Dino Rosin

Dino Rosin has lived his life on the island of Murano, surrounded by the glass factories and artists for which it is famous. Collaborating with Picasso, Chagall, Cocteau and Le Corbusier to recreate their works in glass required utilising entirely new techniques and methods. Calcedonia glass is his medium of choice and the process of creating its striated rainbow array of colour was developed in Murano in around 1460. The distinctive colors of Calcedonia, comparable to the stripes in a zoned agate, are created through the introduction of silver nitrate to crystal clear glass. Patterns found in each Dino Rosin sculpture cannot be controlled since the colors depend solely on the chemical reaction of each batch. As a result, every statue has the added element of chance.