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Palazzo Diedo – Berggruen Arts & Culture
Saturday, April 5, 2025
1 - 3:30 pm
coinciding with the inauguration of Piero Golia's work Untitled (Floor)
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Marcantonio Brandolini d'Adda reinterprets the fireplace of Palazzo Diedo with a permanent glass installation.
Palazzo Diedo welcomes a new site-specific installation by Marcantonio Brandolini d'Adda (Paris, 1991), Untitled, which echoes the eleven permanent interventions created by international artists in dialogue with the architecture and spaces of the Palazzo between 2023 and 2025. The artist has breathed new life into the only remaining fireplace in Palazzo Diedo, rethinking its interior cladding, which was once covered with majolica tiles, with a contemporary approach.
Using cotisso tiles, that is, the raw glass left over from previous fusions, Brandolini d'Adda illuminates the space through the light play of reflections on the irregular surface of the glass, producing a myriad of color nuances, from orange to red, to blue, evoking the typical tones of fire. The installation recreates the warmth that once animated the room, projecting the memory of the lit fireplace into the present.
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Marcantonio Brandolini d'Adda is an artist and designer who lives and works in Venice. His artistic practice focuses on experimenting with various sculptural techniques using glass cotissi.
Today he is Creative Director and CEO of Laguna~B, the iconic Murano glass company founded by his mother, Marie Brandolini, in 1994. Today Laguna~B is known internationally for its contemporary and unconventional approach to artistic glass, and for its numerous collaborations with artists and designers. Marcantonio has also curated various editions of the Venice Glass Week, creating the Autonoma award.
Brandolini d’Adda has participated in collective exhibitions such as The Glass Ark. Animals in the Pierre Rosenberg Collection (Le Stanze del Vetro, Venice) and Vitrea (Triennale Milano, Milan).
Previously, his sculptures have been exhibited in collective and personal exhibitions at Palo Gallery, New York; PATERSON ZEVI London; the Murano Glass Museum, Venice; ALMA ZEVI in Venice and New York City; and David Gill Gallery in London and St Moritz.
