Laura de Santillana, Vintage Hand Blown Faceted Fruit Form Murano Glass Sculpture Vase for Arcade, 2001

Description

Vase designed by Laura de Santillana in edition for Arcade, 2001. this is from a series of tropical fruit and … more Vase designed by Laura de Santillana in edition for Arcade, 2001. this is from a series of tropical fruit and plant form inspired vases with the same matte, hand engraved, finish:
PAPAIA, made in three different shades of green. MANGO, made in dark red glass. PASSION, made in an orange red glass. MARACUIA, made in golden yellow glass
COCCO, made in brown glass
Produced by maestro Simone Cenedese in Murano
Mouth-blown, hand-shaped, cut glass.
Country of Manufacture Italy. Signed by maker and sticker label from Arcade. Hand-Crafted



LAURA DE SANTILLANA
After finishing her studies, she moved to New York, where she attended the School of Visual Arts 1975 – 1977 and works with Massimo Vignelli as a graphic designer.
she returned to Italy and began her active collaboration with the Venini & C, where she came in contact with many Italian and foreign artists. During this period she used the techniques of Murano to create refined works with unusual colors, perfecting the “vetro mosaico” technique.
Her glassworks have received many prizes and recognitions, and are held by the most important museums of the world.
She collaborated with Venini between 1976 and 1985, during which she designed a range of articles. 1995 Starts collaboration with Simone Cenedese, which continues to this day.
2001-2002 Begins working in bronze and in wax sculpture at the Fonderia Brustolin, Verona

SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2018: In This Light, Galleri Glas, Stockholm
2017: Ciel Terrestre, Galerie Pierre Marie Giraud, Bruxelles
2016:Laura Diaz de Santillana, Stefan Vogdt/Galerie der Moderne, Munich
Sleeves, Caterina Tognon, Venezia
I fedeli, Studio Museo F. Messina, Chiesa di S. Sisto, Milano
2015: Laura de Santillana, O cha dogu, Ippodo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2014: Tokyo-ga, Ippodo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2013: Big Flats, Galerie L’Arc en Seine, Paris, France
2012: Laura de Santillana Meteors, David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, USA
2011: Grands Transparents, Galerie L’Arc en Seine, Paris, France
Liquid Glass, Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA, USA
2010:Laura de Santillana, Prague Festival, Istituto di Cultura Italiano, Prague, Czech
2008: Laura de Santillana, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2007: Khadi, Galleria Marina Barovier, Venice, Italy
2006: Bodhis, Galerie L’Arc en Seine, Paris, France
Bodhis, Barry Friedman Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2005: New Work, Sanske Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
2001Laura de Santillana Works, Museo Correr, Venice, Italy (catalog)
Laura de Santillana Works, Barry Friedman Gallery, New York, NY, USA (catalog)
Metals, Elliott Brown Gallery, Seattle, WA, USA


SELECTED GROUP AND DUO EXHIBITIONS

Design Basel, Galerie Pierre Marie Giraud
Chromatique, MUDAC, Lausanne
Living with Art_Albion Barn, Oxford UK
Oltre Roma, Accademia d’Ungheria, Roma
Fired up: women in glass, Toledo, Museum of Art_Charlotte, Mint Museum , USA
Laura de Santillana and Alessandro Diaz de Santillana, YSP
Trésors de sable et de feu. Verre et cristal aux Arts Decoratifs, XIV-XXI siècle,
Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France
Artissima Torino, Galleria Caterina Tognon
Hourglass, Galleria Marignana, Venezia, Italy
I Santillana, MAK, Austrian Museum for Applied Arts/Contemporary Art, Vienna, Austria
Artissima Torino, Faggionato Gallery, London, UK
Fire and Form: The Art of Contemporary Glass, The Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach, Laura de Santillana, Fashion meets Art, Giorgio Armani, New York, NY, USA
Translucency, Paul Hughes Fine Arts, London, UK

Selected Museums

Museo Vetrario di Murano, Venice, Italy
The Corning Museum of Glass, New York, NY, USA
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Metropolitan Museum of Arts, New York, NY, USA
Saint Louis Museum of Fine Arts, St Louis, MO, USA
Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York, NY, USA
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, USA
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, USA
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, USA
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
MUDAC, Lausanne, Switzerland
MAD, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY, USA
Museu de Arte de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Musée des arts décoratifs, Paris, France
Kunstmuseum im Ehrenhof, Düsseldorf, Germany
Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg, Coburg, Germany
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany
Neue Sammlung, Munich, Germany
IMA, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN, USA
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, USA
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH, USA

This came from an important Northern California collection that included a wonderful selection of Murano Glass. Aldo Nason, Peter Shire and Ettore Sottsass, Murano master Gigi Toso. A descendent of the legendary Venini dynasty of glassmakers, Laura Diaz de Santillana Incalmo Vases, Lino Tagliapietra, Yoichi Ohira, Barbini. The Swiss glassblower Thomas Blank Vittorio Zecchin, Paolo Venini Ercole Barovier.

Selected Bibliography
I fedeli, Studio Museo Francesco Messina, Sabino Maria Frassà, Maria Fedeli
Laura de Santillana and Alessandro Diaz de Santillana, Chapel, Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Wax, bronze and glass: new sculpture and a new direction from L de S, Susanne K. Frantz, Titan, Barry Friedman Gallery
Radiant space, Janet Koplos, Laura de Santillana Works, Museo Correr, Venice, 2001
In the Envelope: Laura de Santillana, Geoff Wickert, Glass, no. 79, 2000
A propos de Laura de Santillana, Jean-Luc Olivié, Galerie L’Arc en Seine, Paris, 1999
Laura de Santillana, Rosa Barovier Mentasti, Barry Friedman Ltd, New York, 1998
Laura de Santillana, Nally Bellati, New Italian Design, Rizzoli International, New York, 1990 less