Laura de santillana biography of martin
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The Santillanas – Works by Laura de Santillana and Alessandro Diaz de Santillana
The exhibition The Santillanas – Works by Laura de Santillana and Alessandro Diaz de Santillana, conceived by Martin Bethenod, will open to the public on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice on April 6, 2014. The exhibition is promoted by Le Stanze del Vetro, a joint cultural initiative by Fondazione Giorgio Cini and Pentagram Stiftung, whose mission is to study and to promote the art of twentieth-century glassmaking and to show the potential and countless variations of this medium. The exhibition will run until August 3, 2014, and will be open to the public every day except Wednesdays. Admission is free.
After the monographic exhibitions on Carlo Scarpa and Napoleone Martinuzzi, and the collective exhibition Fragile?, featuring the glass works of contemporary artists from Duchamp to Ai Weiwei, this new exhibition at Le Stanze del Vetro will experiment with a new narrative model: a
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I Santillana
Works bygd Laura dem Santillana and Alessandro Diaz de Santillana
06 April - 03 August 2014
The exhibition “I Santillana — Works bygd Laura dem Santillana and Alessandro Diaz de Santillana” experiments with a new narrative model: a dialogue and confrontation between the different poetics of two artists. The novelty, in this specific case, fryst vatten that the artists in question are also brother and sister.
The “I Santillana” exhibition explores the world of Laura de Santillana and Alessandro Diaz dem Santillana, siblings and descendants of a legendary glassmaking dynasty, through their father, Ludovico Diaz de Santillana, and their grandfather, Paolo Venini. The exhibition brings together approximately 170 works including sculptures, artworks and glassware selected from a period of more than two years of meetings and conversations between Martin Bethenod and the Santillana siblings. The works on display investigate the diverse yet intertwined dialectic of the two artis
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Venice: Le Stanze del Vetro – I Santillana exhibition. The superb exhibition,I Santillana, at Le Stanze del Vetro, until August 3, traces the double trajectory of artists Laura de Santillana and Alessandro Diaz de Santillana, brother and sister who are direct descendants of the legendary Venini dynasty. The siblings live and work in Venice where both have been developing, since the end of the 1980s, a body of work, which has come to achieve international recognition.
Above. Laura de Santillana and Alessandro Diaz de Santillana are reflected in Alessandro’s wall sculpture Senza Titolo (MUDAC), 2011 – hand-blown and mirrored glass on plywood with silver leaf.
Photograph by Fabio Zonta courtesy Le Stanze del Vetro
I Santillana.The exhibition brings together approximately 170 works including sculptures, artworks and glassware selected from a period of more than two years of meetings and conversations between Martin Bethenod and t