Walter Furlan

Art Brokerage: Walter Furlan Italian Artist: b. 1931. Walter Furlan was born in 1931 in Chioggia, a small town at the southern tip of the Venetian lagoon. He went to work at an early age in the VAMSA glassworks, where he was apprenticed to Romano Tosi, a master-craftsman, better-known as " Mamaracio". At the end of World War II, Furlan joined the Gino Cenedese glassworks where he assisted Alfredo Barbini and the old artisans formerly from VAMSA, including "Mamaracio" and Gino Forte known as " Peta ". At the Gino Cenedese glassworks, Furlan learned to work with solid glass, sculpted " a massello", a technique that would later become his favorite method. Having become a Maestro at a very young age, Furlan soon came into contact with many artists, including Fulvio Bianconi. In the early 70's, Furlan went to work for Seguso Vetri d'Arte, under the guidance of Maestro Angelo Seguso and designer Mario Pinsoni. There he learned to make sommerso glass and to work with the stylized forms typical of the designs of artist Flavio Poli, who was then collaborating with Seguso Vetri d'Arte. He soon became the Master that Poli relied on to interpret most of his work. Today his finest expressions are inspired by Picasso's fascinating artistic career, in works that express the range of the experience he acquired working with the old glassmasters. Today, in his furnace, the Maestro is constantly seeking to express the full extent of his creativity in glass, with new concepts for solid glass sculptures, some of which are impressively large. Listings wanted.