Lino Tagliapietra | Selected Works 2016

LINO TAGLIAPIETRA

Selection of Works 2001 - 2015 Schantz Galleries

LINO TAGLIAPIETRA

Selection of Works 2001 - 2015 Schantz Galleries | Stockbridge MA 2

Stromboli, 2015

14.5 x 10.5 x 6.5�

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Lino Tagliapietra at work on the 2015 Fenice, (opposite) at the Schack Art Center in Everett, WA.

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here are few individuals who can claim to have worked seventy years at a single career; we think of farmers, monks, and makers - those whose calling it is to create, heal or be of service began at a very early age. Maestro Lino Tagliapietra has pursued his lifelong profession with the same energy and focus that has marked his career across seven decades, and he continues to inspire those around him.

We are pleased to present this selection of the various series and techniques that Lino has employed - and some he invented - over the span of his creative ventures with glass. Within this catalog there are many of the series and techniques employed by the Maestro, ancient and contemporary; forms simultaneously classic and modern; colors and graphics that are quiet poetry and some which also shout to be heard and seen.

Like the Fenice, the Phoenix’ rise and rebirth from the ashes, Lino has reinvented himself, multiple times over the span of his 70 years working with glass. It is this continual search for the perfect alchemical formula that leads him through the various stages of transformation, both personal and in his work, which is why he is able to continually discover new potential.

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Jim Schantz and Kim Saul January 2016

Fenice, 2015

20.5 x 14 x 2.5�

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Kama, 2015 19.5 x 21 x 21”

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Fuji, 2013

25.75 x 15 x 7.5”

London, 2015

15.75 x 22.5 x 13.75”

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Kira, 2011 20 x 17 x 9.75�

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Medusa, 2015

17.5 x 17.25 x 7.25�

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Campo delle Ciacole, 2013 Fused glass panel 44.5 x 27.75 x 1�

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Chicago, 2015

Fused glass panel 31.5 x 39.5x .75�

75.5� tall with stand

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Medusa, 2007 18.25 x 17.75 x 6.75�

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Angel Tear, 2004

54.75 x 13.5 x 6.5"

Kuala, 2007

23 x 12 x 12"

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Borneo, 2015 15.25 x 11.5 x 11.5”

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Borneo, 2012

12 x 10.25 x 10.25”

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Dinosaur, 2015 57.5 x 21 x 6.5�

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Preziosa, 2015

11.25 x 12 x 4”

Dinosaur, 2015

21.5 x 13 x 4.5”

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Chiocciola, 2008 16.25 x 18.75 x 7.5”

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Clodia, 2015

24.25 x 11.75 x 6.5”

Clodia, 2015

26.5 x 10.5 x 7.25”

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Niomea, 2013 25 x 15.75 x 7.5”

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Africa, 2015

12.5 x 22 x 22

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Dinosaur, 2004 60.75 x 10.75 x 7�

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Dinosaur, 2012

46.5 x 19.5 x 11.25�

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Fenice, 2014 9.25 x 15.25 x 3.25�

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Fenice, 2011

45.5 x 16 x 5"

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Bilbao, 2001 17.5 x 13.75 x 7.5”

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Bilbao, 2007

24.5 x 8 x 4.75”

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Fenice, 2011 34.5 x 16 x 4.75�

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Oca, 2002

44.75 x 8.5 x 7.5”

Oca, 2013 35.5 x 10 x 7”

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Angel Tear, 2015 42 x 23.5 x 7.5”

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Fuji, 2014

36.25 x 17.25 x 7.5”

Fuji, 2013

39.75 x 17 x 9"

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Fuji, 2011 22 x 14.75 x 9”

Fuji, 2013 26 x 15.75 x 9.5”

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Angel Tear, 2015

30 x 22.75 x 8.5”

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Kookaburra, 2015 28 x 9.75 x 9.75�

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Kookaburra, 2013

29.75 x 11.5 x 11.25”

Kookaburra, 2013

32.5 x 10.75 x 10.75”

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Kookaburra, 2013 36.5 x 11.75 x 11.75�

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Stromboli, 2015 24.5 x 11.75 x 6.5�

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Ombelico del Mondo, 2015 21.5 x 21.5 x 7.5�

Ombelico del Mondo, 2015 21 x 21 x 10�

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Ombelico del Mondo, 2015

23 x 23x 10.25 �

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For over forty-two years, Maestro Lino Tagliapietra worked in various for-profit Murano factories including Vetreria Galliano Ferro, Venini & Co., and finally as the Artistic and Technical Director of Effetre International (1976-1989). Tagliapietra believed that if glassmaking at its highest level was to survive, it must expand beyond the island of Murano. In the summer of 1979, Lino made his first trip to Seattle and on to Pilchuck.

