PUNTA CONTERIE
project contact person: Samantha Punis
client: Punta Conterie
media & public relations: AtemporaryStudio
graphic and web design: Designwork
photography: Maris Croatto, Roberta Orio
period: 2019 — 2023
Sensitivity and knowledge of the world of Murano glass on the one hand and design on the other, frequenting hybrid territories where authorial research defines new languages between art and design, were the keys that triggered the collaboration between Punta Conterie and AtemporaryStudio. Focused on the proper development of external communication, media and public relations, the collaboration aimed to position the hub within an international cultural and food and wine map, refining narrative and engagement methods appropriate to stemming the complexity of the historical period coinciding with the opening (exceptional high water in 2019 and the health emergency of 2020/21) and beyond.
Located on the outer perimeter of the former Murano ex Conterie, one of the island’s most representative industrial buildings, Punta Conterie was born as a cultural and urban regeneration project, the result of the commitment and vision of two entrepreneurs: Alessandro Vecchiato and Dario Campa. This ambitious project, launched in September 2019, not only restored an invaluable architectural heritage to the island, but also — and above all — placed Punta Conterie and Murano on the international cultural and gastronomic map.
Acquired in 2017, Punta Conterie underwent two years of redevelopment to create a space open to the world of design, glass art and food and wine, offering a variety of experiences: InGalleria Art Gallery dedicated to temporary exhibitions, Vetri Restaurant where you can experience a new culinary concept, Vetri Bistrot / Café, InGalleria Shop and Fioraio Green Boutique.
This is a brand new concept for Murano, based on the idea of “experience” in relation not only to the content but also to the container, which clearly reflects the original identity of the spaces, reinterpreted through cutting-edge design solutions and an essential, elegant style.
After three years of direct management and with a shared vision for enhancing the offering on the island of Murano, at the beginning of 2023 Alessandro Vecchiato and Dario Campa, owners of Punta Conterie, appointed Antonio Onorato’s Relegance Group to manage the space.
EXHIBITION PROJECTS ARCHIVES
Lino Tagliapietra. Glasswork
8.9— 31.12.2019
The inaugural project of InGalleria / Punta Conterie Art Gallery, Lino Tagliapietra. Glasswork is the first monographic exhibition of the Master in his homeland. Installations and previously unseen works have showcased the extraordinary artistic vision and creative ability of the world’s most important glass artist.
Vetro e disegno. Il processo creativo nelle storiche vetrerie muranesi del ‘900
(The creative process in the historic Murano glassworks of the 20th century)
1.2 — 31.12.2020
An exhibition project curated by Caterina Toso, glass historian and heir to the Fratelli Toso Archive, dedicated to retracing Murano’s evolution decade by decade throughout the last century: a hotbed of ideas, art and innovation, an extraordinary international production and commercial hub. Glass and Design. The creative process in the historic Murano glassworks of the 20th century explored the close link between the world of design and that of glass through more than 50 artistic glassworks created between the 1910s and 1980s. Fratelli Toso, Barovier&Toso, SALIR, Venini, AVEM, Seguso Vetri d’Arte, Vetreria Aureliano Toso, Vistosi and Galliano Ferro were the local glassworks selected. The artworks, all original glass pieces, came from important Italian and foreign private collections.
Murano in Focus.
Luigi Bussolati, Massimo Gardone, Roberta Orio.
10.4 — 13.8.2021
Three photographers, three complementary perspectives, three different subjects for Murano in Focus, an exhibition project that deliberately rejected stylistic uniformity in order to explore very different areas of research in terms of content, medium and message. A unique opportunity for comparison between authors engaged in independent creative paths. Three exhibitions in one for a choral view that was also a great tribute to Murano curated by Roberta Orio.
Empathic.
Discovering a Glass Legacy
11.9.2021— 13.4.2022
Curated by Luca Nichetto, Empathic entrusted an adjective with the task of describing an exhibition that harnessed the evocative power of material and form through installations and limited-edition pieces created by Ini Archibong, Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance, GamFratesi, Benjamin Hubert, Richard Hutten, Elena Salmistraro, and Marc Thorpe. Invited by the curator — who also contributed an installation himself — they were asked to engage with Murano glass freely, without predefined frameworks or serial constraints. No brief, no limitations, except to conceive, design, and experiment empathetically with glass in its many forms: blown, cane-worked, cast…
Forme del bere
(Forms of drinking)
23.4— 31.12.2022
The glass at the centre of an exhibition, as a design theme and everyday object.
Curated by Elisa Testori, Forme del bere (Forms of drinking) — the fifth exhibition promoted and partly produced by InGalleria Art Gallery — is a project that originated in Murano but with an eye to embracing other places and other techniques. On display are nine glasses designed for the occasion by Lorenzo Damiani, Giulio Iacchetti, Astrid Luglio, Martinelli Venezia, Mischer’Traxler, Luca Nichetto, Philippe Nigro, Ionna Vautrin, Zaven, and made in Murano, have been joined by a selection of pieces that constitute a reference lexicon: between current research and hints of history, around fifty “forms of drinking” that show some of the possible and valid ways of approaching and interpreting the glass as an object. Among the glasses on display were pieces by Achille Castiglioni, Aldo Cibic, Joe Colombo, Adolf Loos, Alessandro Mendini, Carlo Moretti, Roberto Sambonet, Alvaro Siza and Tapio Wirkkala.
