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Pino Signoretto is recognised as the most prominent glass artist and sculptor Pino was born in Venice in 1944, and died in 2017.
Pino Signoretto, known for his incredible facility in sculpting from hot glass, died at the age of 74 on December 30th, 2017.

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Pino Signoretto's life and works show how craftsmanship is the result of humility and experience. His hands were his tireless companions: they imposed form on the glass, which is a very difficult material to work with. Glass does not allow waiting or second thoughts: either you finish the work or you throw it away.

His was not a historical family of glassmakers, but of artists in some ways yes. His father played instruments and painted houses. As a child, he lived near a furnace in Murano and was immediately fascinated by the ovens and the fire. He started working, very young, in a glass factory where they made chandeliers and small objects such as favors.

A pupil of master Alfredo Barbini, at the age of 19, Pino Signoretto was already a master glassmaker. It was he who introduced new techniques and tools into this art such as the borsea ricurva (no longer flat) to better grip objects and the oxyhydrogen torch to heat the sculpture more precisely. It was intriguing to see him at work with forks (those used in the kitchen) and pins that he used to c

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Pino Signoretto Biography

Signoretto Pino (Favaro Veneto, Venice, 1944) Pino Signoretto is an Italian artist, specialized in glass processing. He began working in a small chandelier factory, subsequently following the teachings of masters such as Alfredo Barbini, Livio Seguso, Ermanno Nason and Angelo Seguso. He acquired all the technical knowledge of glass processing and in 1959 he became a master glassmaker. In 1978 he opened his own studio in Murano and began to collaborate with famous artists and architects such as Vedova, Dalì, Pomodoro, Licata, Kruft, Vitali, Dal Pezzo. He subsequently began a series of trips to Japan, where he exhibited permanently at the Museum of Venetian Art in Otaru and taught at various glass schools and universities in the USA. Signoretto also produced trophies for the basketball championship in Paris and for the NBA in the USA and developed a great ability in hot forging sculptures, demonstrating considerable skill and creativity.

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Biography

Pino Signoretto was born in 1944 in a small town near Venice; in 1954 he began working in a chandelier furnace. In 1959 he learnt from the great masters Alfredo Barbini, Livio Seguso, Ermanno Nason and Angelo Seguso. In 1960 he became a master glassmaker.

In 1978 he opened his own studio in Murano. He began collaborations with painters and architects, including Dali, Vedova, Licata, Kruft, Dal Pezzo, Vitali, Pomodoro and Willson. In the 1990s, he was asked to teach at universities and design schools in the United States, Canada and Japan. Since 2000 he has been teaching at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice.

His great works are magnificent and prestigious, such as twelve large fountains for a Japanese hotel, the horse for the 1999 film festival and a glass house in the Swiss forests. And also a Pantheon supported by eight columns with a fountain in the centre, and then the clowns, hinting at human vulnerability, and the animals, beings cradled by the arms of live fire.

He died in 2017 leaving to the world of artistic glass a vast rep