Milky glass figurine from the “Grotteschi” series, made by Fulvio Bianconi for Venini, Murano 1957. Character with reduced height and deformed features, portrayed with arms folded as if in the act of gesturing; headdress and gown with lozenge weaving obtained with the ballotton technique. Irregular elliptical base. Compatible with the Venini furnace drawing n. 4851. It bears no signature.
Product Condition: Item in good condition, shows small signs of wear. We try to present the real state of the item as fully as possible with photos. If some details are not clear from the photos, what is reported in the description will prevail.
Dimensions (cm): Height: 21 Width: 12 Depth: 9
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Notes historical bibliographic
The grotesque series (1957) includes six models of milk glass figurines inspired by the deformed statues found in the complex of the eighteenth-century Villa Palagonia in Bagheria (Palermo). Fulvio Bianconi (Padua, 1915 – Milan, 1996) was a graphic designer, illustrator, designer, curious author and attentive frequenter of artistic avant-garde environments. Distinguished as a caricaturist, in the mid-thirties he moved to Milan, the city where he entered the world of graphics and illustration, working for various publishing houses including Mondadori and Garzanti. It is thanks to a collaboration with the Gi.vi.emme perfume company that in 1946 Bianconi arrives in Murano at Venini, a historic company synonymous with artistic glass made in Italy, to deepen his knowledge of glass. It was precisely on this occasion that he met Paolo Venini: thus an extraordinary collaboration was born which would mark the production of the glassworks in the 1950s and occasionally in the following decades.
Designer: Fulvio Bianconi
Production: Venini
Cappelin Venini & C. Cosi il nome venini compare per la prima volta a murano. E il 1921 quando due personaggi straordinari entrano nel mondo delle vetrerie Muranesi. Sono l'antiquario veneziano Giacomo Cappellin e Paolo Venini, un avvocato milanese con una lontana tradizione familiare della lavorazione del vetro. Fanno la loro prima comparsa nel 1922 alla biennale di Venezia.
Time: 1950s
1950s
Material: Glass
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