Kitazawa Museum of Arts, Takane-cho, Japan M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, USA Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Manhattan, USA Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Chicago, USA Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Charlotte, USA Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, USA Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Losanna, Switzerland Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, France Museo del Vidrio, Monterrey, Mexico Museum Boymans, Rotterdam, The Netherlands The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA Museum of Glass, Tacoma, USA Museum Het Paleis, The Haag, The Netherlands Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, IL, USA The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA National Museum of Ceramic Art and Glass, Baltimore, USA Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, USA Orlando Museum, Orlando, USA Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, USA Racine Art Museum, Racine, USA Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, USA Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, USA Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA Tokyo National Modern Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, USA Toyama City Institute of Glass, Toyama, Japan Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK Photography: Lino portrait (page 2) - Bob Peterson, Masai d’Oro (page 20, 21) - Robert Vinnedge. All others (except page 32) - Russell Johnson. Graphic Design: Peter Kwok Chan. Printing: Robin Enterprises Co.
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