Siru - Venice Glass Week

Glass will also be the protagonist, for a whole week, of a new international festival that will be held from 10 to 17 September 2017 in Venice. The event is organized by Fondazione MUVE, Fondazione Cini, Istituto Veneto and Consorzio Promovetro Murano, aiming to create an international festival dedicated to the art of Murano glass involving all the major institutions of the city. The goal is to revive and support the most important artistic and productive activity of the city.

Glass processing represents an excellence for Venice, symbol of a craftsmanship that must remain alive and renewed, taking inspiration from the past to design its own future.

For the occasion, Siru will present throughout the week from 8.30 to 18.00, at Palazzo Trevisan Cappello, the exhibition of a story in an exciting path that will involve the visual and tactile sensations and that will see as protagonists the glass and the hands of Venetian craftsmanship. The production processes, starting from the past, will be told from their initial logics for the conception of new possible applications and new design horizons. The installation "BEYOND CAGES" wants to accompany the visitor through the conception and realization of luminous objects according to the ancient technique of glass blowing within metal structures that direct the shape. This control has been realized through a contemporary language of the geometry of the metal filaments and through new processing techniques that have allowed to obtain glass bubbles with unexpected volumes and shapes. A new way to control the raw material, beyond the limit of the cage itself. The exhibition will take place by decomposing two projects to understand the process of realization. The newly developed metal cages will be exhibited alongside the final blown glass objects. A series of video projections will allow you to understand the realization in all its phases and will lead the visitor to blow side by side with the master glassmaker on Wednesday, September 13: starting at 16,00, in fact, you can see live the creative process of a Siru lamp. The small furnace placed inside Palazzo Trevisan Cappello, together with the skilful skills of the master glassmaker, will forge the malleable glass material in an exciting experience of ancient origins. An event in the event. 

Palazzo Trevisan Cappello

Palazzo Trevisan Cappello is a beautiful building dating back to the sixteenth century, located in the center of the lagoon city and overlooking Rio di Palazzo, a few meters from Piazza San Marco. It was commissioned by the Trevisan family to Bartolomeo Bon, architect follower of Mauro Codussi. From 1577 the palace was entrusted to Bianca Cappello, who donated it to his brother Francesco I de' Medici. It is one of the most architecturally pleasant buildings of the Venetian Renaissance. Its façade, distinguished by the exceptional number of 37 openings, is spread over four floors, for which, with the exception of the ground floor, there are a central hexaphore and two pairs of single lancet windows, one on each side. On the ground floor there are three water portals. The facade is enlivened by marble drawings and the presence of numerous balconies with different overhangs. The plan is atypical, demonstrating that the palace was divided into two independent properties.