First of all I thank God for being born in the SERENISSIMA land. I thank my ancestors that worked hard, to render us loved and envied today all over the world. I was born in Jesolo, and as they used to say: "under the shadow of San Marco's tower". In all of the Veneto Region no other construction could be built higher than the tower. We were proud to be called "Piave Race", being Jesolo cut by the Piave river, and thanks to the rivalry between the towns, the whole area prospered. With this spirit I attended the mosaic school at Spilimbergo (Pordenone), then worked for ten years in Milan with Piero Cantù, and finally BISAZZA, market-leader in mosaics.

Venice - San Trovaso Square cm. 85x60 anno 1978

My name is Lino Sacilotto.
I have done a short digression, to try to explain my decoration, fruit of a dream to immortalize Venice in a mosaic frame, by the first light of dawn, when all is silent. I've started these sketches in 1972, in a garage in Milan, searching for a different kind of mosaic, one that could be put inside the home, as a painting, but without excessive weight. A new technique was born: separating with mosaics all man-made constructions and nature. All of this on a wooden pane. The mosaic is laid directly over the glue. The portrait bellow is an example, made in 1978.

Venice is a unique city, most visited and most loved of all. There is no other place in the world like it, being also the city of love.

Venice - S. Cristoforo Bridge and Dario building cm.62 x 121

Venice - Campiello de le Strope cm. 150x100 anno 1979

Venice - Oil Painting cm. 100 x 70

Venice - Fondamenta della 'Toleta' cm. 146 x 99

Venice - Detail of Dario building

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Chioggia - Calle Grassi cm. 93 x 120

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Venice – case del rio

Venice – Rio delle gondole e Madonna cm. 180 x 80

Venice – Venice con ponte - cm. 45 x 45

Venice - Turisti a Venice - cm. 250 x 60

House of the Venetian Countryside - Sad Abandon

My passion is thus derived from the countryside culture that permeates the Veneto, and especially the houses, that I remember as being full of life, filled with children, women, men and animals. Now many of these houses are gone, and the few that remain have been modernized or completely abandoned waiting to fall apart. It is a shame that at least part of these can't be recuperated, in the same way as the Venetian Villas.