Paris, November 20th 2018, PIASA will dedicate its fourth sale to the famous Venetian glass works Venini and its prestigious collaborations with the most important modern and contemporary designers: Ettore Sottsass, Tadao Ando, Ron Arad, Fluvio Bianconi, Fernando &Umberto Campana, Gio Ponti, Timo Sarpaneva, Carlo Scarpa. The pieces, most of which are prototypes and artist's proofs, all come from the Venini Museum. The great architect Tadao Ando is presented here with two artists' proofs, a first vase from 2017, which perfectly illustrates his work: a blown glass architecture with very pure, geometric volumes, which plays with light, its signature, thus allowing to perceive all the contrasts of glass, a real technical feat of Venini's workshops, estimated between 20 000 / 30 000€.
Lot 1 - Tadao Ando (born in 1941)
Ando
Vase - Artist Proof
Blown glass
Creation Date : 2017
Signed and dated : Venini 2011 AndoP.d.A.
H 57 x L 41 x P 22 cm
Estimate 20 000 - 30 000 €
Then, a second "Ando Cosmos" vase from 2017, an architecture like those he created in concrete, but glass as a material allows him to play on the effects of transparency, color, and the cosmos represented in the center of the vase by a sphere underlines these contrasts, estimated between 18 000 / 25 000 € .
Lot 2 - Tadao Ando (born in 1941)
Ando Cosmos
Vase - Artist proof
Blown Glass
Creation Date : 2017
Signed and dated : Ando Cosmos Venini 2017 P.d.A.
H 45 x L 46,5 x P 46,5 cm
Estimate 18 000 - 25 000 €
Another important signature is Ron Arad, the Israeli designer, whose work is characterised by pure, simple, unconventional forms with a taste for curves, which places him in the line of sculptor designers, as shown by the two vases, from this first part of the sale, in blown glass and metal from 2014, estimated at between 7,000 / 9,000 €. Indeed, his approach is more that of an artist through the singularity of each of these pieces than that of an industrial designer.
Lot 3 - Ron Arad (born in 1951)
Vase - Artist proof
Blown glass and metal
Creation Date : 2014
Signed and dated : Venini 2014 Ron Arad P.d.A.
H 53 x Ø 32 cm
Estimate 7 000 - 9 000 €
Lot 4 - Ron Arad (born in 1951)
Vase - Artist Proof
Blown glass and metal
Creation Date : 2014
Signed and dated : Venini 2014 Ron Arad P.d.A.
H 66 x Ø 32 cm
Estimate 7 000 - 9 000 €
The brothers Campana Fernando and Umberto, star designers, Brazilian, based their work on the diversion of craft or recycling products, wood, fabrics, paper, plush... and on the transgression of the canons of aesthetics in a baroque style bordering on kitsch, full of humour. They are collaborating here with Venini to create this sculptural water fountain "Rivivo", a unique piece from 2010, estimated at between 30,000 / 40,000 €.
Lot 37 - Fernando Campana (né en 1961)& Humberto Campana (born in 1953)
Rivivo - Unique Piece
Sculpture fountain Glass
Creation Date : 2010
Signed and dated : Milano, Museo Bagatti Valsecchi, 2010
H 230 x Ø 170 cm
Estimation : 30 000 - 40 000 €
Also present, a series of very beautiful vases by illustrator and graphic designer Fluvio Bianconi, which will be the highlight of this sale. Based in Milan in the 1940s, Bianconi works with the world's leading publishing houses. In 1946 he decided to go to Venice several times to discover and learn more about the art of glassmaking. There he meets Paolo Venini who, feeling the creative spirit of the young Fluvio, invites him to collaborate on his glassware. The result is vases of rare poetry, Piasa presents three of them: "Vaso con Omini" from 1950 estimated between 40 000 / 50 000 €, "Vasocon Granchio" from 1950 estimated between 25000 / 30 000 € and "Vaso con fiori" from 1951 estimated between 30 000 / 40 000 €.
Lot 13 - Fulvio Bianconi (1915-1996)
Vaso con omini
Vase - Blown glass
Creation Date : 1950
H 27 x Ø 11,5 cm
Bibliography: M. Barovier, Fulvio Bianconi alla Venini, Fondazione Cini, Le Stanze del Vetro, Skira 2015, p. 122
Estimate 40 000 - 60 000 €
Lot 14 - Fulvio Bianconi (1915-1996)
Vaso a fiori
Vase - Blown Glass
Creation Date : 1951
Signed: Venini murano ITALIA
H 23 x Ø 10 cm
Bibliography: M. Barovier, Fulvio Bianconi alla Venini, Fondazione Cini, Le stanze del Vetro, Skira 2015, p. 222See more
Estimate 30 000 - 40 000 €
Lot 15 - Fulvio Bianconi (1915-1996)
Vaso con granchio
Vase
Blown Glass
Creation Date: 1950
H 23,5 x Ø 14 cm
Bibliography: M. Barovier, Fulvio Bianconi alla Venini, Fondazione Cini, Le Stanze del Vetro, Skira 2015, p. 122
Estimate 25 000 - 35 000 €
VENINI, THE MOST INFLUENTIAL GLASSMAKER'S WORKSHOP IN MURANO
Tradition, mastery, know-how and prestigious collaborations are the key words that have led Venini to become the most important glass workshop in Murano in Venice, founded in 1921 in Venice by Paolo Venini and Giacomo Cappellin, the workshop quickly became the most influential Venetian firm of the 20th century, thanks in particular to its illustrious collaborations with the most important artists of the 20th and 21st centuries and supported by the know-how of the island's best craftsmen. These exchanges will make Venini the symbol of innovation and artistic sense of the art of glass, and Venini's considerable heritage is now preserved in its museum, guaranteeing the unique and authentic history of the passion for glass. Venini's works are preserved in the most important museums in the world, from MOMA in New York to the Fondation Cartier in Paris or the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
