Venice: Caterina Tognon – Laura de Santillana – Sleeves. At the Caterina
Tognon Gallery in a charming courtyard next to the Canale Grande, the
exhibition Sleeves, until November 19, a series of new works by Laura de
Santillana. The exhibition opens concurrently
with the exhibition on her grandfather’s glass blowing factory “Paolo Venini
and his Furnace” at Le Stanze del Vetro, on the island of San Giorgio.
Laura
de Santillana
Bohemian
Blown Glass 2015/2016
Gallerist
– Caterina Tognon
Gaetano
Marzotto, Francesca Bortolotto and Alessandro Tomada
Gianluigi
Calderone and Jean Blanchaert
Sei
Shonagon
The
Pillow Book
This book was the inspiration for the Sleeves project born from the
Laura’s long term research on color and from her passion for traditional
Japanese culture The Pillow Book is collection of lists, gossip, poetry,
observations, complaints written during Sei Shonagon years in the court, a
miscellaneous genre of writing known as zuihitsu.
“Cherry tree in bloom color, a red
cloak
My dress was red and purple combined
with light green, my coat was green and white
The queen, red, as usual. Her kimono
was purple and red, with little 'green, pale and dark, and two shades of yellow
The outer garment of the king was
the color of grapes, and the undergarment white and green”
The Pillow Book - Sei Shonagon
Laura de Santillana - Bohemian Blown
Glass 2015/2016
David
Landau, Beatrice de Rothschild Rosenberg and Jerome Zieseniss
Valentina
Palumbo and Saverio Simi de Burgis
Rosa
Borgia
Marino
Zorzi, Laura de Santillana and Alessandro Barbini
Mania
Hruska
Photograph
courtesy Caterina Tognon
“Tenth day of the long moon
green light blue cloak, adorned
iridescent trail of flying ribbons
brocade belts loose threads dyed
dark red
outer garment colored chrysanthemum
finished with five folds
outer garment colored grapes, green
blue bandages”
The Pillow Book - Sei Shonagon
Jim Oliveira, Sara Blumberg, Marco Arosio and Marco Ceresa
Maria Teresa Granata
Leonardo Benzoni and
Leslie Genninger
Paola Coin
Laura de Santillana -
Bohemian Blown Glass 2015/2016
Alessandro Tussett
Chiara Gradella and
Maria Novella dei Carraresi
Jerome Zieseniss
and Roger de Montebello
Luca Berta
Corte Barozzi
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