Renato Santarossa

Renato Santarossa (born May 20, 1943 in Bozen , Italy ) is an Italian artist who created glass pictures and sculptures.

Life

Stele Guizzo by Renato Santarossa in the city lake Kaarst (1995)

Renato Santarossa worked as a civil engineer in Italy and Germany until 1969 in his learned profession and also worked intensively on the design of formal structures. Over the years he began to force his ideas into glass work. Exhibitions of his glass sculptures and murals took place mainly in Germany , France , Switzerland , the Netherlands , Italy , but also Japan and the USA . His works can be seen in public collections, in public places, in churches, museums, galleries and art collections.

Today he lives and works as a freelance artist in Düsseldorf .

Installations

• 1982 Sistema Modulare Artothek Cologne
• 1984 Raumzeit Galerie Vahynger
• 1986 Installation by Galerie Trois Geneve (CH) "Sotto il segno dei pesci"
• 1986 Utopoli Geneva
• 1988 Intermezzo in the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf
• 1988 Revelation Rivelazione
• 1989 il sole si e inserito tra terra e luna
• 1990 Installation "Pandora ... last chanche" by "New Glass in Europe" Kunst Museum Düsseldorf (D)
• 1991 Installation "la tavola rotonda" by Espace Duchamp-Villon for Int.Expo de verre - Rouen (F)
• 1997 Installation "Land, Sea, Horizontal .." by Artist in Residence Guernsey (GB)
• 2002 Zen di luce
• 2004 Installation "Glück auf ... mein Herz" Oberhausen Schloss Museum Ludwig (D)
• 2010 Installation "Vino al vino ..." Sovana (I)
• 2011 Installazione sculture Palazzo Bru Zane Venezia (I)

Exhibitions

• 1978 Studio Zimmer & Kellermann / Düsseldorf (D)
• 1979 Abitare / Cologne (D)
• 1980 Gallery Seestrasse / Rapperswill (CH)
• 1981 Glas Galerie Lucerna (CH), Galleria Bitterlin / Basilea (D), Galerie Eo Kröger Kirchheim Teck (D)
• 1982 Artothek / Cologne (D), Galerie Passmann / Friburgo (D)
• 1983 Galerie im Theater / Esslingen (D), Galerie Gold & Silk / Solingen (D), Tecno / Düsseldorf (D), Kunstverein Heidenheim (D)
• 1984 Galerie Vayhinger / Radolfzell (D), Studio Eisenreich / Düsseldorf (D), Galerie Ventzki / Göppingen (D), Galleria Spatia / Bolzano (I), Galerie Krohn / Badenweiler (D)
• 1985 Galerie Nanky de Vreeze / Amsterdam (NL), Rathaus Galerie Euskirchen (D), Galerie Clara Scremini / Parigi (F)
• 1986 Landesmuseum Oldenburg (D), Galleria Museo "Arge Kunst" / Bolzano (I), Galerie Trois / Ginevra (CH), Galerie Vayhinger / Radolfzell (D), Ecole des Arts Decoratifs / Ginevra (CH)
• 1987 Galerie Clara Scremini / Parigi (F), "One Man Show" Stockholm, Art Fair / Stoccolma (S), Galerie Nanky de Vreeze / Amsterdam (NL), Galerie Ventzky / Göppingen (D)
• 1988 "Intermezzo" Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf (D), Galerie Döbele / Stuttgart (D), Istituto Italiano di Cultura / Colonia (D), City Gallery Wendlingen (D)
• 1989 Gallery Clara Scremini / Parigi (F)
• 1990 Gallery Trois / Ginevra (CH)
• 1991 Galerie Clara Scremini / Parigi (F), Galerie Nanky de Vreeze / Amsterdam (NL)
• 1993 Gallery Ilka Klose / Würzburg (D)
• 1995 Galerie de Vreeze Amsterdam (NL)
• 1996 Artist in Residence / Guernsey Gallery / Guernsey (GB), Stadt Museum Singen (D), GlasTec / Düsseldorf (D)
• 1998 Gallery Abat-Wirsam / Gießen (D)
• 1999 Galleria della Cittá Fiume / Veneto (I)
• 2003 Kunstraum Seidenfabrik / Langenfeld (D)
• 2004 Artist in Residence / Guernsey Galerie / Guernsey (GB)
• 2006 City Hall Gallery / Weiden (D)
• 2007 LI Art Galleria / Roma (I)
• 2009 LandArt Gallery / Grevenbroich (D)
• 2010 Gallery "Im Turm" / Solingen (D)
• 2011 LaMaison / Rieti (I)
• 2013 Glass Museum Frauenau (D)

Awards

• 1973 1st prize for "Free Plastic Urbanization Bittermark" Dortmund (D)
• 1979 State Prize North Rhine-Westphalia for "Glass and Color" (D)
• 1984 1st Prize of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg (F), "Verre contemporain en Europe"
• 1985 Special prize for "Use of float glass in the arts", Second Coburg Glass Prize for modern glass design in Europe (D)

Publications

• Light shadow transparency , Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt GmbH, Stuttgart 1996. ISBN 978-3421031242 (art book, 215 pages, bound)

Web links

• Website of the artist Renato Santarossa