Giancarlo Signoretto, Large Rare Signoretto Murano Glass Aventurine Menorah Italian Sculpture Judaica

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Giancarlo Signoretto (Italian, 1962-) Glass Sculpture Undated Hand signed and dedicated to a gallery on underside. Depicting a gold menorah … Read more Giancarlo Signoretto (Italian, 1962-) Glass Sculpture Undated Hand signed and dedicated to a gallery on underside. Depicting a gold menorah and a Jewish star of David over cobalt blue. Retaining a Made in Murano, Italy sticker on side Dimensions: Height: 11 3/4 inches, Width: 8 1/2 inches, Depth: 4 inches This is heavy. It is solid glass. Biography Giancarlo, born in 1962, is the son of a painter and one of eight children. Giancarlo starts working at the age of 14 under the supervision of his older brother, the celebrated maestro Pino Signoretto, a glass master of international fame. He then moves on and works for other Venetian furnaces.Giancarlo's first productions are influenced by the trends of the 1980s. The generation of artists that grew up in those years was tainted by a period of rapidly growing global capitalism, political upheaval, significant differences in wealth, global mass media, and distinctive music and fashion, including electronic pop and hip hop music. The Eighties were the time of the African famine, the height of the Cold War, and also its end, marked by the fall of the Berlin Wall. His production was marked by art movements of the time include Neo Geo, The Pictures Generation and the international trend of neo expressionism that manifested itself in Germany, the United States and Italy (where it was known as Transavanguardia). The decade was exemplified by artists such as Anselm Kiefer, Jörg Immendorff, Enzo Cucchi, Francesco Clemente and Julian Schnabel. Street art and graffiti began to gain recognition, including key artists including Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, and Kenny Scharf. Giancarlo opens his own furnace in Murano and soon starts working with renowned painters such as Leismuller, De Vittori, Badley, Licata and Valle. Based on drawings by Licata and Valle, Giancarlo’s art works are shown in Paris (Galleria Scremini), in Milan, Singapore and Amsterdam. German chancellor Helmut Kohl visits his furnace. Giancarlo is off to Detroit to teach glassmaking and exposes his art pieces at the Centre of Creative Studies. He creates a statue, ‘Madonna Nera di Cracovia’, which he personally hands to Pope John Paul II. He is awarded a honoris causa degree by the College of Optometry of San Giovanni Lupatoto, for which he creates a themed sculpture. He is in competition at the Biennale Art for ‘Premio Murano’ and wins two awards for his Enzo Brunori inspired artworks. He travels to France with the idea of pursuing new experiences and collaborations. He creates new sculptures based on the work of Krunic. Commissioned by David Niven’s wife, Paulina Tersmeden, he creates a statue depicting a hot air balloon inspired by the novel ‘Around The World in 80 Days’. Based on children’s drawings, he creates a series of art works. The profits from the sale go to Hopital Pasteur (Pasteur Pediatric Hospital of Nice, France). He begins collaborating with painter Marc Estel. He exhibits his art works at various galleries in Nice. One of his pieces becomes part of the permanent collection of the Modern Art Museum of Nice. He creates a bas-relief depicting the village of Eze, later exhibited at the local town hall. He makes a glass sculpture depicting a football shoe for Monaco Football Club’s manager Arsene Wenger. He starts collaborating with Germàn Tessarolo. He decorates a church door in Bosnia in collaboration with sculptor Rini Dado. He exhibits his art piece depicting an aquarium filled with glass fish at the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco. Together with tennis player Michael Stich, he creates for Nike a series of Oscar trophies. He collaborates with painter Cesaretti. He creates a series of sculptures portraying butterflies for fashion designer Vivienne Westwood. He starts working with Italian literary prize Premio Campiello and meets artist and novelist Mauro Corona. He works on a series of projects with designer Hiroko Ueki. He creates a glass umbrella for actress Jane Birkin. He starts collaborating with painter Luigi Voltolina and creates a series of sculptures based on the painter’s work. He creates a glass sleigh for Albert II, Prince of Monaco, a fan of bobsleigh. He creates a sculpture depicting a Ferrari for Formula 1 driver Sebastian Vettel. From a project conceived by Maria Luisa Tadei, he makes a 2.20m sculpture then exhibited in the Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines’ cruise ship Anthem Of The Seas. With the famous Chinese avant garde artist Ma Desheng, he works on a series of art works which are later exhibited at numerous art galleries around the world. He creates art pieces based on the work of Taiwanese artists A Sun Yan and Paloma Chang. Given her drawings, he creates a pair of glass feet for American artist Amy Podmore. In 2024 he begins a collaboration with the Mexican artist Pedro Friedeberg, where he created a series of works based on the artist’s drawings. In 2024 he begins a collaboration with the Victoria Miro Art Gallery based in Venice and London and he creates a series of works based on Brazilian artist Maria Nepomuceno’s project. In 2024 he wins the Gottardi Award price at the International Commission on Glass Annual Meeting delivered by the Japanese Kenji Shinozaki in Korea. Avventurina (gold flecked) Italian vintage glass menorah sculpture. Of a very high quality. Judaic pieces of this size and quality are quite rare. Similar to the aquarium glass pieces. The Venetian island of Murano has specialized in glassware for centuries. Murano’s glassmakers led Europe for centuries, developing or refining many technologies including crystalline glass, enamelled glass (smalto), goldstone, multicolored glass (millefiori), milk glass (lattimo), and imitation gemstones made of glass. Murano’s reputation as a center for glassmaking was born when the Venetian Republic, fearing fire and destruction of the city’s mostly wooden buildings, ordered glassmakers to move their foundries to Murano in 1291. In the 18th century Murano glassmakers started to introduce new products such as glass mirrors and chandeliers to their production. In history these glass chandeliers became popular after the iron, wood and brass era of chandeliers, and they were such a success that instantly brought chandeliers to a new dimension. In the first twenty years of this century the glass of modern style was produced at Murano quite discontinuously, for the most part on the occasion of the Venice Biennale exhibitions and of the Fondazione Bevilacqua la Masa at Ca' Pesaro. Some of Murano's historical glass factories remain well known brands today, amongst them De Biasi, Gabbiani, Venini, Salviati, Barovier & Toso, Pauly, Berengo Studio, Seguso, Formia International, Murno Gladst, Simone Cenedese, Alessandro Mandruzzato, Vetreria Ducale, Estevan Rossetto 1950 and many others. The oldest glass factory is Antica Vetreria Fratelli Toso, founded in 1854. Sommerso was developed in Murano during the late thirties and was made popular by Seguso d'Arte & Mandruzzato family in the fifties. This process is a popular technique for vases, and is sometimes used for sculptures. The technique of gold flecked glass is callen Aventurine or Avventurina or Pasta Stellaria and is a particularly rare and fine form of Murano glass. See less