Giorgio Vigna

«[…] My work and my research are on the boundary, the edge, between reality and imagination. Over the course of my explorations, this boundary has opened out to create a suspended space-time where time is subjective and space is imaginary. It is in this suspension that there emerge and become clear new “natural” states of otherwise imperceptible material and form: there weave together

large or very small, light and heavy, solid and liquid, cold and hot micro- and macrocosms that exchange places and generate objects that, in meeting up with them, also ask for a suspension of prejudices based on the experience of what is already known. […]»
(L.M. Barbero, Stati Naturali, Electa, Milano, 2013)
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Available artworks

Installations

Available artworks


  • Sospeso, 2011

    Copper, bronze, silver welding, steel, mixed media
    40 x 50 x 70 cm


  • Acqua, 2018

    Copper bowl with hand-ground glass fusing
    17 x 17,5 x 17,5 cm


  • Acque, 2018

    Copper and hand-cut Murano glass bowls
    3 elements
    Ø 19 x h 7,5 cm - Ø 30 x h 13 cm - Ø 12 x h 5,5 cm


  • Acque Astrali (3 elements), 2018

    Hand-cut Murano glass stones with air bubble inclusions
    3 elements
    variable dimensions


  • Sasso di Fuoco (cod.6733)

    Murano glass, copper glass
    16 x 15,5 x 10 cm


  • Sasso di Fuoco (cod.6752)

    Murano glass, copper glass
    22 x 24 x 20 cm


  • Cosmografia (cod. 5604), 2023

    Aquatype on paper
    77 x 52,7 cm
    79,4 x 54,8 x 4 cm
    with frame


  • Cosmografie (cod. 5597 + 5598), 2023

    Ink on paper
    29,6 x 51 x 4 cm


  • Cosmografia (cod. 5603), 2018

    Aquatype on paper
    78 x 53,2 cm
    79,4 x 54,8 x 4 cm
    with frame


  • Morfema sasso (cod. 6801), 2023

    Bronze, copper, Murano glass
    14 x 18,5 x 15 cm
    Ph Cristina De Paola @Studio Vigna


  • Morfema (cod. 6850), 2023

    Copper, Murano glass, silver
    14 x 33 x 23 cm
    Ph Cristina De Paola @Studio Vigna


  • CD 120_Morfema cod. 6853

    Copper, Murano glass, silver
    30 x 55 x 50 cm
    Ph Cristina De Paola @Studio Vigna

Installations


  • TORN CURTAIN, 2024

    Installation view
    Studio la Città, Verona


  • Autodisporsi. Random and purpose, 2023

    Installation view
    Studio la Città, Verona


  • Acque Solide, 2019

    Installation view
    Studio la Città at GAD-Giudecca Art District, Venice


  • Acque Astrali, 2018

    Installation view
    Studio la Città, Verona


  • Acque Astrali, 2018

    Installation view
    Studio la Città, Verona


  • Acque Astrali, 2018

    Installation view
    Studio la Città, Verona

    News

  • The notebook Giorgio Vigna donated to the Moleskine Foundation Collection will be exhibited in the Detour “The legendary power of creativity on paper” exhibition in collaboration with Moleskine in the spaces of Pinacoteca Ambrosiana in Milan until June 11, 2024.

  • Saturday February 10, 2024 the exhibition TORN CURTAIN buongiorno, buonasera opens in the gallery. Like a narration of lives that run parallel, the exhibition – rather mysterious and unusual – presents a figurative dialogue between Luca Massimo Barbero and Hélène de Franchis; more than 60 works are on display, chosen according to each curator’s taste, with as many artists from various periods of art history, including painting, sculpture, installations and ceramics. The show has been extended until June 1st, 2024.

  • Piazza San Marco becomes the stage for the event “Murano Illumina il Mondo”, promoted by The Venice Glass Week and the City of Venice. A total of twelve artists and designers are involved in the project, invited to reinterpret and transform a daily use object, such as the chandelier, into a true work of art. Giorgio Vigna, alongside whom the skilled craftsmen of Barovier&Toso, brings to life the suspended light sculpture Siphonophera. Until February 29, 2024.

  • As part of the Venice Glass Week, Giorgio Vigna receives the prestigious Glass in Venice Award from the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti in collaboration with the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia. Works by the awarded artists will be exhibited in the atrium of Palazzo Loredan (Venice) from 9 to 17 September 2023.

  • The Archaeological Museum of Padua hosts Giorgio Vigna‘s new solo exhibition entitled Analogie. The exhibition, curated by Francesca Veronese and Stefano Annibaletto, is organized with the contribution of the Cassa di Risparmio di Padova e Rovigo Foundation. The exhibition opens on June 21 and continues until October 29, 2023.

  • Giorgio Vigna exhibits his work Fuochi d’acqua in the exhibition: Vitrea, organized by the Milan Triennale in collaboration with the Cologni dei Mestieri d’Arte Foundation.
    Vitrea
    Vetro italiano contemporaneo d’autore
    Triennale Milano, 5 May – 22 August 2021, curated Jean Blanchaert

  • The spring exhibition at LE STANZE DEL VETRO focuses on the extraordinary glass animal collection of Pierre Rosenberg, former Director/President of the Louvre in Paris and involves Giorgio Vigna among the artists on display with his work: Contrasti Birds by Vigna for Iittala.
    The Glass Ark Animals in the Pierre Rosenberg Collection curated by Giordana Naccari and Cristina Beltram
    LE STANZE DEL VETRO
    A project of Fondazione Giorgio Cini and Pentagram Stiftung
    Venice, Island of San Giorgio Maggiore
    26 April – 1 August 2021

  • Now on sale the brochure of Acque Solide exhibition with artworks by Herbert Hamak and Giorgio Vigna and an essay by Marco Meneguzzo (in Italian and English).
    To purchase please click here.

  • On 6 September Studio la Città returns to Venice to start off a new exhibition project curated by Marco Meneguzzo. On the island of the Giudecca there will be two solo shows, by the artists Herbert Hamak and Giorgio Vigna, titled Acque Solide: an antithesis that represents the common denominator of the works on show.
    September 6 – November 10, 2019 | GAD – Giudecca Art District, Venice