The first edition of TheItalian Glass Weeks. An event that wonderfully involved and animated the cities of Milan and Venice, through the promotion of glass: the protagonist material, in 2022, of theInternational Year, designated by the United Nations.
The Venetian weekend was marked by two evening events full of appeal.
Saturday 24rd September
On Saturday 24th September, the glass in Venice award ceremony, promoted by the Veneto Institute of Sciences, Letters and Arts and by the Venice Civic Museums Foundation, now in its tenth edition. The award is given to artists and glass masters who have distinguished themselves with their works, working in the wake of the Muranese tradition, or in the world, through different schools and techniques.
Subsequently, the ceremonies for the assignment of the Venice Foundation Award for The Italian Glass Weeks, awarded to the best project of the event, and of theAutonomous Residency Prize, intended for an artist or designer, aged between 18 and 35, for the work of enhancing artistic glass.
To know all the winners, find the summary below!
Sunday September 25th
The heartbeat of the awards was followed, on Sunday 25 September, by the suggestive closing concert by The Italian Glass Weeks, held on the stage of the oldest theater in the city: Goldoni Theater. The choir of VocalSkyline, directed by master Marco Toso Borella, led the audience to explore, in a surprising journey through different musical genres, the multiple nuances of the art of glass, in a concert capable of involving all the senses. The artistic proposal of Vocal Skyline was enriched by the participation of the voices of Big Vocal Orchestra, intervened by the third and fourth orders of the Theater to embody a contemporary version of the ancient Venetian tradition of the “flying choirs”.
Waiting to find out if the winning Milan-Venice synergy for a future The Italian will be reconfirmed for next year Glass Weeks, retrace the most significant moments of this extraordinary edition for the made in Italy glass panorama:
- Two conferences to promote glass: the voices of The Italian Glass Weeks
- The diary of the first two days of The Italian Glass Weeks
- A sunset full of emotions for the Milanese week of The Italian Glass Weeks
- TheItalian Glass Weeks: the passing of the baton is a journey into Venetian glass art