Toni Zuccheri. Membrane Vase for VeArt

TONI ZUCCHERI (San Vito al Taglimento, Italy 1936-2008) for VeArt.
Vase "Membrana", 70s.
Murano glass.
Signed.
Measurements: 46 x 12 x 12 cm.

Cylindrical vase in blown glass of watery hue. It is decorated with two stripes of amber color and clearly organic appearance.

Toni Zuccheri was trained at the school of his father Luigi, animalistic painter, and then attended the University Institute of Architecture in Venice, where he graduated in 1968. At the end of 1961, while still a student, he replaced his father in the Venini firm. Thus began in an almost fortuitous way a collaboration destined to continue over time, albeit discontinuously. In the book "Toni Zuccheri in Venini (Design and applied arts)", it is stated "Artist of great curiosity and inventiveness, is passionately dedicated to research and experimentation, acquiring over time a considerable knowledge of both hot and cold working techniques, establishing profitable relationships with the various departments of the glass factory (furnace and mill). Thus were born glass series, such as those exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 1964, where an initial reflection on transparency and color (Crepuscoli and Giade) became evident. Alongside them, polychrome glass ducks and unpublished glass and bronze farm animals (turkeys and others) published in the pages of the "Domus" are exhibited, along with the famous hoopoe, with its innumerable sculptural feathers. This same period is also marked by the collaboration between Gio Ponti and glassmaking, to which the Milanese architect had resorted for the creation of stained glass windows with very thick sheets".

VeArt was a glass manufacture founded by Ludovico de Santillana and Sergio Biliotti in Scorzè, Venice, in 1965. The founders came from Venini & C., the most famous historical glass factory in Murano. Already in the eighties, important glass designers such as Luigi Massoni, Emilio Moretti, Mario Ticcò, Afra and Tobia Scarpa, Santiago Miranda, Toni Zucchery and Perry King collaborated with the firm.