Sculptor Roberto Milan lives and works in his native city of Udine, Italy. As a child, his passion for art was nurtured at the family-run wood sculpture workshop founded in 1928. Here he was held spellbound by the force and potential of the chisel and gouge. Being introduced to the medium of wood and the possibilities it offered for artistic expression at such a young age, was pivotal in his direction as an artist.

As a contemporary sculptor, he works on mixed-media with a focus on wood. He has skillfully combined time-honored techniques with the modernity of his forms and contemporary concepts.

He expresses his ideas in an abstract approach with a formal elegance and essential linearity in his tall and narrow, large-scale pieces. He combines the wood constructions with hand-blown glass from Murano and fusions of bronze. He uses handmade tools for carving wood. When he begins to carve his designs, he relies only on experience.

The expressive potential of wood distinguishes Roberto Milan’s artistic research while using the alchemic combination of bygone secrets of the Italian handicraft culture.

Roberto Milan has a close collaboration with several art galleries in U.S. (Aspen, CO; Denver, CO; Miami, FL).

Each piece is handcrafted and, therefore, no two pieces are alike.

Artistic products developed combining time-honored techniques with the modernity of forms and contemporary concepts. Built using mixed-media with a focus on wood. The expressive potential of wood distinguishes these artistic products developed with a strong research that melt alchemic combination of bygone secrets of the Italian handicraft culture. These urns combine in an abstract approach with a formal elegance and essential linearity in their elegant refinement. They combine the wood constructions with hand-blown glass from Murano and fusions of bronze. They are developed using handmade tools for carving wood transforming each urn in an artistic product.

Red Glass Urn 

Eternal fire, eternal memory.The cylinders of red Murano glass symbolize fire and ardor ever alive. The memory that leaves earthly life is represented by container wood and rises to the ' up toward the spirit of ' eternal life.

Blue Glass Urn

The urn is a spiritual journey started in life. In fact, the wooden container reaches out to the high and opens to let out a valuable pyramid of ancestral symbols. Blue symbolizes the soul that continues its elevation immaterial.

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