The curtain has risen on “Red Crystal Curtain,” a highly acclaimed work by the Grande Dame of Glass, Maria Grazia Rosin, in the salons of Palazzo Bragadin, the Renaissance residence of Sigrid and Xavier de Montrond located in the Castello district of Venice.
It is a successful staging that can be discovered during the ninth edition of Venice Glass Week, the highly anticipated international event that pays tribute to glass artists from September 13 to 21, 2025.
The Festival received hundreds of applications from 54 countries. The lucky ones selected will exhibit in Venice, Murano, and Mestre in 130 different venues. In galleries, palaces, workshops, and conferences, they will capture the imagination of a knowledgeable, passionate, and increasingly demanding audience since the first edition launched in 2017.
This special artistic moment has a new hashtag: #TheMagicOfGlass.
It perfectly captures the enchantment that grips us when we see the Red Crystal Curtain made of Murano glass, installed in the Palazzo Bragadin, amid antique furniture, mirrors, and heavy drapes framing the bay windows overlooking the canal.
“It could be the curtain of the opera house in the time of Carlo Goldoni,” says Venetian artist Maria Grazia Rosin, who casually poses for photos during our meeting at curtain time in the theaters. Between dusk and dawn, when the light fades and the glass sculptures take on an air of mystery.
What we see in this curtain is not only the beauty of the glass, its transparency and the assembly of the pieces, but also what it tells us. This work is a tribute to the glassmakers of Murano, an ode to slowness and patience, in the warmth of the gesture and the flashes of light.
Maria Grazia Rosin sublimates glass, her favorite material. She summons it, diverts it, amuses it, makes it speak. She creates a red velvet stage curtain, then draws it back to observe Venetian life, its customs and traditions. The commedia dell’arte continues in the 21st century on the stage of Venice, La Serenissima.
What work of art could break up the rhythm of the immense rooms of a palazzo better than a glass theater curtain?
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Photo à la Une : Maria Grazia Rosin, la Grande Dame du Verre, devant son œuvre « Red Crystal Curtain » au Palais Bragadin ©Corine Moriou
