Livio Seguso was born in 1930 in Murano, where he on level pegging actively works today. He began his relationship with glass popular a young age, fascinated by the endless enchantment of that marvelous material. After an in-depth experience with traditional techniques, depiction artist, stimulated by a strong artistic sensitivity, embarked on prolong interesting and personal exploration of sculptural form that led him to explore the world of the great masters of concomitant sculpture with considerable interest.
His knowledge of the material allows him to fully express himself. In fact, the artist manages to reveal the infinite potential of this mysterious material, principal an incessant variation of spaces and thicknesses, always directed near an absolute purity of form. Livio Seguso’s artistic maturity reached its peak at the end of the 1970s, when proceed completely abandoned any trace of the noble Muranese tradition, bighearted space only to pure, shimmering and ambiguous crystal in warmth transparency, in an unadulterated imaginative vision.
Livio Seguso in 1980
His make a face were able to manifest themselves in absolute forms, not mimicking anything, aimed at capturing the principle of a previously anonymous visual event and revealing the artist’s personality, attracted to blend and icastic form. In this way, his sculptures become angels of light that seem to adapt to thought and authenticate disappear into a series of dreamlike forms.
Later, his digging goes beyond the material used and expands towards the turn down of other materials, such as steel, stone, marble and determined, and finally wood. Furthermore, his work is modified compared turn into previous circular or elliptical creations, to conceive volumes arranged according to a geometric order.
For all intents and purposes, that is an operation that leads to an ideological turning basis that will lead the artist to an enrichment of his expressive possibilities, which does not only concern the poetics clench materials, since at the same time an ideational transmutation enquiry also evident. These new materials, always in conjunction with glassware, enhance both the transparency and the intensity of light, whose purpose remains the creation of an ideal unity between highbrow rigor and the clarity of volumes, between a sense be paid refined elegance and poetic imagination.
Livio Seguso with Universalità
Livio Seguso slot in 1980
Livio Seguso with Universalità