1997 Dante Marioni Blown Glass Vase + Signed Book

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  Dante Marioni (American, b. 1964). Hand-blown glass vessel, 1997. Signed and dated "Marioni 97" on the foot. Plus book titled "Dante Marioni Blown Glass" (2000) signed "Dante Marioni 2001" on the title page. A tall, hand-blown glass goose beak pitcher of opaque green and black hues by Dante Marioni. A classic form rendered in the perfect shade of green with complementary jet black accents throughout and moments of translucent glass on the foot. The vase is accompanied by the book "Dante Marioni Blown Glass" (2000) which is signed by the artist on the title page. Marioni is known for his stunning combination of classical forms and opaque colors which author Tina Oldknow says relates to Italian Novecento style vases by Tomaso Buzzi and Napoleone Martinuzzi. This said, Oldknow also notes that "Marioni's color sensibility remains very personal and very American." Size: 27" H (68.6 cm)
  
  Regarding his penchant for tall, slender forms, Marioni stated the following: "I started blowing glass and discovered that I liked tall and thin forms, and my pieces have gradually gotten that way. When I make drawings, that's the way they come out: tall and thin. It can take me several years before I am able to make what I have drawn." (Source for both quotes: Tina Oldknow. "Dante Marioni Blown Glass" New York: Hudson Hills Press, pp. 31 and 66)
  
  Artist Biography: "Dante Marioni burst onto the international glass scene at the age of 19 with a signature style that has been described as the purest of classical forms executed in glass by an American glassblower. His amphoras, vases, and ewers are derived from Greek and Etruscan prototypes, yet they are imaginatively and sometimes whimsically reinterpreted. His impossibly elongated, sinuous shapes are made with bright and saturated contrasting colors.
  
  Marioni's sophisticated glass objects evoke the rich tradition of classical Mediterranean pottery and bronzes, and of Marioni's training in centuries-old Venetian glassblowing techniques with some of the greatest masters in contemporary glass.
  
  The son of American studio glass pioneer Paul Marioni, Dante Marioni was raised in a family of artists that includes two well-known uncles, painter Joseph Marioni and conceptual artist Tom Marioni.
  
  Marioni first held a blowpipe at the age of nine. By the time he was 15, he was working after school at one of the first cooperative hotshops and showrooms, The Glass Eye, in Seattle Washington. Although he loved glassblowing, making production studio glass felt limiting.
  
  'The prevailing aesthetic (in American studio glass in the 1970s) was loose and free-form' observed Marioni, 'I personally had no interest in that.' Around the same time he met up with Benjamin Moore, another studio glass pioneer, and watched Moore make a perfectly symmetrical, on-center glass form inspired by Venetian glass. It had a dramatic and lasting effect on Marioni, who had not previously seen this type of glassblowing.
  
  Moore soon became a great mentor and friend. 'I worked with Benny any chance I got and still use his studio to this day to make some of my really large pieces,' Marioni says. He also studied with other well-known studio glass pioneers, such as Fritz Dreisbach and Richard Marquis, who is widely recognized for his unique interpretations of Venetian decorative techniques.
  
  In 1983, Moore introduced Marioni to Lino Tagliapietra, the legendary maestro who traveled from Murano to teach young American glassblowers at the Pilchuck Glass School in Washington state. 'I took classes with Lino throughout the 1990s, and because of him, I received a very classical education in glassblowing. I never missed an opportunity to be around him.'
  
  At the age of 23, Marioni had his first sell-out gallery show in Seattle that featured his Whopper vases. This series introduced his signature, monumental forms and two-color style, and earned him a prestigious Louis Comfort Tiffany Fellowship. After two decades of experimentation, Marioni now creates a diverse range of tall, iconic forms with surface treatments such as murrine (mosaic) and reticello (air bubbles within a net pattern) in an ever-changing array of vibrant colors." (Source: Dante Marioni website) His most recent works are sculptural vessels inspired by the leaf. “Not the leaf in nature, but the stylized forms found in the decorative arts,” Marioni notes. The new vessels are beguilingly intricate, inventive, fresh and tradition-breaking. While his earlier work was about “form, conceived and executed from a design point of view,” his newest works focus on the exploration of color and pattern. For Marioni, making objects is about the art of glassblowing rather than the creation of glass art, the process rather than the result. Marioni’s elegant works are the brilliant record of his on-going relationship with and exploration of this material.
  
  Provenance: private Seattle, Washington, USA collection
  
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  #181403

  Condition

  Glass vessel is intact and excellent. Signed and dated "Marioni 97" on the foot. Book still has dust cover, is signed "Dante Marioni 2001" on the title page, and is in overally very good condition.
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