This year’s project has generated a whole collection of glass objects blown in the Salviati furnace featuring ceramic and glass with different textures.
“They are finished objects but the project may still evolve in many directions. More than anything else, we are interested in the process. We are narrating an Italian approach that mixes craftsmanship and new technology”, continues Andrea Gianni.
The aim is also to understand what any potential future scenarios and pursue alternative approaches to changing production methods: self-produced design, mini-series, crafts mixed with new technology…
“It is a subject that fascinates us; there may be a second round of these works or we may go and explore some other new relationship with craftspeople”, adds Patrizia Bolzan of Tecnificio and Subalterno1. “Initially, we wanted to work with porcelain, which requires three passages in the furnace but, unfortunately, it brings a fragility that we have been unable to manage with Murano glass at the moment.”
April 14–19, 2015
Venice Future
Subalterno1
via Conterosso 22, Milano