The Venetian glass designed by Italian architect Carlo Scarpa for Venini is the focus of a major exhibtion at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York

卡洛·斯卡帕很高兴得知他为艺术玻璃制造商Venini设计的作品现在是纽约大都会艺术博物馆的一个大型展览的主题。“我宁愿建造博物馆而不是摩天大楼——尽管逻辑可能会说得不好，”意大利建筑师曾说，“前者可能是有创意的，而后者则需要一个人去适应和把自己放在事物的本来面目上。”

他在新的展览中展出了大约300件作品中的每一个作品，其中包括在威尼斯的Le Stutz Del VeTro的2012场展览中，每一个作品中都有明显的注入大胆的新想法、形式和过程的欲望。斯卡帕的玻璃创新——从他的泡泡镶嵌的布利克作品到稀有的陶瓷般的默林奥帕奇作品——看起来既大胆又永恒，与Met的清清瓷器、古希腊罗马铸造玻璃和19世纪的慕拉诺器皿一起展出。

Between 1932 and 1947, Scarpa served as artistic consultant to the Venetian glass company. He worked closely with its founder, Paolo Venini, and master glassblowers to create more than two dozen styles - in the process pioneering techniques, silhouettes and colours that modernised the ancient tradition of glassblowing

His appetite for injecting bold new ideas, forms and processes into established traditions is apparent in each of the approximately 300 works in the new exhibition

Scarpa's glass innovations - from his bubble-studded bollicine pieces to the rare, ceramic-like murrine opache works - appear both daring and timeless

Thick glass bowl with irregular battuto finish, c.1940, part of the 'Battuti' series. Courtesy of The Steinberg Foundation

Thick black glass vase with battuto finish (left), c.1940, and yellow cased glass vase with battuto finish (right), c.1947, both part of the 'Battuti' series

Clear mole-gray (talpa) glass bowl with central abstract macchie decoration in blue and black glass, iridized c.1942, part of the 'Macchie' series. Courtesy of Chiara and Francesco Carraro Collection, Venice

The Met partnered with the prestigious Le Stanze del Vetro museum in Venice to bring the works to exhibition

Installation view of 'Venetian Glass by Carlo Scarpa: The Venini Company, 1932-1947'

Truncated cone-shaped glass vase with velato finish and incisi decorations (left), c.1940-42, and glass vase with jagged rim, velato finish and deep incisi decorations, c.1940-42, part of the 'Incisi' series

'Rigati e tessuti' glass vases and bowl, c.1938-1940, part of the 'Rigati e tessuti' series

Bottle, glasses, tray and small bowl in clear uncoloured a spirale glass with aquamarine (acquamare) decoration, c.1936, part of the 'A Cerchi, A Fasce, A Spirale' series, c.1936-1938. Lent by the Steinberg Foundation, courtesy of the Corning Museum of Glass

Truncated cone-shaped glass vase crafted using the murrine romane technique, c.1936

Thick smoke-gray glass perfume bottle with stopper consisting of overlaid clear glass layers of different colours with hot-applied bugne and iridized surface, c.1940, part of the 'Iridati' series

Green ovoid sommerso glass vase with gold-leaf inclusions and twisted ribbing on the interior, c.1934, part of the 'Sommersi' series. Lent by the Steinberg Foundation, courtesy of the Corning Museum of Glass

keywords:Carlo Scarpa, The Venini Company, Venetian Glass, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, design, exhibition, glass, art

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