Giving Form to the Molten Glass Alfredo Barbini  1912–2006

Transparent Murano glass is like the frosted water of the spring. It takes on the shape of a vase where flowers made of water and fire, changeable creatures generated by imaginary depths, are born.

The manufacturing process of the glass is suspended in its emerging state, taking root at ground level, before the genius of colors and shapes come into play. In the radiant moment of its inception, clinging to the copper of the stems, it is captured and made immobile in time, frozen in an unreal and surprising fixity.