ABOUT
The beginnings
Alexander he was five years old when he began to sneak into his father's studio and sniff the exhausted propane gas attributable to the lamp-blowing of glass. For Alessandro it became the smell of home. He spent his childhood playing with glass and his rebellious teenage afternoons trying to work it. Lamp-blowing attracted him like an oracle, to the point of skipping school to go to a friend's furnace to experiment. When his father discovered him, the workbench became Alessandro's school, where he put his propensity for drawing and strong manual skills to good use. Since then, the enchantment of glass has continued in his life, continuing a family tradition that has been handed down for four generations.
As a kid, I often couldn't sleep. So I went out at dawn and walked through the streets. Murano was alive, there was the smell of molten glass rising from the furnaces. My grandfather was a night man at Aureliano Toso, mixing minerals. I remember the mouths of fire and the smell of sand crystallizing in the oven.
The masters
His father Andrea Boscolo And Stephen Morasso were the first to use a small metal tube to blow the torch. Starting for fun to put glass on steel rods, taking advantage of the lampworking, they invented a new technique. Alessandro developed his own by grafting American influences and the teachings of undisputed masters such as Cesare Toffolo onto the family tradition. Working out of the flame with a palette of 350 colors, he creates artistic glass in Gothic Baroque style, also exhibited in the permanent collection of the Murano Glass Museum.
I knew how to work glass before I even started doing it, because I had seen my dad. I had observed how he moved his hands, fixed in my head the little secrets and in my heart the emotion he transmitted to me while creating. When I lost my father, Caesar Toffolo he became my mentor.
The charm of glass and the lagoon landscape
The Murano glass has a very high expansion coefficient and an irregular molecular composition. This means that it is extremely unstable and difficult to work with, but it offers infinite possibilities for creation. It has long been thought that there were limits; instead, it is only a matter of finding the techniques to overcome them. Glass is an ethereal material. Knowing how to work with it transmits a feeling of control over the elements that brings one closer to the omnipotence of the creator.
Being born in Venice, I developed my relationship with the landscape by sailing on a boat, between sandbanks, marshes, beaches and mountains that rise from the liquid line of the horizon. For me, water and glass are the same thing. Glass is the melted material through which the things I imagine take shape.
The creation and sales space
Alessandro Boscolo's atelier overlooks Riva Longa, the Grand Canal of Murano. You arrive on the island-glass district, the most famous floating factory in the world, and once you cross the threshold of the workshop you can find one of the young people of the new generation of glassmakers at the blowpipe. Born in 1992, Alessandro has almost twenty years of experience. In his hands the most complex operations find a naturalness of gesture acquired in the never satisfied nor tired attempt to tame shapes, colors and thicknesses. You will see him tame the fire of the lamp, his miniature furnace, to create glass sculptures in bright colors. Dario Vianello, assistant and collaborator, is always available to talk about the material they melt and shape with contagious passion.
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