Artworks - Silvio Vigliaturo

Silvio Vigliaturo is a contemporary Italian master who brings the scale and energy of sculpture and the bold instinct of a colourist to the delicate art of glass making. Vigliaturo plays creative games with light, exploiting the play of light to animate his “painted transparencies”. He brings a rare freshness and originality to his craft. Vigliaturo’s witty and vivid pieces are technically highly sophisticated, the product of a close collaboration between the artist and the glass-makers of the world famous Venetian island of Murano. His themes include elements of classical fables, satirical jokes, musical evocations and dream like images - all given rich and playful character by the dynamics of glassblowing and the intensity of expert colour staining. In a career spanning over thirty years Silvio Vigliaturo has exhibited with great success in Italy and much of Europe, Japan and the United States establishing himself as an international figure in modern glass-making. Now the British public has an opportunity to enjoy the magic of the art of glass at its very best.