27 May 2019

Scuola di Palazzo Te – Lino Reduzzi invited as a guest to the course “Fare Arte 2019”, from 25th June to 03rd July 2019 at Palazzo Te, Mantua

Among the projects supported by Fondazione Palazzo Te in Mantua (Italy), again this year Scuola di Palazzo Te organizes “Fare Arte“, a 9-days residential course open to young artists and led by a group of professors composed by researchers, artists and experts in different artistic and scientific disciplines.
This course aims to increase project management skills in the context of cultural production, focusing on the artistic experience as a practice of trainable faculties such as attention, listening, knowledge, design and action.

“Scuola di Palazzo Te – says the Director Stefano Baia Curioni – offers the experience of a practical and fruitful relationship with the cultural heritage and tradition. A relationship that comes from contemporaneity, from poetic and artistic practices and from the awareness that the best cultural design can’t help a live relationship with memory and cultural heritage.”
From this point of view, Palazzo Te, a Renaissance masterpiece by Giulio Romano, is a place in which culture does not deposit itself passively but it becomes living and contemporary, turning into a mutlidisciplinary space for learning and experimentation, a real workshop in which creative processes can arise.

It is precisely in this context, therefore, about the past and the future, the tradition, about Italian handcraft and artisanal skills and their application in contemporary projects, that Lino Reduzzi will speak as a guest of the course, telling and showing some projects realized by Studio Reduzzi that “so perfectly describe the “modernity of ancient”, reminding us of the silent forces and powers of antiquity embodied by the new.”

For further informazion about the course agenda, please visit the official website of Fare Arte 2019. For general information, please visit the official website of  Scuola di Palazzo Te.

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12 May 2017

The Golden Tower – James Lee Byars at the Venice Biennale 2017

During the 57th International Art Exposition in Venice (Italy), as a part of the Collateral Events of the Biennale, Michael Werner Gallery will present The Golden Tower by the American artist James Lee Byars, that will be installed en plein air in Campo San Vio (Dorsoduro, Venice) on the edge of the Grand Canal and it will be on view from 13th May through 26th November 2017.

Byars conceived this project starting from the second half of the Seventies and he envisioned The Golden Tower as a colossal monument, a beacon, a gilded oracle that would bridge heaven and earth unifying humanity.
With its 22,5 meters height, this sculpture is the artist’s largest and most ambitious work: the Venice installation fully realizes his intention of presenting the monument in a pubblic space and it is doubly significant given Byars’ deep conncetions to the city, where he lived on and off starting from 1982.

Studio Reduzzi is pleased to announce its collaboration to this ambitious project, for which Lino Reduzzi gilded the entire surface of the tower. They were used more than 30.000 24 kt. genuine gold leafs 80×80 mm, applied by Reduzzi with the oil-based size traditional technique. In short time, it will be published online a detailed description of the entire work, which will illustrate the various executive phases.

The presentation of The Golden Tower is curated by Alberto Salvadori and made possible thanks to the generosity of Fondazione Giuliani (Rome) and the support of Michael Werner Gallery (New York / London).

For further information, please contact the gallery and visit the official website of the Venice Biennale.

10 Oct 2016

Shrine of Our Lady of the Guard, Tortona (Italy) – The gilded sculpture goes back to its brightness

More than sixty years later its realization, the sculpture representing the Virgin Mary with Christ Child finally goes back to its brightness, illuminating the city of Tortona (Italy) from the top of the cathedral bell tower. In fact, on September 2016 Studio Reduzzi finished the restoration works of the sculpture, which consisted of an ex novo gilding of its entire surface (more than 200 square meters).

In short time it will be published online a detailed description of the entire work, which will illustrate the various executive phases with a rich photo gallery.

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20 Jun 2016

Shrine of Our Lady of the Guard, Tortona (Italy) – Studio Reduzzi started the restoration works of the gilded sculpture

On June 2016 Studio Reduzzi started the restoration works of the sculpture Mater Dei, representing the Virgin Mary with Christ Child. This 14 meters high sculpture is placed on the top of the cathedral bell tower, that measures more than 60 meters high.

The sculpture was commissioned in the second half of the Fifties by Saint Luigi Orione to the Italian artist Narciso Cassino. It was realized in bronze by Fonderia Artistica Battaglia (Milan, Italy) and then gilded with 24 karats genuine gold leafs for its entire surface. In the course of time, the adverse weather conditions damaged the golden film, consuming it and producing the loss of some parts of it. These typical degradation phenomena caused relevant problems for the conservation and the security of the sculpture itself, for which it was necessary to plan and to realize a preservative intervention.

After careful diagnostic studies, Studio Reduzzi designed the restoration and, after the approval of the Superintendent of Fine Arts for Turin, started the executive phase of the works.

4 Dec 2015

Kyoji NAGATANI – The seed

The web section “Installations” has been updated adding the art work Il seme / The seed by the Japanese artist Kyoji Nagatani.

It is a monument designed and modeled by the Japanese artist in 2012. Lino Reduzzi was proud to give his technical partnership during both the desing and execution phases and he also gilded a part of the internal surface with 24 karats genuine gold leafs.

This work is located within a rectangular stretch of water at the Scuola Edile in Seriate (Italy). It is equipped with an electrical mechanism that permits its automatic opening and closing movements. The making of this sculpture was made possible thanks to the partnership between Nagatani and Italcementi, leading company in the field of building materials, that designed a specific mix of white concrete TX Active® in order to satisfy all the artist’s requirements.

3 Oct 2014

STUDIOREDUZZI.COM is finally online!

We proudly announce the online publication of our official website: www.studioreduzzi.com, which can also be visited from www.reduzzi.it!

We are now working in order to organize and publish the most important art works that Studio Reduzzi and Lino Reduzzi have realized in these years of intense practice, working alongside contemporary artists and architects of international renown. Our main goal is to show a comprehensive overview of our skills, supported by rich photo galleries and detailed technical sheets for each work (stained-glass windows, mosaics, decorations and installations).

The site is actually under construction because of the large amount of material to be prepared: our commitment is to periodically update the portal, adding each time new art works and unreleased material.