GLASS ARTS MADE IN BOLZANO, FROM NEW YORK TO THE MOST SIGNIFICANT CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN COLLECTIONS.

The glass arts designed by the artist Diego Perrone (born in Asti in 1970, now living and working in Milan) were produced at the laboratories of Vetroricerca Glas & Modern in Bolzano and are now exposed at the Artissima exhibition in Turin together with art pieces of the most qualified international galleries dedicated to contemporary arts. Artissima fair is visited by 45.000 visitors and got at its18th edition. Diego Perrones creations were produced at Vetroricerca with the casting mould technique through the method of the "lost wax", which is similar to the bronze melting process in foundries and which permits to realize filled glass sculptures. One of the two Perrones large sculptures, Senza Titolo (Untitled), introduced for the first time to the audience and exposed by Casey Kaplan Gallery of New York at Artissima, was acquired by the CRT Contemporary Modern Art Foundation for the Rivoli Castle Museum (Turin), enriching one of the most important contemporary art collections in Europe. Ability and experimentation like knowledge and tradition are the elements that have allowed the development of an excellent practice and craftsmanship in glass art: this is Vetroricercas challenge: the south Tyrolean experimental centre has chosen to improve and show in Italy as well as abroad the art techniques proposed in increasingly close relationship with contemporary research. For several years, the world of contemporary art, design and architecture, has represented to Vetroricerca an opportunity to test and develop its skills, to offer in advanced innovative products, trends and opportunities to experiment new working methods. Techniques, materials, craftsmanship, care and attention, experimentalism and interpretation allow Vetroricerca to offer products and opportunities to art as well as to artisanry and craft industry: in addition to the specific arts, also an increasing number of industrial glass companies and arts craft have the opportunity to experience innovative products and acquire important skills in testing laboratories of glass research. The opportunity to receive and export skills resulting from traditional crafts, thanks to ongoing collaboration with scientists, technicians and artisans but also engineers, artists and designers from all around the world, is today making of Vetroricerca Glas & Modern one of the most significant international experimental and training centers and makes of Bolzano a renowned scenery due to glass manufacture.In this pathway the work of Diego Perrone, after a long period of experimentation in the laboratories of Vetroricerca, was able to give shape to his research, carrying out high quality works of recognized interest.