Andrea Tagliapietra - Bio

 

Short biography

Andrea Tagliapietra was born in Murano on February 17, 1955.At the age of 14 he started working the glass in a glass factory in Murano island, following the tradition of his father Erminio, at that time one of the most talented glass masters of Salviati & C.
Since he was a boy he worked hard as a glass factory server and attendant and finally became a glass master in 1979.
In 1980, as he likes to assert, he “lit up” his sensitiveness and art and started to create works that, as years went by, became popular and successful. It was thanks to their particular expressive autonomy and style, their formal and chromatic balance that were absolutely comparable to those of the greater glass masters of the first half of the twentieth century.
Specialty
Lump glass sculpture (sculpture on whole bodies of glass)
Calcedonio glass (special pattern of colored glass imitating the calcedonium stone)
Permanent Collection
Studio Andrea Tagliapietra Viale Bressagio 25/a, Murano
Exhibitions
He started a in 1983 exposing a delicate Motherhood at Bevilacqua la Masa Foundation in Venice, where some of the greatest contemporary art masters artistically took their first steps
For Andrea Tagliapietra it was the beginning of an exhibition path that took him to Vienna, Linz, Villach, Las Vegas and the prestigious Gallery of Sculpture in Palm Beach, to New York, Chicago, Bern and Tokyo, where a lot of his sculptures are now part of private collections.