Date/Time
Thursday 09/30/2021
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
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On the occasion of the exhibition ITALIAN-AMERICAN ICONS: MOSAIC PORTRAITS at Marin MOCA we are pleased to join this event’s organizer Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco in presenting a webinar on the HISTORY OF MOSAIC ART IN FRIULI, with Guglielmo Zanette, curator of the exhibition, and Denise Toson, guest artist and instructor.
During the presentation, we will learn about the history and traditions of mosaic art in Friuli, a region of Northern Italy, and we’ll watch Denise create a mosaic live. The event will end with a Q&A with the public.
The webinar is open to the public and free of charge.
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In collaboration with MarinMOCA, Associazione Naonis, Lido Cantarutti and Italian Film Festival Marin
ABOUT
Guglielmo Zanette, film director, architect and designer, graduated from the prestigious Politecnico in Milan. During his long career, he has collaborated with both the private and public sectors to promote new forms and expressions in contemporary mosaic art. ITALIAN AMERICAN ICONS is the latest of his successful features and it has been realized after two frantic, intense and extremely creative years of cooperation with young artists from different countries: Italy, France, Venezuela, Russia, Kazakhstan. The collection is a unique blend of art, technique, tradition and culture: an exquisite innovation in the contemporary art scene — a living, speaking testimony of the most iconic faces of our Italian American artistic community. These precious mosaic works are characterized by a wide range of high-quality vitreous enamels which are still produced in the antique furnaces of Venice and Murano by expert glass craftsmen in over 5,000 different colors: a true excellence of made in Italy.
Denise Toson graduated from the Scuola Mosaicisti del Friuli and is an artist in residence of MarinMOCA. Her work is featured in Italian American Icons on view through November 7, 2021.
