IGOR BALBI
Our youngest member in Art of Venice gallery is Igor Balbi of Ibiscus glassworks.
He is making waves in the glass world with his innovative ideas and techniques.
Igor will be glad to blow custom objects for you
This young glass artist looks for the unexpected in his work, and makes a deliberate effort to cultivate surprises. Balbi is very in tune with the natural world but still has a touch of surrealism that makes him stand out from the rest. Ideas are driven by subconscious fantasies and dreams.
He truly has an eye for color schemes. It is best shown in his beautiful blown glass goblets; they are the perfect mixture of colors; some recent work features layering of colors to achieve a specific texture with several color gradients. The resulting surfaces are translucent.
BIO
Igor was born in Murano in 1973. He grew up in a family of lampworkers. Igor often visited his father's studio (his father, Italo Balbi, was an important master in lampworking and shaping), and learned flameworking in the most natural way, just playing with glass as every child plays with toys. His father and uncle taught Igor all their techniques and secrets inherited from generations of family glassmaking. Igor continued perfectioning thìs technical legacy, also developing many new torchworking techniques never tried before, as filigree, incalmo, sommerso, blown glass. Another important challenge for Igor is to improve the size of his works; his goal is to fill a natural gap between the flameworking in soft glass and the furnace glassblowing. Igor works only with Murano soft glass, using his own tools, often hand made by himself.
Tutor at the International glass center A. Zanetti; He teachs lampwork and blown glass.
He has assisted and cooperated with several international glass artists including Lucio Bubacco, Kristina Logan and Vittorio Costantini.
Igor collaborated with some of the major Murano firms as “La Murrina" and “Pauly". At the 2005 Milano international craft fair, Pauly has been represented by Igor Balbi with a public exhibit of his own innovative glass techniques.
He also exhbited at "Disegno in Vetro", 2005, "Scherzi di Vetro", 2005-2006 and “Overglass” 2006
In 2010 we opened his own studio with his wife Schantalle in Venice.
We can provide custom productions and orders.
Items available in our gallery
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IB016 | Lampworked Murano glass goblet | 498 |  |
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IB013 | Lampworked Murano glass goblet | 468 |  |
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IB028 | Lampworked Murano glass goblet | 898 |  |
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C02IG | "Vatus" lampworked Murano glass goblet | 180 |  |
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IB05 | Lampworked Murano glass goblet. SOLD | 348 |  |
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IB022 | Lampworked Murano glass goblet | 668 |  |
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IB08 | Lampworked Murano glass goblet | 348 |  |
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C01IG | "Cornino nero" lampworked Murano glass goblet | 180 |  |
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IB026 | Lampworked Murano glass goblet | 898 |  |
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IB018 | Lampworked Murano glass goblet | 498 |  |
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IB023 | Lampworked Murano glass goblet | 698 |  |
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IB01 | Lampworked Murano glass goblet | 398 |  |
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IB010 | Lampworked Murano glass goblet | 328 |  |
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IB02 | Lampworked Murano glass goblet. SOLD | 298 |  |
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IB011 | Lampworked Murano glass goblet | 298 |  |
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IB09 | Lampworked Murano glass goblet | 328 |  |
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IB019 | Lampworked Murano glass goblet | 468 |  |
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IB06 | Lampworked Murano glass goblet | 298 |  |
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IB020 | Lampworked Murano glass goblet | 668 |  |
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IB04 | Lampworked Murano glass goblet. SOLD | 348 |  |
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IB03 | Lampworked Murano glass goblet. SOLD | 298 |  |
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IB025 | Lampworked Murano glass goblet | 698 |  |
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IB017 | Lampworked Murano glass goblet | 428 |  |
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C0115 | "La gabbia" lampworked Murano glass goblet | 1490 |  |
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IB029 | Lampworked Murano glass goblet | 298 |  |
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IB021 | Lampworked Murano glass goblet | 668 |  |
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IB030 | Lampworked Murano glass goblet | 898 |  |
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IB027 | Lampworked Murano glass goblet | 898 |  |
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IB024 | Lampworked Murano glass goblet | 698 |  |
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IB012 | Lampworked Murano glass goblet | 398 |  |
Other glass artists in our team:
Davide Fuin,
Carlo Tosi
"caramea",
Vio &
Naccari,
Badioli,
Ferro
brothers
