«Crossing limits that were thought insurmountable generates the will to proceed in this challenge, a sort of artistic adrenaline to which one risks becoming addicted» Diego Chilò, artist

Diego Chilò, an architect and designer from Vicenza, invites us on a journey of exploration around his «planetary», stopping for a few stops. The term planetarium is borrowed from the essay by Manlio Brusatin, art historian and architect, who uses it to describe the artist’s works: twenty-two glass spheres 18.25 and 30 cm in diameter – planets, in fact – identical (or nearly so) in shape and composition, but distinct in their vibrant colors and the relationship between light and matter.

«The incandescent globe gradually takes on a spherical shape and is enriched with a myriad of metallic craters, like a planet whose shape displays all the characteristics of a system as simple as it is universal» explains the architect. From a purely poetic vision of Chilò’s work, in which Brusatin offers a series of parallels with the world of art history, the investigation shifts towards a more concrete understanding of the entire creative process that leads to the creation of spheres. Regarding the sphere, Chilò explains that it «is designed to eliminate any formal complication to leave the viewer the possibility of collecting perspective and reflections from any angle in the final result rather than finding a precise point of equilibrium deriving from a fixed point of view».

This ongoing research challenges him in his quest to combine two different materials, copper and glass. The artist’s real challenge was to bring modernity and tradition into dialogue by employing new materials such as copper inserts alongside traditional glassblowing techniques. In this way Diego Chilò became a pioneer of new frontiers.