Franco Fuga, 88 years old, always in love with Murano glass, presents this year his work that goes back to the beginnings of glass production, with reference to the natural elements that were to support the glassblowing art itself: dried beech, seaweed dust, minerals, silica sand, fire...
The dried beech stump, with the sharp glasses sinked in its bowels, represents the kiln's first fuel and the difficulty of some processes that were impossible. Here is the hostility of the spurs! Sand indicates the miracle of minerals transformed by the alchemy of fire. Different kinds of glass, which first have liquid, soft and supple forms and then materialize as natural elements returning to a solid state: sprouts, seaweed, new forms that inspire lightness and sinuosity.