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PIECE: Alexandrite "Riposare" Sculpture
ARTIST: Maestro Mirco Bastianello

This Alexandrite "Riposare" (Resting) Sculpture was created and designed by Muranese Maestro Mirco Bastianello in 2006 using his skills as a glass artisan, that were taught to him by his Partner and Father-in-Law, Maestro GREAT, Silvano Signoretto..

This AMAZING piece is NEW and just arrived with a container full of Venetian Glass. This MINT condition piece measures as follows:

Height: 9.0"
Width: 6.75"
Depth: 4"
Weight: 11.6 lbs.
Gallery: $3,250.00

This piece is an emotive sculpture, depicting a seated man, almost folded in upon himself. His features exude humility, almost humiliation, as the prone form is suggestive of a street beggar. The amazing beauty of Alexandrite Glass is that it changes color from a purple under regular light to a beautiful blue under fluorescent light. This type of glass is very hard to create.

What is Alexandrite

Alexandrite Alexandrite is the gemstone variety of chrysoberyl. It is one of the rarest and most expensive gems. A beryllium aluminum oxide, chrysoberyl is hard and durable, inferior in hardness only to corundum and diamond. Alexandrite appears green in daylight but red under tungsten light.

It is a semiprecious gemstone. A rare member of the chrysoberyl family of minerals that changes color in different lighting. Alexandrite is red or purple-red when seen in incandescent light, but in fluorescent light and daylight it appears in shades of blue and green.

This is a PERFECT piece of art. Simply stunning and unbelievable work - this piece is a winner!

Authenticity

This lovely art glass piece is SIGNED "M. Bastianello, signifying its authenticity.
 

About Maestro Mirco Bastianello, Maestro Silvano Signoretto, and their Partnership

Founded together in 1999, Maestro Silvano Signoretto and his then Master Assistant and son-in-law Mirco Bastianello formed Signoretto & Bastianello, a partnership to produce high-end Murano Art Glass, with sculptures and the Calcedonia technique being the focal points of the partnership. They form a unique relationship that specializes in the collaboration with only reputable artists and designers from around the globe, who come to the furnace to have their art or artistic concepts realized in glass form. All pieces created by both Signoretto and Bastianello are worked exclusively by hand, using the same technologies and unchanged tools from hundred of years.

Most of their work may be found in museums and important art galleries...and they continue to collaborate with well-renowned artists such as Lindstrom, Robert Zeppel-Sperl, Martin Bradley, Elvira Bach, Reinhoud, Luigi Benzoni, Juan Ripolles, Paolo Valle, Koen Vanmechelen, Shan Shan Shengs, Paul Attersee, Fotis, Coignard, through Berengo Fine Arts. Borengo's owner and director Adriano Berengo recognizes the technical skill and physical strength which allow Bastianello to make extraordinary sculptures.

The Signoretto family is world-renowned, having created marvelous glass sculptures for eight generations.

The graphic sign that you see under each piece, “Mirco Bastianello” is the actual signature of the artist, Maestro (master glassmaker) Bastianello, who uses a particular diamond wheel point to handwrite it under each and every piece that is made by him. This is your guarantee that the objects you’ve acquired are created using the ancient techniques of 100% hand glass making and guarantees the genuineness and the singleness of the Art Piece using the centuries old tradition that is perpetuated, by Maestros like Bastianello and Maestro Signoretto, in Murano, Italy. These “Objet d’Art” are hence mouth blown and hand made entirely.

The principal components of glass are silica sand, soda, potassium which, joined to other particular matters and oxides, fuse and become glass at a temperature of around 2.500 Fahrenheit. From the incandescent magma, blown and forged by expert hands, the world famous and renowned Murano glass objects are born.

In the specific case of Bastianello, Signoretto, has handed down his artistic style of one of the greatest exponent of the “mano volante” , (literally “flying hand”), technique; from a mass of incandescent magma he “sculpts” with glass makers tools his figures, with no possibility of mistake; with a lump of fusing glass that must be finished at once, timing and precision are essential. If we add to all this the creativity, the imagination and the dedication that Signoretto has given to “his” glass we find one of the finest glass masters in history.

Bastianello and Signoretto have worked, and still work with many exponents of contemporary art from all over the world such as; Ernest Fuschs, Steve Tobin, Ginny Ruffner, Peter Shire, Fulvio Bianconi, Scarpa, James Coignard, Ernest Bilgreen, Berit Johansson and dozens of others.

Maestro Bastianello is, in actual fact, a sculptor of glass above all else, an artist who manipulates glass paste with rare strength and skill. Entering his world, by visiting a showroom or a gallery that exhibits his pieces, is like entering in a brilliant glass menagerie, in which the immobile figures of horses, birds, human beings and heads seem to have vital forces that are seeking to escape from the glass masses in which they are imprisoned.

Bastianello, again, who trained at the side of his father-in-law, the great Signoretto, is now a Master himself. He attempts everything in glass because, he says, “A master must be capable of making anything”. His production is variegated and even unusual sometimes as he lets his mind drift into his dream and those dreams become the Art which is shared and admired with the world.