Reticello Urn

Reticello Urn is a glass urn made by Dante Marioni. This piece caught my eye while walking around the exhibits because of its of its “evil” appearance. The handles on the urn is what brought my attention to the piece at first. The horned appearance is oddly threatening and the use of black against the pink also helps make the urn stand out. Marioni uses traditional Venetian glass-making techniques when making his pieces and when making this urn created it using the Reticello glass-blowing technique, a technique that takes canes of coloured glass then lays them in crossing patterns then merging them together to get the criss-crossing grid pattern on the main body of the urn. This process also creates small bubbles as air is trapped during the cooling process. This creates a complex design that I saw when looking closer at the urn.