10 Facts About Lino Tagliapietra

Lino Tagliapietra was born on 1934 and is an Italian glass artist originally from Venice, who has worked extensively in the United States.

Lino Tagliapietra began in the Galliano Ferro factory as a water carrier and after two years was allowed to participate in glass manufacturing for the first time, applying ribbing to a single piece.

Lino Tagliapietra educated himself in modern art and at the Venice Biennales saw the work of Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, and Ellsworth Kelly.

Lino Tagliapietra taught Tagliapietra his techniques, which Tagliapietra taught to other glass maestri, including Pino Signoretto, and Tagliapietra taught Chihuly the Venetians' secrets in turn.

Lino Tagliapietra had his first solo show at Traver Gallery in Seattle in 1990.

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Lino Tagliapietra was taught and has taught himself the glass art in light of the particular Venetian sensibility to glass, aimed at appreciating its characteristics as an absolutely unique material that can be melted, blown and molded when hot.

In Giovanni Sarpelon's view, Lino Tagliapietra has "a close and almost symbiotic rapport with glass" that erases the distinction between the craftsman and the artist.

Lino Tagliapietra spent a week in October 2012 at the MIT Glass Lab, working with glass artists and educators to explore computer modeling and folding techniques.

Lino Tagliapietra has been working with MIT staff for several years to develop software for computer-aided design, known as Virtual Glass, attempting to improve advance planning to reduce costs, since both the materials and facilities rentals that glassblowing requires are expensive.

Lino Tagliapietra serves on the board of directors of UrbanGlass, a resource center for glass artists in Brooklyn, NY.