First the glasses, then the artworks. First glass as a material, then glass as a language. This transition is the destiny that the historic Anfora furnace has embodied over three decades.

The intuition of owner and director Renzo Ferro together with the sensitivity and skill of glass blowing masters Livio Serena (till 2001) and Andrea Zilio and glass grinder masters Giacomo Barbini first and

Matto Senigaglia later transformed a furnace dedicated to serial production into a place for artistic creation of unique pieces.

In these years, in the wake of the American Studio Glass trends, whose goal was to deepen knowledge of the material, take possession of technical virtuosity and then question it, numerous Venetian and international artists began their research with glass, who at the Anfora furnace found a new opening for experimentation and the stimulus for the creation of the Venetian glass studio movement.

By presenting the works of thirteen of those who have regularly frequented the Anfora furnace in recent decades (Emmanuel Babled, Cristiano Bianchin, Michele Burato, Michela Cattai, Tristano di Robilant, Massimo Micheluzzi, Andrea Morucchio, Massimo Nordio, Yoichi Ohira, Isabelle Poilprez, Maria Grazia Rosin, Silvano Rubino, Andrea Zilio), the exhibition aims to highlight the differences in their gaze and approach to glass as an artistic medium.