The web section “Installations” has been updated adding the art work Ludovico Ariosto by the Italian artist Tullio Pericoli.
It is a fresco graffito on wall designed and realized by Pericoli in 2011 with the technical partnership of Lino Reduzzi. The work is located in Le Case Cavallini-Sgarbi in Ferrara (Italy): it is a Medieval building in the inner city, where it is said that Ludovico Ariosto wrote some parts of his poem Orlando Furioso.
The web section “Glasses” has been updated adding a series of 18 glass works realized by Lino Reduzzi in the period 1999-2010 and based on the original sketches drawn by the Italian artist Enrico Della Torre.
The realization process changes from work to work: the colored mouth-blown glass was differently treated (etched with acid, painted with glazes, silver salts and grisaille, fired and leaded) in order to permit the most accurate realization of the original drawings. The entire series was exhibited for the very first time in the show Enrico Della Torre. Stained-glasses realized in Lino Reduzzi’s workshop, held at the Romanesque Saint Peter’s church in Teglio (Italy) from 24th July to 12th September 2010.
The Saint John XXIII church in Bergamo was awarded during the Surface Design Show, that took place in London at the Business Design Centre on 10th-12th February 2015. The Surface Design Awards is an annual contest that awards the most innovative and interesting architectural surfaces both in the United Kingdom and worldwide.
The church won in its category Public Building Surface and it was also rewarded with the Supreme Award, the most prestigious recognition of the contest. It was specifically awarded the building interior, designed by Studio Traversi+Traversi (Italy) in collaboration with the French architect Aymeric Zublena. This space contains the art work Giardino mediterraneo / Mediterranean garden by the Italian artist Stefano Arienti: he used the graphic-concrete® technique to “engrave” on the white concrete walls a thick vegetation made of bushes, shrubs and trees. “I have immediately proposed a garden, the vegetation – said Arienti – because church is a place of meditation and the garden helps, it offers a sensation of serenity, of intimacy”.
For further details here is the link of the contest.
The web section “Mosaics” has been updated adding the art work Ritmico / Rhythmic by the Italian artist Enrico Della Torre.
It is a mosaic realized by Lino Reduzzi in 2010, whose sketch was accurately chosen from the many etchings made by the artist in his long career and illustrated in the catalogue raisonné “Enrico Della Torre. Catalogo generale dell’opera grafica. 1952-2012, curated by Sandro Parmiggiani, introduction by Ernesto Ferrero, technical collaboration of Alberto Reduzzi, Milan-Geneva, Skira, 2012″.
The web section “Mosaics” has been updated adding the art works designed by the Italian artist Francesco Somaini for the Galleria Mazzini in Genoa (Italy).
They are four large mosaics realized by Lino Reduzzi and based on the original sketches drawn by the artist. These works are located in the sandstone flooring of the gallery and were inaugurated during the G8 reunion in Geona (July 2001).
These octagonal art works (side 122 inches – surface 45 square meters each) are situated in correspondence of the four glass crowns of the gallery. Thanks to the close collaboration with Somaini, Lino Reduzzi accurately chose seventeen types of marble and developed a specific mosaic weaving in order to permit the most accurate realization of the original sketches. The artist also enhanced his drawings with gold inserts that were realized with chiseled bronze tesserae. The mosaics were produced in Lino Reduzzi’s workshop, then transported, installed in the flooring of the gallery and finally polished.
The entire project was made possible thanks to the donations of Carige Foundation, Chamber of Commerce and Trametal S.p.A. (Genoa).
The web section “Mosaics” has been updated adding the art work Ségou by the Italian artist Arcangelo.
The mosaics, made with marble and Venetian smalto tesserae, belongs to a series of works realized by Lino Reduzzi and designed by the artist for his solo show Kenya – Masaï – Ségou, held at the Aragon Castle in Ischia (Italy) in the summer of 2011. The exhibition was organized thanks to the collaboration between the Association Amici di Gabriele Mattera and the Galerie Placido (Paris) and it was supported by the Neapolitan Chamber of Commerce.
The web section “Installations” has been updated adding the art work Percorso celeste / Celestial path by the Italian artist Walter Valentini.
It is a 200 square meters Venetian terrazzo floor designed by Walter Valentini and realized by Lino Reduzzi in 2002. In addition to the traditional Venetian flooring technique, this art work was realized with monolithic marble and bronze inserts as decided with the artist. The entire work was directly realized in situ under the artistic supervision of Valentini. The surface was finally polished and adequately treated.
The web section “Glasses” has been updated adding the series La trasparenza inquieta / The restless transparency by the Italian artist Eugenio Carmi.
It is a series of 11 glass works realized by Lino Reduzzi in the period 2011-2013 and based on the original sketches drawn by the artist. The realization process changes from work to work: the colored mouth-blown glass was differently treated (etched with acid, painted with glazes, silver salts and grisaille, fired and leaded) in order to permit the most accurate realization of the original drawings.
Some of these glasses were exhibited in the show Ragione e spiritualità / Reason and spirituality, held at the Italian Cultural Institute “C. M. Lerici” in Stockholm (Sweden). The entire series was exhibited for the very first time in Italy in the solo show La trasparenza inquieta / The restless transparency, held at the ex Galleria del Deposito in Boccadasse (Genoa, Italy).
The web-section “Installations” has been updated adding the art work Kitezh by the Italian artist Velasco Vitali.
The sculpture was gilded by Studio Reduzzi using 24 karats genuine high-weight gold leafs. The surface, after having been finely polished, was adequately treated with a transparent protective paint.
Today we inaugurate the web section “Mosaics” publishing the art work Viaggio / Travel by the Italian artist Walter Valentini.
The project consists in a large wall mosaic and a related stretch of water designed by Walter Valentini and realized by Lino Reduzzi. The mosaic was made with marble, Venetian smalto and gold tesserae. The tridimensional parts that enhance the installation were appropriately produced, covered with mosaics and finally installed.