Artists

Mauro Bonaventura was born in Venice in 1965 In 1983, after graduating in Electronics and waiting for his first job, by pure chance, he went to work in a Venetian furnace as a apprentice and from the very first days he fell in love with the incandescent masses of glass previously unknown to him.

In 1992 he met a craftsman who invited him to visit his lampworking workshop.
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His art is a combination of creativity and the ability to allow divergent thinking. Born in Rovigo in 1973, Alessandro describes his passion and culture through the unmistakable rhythmicity of glass, a versatile and unique material, capable of evoking magic and fierceness.

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Born in Valona in 1942, Luigi Voltolina arrived in Venice at the age of two, with the repatriation of his family. After graduating in Graphic Arts at the Venice Art Institute, he worked for a brief time at the Toso Brothers Glass Factories in Murano.

Within the factories, he encounters the Murano world for the first time, as well as the prime substance that is handled on the Island: Glass. (more…)

Mauro Puccitelli was born in Cingoli (MC) on 25 April 1952.
Having graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Urbino, for many decades he taught painting in various Italian schools. Having fallen in love with Murano glass, he frequented the Masters Vittorio Costantini and Pino Signoretto who directed him towards lampworking, of which he later became the undisputed master.
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Gilda Garza is a mexican celebrity-favorite artist known for pushing the limits of raw emotion in a way that captivates the soul and sparks curiosity. Born and raised in Mexico, Garza’s work strives to convey her unique, multi-cultural perspective of the human experience.
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Sara Forte was born in Verbania, Italy. A self-taught artist who since an early age has been dedicated to painting. Sara experimented with many art forms including graphite drawings, oil pastels, sanguine, drypoint, mezzotint and etching.

She went onto master oil and acrylic art forms. What was originally a passion has become her career.
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Born in Venice in 1972. He graduated in Industrial Design at the Milan Polytechnic.

After an experience in the field of goldsmith design, he arrives in Philippe Starck's studio. In Paris he is fascinated by design capable of expressing traditional craftsmanship in a contemporary key. Back in Italy he pursues these expressions by starting to collaborate with companies in which manual skill is a distinguishing element of production. (more…)

Jelena Borovčanin (1987) is a contemporary artist from Serbia, known for her distinctive expression in the field of glass art, where she combines glass mosaic, original coins, painting, and sculpture. Her works emerge from deep intuition and a philosophical approach to art, exploring themes of spiritual growth, inner transformation, and universal connection through energy and light.
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Mosaic has always intrigued me, the fact that, observing it from different angles and distances, changes in reflections, colors and suggestions, it never ceases to amaze me. And so, a bit by chance, asking for advise from the mosaic masters and experimenting, I started working on it. Try and try again, I managed to get what excites me. But without stopping experimenting, always raising the bar to try ever new challenges.

In love with Muranese glass, Andrea Perotta began to be fascinated by the furnace since, while still a boy, he accompanied tourists to observe glassmaking in the furnaces. The more he gets to know glass, the more he realizes that it has no expressive limits; it really is pure magic.

Thus he begins to understand the need for a liaison between artist and master glassmaker, the holder of a thousand-year-old tradition. “The knowledge that there is here in Murano of glass is nowhere else,” Perotta explains.
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