EXHIBITS
“….in all of the thousands and thousands of pieces I have created, l have always tried to blow into the glass a little bit of my soul as well.”
( Archimede Seguso from “The Notebooks of Archimede Seguso” no. 11, 1996)
“….in all of the thousands and thousands of pieces I have created, l have always tried to blow into the glass a little bit of my soul as well.”
( Archimede Seguso from “The Notebooks of Archimede Seguso” no. 11, 1996)
1936
XX BIENNALE – VENEZIA
Bulliccante sphere, h. 16 cm., diam. 22 cm., design by Flavio Poli.
Equal sized air bubbles situated in overlapping layers in the thick solid glass.
1937 VI Triennal / 1938 XXI Biennal
Hippopotamus, h. 8.5 cm., design by Flavio Poli.
Sculpture made of green acidated north glass, the solid is sculpted to represent a hippopotamus emerging from the water together in a single mass.
1950
XXV Biennal
Nude.
Sculpture of a nude in iridescent glass submerged in crystal.
1951
IX TRIENNALE – Milano
1952
XXVI BIENNALE – Milano
“Merletto” vases and bowls
Dense three-dimensional woven netting. Uninterrupted or with “eyes” or “windows” Made with opaque white or amethyst glass.
“Fantasia a nastro” (Ribbon pattern) vases and bowls
Internal decoration in white and amethyst glass with a diagonal pattern.
XL Collective Exhibit
Opera Bevilacqua La Masa – Venice
X TRIENNALE – Milano
IV ͣ MOSTRA NAZIONALE SELETTIVA ARTIGIANATO ARTISTICO – MILANO
Centro Nazionale Artigianato “Angelicum” –Milan
1954
XXVII BIENNALE – MILANO
“Composizione lattimo” (Milk-like glass composition) vases and bowls
Ribbons striped with milk-like glass threads, separate and close-up, but not intersected, curved with different accents.
“Spiraline” (Spirals) vases and bowls
Half renaissance filigree interrupted by twisted threads (milk-like glass filigree with twists of amethyst or vice versa), which break up the uniqueness of the weave.
“Festoni” (Ribbons) vases and bowls
Striped ribbons with segments of milk-like and amethyst glass threads, placed on the object vertically or in ribbons.
XII TRIENNALE – Milano
New Forms in Italy
Kunstverein – Düsseldorf
1956
XXVIII Biennal
“Piume” (feathers) vases and bowls
Vibrant feathers of colored glass rods set in the glass of vases and bowls.
Verres Murano
Palais du Luvre – Paris
1958
XXIX Biennal
“Fantasia bianco-nera” (Black-white pattern) vases and bowls
Patterned decoration in opaque black and white glass.
Alabaster glass hinges
Hinges with sinuous and irregular edges formed with the overlapping of several layers of alabaster glass.
Lamp with concentric spiral multicolor ribbons
Oval lamp
Bubble lamp
Veneding Zeigt Glas Aus Murano
Österreichisches Museum Für Argewandte Kunst – Vienna
Museum Fodor – Amsterdam
Autellung Der Dekorativen Kunst in Venetien
Kassel-Dortmund-Kӧln – Frankfurt a/Main – Würzburg
1960
XXX BIENNALE
Blue vase and bowl
Glass Pieces of Murano 1860 – 1960
Palazzo della Gran Guardia -Verona
1961
Vidros de Murano
Lisbon
1962
XXXI Biennal
“Fili continui” (Continuous threads) vases and bowls
Opaque threads placed vertically, which come down in parallel fashion, following the curves of the object, becoming distant or closer among themselves without ever losing direction or number.
1963
Murano Glass Art Exhibit
Opera Bevilacqua La Masa – Venice
1964
XXXII Biennal
“Aleante” vase and bowl
Vase and bowl with soft submersed and blended colors, in which the finish produces chromatic effects in movement.
