Vase Ritagli Fulvio Bianconi for Venini

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Fulvio Bianconi (Padua, 27 August 1915 - Milan, 14 May 1996) was an Italian artist, designer and graphic designer. Son of the musician Virginio (also called Emo) and of Elvira, housewife, even as a young man shows an incredible talent for drawing. When the announcement appears in a local newspaper that the Madonna dell'Orto is looking for a young man with a strong vocation for drawing, the mother, without any hesitation, exclaims that they are looking for her son Fulvio. In Venice he attended the Carmini Art School and worked as an apprentice decorator at Michele Pinto's workshop. He married Bruna and after the birth of his first daughter Maria (Marieto) worked in various locations in northern Italy and Istria, designing and decorating churches and making portraits. In 1933 Dino Villani introduced him to work as a graphic designer at Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, Motta, and other Milanese publishing houses. During the Second World War he did his military service moving between the south of France, Milan and Rome, in the latter city miraculously escaping the Nazi round-up for the attack in via Rasella, clinging to the cornice of the house where he lives. After the war, the Gi. You. Emme instructs him to design the new perfume bottles and sends it to Murano, to Paolo Venini. After settling in Milan, he worked as a graphic designer for the major publishing houses and in the early 1950s he would end up working permanently with Garzanti for which, until 1975, he would sign covers and dust jackets and take care of the corporate graphics, assuming the artistic direction of the publishing house. At the same time he works on the graphic image for companies such as FIAT, Marzotto, Pirelli, Rai, HMV and other well-known companies. In the same period and in particular starting from 1957, following disagreements with Paolo Venini on the attribution of authorship of the glass works he performed, he interrupted the collaboration and dedicated himself directly and personally to the creation and distribution of glass works by collaborating with almost all Murano glassworks, and more. In 1947 the second daughter, Musetta, was born. Bruno Munari writes introducing him: "When Bianconi has a certain amount of sketches and notes relating to glass, he leaves and goes to Murano where, in some furnaces, the glass masters are waiting for him to work together. Because Bianconi is not a table artist who he studies his vases with a compass and the golden section, he loves instead to go directly to the furnace to work with the master and it is so much the fury with which Bianconi makes his glasses that he manages to enter the soul of the master and make him act according to his own wanting. "He himself defines glass as his favorite hobby and his great love is painting.

Designer: Fulvio Bianconi

Production: Manifattura Venini

Material: Glass