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Смальта Orsoni
In the factory of the Orsoni brothers, time seems to have come to a stand still Rigger о and Lucia continue to use traditional techniques, with a single exception - the old coal furnaces have been replaced by gas-fired furnaces, allowing a purer, cleaner glass paste to be obtained. But then, the secret of manufacturing mosaic glass lies in the preservation and undying respect for traditional methods. All the manufacturing apparatus in the factory is traditional, too. The unacceptable temptations of the industrial age are firmly rejected in the factory's everyday work, as is clear from one glance around the workshop.
The roller used for smoothing out the glass paste is the model invented by great-grandfather Angelo, and the old machines for cutting tesserae are ivorked by swift-fingered, silent women who diligently turn small wheels that greatly resemble those on our grandmothers' sewing machines.
Every day, hundreds of kilos of coloured enamels leave the old factory in Cannaregio, destined for far off lands. But production is still anchored to the slow rhythms needed to create works of the finest craftsmanship. The Orsoni order book grows fatter by the day, but clients have to be patient. The same care and attention is given to everyone, be it an unknown country priest waiting to enrich his parish with a new religious picture or an Eastern princess who has commissioned tons of gold tesserae to decorate the domes of her palaces. It could not be othenvise, since the technique for making mosaics springs from a unique philosophy.
Painters handle tubes of colour, mixing the desired shades directly onto the palette and giving form to their artistic inspiration through a medium which is fundamentally anonymous and commonplace, but ivhich gains life through the artist's individual brushwork. The sculptor models the shapes dictated by his creative spirit by moulding, removing and assembling his material. The mosaicist, instead, is inexorably bound by certain limitations: the possibility of capturing lights and shadows, the expression on a face or the trasparency of drapery, is allied to the problem of mastering colours that, once heated, are irrevocably formed and made fast.
That is ivhy the work of the glass master in preparing the colours acquires the value of artistic creation. It also explains why the relationship between the mosaicist and the master glassmaker is far more than that of two people merely carrying out an assignment. Their collaboration and agreement on the exact nuance of a colour ensures, the perfection of the mosaic. On the other hand - and this is the other factor making mosaic an absolutely original art form - ever single tessera is unique and can never be repeated. Each tessera differs in its brightness, its cut, size, and in the degree of evenness of the glass paste. Arranging mosaic tesserae, painstakingly hand-cut, one by one, is a fascinating game, a constant gamble that pays off in the most unexpected way, providing the artist with all the pleasure of brushwork and the joy of creating a unique work of art.
Смальта Orsoni
cмальта Smalto
специальная смальта Special
телесная смальта Flesh
cмальта Fine
cмальта Imperial
обыкновенная смальта Ordinary
матовая смальта Mat
прозрачная смальта Trasparente
декоративная смальта Tessutti
золотая смальта Oro
императорская смальта
Золотая мозаика
Продажа смальты
Референции Орсони
Изготовление мозаики
Мозаика для бассейна
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