“I use the vessel as a way to enter the work, a starting point if you like, but the vessel also acts as a metaphor for the container of ideas,” so says Bruno Romanelli. This glass artist has pared his work down to its bare essentials: cylinders, disks and cones and he infuses them just one simple color – or no color at all. The result is that his pieces are so easy to “get” that you could walk right by them. That would be a mistake, because, as he says, “Each piece is an exploration of the relationships between form, color and material.” Very true. If Piet Mondrian had been a glass sculptor, he would been Bruno Romanelli.

–Dale

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