Murano Art Glass Cow: Pino Signoretto
Murano Art Glass Cow: Pino Signoretto
The Leopard
Signoretto's animals have always resisted the merely decorative. This cow - hand-blown and sculpted in solid amber glass, the colour of cognac held to a late afternoon window - was made in his Murano studio and carries the full weight of a life spent asking glass to do things it has no reason to do. The form is monumental at this scale: forty-four centimetres of material that moves, breathes, pushes forward. The glass catches light differently from every angle, shifting from honey to deep amber to near-rust at the edges, where the molten glass compressed and cooled.
It is signed by the maestro.
H:28cm × L:44cm. Murano, Italy.
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About Pino Signoretto
Pino Signoretto was born on Murano in 1944, into a world of furnaces and fire. He began his apprenticeship at thirteen and spent the following six decades pushing the technical limits of solid glass sculpture further than most masters believed possible. By twenty-nine he had earned the title of Maestro Vetraio - one of the youngest on the island to do so. He went on to collaborate with Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst, and Mimmo Palladino, lending his hands to visions not his own, but it was his personal work - and above all his animals - that secured his place in the history of Murano's art. He died in 2017. His name on a piece means something that cannot be manufactured.
