Thank you Hotel Flora for hosting me during this Venetian Spring, so full of events, from Homo Faber to the Biennale.

The large vine in the internal courtyard of the Palazzo is the ideal stage for the bronze ateles, spider monkeys, one different from the other, dynamic and playful, in the form of pendants and brooches.

Let’s enjoy Spring at the Hotel Flora – San Marco 2283 / A – 30124 Venice

my interview on Inside Venice

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photo by Francesca Manera

Honored to find myself listed on the Homo Faber Guide, the artisans guide of the Michelangelo Foundation for creativity and craftsmanship

to view the full article, click here: Bronze treasures

sustainable? slow? fair?

Danke Susanne Barta für das Interview auf der Seite von franzmagazine!

Jing Yang, neckpiece “I am not a vase“, 2017, photo: Valentina Romen

Jewellery Week was held in Munich last month, with exhibitions by both artisans and design students dedicated to the art.

Schmuck, jewellery in German, is the section of the International Craft Fair in Munich dedicated to contemporary jewellery and is celebrating its sixtieth anniversary this year. An exhibition, an award and the presence of some of the most important galleries in the sector have managed to create growing interest in the event.

Thanks to the Dutch initiative by Current Obsession, the last few years have seen the addition of a programme which is open to all and which extends to various districts in the city. A large number of the events are concentrated in a period of one week in mid-March, when dialogues between jewellery designers occupy ephemeral spaces and dedicated galleries.

Numerous schools are present, ranging from Central Saint Martins of London to the China Academy of Art of Hangzhou. Counting the nationalities of the students, collectors, curators, gallery-owners and curious visitors seems almost an impossible task.

For two of the most important institutions on the Munich cultural scene, March is also an annual appointment for artistic jewellery. The Danish Karen Pontoppidan (1968) is the focus of the exhibition dedicated to her work “The one-woman group exhibition” at the Villa Stuck museum.

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Self Portait With Nose​, 2010, brooch, credit: Bruno Bani – Martina Simeti Gallery

Once again I had fun putting my encounter with a jewellery artist into words for Domus.

An interview with the Swiss jewellery artist who mixes noble materials with discarded objects and relics of our disposable society.

Picking his way across a virtual minefield, the Swiss artist Bernhard Schobinger seeks equilibrium between beauty and ugliness. Born in Zurich in 1946, he has become one of the most important exponents of contemporary jewellery by inserting his craft into the current social discourse. As the same time, his items connect to the archaic origins of amulets. Schobinger reproportions the concept of jewellery as something precious and luxurious. He bypasses the hierarchy of jewellery with evident disesteem regarding its conventional categories. The mounting and modifying of objects of daily use and elementary discards open a creative space in which the functionality and background of objects and materials are called into question. The result is formal richness full of content and (sometimes invisible) meaning, full of humour, imagination, history and destiny. Schobinger has an immediate, sensual relation to materials. We can feel the joy of discovery with which he dissolves the boundaries between applied arts and visual art by combining modest, unusual materials such as shards of glass and nails with metal, gems, pearls and diamonds. Vice versa, he uses precious substances to create objects usually associated with transitoriness and uselessness.

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Jiro Kamata, Ghost

for once I jumped into the role of a reporter for Elle Décor Italia:

10 talents of jewellery seen in Munich

From the most important contemporary jewellery design week, our selection of designers to follow.

Schmuck, the German word for “jewel”, is the annual special exhibition first held in 1959 as part of the craft and design fair in Munich, and thanks to this event the city turns into the platform for the world of contemporary jewellery. Next to the works of 67 artists in the curated show, coming from 31 countries (from Germany and France, to Sweden, New Zealand, the United States of America and Mexico and Iran), a good section of specialized galleries.

Over the years jewels conquered Munich thanks to an explosion of independent events and during the Munich Jewellery Week (from March 8 to 14, 2017) the city becomes the reference capital with nearly 100 events. There are exhibitions and presentations of famous designers, masters, students from the academies, with book presentations, conferences and performances, institutional exhibitions and parties. Armed with the map you explore the city discovering dedicated galleries, improvised locations and museums.

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Monika Brugger, Federico Floriani, Nadine Kuffner, Brigitte Niedermair, Gabi Veit
curated by Valentina Romen and Annalisa Rosso

opening Tuesday November 29th 2016, from 6 to 9 pm
exhibition from November 30th to December 5th 2016, from 12 to 8 pm
Spazio Sanfermosette
via San Fermo 7, Brera – Milan

Monika Brugger, Für Dürer, 2008, object for the body

LOVE•&•HATE discordance in contemporary jewelry

There is a thin line between love and hate.
Science proves how these two feelings activate the same nervous circuits of our brain, though hate keeps traces of judgment and rationality. Emotions that appear to be polar opposites, in reality are intimately connected in the human brain. This could explain why both can lead to similar acts of extreme behaviour – evil or heroic – often irrational.

The exhibition project LOVE•&•HATE follows the curiosity for a match or a collision of different materials, discordant forms and ventured combinations. Attraction or repulsion can be behind a specific attention to a formal research, able to find an unexpected balance among elements sometimes very dissimilar, to define new aesthetics, and become a crossroad of strong emotions.
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