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Alessandro Diaz de Santillana

By Giovanni Angi

Alessandro Diaz de Santillana
Born in Paris, France, 1959
A descendant of the Venini glassmaking dynasty, founded in Murano in 1921 by his grandfather Paolo Venini whose daughter Anna had Alessandro and Laura from his marriage to Ludovico Diaz De Santillana, the artist has over the decades made the ancient knowledge and complex techniques of glassmaking his own, to forget them in his memory and translate them into a lyrical and conceptual language of profound intensity.
His production is not limited to glassmaking, but also ranges into the field of graphics.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2001                        Art2 Gallery, Singapore
                                Novena Square Installation, Singapore
1998                        Sky and Water, R.B. Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, CA
1997                        Arrivals, Elliott-Brown Gallery, Seattle, WA
1996                        Spazio Canoniche Nuove, Treviso, Italy
                                Palazzo Guarnieri, Fondaco delle biade, Feltre, Italy [catalog]
                                Sky Works, Palazzo Mocenigo, Venezia, Italy
1995                        Machina Animae, Elliott-Brown Gallery, Seattle, WA
1994                        Societè Martell, Cognac, France
                                Palazzo Casati, Piacenza, Italy
1993                        Galleria Blanchaert, Milano, Italy
1992                        Un Caso di Trasparenza, Circolo degli Artisti, Faenza, Italy
1986                        Galerie Clara Scremini, Paris, France
 
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2015                        Collettiva 2015, Galleria Marignana Arte, Venezia
2014                        I Santillana, MAK Museum, Vienna, AU
                                Hour Glass, Galleria Marignana Arte, Venezia 
                                I Santillana, Le Stanze del Vetro, Isola di San Giorgio, Venezia (catalog)
2012                        Scapes  MOG, Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA (catalog) 2011        
                                Mercury, Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA (catalog)
2010                        Textures and Reflections, Traver Gallery , Tacoma, WA
2009                        La Biennale di Venezia, 53 Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte, Padiglione Venezia
                                Sanske Galerie, Zurich, CH
2008-2009               Licht und Gold, Galerie Proarta , Zurich, CH
2008                        Sanske Galerie, Luzern & Zurich, CH
2007                        Vetri d’Artista, Fondazione Pernici,, Centro Studi Val Rendana, a cura di Rosa Barovier [catalog]
2006                        Ein Welt aus Glas, Kunst und Design in Herzen Europas, Barockshloss Riegensburg, Austria
2005                        Vetro e Scultura, 20 Artisti interpretano Venini Chiesa di Sant’Agostino, Pietrasanta, Italy
2004-2005               Vetri nel Mondo Oggi, Istituto Veneto di Scienze Lettere ed Arti, Venezia, Italy [catalog]
2003                        Venice a Touch of Glass, Italian Cultural Institute, London, UK
2002-2004               Le Opere e I Giorni, Certosa di Padula, SA, Italy, a cura di Achille Bonito Oliva
2002                        Glass Way, Museo Archeologico, Aosta, Italy [catalog]
2001                        Paul Hughes Fine Arts, London, UK
                                Spazio Lucioli, Milano, Italy.: Nuovi Lavori
                                Museo Italoamericano, San Francisco, CA, USA, Venini, Glass & Design
                                Traveling to : The Mingei International Museum, San Diego, CA, USA

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