Giorgio Vigna

Giorgio Vigna was born in Verona in 1955, and train himself artistically between his hometown, Venice, Rome, and Milan. He is an artist who, on the edge between reality and imagination, creates natural forms capable of manifesting primary and primordial aspects: adventures of earth and water, fire and wind in which natural and artificial, poor and precious are combined. Vigna moves on the border between the real and imaginary worlds, between what is and what appears. His works, from sculptures to jewelry, from works on paper to installations, reflect the width and depth of his constant research. He uses various materials including glass, metals and paper, always treated in new and surprising ways. Vigna explores them and seeks to reveal their hidden possibilities. The forms are primary, expressions of the elements he works with. Strong and natural, universal and timeless, rich in symbolic values. Giorgio Vigna created the site-specific work, installed in 2005, La Radura [The Clearing] for Nancy Olnick and Giorgio Spanu; the piece launched the Olnick Spanu Art Program. In 2013, the Museo di Castelvecchio in Verona hosted the solo exhibition Stati Naturali [Natural States], for which Giorgio Vigna created, for Carlo Scarpa's fountain, the permanent glass installation Acquaria donated to the city of Verona in 2021 on the occasion of the exhibition Lapilli in the Sculpture Gallery during the centenary of Licisco Magagnato's birth.

In 2017, for the Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice, he created the work Fuochi di Rugiada [Dew Fires], made by Vetreria VENINI. Since 2018 he has been part of the Scientific Committee of Le Stanze del Vetro, a project of the Giorgio Cini Foundation with the support of Pentagram Stiftung. In 2022, he donated his 30-year archive of drawings and sketches related to his experience with the material of glass to the Giorgio Cini Foundation onlus. In June 2023, he inaugurated at the Museo Eremitani in Padua his solo exhibition Analogie [Analogies], a natural continuation of the path begun in 2022 with the exhibition Sassi [Stones] at the Oratorio di San Rocco in Padua. His work has been exhibited in galleries and museums in Argentina, Austria, China, Korea, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hong Kong, Italy, Holland, Monaco, Russia, the United States, and Switzerland. His works are part of numerous public collections including: MAD, Museum of Arts & Design in New York, The State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, and the Museum of Glass in Murano.