Lu-Murano, Lu-Murano, the future of tradition
An artist from Murano received an award at the Korea Biennale for a lamp made with recycled bottles. Fabio Fornasier, a glass master, won one of the most important awards of this year’s Cheongju Biennale in Korea.
He presented a work entitled ReWine, entirely made with wine bottles, hot-worked in the Murano furnaces. He used eighty bottles to create this eco-friendly and Pop work, perfect from a technical point of view and successful for its core concept.
In 1979 Fabio Fornasier started working in his father Luigi’s furnace on the island of Murano. He became a glass master when still young, opening his own studio in Murano where he began creating precious lamps that were modern- as well as antique-looking. Fornasier interprets and revises the traditional Murano techniques.
He won his first award in 1996, in the Youth section of Aperto Vetro. Many solo exhibitions and participations in international exhibitions followed afterwards.
The Cheongju International Craft Biennale, now in its fifth year, is one of the leading events on the international scene and is characterized by its constant growth and intellectual edge. It boasts over 500,000 visitors and hosts one thousand artists from all over the world.
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Fabio Fornasier
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