‘Jewellery By Sculptors And Painters’ Comes To The Venice Biennale

Wearable art by artists and designers like Sophia Vari, Ute Decker and Giuseppe Penone, will go on display in Venice next week, in a canalside venue guiding St Mark’s Square. The pieces will be a part of the Jewelry by Sculptors and Painters exhibition, presented by Elisabetta Cipriani Gallery.

From Gigi Mariani’s painterly earrings and the Labbra ring by Jannis Kounellis, to Ute Decker’s poetic gold ribbon jewellery and Sophia Vari’s miniature sculptures, Cipriani has curated over 40 jewels that blur the lines in between artwork and adornment. “Most visual artists I tactic have in no way ventured into jewellery-creating ahead of,” points out Cipriani. “So adapting their artwork practice to the physique provides exciting problems. Just about every one-of-a-sort development celebrates the unconventional, embracing the distinctiveness of the artist’s point of view and the collector’s individuality.”

London-primarily based Cipriani has been functioning with visible artists considering the fact that 2009, to fee and generate exclusive wearable artwork, demonstrating that body adornment deserves its spot in the world’s galleries and museums. Above the previous 15 a long time, she has labored with 56 present-day artists, together with Ai Wei Wei, Ilya & Emilia Kabakov and Tatsuo Miyajima, and numerous of her commissions have been obtained by art museums together with the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, the Museum of Artwork and Deign in New York, and the Environment Jewellery Museum in Soeul. But despite these kinds of achievements, Cipriani’s technique is deceptively easy: “I am an editor of artist’s jewelry. The core of my business is enthusiasm, perseverance and awareness. In the course of my journey, I have been pushed by a deep drive to provide unicity, splendor and a exceptional emotional expertise to equally the artist and collector.”

Just like the present-day art current market alone, the artwork jewelry sector is starting to be more powerful, with rising quantities of collectors who want to have on parts developed or made by artists. “They see artwork not only as something to notice, touch, pay attention to and stroll via, but as something to wear on the body as a next skin,” she describes. By its own mother nature, jewelry gets to be an additional way to specific their identity and investigate creative tastes, and regardless of the noticeable financial investment value of a minimal version or just one-of-a-form piece of wearable artwork, Cipriani encourages clientele to obtain parts simply because they “love it and want to have on it!”.

Just one artist represented in the exhibit who is increasingly collectible, is Sophia Vari, the Greece-born artist and jewellery creator who combined precious metals and stones with far more abnormal elements to make beautiful “portable sculptures”. Her Pentozani ring, made in 2022 not extensive right before she died, will be on demonstrate in Venice, its bulges and curls of white resin edged with yellow gold in an classy and feminine hand adornment that signifies a regular Cretan dance.

An additional emphasize is Gigi Mariani, whose “spontaneous creativity” is translated into jewelry employing regular strategies from the Middle Ages to create succinct explorations of variety. “I will also be showcasing a choice of the most gorgeous and desired function by Giorgio Vigna,” she says of the Italian artist, who takes advantage of a vast assortment of media to explore the thriller of our fascination with the purely natural world. Vigna will also be exhibiting at Elisabetta Cipriani Gallery in London in Might.

An “enthusiastic visitor of the Artwork Biennale for the past 22 years” Cipriani has prolonged dreamt of exhibiting an artwork jewelry exhibition at the celebration. “Art jewelry should really only be exhibited in an art context and the Biennale is the excellent one. I aim to invite artwork collectors to expertise artwork in a distinct way as a thing to have on. If a person collects art, they need to also gather wearable artwork.” Along with the demonstrate, she’s wanting forward to strolling in the campi of the city’s quieter spots, and possessing dinner at Da Ivo. But the very best way to celebrate the Venice Biennale? “By wearing a work of art!”.

Jewelry by Sculptors and Painters will be open up at the hotel Monaco & Grand Canal in Venice, from April 15 to 21, 2024.