The Eredità Cromatica (Chromatic Legacy) collection transforms the artist’s father’s secret drawings into glass sculptures. A dialogue between generations where sketches inspired by the 20th-century avant-garde come to life in the fire of Murano. A tribute of love that transmutes the silence of paper into the eternal voice of glass.
THE GRIMACE. In this work, I wanted the glass to retain the sensation of living matter, with colors fading as if the fire had never truly gone out. The heart of the piece is the asymmetrical smirk of the lips: an almost ironic expression of someone who knows they cannot be trapped in a single form. The red eyes do not look at the viewer, but seem to search for a distant reflection.
Born in Murano in 1963, Mario Furlan grew up in continuous contact with the world of Artistic Glass of Murano Island, as his father Walter was a renowned Master Glassmaker.
After graduating from the Venice State Institute of Art, Mario then enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice from which he graduated with honors.
