Lampworking

CESARE TOFFOLO / Advanced

This class will focus on perfecting torch skills and stimulating ideas in order to learn extraordinary methods of lampworking, mostly blown lampworking with borosilicate glass.
Students will learn traditional approaches for creating Venetian-style goblets, using technique of color application, filigree, gold leaf, incalmo and hot assembly. It is suggested to bring drawings, projects, slides and other useful material. About tools for student: 1 pair of round scissors 1 small graphite paddle, 1 tweezers, 1 pair of glasses for fire protection, some wax for tools. This is a class for advanced student and a minimum of 3 years of blown glass by torch is requested.

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Cesare Toffolo

Cesare was born in Murano in 1961, and grew up in a family of top Glass Artists. His Grandfather Giacomo, was a Master Glass Blower in the Venini Furnace. He taught his son Florino (Cesare's father) the techniques that made him also a Master Glass Blower at Venini by the age of 17. Florino then specialized in flameworking, getting the acceptance of the most traditional people of Murano.
Cesare often visited his father's studio, and learned lampworking at 15. He lost his father two years later, but continued perfecting the technique on his own. He reached the same credibility that Florino enjoyed in Murano. In addition, Cesare developed many flameworking techniques never tried before. Some of these are the Filigree and the use of Gold leaf with the borosilicate glass. He collaborated with the most prestigious glass establishments in Murano, and was 21 when he exhibited at the Palazzo Ca' Vendramin Calergi in Venice.
At the age of 30, Cesare was invited to teach at the Pilchuck Glass School in Seattle. This was followed by other courses there, and at the Niijima Glass Art Center in Tokyo, at the Corning Museum of Glass in New York, at the Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina, at the Toyama Glass Art Institute, at Kanazu Forest of Creation Foundation in Japan. He's been invited to demonstrate his lampworking skills in Tokyo at the Glass Art Institute and at the Glass House Institute, in France at the Symposium European of Glass, and in Corning, NY at the GAS conference. Museums, Galleries and Collectors prize his work worldwide. Cesare is one of the top Glass Artists in Murano, and his work is listed in publications that track down the value of high End Art in Italy. He was the conceiver and the founder of CENTRO STUDIO VETRO, a non-profit cultural association in Murano that promoted Glass Art in Italy and Abroad from 1997 to 2003. He was also the conceiver of the Glass Magazine Vetro published by C.S.V. From 2001 to 2003 he coordinated the Glass Workshops in Venice, in S. Servolo Island as Artistic Director.
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* An additional €20 registration fee is charged during application
** The amount of deposit to be paid is €300
*** The accommodation is full board and the fee is € 40 euro per person/per night in room for 3-4 people. Single and double rooms are limited.
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