Giorgio Vigna was born in Verona in 1955.
Currently lives and works in Milan.
He is an artist who, at the boundary between reality and imagination, creating natural forms capable of manifesting primary and primordial aspects.
Adventures of earth and water, fire and wind where combines natural and artificial, poor and precious.
Vigna moves on the border between the real and the imaginary, between what is and what appears.
His works, from sculptures to jewelry, the works on paper or the site specific installations, reflect the breadth and depth of his constant research. Using various materials such as glass, metals and paper, treated always new and surprising mode. Vigna explores and seeks them to reveal hidden possibilities.
The forms are the primary expression of the elements he works with. Strong and natural, universal and timeless, full of symbolic meanings.
In 2003 Giorgio Vigna created the site-specific installation La Radura for Nancy Olnick and Giorgio Spanu which started the Olnick Spanu Art Program.
In 2013 the Museum of Castelvecchio in Verona hosted the exhibition Stati Naturali curated by Paola Marini, for which Giorgio Vigna has created for the fountain of Carlo Scarpa the permanent installation in glass Acquaria donated to the city of Verona in 2021.
In 2017 he has created for the Galleria dell’Accademia in Venice the work Fuochi di Rugiada, made by Venini
in Murano Venice.
In 2022, he donated his thirty-year archive of drawings and sketches related to his experience with glass to the Giorgio Cini Foundation.
In June 2023, he will inaugurate his solo exhibition Analogie at the Eremitani Museum in Padua, a natural continuation of the journey that began in 2022 with the exhibition Sassi at the Oratory of San Rocco in Padua.
His work has been exhibited in galleries and museums in Argentina, Austria, China, Korea, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hong Kong, Italy, the Netherlands, the Principality of Monaco, Russia, the United States, and Switzerland.”
His works are part of international public and private collections including:
MAD, Museum of Arts & Design, New York, USA.
The State Hermitage Museum, S. Pietroburgo, Russia.
Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venezia, Italia.
Museo di Castelvecchio, Verona, Italia.
Museo del Vetro, Murano, Venezia, Italia.
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, USA.
IMA, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
Ilias Lalaounis Jewelry Museum, Atene, Grecia.
Museo degli Argenti, Palazzo Pitti, Firenze, Italia.
Miaao, Museo Internazionale delle Arti Applicate Oggi, Torino, Italia.
Olnick Spanu Art Program, Garrison, New York, USA.
Olnick Spanu Collection, New York, USA.
Diane Venet Collection, Parigi, Francia.
Designmuseo, Helsinki, Finlandia.
Civica Raccolta delle Stampe Achille Bertarelli, Castello Sforzesco, Milano, Italia.
Museo Barbier-Mueller, Ginevra, Svizzera.
Collezione Permanente Fondazione Raffaele Cominelli, San Felice del Benaco BS, Italia.
