Antonino (Antonello)
Scotto

After several years spent working in the technical field, in 2001 I wanted to embark on an artistic path that sees glass as the protagonist declined in many ways.

Coming from a work environment and from interests in which design was present in a relevant way, it was natural to draw inspiration from architecture, art design and contemporary art to create works in which the search for shapes and colors inevitably passes for an almost obsessive attention to the concept of unusual and original objects and shapes.

I learned the basic techniques in several years of training in Murano, whose glass forms the main basis of my works,  in which Murano glass, pyrex, clays, poor materials and precious metals alternate.

The glass is shaped and transformed with the techniques of lampworking and glass fusing, but a peculiarity of my works lies in the use of different techniques used in an innovative way and mixed in an apparently casual combination but the result of a precise project whose meanings are often revealed in the title of the work itself.

I chose to create the glass works in the form of contemporary jewels, "à porter" sculptures, to allow the enjoyment of art in everyday life. The aspiration is that every woman can see in that object, a small representation of a part of herself, and as such unique.
Each work solicits the taste, the touch, the hearing in an illusion of satisfaction that remains suspended, unfinished and is, therefore, aesthetic enjoyment, to be worn.