1966
XXXIII Biennal
Vases with overlapping colors
Vases with vertical blending of ruby to yellow with applications of blue ribbons.
Vases with overlapping colors
Vases in clear yellow glass with asymmetrical overlapping or dripping of red glass.
Plichrome sculpture “Il gioco” (The game)
Brief collaboration with Prof. Rincicotti with whom Archimede Seguso elaborates a series of decorations with acid on plates and vases, creating chromatic effects on the thickness of overlapping glass. The great sculpture presented at the 1966 Biennial, where the elements of glass colored in sheets, used like tiles of a mosaic, are framed in an iron-cement structure, is also the result of this collaboration.
1967
Alte Und Moderne Glaskunst Aus Murano
Stuttgart
1968
XXXIV Biennal
“Filigrana stellata” (Starry filigree) vases and bowls
Decorations with filigree inserts. White with starry motif. Vases and bowls with threads
Vases with even or degrading narrowings with decorations and shadings of colors given by the overlapping of opaque lilac or white vertical threads.
1972
XXXVI Biennal
“Optical Art” Vases
Herringbone vases: internal decoration with milk-like glass in herringbone pattern
Petal vases: internal decoration, at the base of the objects, with petal pattern of milk-like glass.
1977
Glass Art of Murano of the 1900s
Museo Vetraio di Murano – Venice
1981
Murano Glass Art Today
Milan
Venezianisches Glas 19. bis 20.
Jarhundert Staatliche Museen – Berlin
1982
“One Thousand Years of Glass Art in Venice”
Palazzo Ducale, Museo Correr – Venice
1984
Italian Glass Art Exhibit 1920 – 1940
Palazzo Nervi – Turin
1986
Sculptures Contemporaines en Cristal et en Verre d’Europe Occidentale di Liegi
Millenovecentottantasei, Germoglio, Controvento,L’immagine, Doppia eclissi
1987
Glas in Murano Kunst und Design
Weiner Borse – Vienna
Imprint of the Breath
Venice
1988
“Vidre Murano Avui”
Capella Del Antiguo Hospital de la Sta – Creu – Barcellona
“La Verrerie Européenne des Annéès 50”
Muées de Marseille – Marseille
1989
“Veneziansk Glaskunst. 1400 – 1989”
Kunstindustrimuseet – Oslo
Sculptures Contemporaines en Cristal et en Verre d’Europe Occidentale di Liegi
Astronauta, Lassù, Profili
“Il Maestro dei Maestri”
Tiffany & Co. – New York
“Europacado”
Parc des Expositions – Bruxelles
1990
“Glaskunst in Murano”
Palais Bernheimer – Munchen
“Archimede Seguso”
Venetian Art Museum – Otaru (Giappone)
1991
“The Glass Art of Archimede Seguso”
Palazzo Ducale – Venice
Sculptures Contemporaines en Cristal et en Verre d’Europe Occidentale di Liegi
My Europe, Incertezza
1992
“Silica and Fire. Glass Art in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries”
Palazzo delle Esposizioni- Rome
“The Artisan Masters”
Fortezza da Basso – Florence
1993
“Silica and Fire. Glass Art in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries”
Palazzo Ducale – Venice
“Alfredo Barbini – Archimede Seguso. Two great masters of glass”
Fortezza da Basso – Florence
1994
“Verreries Venitiennes”
Musée Des Beaux-Arts – Carcassonne
1995
“Archimede Seguso MaÎtre Verrier a Murano”
Crédit Lyonnais – Lyon
“ Archimede Seguso Verres. 1950 – 1960 “
Musée Joseph Déchelette – Roanne
“The Sommersi by Archimede Seguso, 1955 – 1995. Forty Years of Forms and Colors”
Galleria Micheluzzi – Venice
Casa dei Carraresi
Treviso
“Le Uova di Archimede Seguso”
Fiera Avicola di Forlì – Forlì
“The Glass Art of Archimede Seguso from 1950 to 1959.”
