Lorenzo Passi
Marignana Arte is pleased to present Lorenzo Passi first solo show in our gallery: Forgiato nel ferro, soffiato nel vetro in the context of the 2020 edition of The Venice Glass Week.
Lady Luck has bestowed many blessings on Lorenzo Passi. Let me try and mention a couple. First of all, he has two inborn traits that cannot be learned. The first is great good taste: personal, new and different, and aimed at an innovative, future beauty – a beauty that doesn’t exist yet, and makes a contemporary artist out of him. The second is stoic determination. This latter attitude is upheld by a rare dyad: humility and self-assuredness. Lorenzo, while a student at the Francesco Arcangeli art high school in Bologna, goes on a class field trip to the workshop of Catalan glass artist Joan Crous. There, he is thunderstruck by glass – a classic case of love at first sight. And glass recognizes Lorenzo’s qualities and reciprocates his affections. The year is 2002, but the love affair lives on to this day.
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Marignana Arte, il ferro e il vetro secondo Lorenzo Passi, Veronica Tuzii, Corriere del Veneto, September 2020
3 mostre da vedere a Venezia a settembre, Irene Bagnara, Artribune, September 2020
Storie di ferro e vetro, alla Venice Glass Week: Lorenzo Passi da Marignana Arte, Penzo+Fiore, Exibart, September 2020
Forgiato nel ferro, soffiato nel vetro, installation view