program

Since its foundation in 1995, several thousand European designers have participated in the competition of Trieste Contemporanea, which for the past four years has been dedicated to glass. In Bassano,  48 works are showcased.  These works were presented in the final exhibitions of the following  competitions:  2002 (fragile!), 2004 (eatable glass) and 2008 (graal glass).  The glass pieces were realized by the Fornace Anfora of Murano. The 2006 edition (glassdressing), dedicated to jewelry in glass, was realized in collaboration with the Abate Zanetti School of Murano.  It is documented by a video by Gaetano Mainenti and Daniela Manzolli, filmed at Ca’ Rezzonico – Museo del Settecento Veneziano.
To present the glass collection of Trieste Contemporanea at the Palazzo Agostinelli is a rare occasion for us to see the work realized for our competition as a whole, and to capture in a single viewing the various expositive editions designed for Venice at Ca’ Rezzonico and for Trieste at the Museo Revoltella and at Stazione Rogers. Above all, we believe the gracious invitation of Giuliana Ericani, director the Museo civico of Bassano, is a good intuition which will help open a new, stimulating direction of innovative dialogue with European Design and the great school of ceramics of Bassano and Nove.

works displayed by: Carlo Allegri (I), Patrizia Baldan (I), Cristiano Bianchin (I), Rok Bogataj (SLO), Lorenzo Bonini (I), Marta Ceruti (I), de Calò/Anselmi/Stagni (I), Dagmar De Paolis (I), Davide Di Donato (I), Jurij Dobrila (SLO), Ana Paula Ferrua (I), Frank Gaertner (D), Gamba/Fornari/Saurer (I/CH), Annika Giesbert (D), Anette Kithier (D), Milos Joksimovic (SRB), Marta Laudani (I), Lehocky/Poracky (SK), Katija Lipicnik (SLO), Piero Lissoni (I), Pietro Lunetta (I), Magnani/Panizon (I), Gaetano Mainenti (I), Emanuela Marassi (I), Lorena Matic (I), Milani/Biondi/Pellicono (I), Gabor Molnar (H), Yoichi Ohira (I/J), Barbara Paganin (I), Grazia Patruno (I), Maurizio Pellegrin (I), Laura Pellicciari (I), Claudia Pfleger (A), Alfredo Pirri (I), Rayevsky/Bokotey (NCA-New Creative Association Fund, UA), Alessandro Rech (I), Elisa Rescaldani (I), Paolo Rizzatto (I), Rohdenburg/Fischer/Herten (Team Tentakulus, D), Tiina Sarapu (EST), Vladimir Stankovic (SRB), Stefano Suarez (I), Aysenaz Toker (TR), Paolo Ulian (I), Enrico Venturini (I), Simic Vukasin (SRB), Zanella/Giacobbe/Rigato (oooh!design, I)

works presented in the video GlassDressing by: Marina Bologni (I), Bratovic/Bacun/Izevic (HR), Alessandro Calogero (I), De Grossi/ÅŒki (I/J), Antonio Dei Rossi (I), Mario Dei Rossi (I), Milan Deliyski (BG), Ines Paola Fontana (I), Michael Geldmacher (D), Ida Grimaldi (I), Marija Hristovska (MK), Gaetano Mainenti (I), Manuela Maria Marazzani (I), Andrea Morucchio (I), Martin Nečas (CZ), Barbara Paganin (I), Massimo Premuda (I), Maria Grazia Rosin (I), Tomoko Sakai (CZ), Schäffer/Eguchi/Ardu (I/J), Marina/Susanna Sent (I), Antonio Terranova (I), Osvaldo Tiberti (I), Markéta Váradiová (CZ), Giorgio Vigna (I), Annamaria Zanella (I)

opening: Friday April 17th at 6p.m.

a co-production Museo civico di Bassano del Grappa, Comitato Trieste Contemporanea
exhibition organized by Franco Jesurun
projects executed in glass at Fornace Anfora Murano (master glassblower Andrea Zilio; master coldworker Giacomo Barbini)

hours and information:
April 17th > June 14th, 2009
from Tuesday to Friday 4am-7.30pm, Saturday and Sunday 10-12.30am and 4pm-7.30pm
closed on Monday – free entrance

Palazzo Agostinelli
via Barbieri, 34 – Bassano del Grappa (Vicenza)  
phone +39 0424 217800 – +39 0424 522235 – fax +39 0424 523914
cultura@comune.bassano.vi.it, www.comune.bassano.vi.it, www.vivibassano.it