Lino TAGLIAPIETRA
1934, Italy

Lino Tagliapietra was born in1934 on the island of the centuries-old center for Venetian glassmaking, Murano. At the age of eleven, he was apprenticed to the glass studio of the internationally known Muranese master, Archimede Seguso, and achieved the rank of maestro by age twenty-one. He later worked as master glassblower and designer at other glass studios, including Galliano Ferro, Venini, La Murrina, and Effetre International. In the mid-eighties, he made the transition from the traditional Venetian master glassblower and glass designer to that of independent studio artist. "Through his work, we see the transformation of old elements to new concepts. Lino Tagliapietra is one of the few glassmakers who can successfully transmit his own sensitivity and intellect into an inanimate object. That is what makes us respond so powerfully to his work and what makes him an artist," said Susanne K. Frantz, former curator of 20th-century glass at The Corning Museum of Glass. "His vessels and sculptures, which often incorporate filigree decoration, are on a technical level equal to the finest achievements of historic Venetian glassmaking."

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