VIIIͣ Mostra- Mercato Nazionale dell’Antiquariato “Città di Forli’”- Forlì
“Preziosi Vetri di Murano”
Palazzo Bellini – Comacchio
“Rotture”
Hotel Giorgione – Venezia
1995/1996
“Le Rotture. Signs of Time”
Galerie Differences – Paris
1996
“100 Glass Pieces by Archimede Seguso from 1937 to 1996”
Galleria Micheluzzi – Venice
“IL Gioco di Archimede Seguso”
Fiera Avicola di Forlì – Forlì
“Il Bestiario by Archimede Seguso”
Palazzo Ducale – Venice
“Archimede Seguso. Sculptures – verres”
Galerie d’Art Annie Chevalley – Montreux
Art and Antique Show
Bolzano
“The Verdi Serenella 18. Music, color, form.”
Piazza San Marco – Venice
“The Verdi Serenella 18. Music, color, form.”
Centro “Le Barche” – Mestre – Venice
1997
“The Secret of Murano”
Museum Paleis Lange Voorhout Den Haag – The Hague
“Omaggio a Ferruccio Gard e Archimede Seguso”
(Tribute to Ferruccio Gard and Archimede Seguso)
Padova Arte – Padua
“In diretta dal Big Bang. I quadri-scultura in vetro di Archimede Seguso e Ferruccio Gard”
(Live from the Big Bang. The paintings-sculptures of glass by Archimede Seguso and Ferruccio Gard)
Circolo Artistico di Venezia Palazzo delle Prigioni – S.Marco – Venice
“The paintings-sculptures of glass by Archimede Seguso and Ferruccio Gard”
Mostra Mercato d’Arte Moderna – Fiera di Forlì – Forlì
“Glass Art and Glasses by Archimede Seguso”
Barchessa Rambaldi – Bardolino
“Rotture. Signs of the Time.”
Galleria Archimede Seguso – Treviso
1998
“Retrospettiva sul Design Italiano nel campo dell’Illuminazione” (Retrospective on Italian Design in Lighting)
Salone Internazionale del Mobile/Euroluce – Milan
Museo Archeologico
Milan
“L’Elogio dell’Acciuga”
Canelli – Turin
1999
“Archimede Seguso “
Théatre des Celestins – Lyon
“ Magiche Trasparenze. I Vetri dell’Antica Albingaunum” (Magical Transparencies. The Glass Art of the Antica Albingaunum)
Palazzo Ducale –Genoa
“Old and new images of Carneval”
Scuola Grande dei Carmini – Venice
“Archimede Seguso and Ferruccio Gard. The Coming Together of Glass and Painting.”
Union Lido – Cavallino – Venice
2001
“Vetro e Vetri. Preziose iridescenze in provincia di Pavia. I Vetri Romani di Archimede Seguso di Murano”
Palazzo Certsa Cantù – Casteggio – Pavia
“Venice and the Orient. Artistic Glass Works by Archimede Seguso”
Villa Rossa – Vittorio Veneto – Treviso
Glass Art by Archimede Seguso
Albano – Padova
2009
“L’Arte del Saper Fare Bene Italiano”
Villa Reale – Monza
“L’Arte del Saper Fare Bene Italiano”
Caserma Coppito G8 Exhibit – L’Aquila
2011
“Regioni e Testimonianze d’Italia. Percorso dell’Arte attraverso le sue Regioni”
(Regions and Testimony of Italy. A Journey of Art through its Regions)
Leonardo Da Vinci Airport – Rome
2012
“Archimede Seguso. MaÎtre Verrier De Murano”
Exposition Salle Jean Portal – Sainte – Maxime
“Fragile. Murano, chefs-d’œuvre de verre de la Renaissance au XXI siècle”
Musee Maillol – Paris
“Christ in Repose”
Museo della Basilica di San Marco – Venice