Murano Glass
I was born in Venice in 1950, to be more precise in Murano, the famous glass island, but I spent my youth and adolescence abroad.
My family was historically working on glass art, but once back to Italy I choose for myself another way although being always attached and fascinated by those artists who were able to shape such a material.
In 982 Venice began to work with glass, factories were then transferred in 1291 to Murano island for security reasons. Only Venitians natives had the privilege to work with glass, under very stricts rules.
It would seem impossible that starting from very simple raw materials as silica sand, several types of plant ashes, sodium, calcium carbonate, antimony, selenium, without considering that to obtain some colours, have to be added arsenic, cadmium, selenium and so on to reach then a temperature of 1400 degrees celsius and then reduce it to approximate 500 degrees so to be able to handle this material and achieve works of art of different weights and dimensions.
Being a photography enthusiast, I realised this little photo-reportage with important glass masters.
