The Many Venices. A walk with Moulaye Niang

The Many Venices concludes with artist and glassmaker Moulaye Niang, who will lead a walk through Murano, retracing the places that marked his first steps as a glass artisan and reflecting on the dialogue between Senegalese glass traditions and Venetian craftsmanship, that he has since brought together in his own atelier.

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The program is supported by Venezia Football Club as Community Partner.

In 2004, after completing his studies at the Murano Glass School, Moulaye Niang immediately launched his business and became known as the Muranero. Each of his lamp glass creations is a fusion of his African roots, a European background and the atmosphere of Venice. Moulaye makes jewellery pieces and accessories but also chandeliers, all of which are unique in style and design. The measure of everything is the bead, which holds centre stage and brings unlikely shapes and colours together. In Venice he finds a playing field for lampworking, a form of craftsmanship with close-knit ties to a glassmaking tradition spanning a thousand years. And this is the reason why Moulaye devotes so much energy to passing on the knowledge acquired from his teachers, Pino Signoretto and Davide Salvadore. He also teaches his craft in Senegal, in projects dedicated to teaching a profession to orphaned children.