Marcantonio Brandolini d'Adda
{{Short description|Italian artist}}
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Marcantonio Brandolini d'Adda (18 July 1991) is a member of the Brandolini family, an Italian artist, designer and entrepreneur, CEO and Art Director of Laguna~B.{{cite web|url=https://designtellers.it/tellers-talks/laguna-b-e-il-futuro-pop-del-vetro-di-murano/|title=Laguna B e il futuro (pop) del vetro di Murano – DesignTellers}}
Biography
Marcantonio Brandolini d'Adda was born in Paris, France, to an ancient Venetian aristocratic family.{{cite web|url=https://www.vogue.it/en/news/daily-news/2014/01/21/brandolini/|title=Brandolini family}} His father is Brandino Brandolini d'Adda, Count of Valmareno and his mother was Marie Angliviel de la Beaumelle, a French-Italian glass maker. Through his father, he is a descendant of Empress Maria Theresa. Two of his family's ancestral palaces, the Palazzo Brandolin Rota and the Palazzo Morosini Brandolin, are located on the Grand Canal.https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts-and-culture/g3170/marcantoni-brandolini-palazzo-venice/ His paternal grandmother is Countess Cristiana Brandolini d'Adda (née Agnelli), sister of Fiat chairman Gianni Agnelli and daughter of Edoardo Agnelli and Virginia Bourbon del Monte (daughter of Carlo Bourbon del Monte, Prince di San Faustino). His maternal grandparents were Armand Angliviel de la Beaumelle, a member of a prominent haute bourgeois family from Languedoc,http://www.virnot-de-lamissart.com/Angliviel-de-la-Beaumelle.html and Baroness Béatrice Juliette Ruth de Rothschild, a member of the aristocratic Rothschild banking family of France. His maternal great-grandfather was Baron Alain de Rothschild. On his mother's side he is also a distant relation to Laurent Angliviel de la Beaumelle.
Marcantonio Brandolini d'Adda lives and works in Venice. He succeeded his mother at the helm of Laguna~B, a company she founded in 1994 and active in glass processing and design.{{cite web|url=https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/marcantonio-brandolini-daddas-glass-house|title=Marcantonio Brandolini D’Adda's Glass House }}{{cite web|url=https://www.ft.com/content/6365d99e-cdbb-44eb-bb64-4e4d6ad0547c|title=Meet the new-gen glass artists shattering tradition }}
In summer 2017, he held his first solo exhibition at ALMA ZEVI in Venice, creating a site-specific installation mixing brightly coloured cotissi glass.{{cite web|url=https://www.patersonzevi.com/exhibitions/projects/573/marcantonio-brandolini-d-adda/|title=Paterson Zevi - }}
In 2018, the exhibition was also presented in New York: for the occasion, director Mafalda Millies produced the film “Indefinito”, filming the performance of dancer Megumi Eda, who dances among Marcantonio Brandolini D'Adda's sculptures to an original score composed by Charles Derenne.{{cite web|url=https://patersonzevi.com/exhibitions/venice/122/marcantonio-brandolini-d-adda/|title=Paterson Zevi - }}
The performance was premiered at the Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi, Venice, in 2018.{{cite web|url=https://www.palazzograssi.it/en/events/all/casa-delle-parole-469/|title=Casa delle Parole – Palazzo Grassi}}
His work "Indefinito n.1" became a part of the collection of Giancarlo Ligabue Foundation.
Marcantonio Brandolini d'Adda curated several editions of the Venice Glass Week, collective exhibition dedicated to the art of glass.{{cite web|url=https://myartguides.com/exhibitions/venice/marcantonio-brandolini-dadda/|title=Marcantonio Brandolini d’Adda }}{{cite web|url=https://www.greenspin.eu/the-venice-glass-week-2020-palazzo-loredan/|title=The Venice Glass Week 2020 - Palazzo Loredan}} As part of the Venice Glass Week, he established the Autonoma Prize{{cite web|url=https://www.theveniceglassweek.com/prizes/|title=Premi – The Venice Glass Week}} and was a member of its jury in the 2020, 2021, and 2022 editions.{{cite web|url=https://www.sothebys.com/en/brands/lagunab|title=About LagunaB}}
Furthermore, he co-founded Vital, a group of experts dedicated to preserving the Venetian Lagoon, and is a member of its Coordination Team along with Jane da Mosto.{{cite web|url=https://www.v-i-t-a-l.org/en/about|title=VITAL is a group of experts working on solutions to enhance and restore the natural capital of the Venetian Lagoon and the services offered by its ecosystem}}{{cite web|url=https://www.ft.com/content/4b1408bd-961c-4ea9-a183-18f7a987af0c|title=A visit from the lagoon squad: can biodiversity save Venice?}} He also founded the Autonoma project, an international exchange programme with the Pilchuck Glass School in Washington, USA.{{cite web|url=https://patersonzevi.com/artist/256/marcantonio-brandolini-d-adda/|title=Paterson Zevi - Marcantonio Brandolini d'Adda }}
He's in a relationship with Margherita Missoni.