L' Essenza Lino Tagliapietra

Lino TagLiapieTra

L’ Essenza

Oca2002

50 1/4 x 8 3/4 x 6 1/2”

Lino Tagliapietra is truly an explorer in touch with the essence of his art. Throughout the past four decades, Lino has continued to evolve as an artist by challenging himself and pushing past the limits of the glass medium through his imagination and ingenuity. Through his art, he has been a major influence and inspiration to the Contemporary Glass Movement in the United States. In many ways Lino’s evolution symbolizes the identity and essence of that movement in America.

Schantz Galleries is honored to present this catalog of selected works that span a 12 year period, ranging from Tagliapietra’s newest works, to his glass sculpture and panels that were featured in his major retrospective exhibition*.

In 2011 Lino will be honored with a major one person exhibition at the Palazzo Cavilli Franchetti on the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy. His talent and unlimited vision continue to inspire us all.

* Lino’s retrospective exhibition was curated and presented at the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, WA in 2008. The exhibition traveled for the next two years to: the Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC; The Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA; The Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA; and the Flint Museum of Arts, Flint MI.

L’ Essenza

Notte a Ravenna1999

53 3/4 x 20 1/4 x 1”

Bisanzio, 1999

20 x 29 x 1”

...I think of these pieces as paintings. The original idea was a painting, or something like a native American

blanket, but, many things are possible.”

George1999

60 1/4 x 30”

“What intrigues me more than the energy is the division of space.... where it is possible to be shocked. I translate energy into a kind of space, a color.”

Risaia1999

39 1/2” diameter

Medusa2006

15 3/4 x 17 1/4 x 6”

Batman 2008

13 1/4 x 12 1/4 x 3 3/4”

Atlantis2003

25 1/2 x 12 1/4 x 6 1/4”

Mandara2006

16 3/4 x 11 x 5 1/2”

Tholtico1998

18 1/2 x 18 1/2 x 8 1/2”

Puffin2002

17 3/4 x 9 3/4 x 6 3/4”

Dinosaur2006

39 1/4 x 19 1/2 x 6 1/2”

“I work out my dreams in the glass. That is my way.”

Dinosaur2006

39 1/4 x 19 1/2 x 6 1/2”

Angel Tear2010

29 1/2 x 21 1/2 x 6 1/4”

Makah2010

23 1/2 x 11 1/2 x 5 3/4”

Piccadilly2005

23” x 19 1/4 x 7”

Ostuni2010

24 1/2 x 11 1/2 x 9 3//4”

Dinosaur201054 x 10 1/2 x 6 1/4”

CHIna Shanghai Museum of Glass, Shanghai

DeNMARkGlasmuseum, ebeltoft

FranCe Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris

GeRMANYkestner Museum

ITALYaperto Vetro, Venice

Bellevue art Museum, Bellevue, Biennale di VeneziaPalazzo Grassi, Venice

JAPANHokkaido Museum of Modern art, Sapporo

kitazawa Museum of Arts, Takane-choTokyo National Modern Art Museum, Tokyo

Toyama City Institute of Glass, ToyamaMexICo

Museo del Vidrio, MonterreyTHe neTHerlandS

danish royal Museum, CopenhagenMuseum Boymans, RotterdamMuseum Het Paleis, The Haag

SWITzeRLAND Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Losanna

UNITeD kINGDOMVictoria and albert Museum, london

UNITeD STATeSCarnegie Museum of art, Pittsburgh

Chrysler Museum of art, norfolkColumbia Museum, Columbia

Columbus Museum of art, ColumbusCorning Museum of Glass, Corning, new York

The Dayton Art Institute, DaytonThe Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit

Fuller Museum of art, BrocktonThe Jewish Museum, San Francisco

M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San FranciscoMarianna kistler Beach Museum of Art New YorkMary and leigh Block Museum of art, Chicago

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New YorkMint Museum of Craft and design, Charlotte

Montgomery Museum of Fine arts, MontgomeryThe Museum of Fine arts, Houston

Museum of Glass, TacomaThe Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

national Museum of Ceramic art and Glass, BaltimoreNorton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach

Orlando Museum, OrlandoPalm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs

Racine Art Museum, RacineRenwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum

Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary art, ScottsdaleSeattle Art Museum, Seattle

Spencer Museum of Art, T University of kansas, LawrenceToledo Museum of Art, Toledo

LINO TAGLIAPIeTRASelected Museum exhibitions and Collections

Photography: Russell JohnsonA Schantz Galleries Publication

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