On the occasion of the Venice Gallery Weekend 2025, an event organized by the contemporary art galleries of the city, Caterina Tognon presents a selection of glassware from her personal collection, made in Murano or inspired by Venice, and a glass cabinet designed by Martin Szekely in 1996 for an important Milanese collector of art & design. The Fiole from the first millennium AD – small glass bubbles used to store essential oils – are the first blown glass pieces in Venice. As the skills of the master glassmakers grew, and once they succeeded in creating transparent crystal glass, the Bevante (or drinking glass) was born in Murano, an object which would evolve over the centuries into a symbol of the ability to enrich daily life with beauty, first in the European royal courts, and later around the world and across all social classes. No table is set without Bevanti: there is no place or time in our Western world that is not represented through specific variations of glasses or goblets. Until the 1980s, every furnace in Murano was specifically dedicated to glassware designs: long shelves lined with hundreds of unique and different examples. Treasures of incredible wonders, unfortunately now lost.
Bevanti #1 & a glass cabinet by Martin Szekely
Cenedese, Richard Marquis, Maria Grazia Rosin, Bořek Šipek, Carlo Tosi
Opening on the occasion of Venice Gallery Weekend 2025:
Sunday, March 23, 2025, from 10 AM to 1 PM
March 25 – May 3, 2025
Tuesday – Saturday From 10:00 AM to 7:00 PM
Caterina Tognon Contemporary Art San Marco 2158, next to the St. Regis Hotel, Venice
Glass Cabinet
Project by Martin Szekely for Jacqueline Vodoz, Paris 1996
Mosquito
Anonymous project for Cenedese furnace, Murano 1970s
Goblets
Project and creation by Richard Marquis with Dante Marioni, Seattle, USA, 1990s
Ventouse
Maria Grazia Rosin for NasonMoretti, Venice 2019
Tentacolari
Project by Maria Grazia Rosin, Master Glassblower Davide Fuin, Venice 2005
Enrico I II III IV V
Project by Bořek Šipek for Driade, Master Glassblower Petr Novotny, Czech Republic 1990s
Quadrifoglio
Master Glassblower Carlo Tosi, known as Caramea, for S.A.L.I.R., Murano 1950s
Conetto
Master Glassblower Carlo Tosi, known as Caramea, Murano 1980s
photo by Enrico Fiorese
