"Giorgio Vigna combines the natural with the artificial, poor and rich,
familiar elements with daring fantasies. Vigna, in fact, treads the
unusual ground between the real world and the imaginary one, and his
creations have the fascination of objects that live in dreams, both
familiar and strange", this the description of Vigna's work by Maria
Sebregondi. Born in Verona 1955, Giorgio Vigna spent his formative
years in art school. His first working experiences were in the theatre
as costume and set designer
He experimented with traditional marbling techniques, later applying
them to porcelain, ceramic, paper, fabric, wood and glass. His work for
the theatre includes designing fabrics for the costumes of Othello by
Enrico Job at the 43rd Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. At the same time he
designed and created jewellery and sculpture, expanding his research on
glass from 1997 thanks to an intense collaboration with Venini.
Among
his collections "Fuochi d'acqua" (2002), "Talismani" (1998), the first
Venini glass jewellery collection and the glass pieces limited edition
"Fior d'acqua" (1999).
In 1998 he was invited by the International Glass Research Center of
Nuutajarvi, Finland, to organise a workshop on glass jewellery for the
students of Hame Polytechnic.
In this occasion he was in contact
with the Finnish company Iittala, specialised in glass, and from this
collaboration Iittala birds line was born - launched on international
markets in 2007.
His creations also appears in several movies, among
others "Io ballo da sola" by Bernando Bertolucci, "Le fate ignoranti"
by Ferzan Ozpetek, "Agata e la tempesta" by Silvio Soldini.
Moleskine
became a precious catalogue to gather Giorgio Vigna's work on occasion
of a personal exhibition at the Design Museum in Helsinky
Museo del Design di Helsinky from the 4th to 27th May 2007.
The
notebook has top quality heavy paper for one's drawings and tempera
colours, perfect place for an artist to sketch. At the end of the
catalogue, a light paper flier with a list of creations and its related
information, a complete author's biography and photographic credits.
