SCHANTZ GALLERIES 2020 STOCKBRIDGE, MA
PROVENANCE 1995 - 2016 Featuring a Selection of Works from the Archives
We are very pleased for this special opportunity to present these works, some previously exhibited in museums, and others from the archives of Maestro Lino Tagliapietra. Several of these works represent the few remaining in a particular series. Works that have been included in museum exhibitions during the past two decades are indicated. Museums include the Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA; Museum of Glass Tacoma, WA; the Flint Institute of Arts, MI; Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA; and the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. Additionally, the three museum exhibits which Schantz Galleries helped support, include the Bergstrom Mahler Museum of Glass, Neenah WI; Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, AL, and the Morris Museum of Art, Morristown, NJ.
Hopi, 1995 13.75 x 13.75 x 13.75�
It is true, that it would take another museum retrospective to bring the full oeuvre of his work to date into the broadest possible perspective, however, we have made this effort to share a collection of works from 1995 - 2016. We are honored to represent Lino Tagliapietra and hope you will enjoy this presentation. Jim Schantz Kim Saul October, 2020
Exhibited: A Golden Age of Glass, Lino Tagliapietra, Boston, MA
Batman 1998 13.25 x 12.25 x 3.25”
Exhibited: Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery, Washington, D.C Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI
Dinosaur, 1999 37.25 x 9.25 x 5.75�
Batman, 2001 8.25 x 14 x 3.5”
Bilbao, 2001 17.5 x 13.75 x 7.5�
Exhibited: Bergstrom Mahler Museum of Glass, Neenah, WI Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ Montgomery Museum of Fine Art, Montgomery, AL
Mandara, 2004 21 x 14 x 7�
Bilbao, 2004 23.5 x 10.5 x 5”
Bilbao, 2005 23.5 x 10 x 4.25”
Bilbao, 2005 36 x 10.5 x 6.5”
Dinosaur, 2005 55.5 x 26.75 x 6.5�
Dinosaur, 2005 67 x 9 x 6.25�
In Dinosaur, organic asymmetry evokes the prehistoric Apatosaurus. Defying gravity, the glass arches gracefully upward and forward into the long tendril of his neck.
“Take the customs, for example, when we were talking about the research, we have the institution how you learn what you do, or where you go to school. But in the meantime, you have to surpass that convention, and freely express yourself, and forget the custom, you must be totally free. In this way, you are an artist.� ~ Lino
Piccadilly, 2005 23.5 x 19.25 x 7.25�
Mandara, 2007 37 x 15.5 x 7.5�
Contarini, 2008 53.75 x 7.5 x 3.75�
Chiocciola, 2008 16.25 x 18.75 x 7.5�
Exhibited: Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ Montgomery Museum of Fine Art, Montgomery, AL
Dinosaur, 2009 20.25 x 5.75 x 4.5"
Niomea, 2009 27.25 x 16 x 8�
Demanding extreme patience, drive and agility, glassblowing is a craft that comes naturally to few, like a foreign language that must be taught and mastered. Lino Tagliapietra speaks the language of glass, and the pieces selected for this exhibition speak loud and clear.
Saba, 2009 29.5 x 15.5 x 6.25”
Makah, 2010 24 x 11.5 x 5�
Shown are multiple incalmi with criss-crossed canes and the Pilchuck ‘96 technique. Coldwork gives the apperance of movement to the linear graphic qualities with processes including inciso (straight lines carved into the glass), battuto, (like hammered metal), and seme (like a seed). After the vessel has cooled, Lino draws with a marker, directly onto the glass to indicate the pattern and placement for different textures.
Ostuni, 2010 20 x 13.75 x 4.25�
Saba, 2010 32.25 x 13.75 x 5.25”
Angel Tear, 2011 27.75 x 20.5 x 6”
Fenice, 2011 34.25 x 16 x 4.75�
Exhibited: Montgomery Museum of Fine Art, Montgomery, AL
The Ancient Greek legend of the Phoenix, illustrated in the impossibly elongated Fenice, is apropos in describing Tagliapietra’s approach to his art. Like the phoenix, he is cyclically reborn and carries his ancestry within him, obtaining new life from the ashes.
Commanding a broad artistic, cultural, and technical lexicon, Lino Tagliapietra nonetheless embodies the Zen Buddhist philosophy of shoshin, the heralding of the beginner’s mind. Zen teacher Shunryu Suzuki has written that “in the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, in the expert’s mind there are few.” It encourages experienced practitioners to approach their craft each day with the same optimism, purity, and openness with which they encountered it for the first time. Tagliapietra has written that he is “totally open. I think that what I like to do the most is research. I don’t want to represent Venetian technique only—even though I was born with it and it is possible to recognize it in my work. Your style is what you are.”
Working in the former studio of Jim Mongrain, assisted by Jen Elek and David Walters, Mulkiteo, 2014.
Guidecca, 2013 21.75 x 49 x 6.5”
Borneo, 2015 24.5 x 10 x 10”
Dinosaur, 2015 21.5 x 13 x 4.5"
Exhibited: Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ Montgomery Museum of Fine Art, Montgomery, AL
Tagliapietra explains: “If you compare the chunk of avventurine glass in a solid form on the table you can see it is a beautiful piece of glass—a beautiful material. Then to transform this beautiful material into a sculpture is sometimes more challenging—not only because of the difficulty of working with the material technically, but because it is so beautiful by itself.”
Spirale, 2016 23.5 x 5.25 x 5.25�
LINO TAGLIAPIETRA Museum Collections CHINA: Shanghai Museum of Glass, Shanghai DENMARK: Glasmuseum, Ebeltoft · Danish Royal Museum, Copenhagen FRANCE: Musée des Arts Décoratifs, 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, Takanecho · 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: Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Lausanne UNITED KINGDOM: Victoria and Albert Museum, London UNITED STATES: Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA · Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass, Neenah, WI · Cantor Art Center, Stanford, CA · Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA · Chazen Museum, Madison, WI · Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA · Colby College Museum, Waterville, ME · Columbia Museum, Columbia, OH · Columbia Museum of Art, SC · 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 · Imagine Museum, St. Petersburg, FL · The Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA · Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, 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 · Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA · 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 · Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA · Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
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