GLASS SCULPTURE

“Following my Muse Freedom - I go down the abyss, with the fragile stride of the wind which picks up the fragments moved by the breath.” SA

After a Glass fusing course - in April 2014 at Abate Zanetti Glass School of Murano, and following my ecologic vision, I invented and developed an idea and a way to recycle the original Murano glass, to create new sculptures. According to my projects, I pick out and buy pieces of original Murano glass created in furnace and discarted during the making by the Murano Glass Master Mr. G. Signoretto and his team; then I assemble these pieces and re-melted them by the glass fusing mode, in Abate Zanetti School’s laboratory.

I named these sculptures "Scraps of original Murano glass" and this way to empathize with recycled glass "Poor art of luxury". Still in Spring 2014, some pieces of "Scraps" have been sketched in the "Manifest of Poor art of luxury". Then I began to place some scraps of original Murano glass sculpture paint on cut, folded and sewn canvas: to express a new linguistic connection.

My interest in glass like material is continuing and I followed another course (Lampworking at Abate Zanetti Glass School in November 2014) to know closely the material, to feel the gesture of its making...to develop an interaction between my painting attitude and sculpture.

Femen! is a special part of this collection made up by little glass sculptures that I thought to extend throughout any form of women's liberation and rights. So, the creative intention (to regenerate the discarded single pieces - messengers of beauty and knowledge of furnace making, through the process of assembling and refusing, to reinvent a new glass subject) has been fused together the necessity to extend throughout any form of women's emancipation and rights. Spreading by art works the important and daily figures, the movements and symbols promoting women’s issues. The Feminine/Feminist is a question in evolution – as an artistic work in progress…belonging to women and men. I choose glass to highlight the fragility of the woman condition, but at the same time the regeneration by the assemblage to express the need, the beauty and the possibility to recycle and to restore a broken integrity.