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The Fifth Element Glass Atelier di Tommaso Colesanti
+39 3203528349
+39 3203528349
Via San Vigilio 90, Bolzano/Bozen
Via San Vigilio 90, Bolzano/Bozen
Tommaso Colesanti was born in Rome in March 1984 to a Swiss father and a Romanian mother. He first encountered glass in 2005 at the Marbaglass scientific glassblowing workshop in Rome, where he learned the lampworking technique for borosilicate glass, specializing in the production of scientific stills.
In 2011, he moved to Bolzano to attend the two-year course offered by the Cooperativa Vetroricerca Glas&modern, focusing on various glass processing techniques: from furnace blowing to cold working, from pâté de verre (glass paste) to painting, from glass fusing to lead binding. After completing the two years of study, he began working for the same Cooperative as a teaching assistant, where he met great master artisans such as Massimo Lunardon, Lucio Bubacco, Caterina Zucchi, Silvia Levenson, Miriam di Fiore, Alberto Gambale, and many others.
In 2020, enamored with the mountains of South Tyrol, he decided to open his atelier “The Fifth Element” in Bolzano, with the goal of one day moving even closer to his beloved mountain landscapes. Inspired by the wonder of nature and the profound complexity of the human soul, Tommaso explores the contrasts that define existence: opposites that attract, paradoxes that intertwine in a delicate balance.
In glass, he finds a perfect echo of this intrinsic duality: a material that is simultaneously solid and liquid, elastic and plastic, transparent and opaque, fragile and resistant. It is like a silent language, capable of capturing deep emotions and transforming them into forms that defy the laws of matter. Through his creations, glass becomes his instrument of expression, a medium through which he gives voice to the most intimate nuances of the soul, reflecting the complexity and beauty of a world in continuous flux.