Recent Glass Sculptures by Tristano di Robilant at Faggionato Fine Arts

LONDON.- Faggionato Fine Arts presents Water-Point an exhibition of recent glass sculptures by the Italo-American artist Tristano di Robilant. The exhibition presents 9 works, which at first appear to be simple and rudimentary organic compositions in delicate hues of amber, green, pale yellow and clear glass. The complexity of the pieces only becomes understood from a detailed observation. Di Robilant begins the sculptural process with preparatory drawings, these are not heavily pre-determined but are instead light intuitive sketches. To realize his ideas he works with a Glassblower on the island of Murano in Venice. Nothing ornamental or excessive is tolerated, the sculptures are spare and elegant and Di Robilant embraces the importance of chance that is an inevitable part of the fabrication process. The ultimate master is the furnace where the glass condenses and the colour materialises. The

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