In the long Venetian tradition of glassmaking, the island of Murano has certainly a prominent role since it helped to preserve secrets, traditions, techniques of this charming art for centuries.  It's in Murano that the Vetreria Artistica Colleoni glassworks has its headquarters where - along with the production - it started an itinerary of technical and artistic research, at the beginning of the third millennium.
 
Maestro Alesandro Barbaro was the glass master at Colleoni's. His talent, emerging event from the most commercial production, finds its maximum expression in figurative and conceptual creations, such as in peculiar optical effects on vases and aquariums, or in sculptures of animals.
 
After the international success gained thanks to the Colosseo sculpture at The Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas, and the Double Fountain at the Europa & Regina Hotel in Venice, the maestro is working - supported by Diego Bardella, glass artist and primor servente or glass-blower assistant - on a series of elephant tusks.  These monumental creations measured 5.90 feet in length or 1,80 meters each and will be utilised as stunning Chandelier in a German castle.  After a long and distinguished career, Alessandro retired in 2010.
 
This incredibly rare and gigantic sculpture of a Rhinoceros created around 2009 just before Alessanro's retirement in 2010.  This megalith has been created using the INCALMO technique and is fully signed on the belly in diamond point by Alessandro Barbaro "A Barbaro Murano".  Blowing pieces such as this are fraught with the threat of breakage at any time, simply due to its weight whilst suspended on the end of the Ponti rod.  There are only 2 furnaces in Venice that attempt sculptures of this size therefore making them a wise investment. 
 
Measurements in centimeters
 
Length - 57
Height - 26
Width - 13 
 
Weight - 12 Kgs
 
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