Giuliano Gaigher

Giuliano Gaigher
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WINTER EXPO 2024-2025 – “Giuliano Gaigher’s Art Glass Laboratory”

It is the glass itself that tells the story.

I want to get the most out of the material. I like to give shape to the language of the glass and emphasize its meaning.
Through the play with light and the material I discover messages, which I try to organize and optimize.
In 1987 I opened my studio in the heart of Northern Italy. My “glass laboratory”, where I discovered new techniques again and again. I have never stopped telling my story of the expressive vulnerability of this beautiful material.

I still discover new techniques every day, which I like to combine: Thick, thin, melted, cast, glass powder and combinations with other materials such as wood, stone and metals.
There are endless ways to interpret art with glass. The many techniques brought me over the years to experiment with all kinds of designs. It was a fascinating journey of fusing and mixing, which give the viewer a different view of the play of light and glass. Every day something new is born, something that makes me happy and has changed my consciousness.

Over time, the spiritual came naturally. I discovered the internal and the external of life by working with glass. In fact, my works often have themes such as the crossing over to the afterlife and my life itself, in which aesthetics develop. It stimulates our mind to a more lively, suggestive and symbolic language. There I found the space to create new things with even greater imagination.

I have done many projects during my career:
My work “Almost Melancholy” was exhibited in the museum “Pope Paul VI Art and Spirituality”.
The installation “Signs of Time” was exhibited in the Museum “Verre in Sars-Poteries”, in France,
My work “Vortex” is on display in the Glass Museum Ernsting “Stiftung Alter Hof Herding” in Coesfeld, Germany.

Other works became part of international collections in Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland and the Czech Republic.
Glass sculpting has its roots in the history of Europe and abroad.
It has permeated our artistic identity.

Evidence of it can be found everywhere, which I try to explore in my art.

Giuliano Gaigher

MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS/C.V. (EXTRACT) :

Born in 1964.

1978 -1983 he graduates Technical Institute for Surveyors.
1987 he opens his own Art studio.
1983 to 1996 he also works in collaboration with the artists L. Magni, Marcello Catalano, Stefano Travi.
1993 – 1995 he learns the technique of glass fusion with prof. Detlef Tanz in Milan.
1997 “Quasi Malinconia” sculpture is in the Museum “Arte e Spiritualita Papa Paolo VI” in Brescia.
2000-2002-2003 First awards “A. Foppa” Bergamo.
2014 he’s selected for Coburgo Germany Glass Prize.
2015 he’s selected for the “Biennale du verre” of Strasbourg.
2016 “I segni del tempo” is acquired by the “Le Musée Verre le department du Nord”,
Sars Poteries.
2016 “Vortice” is acquired by Glasmuseum Ernsting Stiftung Alter Hof Herding, Coesfeld.
2018 “Proteggersi” is acquired by European museum of modern glass, Reudental
2022 he’s selected for Coburgo Germany Glass Prize.
2023 he’s selected for International Biennale of Glass Bulgaria
2024 special award Glass prize city Hadamar Germany
2024 “Mattone”is acquired by Glasmuseum Ernsting Stiftung Alter Hof Herding,Coesfeld

PARTICIPATIONS:

2007 Glasrijk Tubbergen Holland.
2008-2009-2011-2013-2015 Glass Festival Luxembourg.
2008-2010-2013-2016 Glasplastik und Garten Munster Germany.
2010-2012-2014 International Glass Exhibition, Zwiesel Germany.
2011 Passau.Germany – “La Sua nascita – la mia nascita”
2013 International Glass Exhibition Hadamar Germany.
2014 Coburg Germany Glass Prize.
2014 Exhibition “Espace mediArt” Luxembourg.
2015 “Biennale Internazionale du verre” “Lux aeterna” Strasbourg – France.
2015 “European Glass Festival” Wroclaw – Poland.
2016 Exhibition “Chateau de Edergem” Antwerp – Belgium.
2017 “Verre en forme” Centre des Arts Pluruels Ettelbruck Luxembourg CAPE.
2017 International glass festival Luxembourg.
2017Les journées du Verre-Perle et Sculpture – Sars poteries, Biennale MusVerre.
2017 Biennale des verriers Carmaux France.
2022 Coburg Germany Glass Prize
2023 International Biennale of Glass Bulgaria
2023 Passau Germany “Per tutti, anche per me”
2024 glass prize city Hadamar Germany