Item under consideration is an original Murano mouth blown, glass sculpture of3 BIRDS ON A BRANCH.Birds are mouth blown with a body coloration of a mottled pink and white, enclosed in a clear glass casing. The branch that the birds rest on is composed of clear glass.
Sculpture is designed and fabricated by the Master Art Glass ArtistAndreaTagliapietra.Signature is hand scribed on the bottom of the branch (photo# 12).
Dimensions: Height- 8 inch. Length- 8 inch. Width- 6 inch. Weight- 4 pounds.
About the Murano Art Glass Master Artist; AndreaTagliapietra:Andrea Tagliapietra was born in Murano on February 17, 1955. At the age of 14 he started working the glass in a glass factory on Murano island, following the tradition of his father Erminio, at that time one of the most talented glass masters of Salviati & Co. In his youth he worked as a glass factory server,apprentice, and than as an assistance. Finallybecominga glass master in 1979.
In 1980, as he likes to assert, he “lit up” his sensitiveness and art and started to create works that, as years went by, became popular and successful. It was thanks to their particular expressive autonomy and style, their formal and chromatic balance that were absolutely comparable to those of the greater glass masters of the first half of the twentieth century.
Currently, he is considered one of the Specialist of the Massello (Lump Glass Sculpture, sculpture on whole bodies of glass andCalcedonio techniques(special pattern of colored glass imitating the calcedonium stone)A Permanent Collection of Andrea’s works is located atStudio Andrea Tagliapietra Viale Bressagio 25/a, Murano.He began to exhibit his work in 1983 at the Bevilacqua la Masa Foundation in Venice, where some of the greatest contemporary art masters artistically took their first steps.
For Andrea Tagliapietra it was the beginning of an exhibition path that took him to Vienna, Linz, Villach, Las Vegas, the prestigious Gallery of Sculpture in Palm Beach, to New York, Chicago, Bern and Tokyo, where a lot of his sculptures are now part of private collections.
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