Gioielli in Fermento 2020/2021 | online exhibition
EVOLUTION & AGEING
The exhibition shows evolution in 114 works by art jewelers coming from more than 20 different countries.
CONCEPT
Gioielli in Fermento was born 10 years ago, transforming over time the original theme of its Mediterranean background and atmospheres, but still keeping the ethical and geographic link. The collection chosen by the jury for 2020 appeared in a globally suspended time. The pandemic that broke out in the first months of the year indelibly marked a dividing line in the activity of each one of us.
ANTE and POST “corona”: The 2020 theme evolution & refinement¹ required more reflection and suggested a new level of research. To emphasize the time of transition, we opted to record the path between what “was” until the explosion of the pandemic, the dangers of contagion, the paralysis of all activities and the confinement – called the ANTE – and what implied rethinking our lives, our reactions, our roles, from then on – after, called the POST.
RESEARCH
The artistic approach told through the Gioielli in Fermento exhibitions represents that authors’ creative motus they apply to record, undergo, react to changes through their works – from a conceptual point of view, from a practical point of view, from an existential point of view. The publication of the first part of this research constitutes a kind of last background: online contents, to be discovered gradually, following the different paths the authors are walking on, by discovering a focus which will be a whole view the virtual exhibition solution for the following year 2021. The challenge of the ANTE | POST comparison is a further evolution of the Fermento project. Observing the ANTE (Part I) and the POST (Part II) new meanings will emerge according to the experimental jewel. Covid19 determined a fracture or opportunity, but not only or not necessarily that. It probably enhanced a need to recompose, join, develop the search for a complementary or juxtaposed work, by evolution or revolution, dissolution or reconstruction. Or simply looking for balance. Our body-ornaments interpret a need, a relief, a message, an escape, a gratification, a memory: personal amulets of a new era. evolution & refinement. Using the words of wine, literally, it should be “evolution and ageing“, meaning the refinement and reached maturity of a wine through time.
1th Price
Yukiko Kakimoto (Japan)
METAMORPHOSE, brooches, 2020 and 2021
potter’s clay, glaze, Urushi (Japanese lacquer), Sumi (Japanese black ink), pure silver powder, oxidized silver
2th Price
Boglárka Mászi (Hungary)
REFLECTING, epaulette, 2020 and MEMORY FRAGMENTS, epaulette 2021
paper and concrete
3th Price
Letizia Maggio (Italy)
MEIN KUNST, necklace, 2021
silver, ruby
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