Cornacchia 2000

Lino Tagliapietra made Cornacchia from glass in an unknown year. It's the flowing lines, the gradients of colour, the way the light seems to both pass through and get caught within the glass itself. You get the sense that every mark is deliberate, a testament to the intensive and complex process of glassblowing. The surface is where the magic happens. On one side, fine threads of black and orange create a mesmerizing pattern, like looking through a veil. The other is a textured, almost hammered effect that invites you to touch it. And at the very top, there's this gentle curve, like a question mark or a bird's beak, that somehow manages to bring the whole piece together. It's a piece of such confident elegance. Tagliapietra, like other glass artists such as Dale Chihuly, pushes the boundaries of what glass can do. He invites us to see the medium not just as something functional, but as a vessel for pure artistic expression. It’s an ongoing conversation about form, light, and the sheer beauty of transformation.