Opto Engineering produces processing materials that are partly recyclable (aluminum) and partly non-recyclable (lenses, glass, mirrors). It is not part of our philosophy and values to produce waste, our goal is always to create value: we want to foster a circular economy in which everything can be recovered and revalued.

We have therefore thought of collecting all non-recyclable "glassy" material and using it in an aesthetic form inside our new headquarters by commissioning a sculpture from Mantua-based artist Romano Boccadoro.

The installation should integrate with the architecture of the corporate headquarters, enhance the material in an aesthetic sense, and represent the innovative and technological spirit of Opto Engineering.

The opera: Vasi crisalide for Opto Engineering

The work, which consists of three glass vessels was specially created for Opto Engineering and delivered on October 10, 2023.

This small installation will take place in the entrance area of the new headquarters.

The work by Mantua-based sculptor Romano Boccadoro uses the inside and outside of each vase to assemble objects and glass from processing waste, which, combined with other types of material, will compose the artist's poetics on the theme of optical science.

"My poetic assemblage continues in all my hermetic vessels, communicating vessels, chrysalis vessels. In all the vases all my artistic knowledge flows uninterrupted, all the variants of contemporary and avant-garde art: post-dadaism, post-surrealism, a three-dimensional post-metaphysics. They probably express the alchemical search for the transformation of matter. The alchemist futilely searches for perfection: perhaps, because the search is already the poets' gold. The viewers of these works of mine will necessarily have to interpret the vision at will, with their own intellectual sensitivity and the all-female conceit of ancient knowledge."

Romano Boccadoro