From this point on, glassblowing would undergo a profound transformation. Tagliapietra generously shared what he knew with artists in the United States and subsequently throughout the world. During his more than 30 years of teaching, he has instilled a demand for excellence, a work ethic, and a love of the medium that has changed and elevated the glass art movement forever.

Tagliapietra’s career is defined by a dedication to workmanship, innovation. Lino openly shared his farreaching knowledge of the medium and his skill as one of its finest practitioners, and helped to create a new renaissance in studio glassmaking. Defying criticism from the community back home, Tagliapietra never stopped sharing his knowledge. But the giving was not a one-way street; Tagliapietra benefited equally from the young artists that he taught and with whom he collaborated. After years of factory production work, Tagliapietra came face-to-face with new ways of regarding the material and with individuals who considered it a medium for art. They were blowing glass for the sheer joy and challenge of it. This creative exchange with artists throughout the world expanded Lino’s ideas for what can be accomplished with the medium of glass. We see in Lino‘s art not only the highest level of skill and mastery of material, but a personal quest for new discoveries. At the age of 80, Lino continues to challenge himself by finding the next exciting or sublime form, striving for new forms of expression and creativity. His latest works which we saw him make at the Museum of Glass in February (2015) were some of the most powerful works I have seen in blown glass. I would put these works in the category of the most joyful works of Matisse, or Monet’s Water Lilies, with the power of presence of a Tang Dynasty figurine.

In other words, Lino’s work has a presence which references yet transcends time. We are so fortunate in our lifetime to witness a maestro and artist in one, who through his openness to life and humanity is able to transform silica into miraculous works of art.

Jim Schantz Excerpt from June 2015 article in American Craft Magazine

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MUSEUMS AND ART INSTITUTIONS CHINA: Shanghai Museum of Glass, Shanghai · DENMARK: Glasmuseum, Ebeltoft · Danish Royal Museum, Copenhagen · FRANCE: Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris · GERMANY: Kestner Museum, Hannover · ITALY Aperto Vetro, Venice · Biennale di Venezia · Palazzo Cavalli Franchetti, Venice · Palazzo Grassi, Venice · JAPAN: Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo · Kitazawa Museum of Arts, Takane-cho · Tokyo National Modern Art Museum, Tokyo · Toyama City Institute of Glass, Toyama · MEXICO: Museo del Vidrio, Monterrey · THE NETHERLANDS: Museum Boijmans, Rotterdam · Museum Het Paleis, The Haag · SWITZERLAND: Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Lausanne · UNITED KINGDOM: Victoria and Albert Museum, London · UNITED STATES: Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA · Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass, Neenah, WI · Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA · Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA · Columbia Museum, Columbia, OH · Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH · Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY · Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH · Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI · Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI · Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA · Hunter Art Museum, Chattanooga, TN Lino Tagliapietra photo: Robert Peterson · The Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA · M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA · Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, New York, NY · Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Chicago, OH · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY · Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Charlotte, NC · Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL · Museum of Art, Washington State University, Pullman, WA · Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY · Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA · Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX · Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA · National Museum of Ceramic Art and Glass, Baltimore, MD · Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL · Orlando Museum, Orlando, FL · Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA · Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI · Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, DC · Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ · Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA · Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS · Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA · Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH

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Coral Reef, 2015 Fused glass panel 18.75 x 38.25 x 1.5�

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Nuvola, 2015

Fused glass panel 26.5 x 39.25 x .75�

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LINO TAGLIAPIETRA Selection of Works 2001 - 2015

Africa, 2013

11.25 x 18.25 x 18.25”

© 2016 Schantz Galleries, Stockbridge, MA This catalogue was published to coincide with the exhibition at Art Wynwood, Miami, Florida.

February 11-15, 2016

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Design: Kim Saul/Silver City Design Studio Photography: Russell Johnson