Culture. Castello Sforzesco, from Wednesday 19 February the winning and finalist works of the international competition “Milano Vetro – 35” will be on display

The 26 creations will remain on display until 19 April 2020 in the Sala della Balla, digital catalog available at this link

Milan, February 19 2020 – The award ceremony for the winning works of the international “Milano-Vetro-35” competition took place yesterday evening in the presence of representatives of the municipal administration.

The Castello Sforzesco in Milan - in collaboration with the collector Sandro Pezzoli and with the support of Enrico Bersellini, Aristide Najean, Matteo Seguso and the Sala delle Asse Association - has in fact launched an international artistic glass and design competition on 1 July 2019, which saw the participation of young creatives from all over the world (Australia, Canada, South Korea, France, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, Holland, Poland, United Kingdom, Spain, United States, Taiwan, Turkey).

In its second edition, the competition aims to propose a path of valorisation of innovative work with the glass material both in the artistic field and in contemporary design, and is aimed at young people under 35 who experiment with the use of glass, without any limitation for the type of works.

The jury - composed of the curator of applied arts and contributor to the specialized magazine "Mestieri d'arte" Simona Cesana, the director of the Museum für Modernes Glas in Coburg in Germany, Sven Hauschke, the artist Silvia Levenson, the architect Santiago Miranda and by the curator of the Museo del Novecento in Milan Iolanda Ratti - awarded Morgan Gilbreath (United States, 1990) the “Aldo Bellini” acquisition prize, Paulius Rainys (Lithuania, 1989) and Zoe Woods (Australia, 1989) the two prizes for innovation “Enrico Bersellini”, and to Kristina Merslavic (Slovenia, 1991) the material prize consisting of a supply of glass, supported by the Sala delle Asse Association.

A special mention was given to Silvia Ileana Listorti (Italy, 1987).

All 36 finalist works will remain on display until 19 April 2020 in the prestigious Sala della Balla of the Sforzesco Castle, in an exhibition itinerary that dialogues with the Bellini Pezzoli collection of contemporary artistic glass, exhibited since March 2017 in the adjacent Sala Castellana.

Together with the finalist works of the second edition, the winning work of the first edition, "The Tower" by Anna Mlaslowki, which in 2018 became part of the civic collections of the Sforzesco Castle, will also be exhibited.

The artistic glass collections at the Sforzesco Castle

The Sforzesco Castle has an important collection of artistic glass, created starting from the second half of the 19th century thanks to donations from private collectors and completed by purchases made by the Administration.

To this first nucleus, eminently historical and representative above all of Murano production, in the first forty years of the twentieth century many examples of Italian and European glass were added, acquired directly at the Monza Biennials and the Milan Triennials, in such an extensive and systematic way that the civic museums of the Castle have come to find themselves with a truly conspicuous and very representative nucleus of artistic production in glass in the first half of the twentieth century.

The recent deposit of the Bellini Pezzoli collection (2016) made it possible to fill the gaps concerning the last part of the twentieth century and the beginning of the XNUMXs, so that today the collection is one of the largest, most complete and up-to-date in Italy.

The works on display are present in a digital catalogue, which can be consulted on the competition website: https://artidecorative.milanocastello.it/it/content/competition-milanovetro-35

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