At Castello Sforzesco a tribute to opera through unseen contemporary glass works

From December 2, 2022 to April 30, 2023, Milan’s Castello Sforzesco presents the exhibition Vetro e opera. Blows of Art, set up in the rooms of the Museum of Musical Instruments. The exhibition is curated by Fiorella Mattio and Sandro Pezzoli and is produced by Castello Sforzesco together with the Comitato Vetri di Laguna di Venezia, on the occasion of theInternational Year of Glass. It aims to be a tribute to opera through the unpublished creations of twenty contemporary artists.

Twenty artists linked by a common interest in melodrama but coming from different fields, from painting to sculpture, from design to photography, were invited to create an unpublished work in glass inspired by the world of opera. Each work exhibited (whether a sculpture, installation or design object, in blown glass, molded glass, etched glass, often in union with other materials) is accompanied by a quotation from the world of music that suggests a key to its interpretation, while thanks to a QRCode on the caption it is possible to access an in-depth look at the artist and the work.

The artists involved are Maria Cristina Hamel, Lucio Perna, Joan Crous, Gala Carlota Fernandez Montero, Montserrat Duran Muntadas, Maria Grazia Rosin, Andrea Zepponi, Marina and Susanna Sent, Aristide Najean, Lino Tagliapietra, Camillo Triulzi, Laura Panno, Silvia Levelson, Natalia Saurin, Matteo Seguso, Silvia Listorti, Giovanni Soccolol, Pasquale Gadaleta, Violetta Uboldi, and Yolanda Tabanera.

From the Halls of the Museum of Musical Instruments, passing through the Sala della Balla, the exhibition route continues to Sala Castellana, where the Bellini-Pezzoli collection of contemporary art and design glass, recently donated to the Castle, is on permanent display.

“An exhibition that unites two Italian cultural capitals, Milan and Venice, in a common artistic project,” says Culture Councilor Tommaso Sacchi. “The medium of this alliance is glass, an artistic material with extraordinary expressive qualities, which has made the history of the Venetian territory and is excellently represented in our city as well, just think of the marvelous stained glass windows of Milan Cathedral or its use in design creations and contemporary art. The City’s collection has grown a lot over the years, thanks to the foresight of the Castello Sforzesco staff who can now offer visitors a broad overview of the history of art glass, from the 16th century to the present.”

Castello Sforzesco has an important collection of art glass, which has been built up since the second half of the 19th century through donations from private collectors. In the first forty years of the twentieth century, the collection was enriched with many Italian and European glass works, thanks to direct purchases by the City of Milan, especially at the Monza Biennials and the Milan Triennials. Since 2022, thanks to the Bellini-Pezzoli donation, the collection has been supplemented with works by qurantacinque artists and designers of the 20th and 21st centuries, becoming one of the largest, most complete and up-to-date collections in Italy.

At Castello Sforzesco a tribute to opera through unseen contemporary glass works

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