Meet John Moore, the dance master of jewels

“Nature is untouchable to me. It’s foolish for anyone to try to replicate it or beat it” – John Moore tells us with the humble confidence of an artist who won the prestigious Goldsmith’s Company award in 2016 – the industry’s highest form of recognition. “It’s about paying homage to nature, celebrating it but in a way, which is honest to its construction and to yourself”. John’s ability to create pieces which draw inspiration from the living world yet stay truthful to his unique vision has earned him a cult following among jewellery collectors. The grande dame of wearable art Tuan Lee commissioned his first Verto necklace. Lady Helen Hamlyn, patron of the arts and founder of the The Royal College of Art’s Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design, is another energetic supporter of John Moore’s work. Last year’s prominent exhibition of contemporary jewellery, Bijoux Contemporains, Une Passion at Brussel’s BOZAR was followed by a beautiful catalogue; and John’s necklace notably graces the first page. At Elisabetta Cipriani Gallery we could not agree more with all the acclaim that John Moore’s work is receiving. Here, we offer you a glimpse into the magical headspace of this remarkable artist. EC: You mentioned to me […]

Exhibition opening: Monday 3 December 5.00 – 8.30pm. Elisabetta Cipriani is very pleased to present the two latest collaborations. The She-Wolf, the Eagle and the Octopus are creations by the Italian artist Paolo Canevari made in a limited edition of 5. Together the three objects of art constitute a sophisticated set of zoomorphic silver serving cutlery inspired by three animals which across human history have been associated with symbols of power: the She-Wolf, the Eagle and the Octopus, eyes made of diamonds, rubies and pearls, respectively. Through employing these archetypal images yet using them in a new context, the artist puts their meaning in jeopardy and invites us to reflect on the iconography of power. Ania Guillaume interpreted Bruno Acampora’s luxurious scented candles through sculptural holders Sérénité, inspired by gingko leaves. These will be displayed alongside other renown scents of the perfumery. With the artists interest in nature’s intricate spirituality, she purposefully chose the gingko leaf not only for the folliage’s singular beauty, but mainly for its meaningful symbolism of longevity and wellbeing; qualities deeply rooted in Acampora’s identity and its wonderful aromas. Recollections of the natural world will be augmented by our showcasing of Michele Oka Doner’s Goddess Minaudiere (2007), a sterling silver clutch that in its shape recalls nature in its purest […]

Exhibition Opening: Wednesday, 28 November, 2018, 6:30 – 8:30pm. Elisabetta Cipriani is very pleased to present Carrying Memory, the first wearable art project by performance and poetic installation artist Chiharu Shiota. Through the use of 18kt gold, Chiharu Shiota intricately intertwines and folds threads which gradually expand into the universe, becoming an extension of the body in space. A necklace and a ring that can also be used as a pendant, have been conceived and perceived in the same way as Shiota’s thread installations, in which she integrates, within a web, objects that carry memories of our daily life. For the necklace, Chiharu Shiota chose to create the art piece around a key, a meaningful object related to everyday life. Viewing keys as “familiar and very valuable things that protect important people and spaces in our lives”, the artist invites us to make a profound and treasured connection with the necklace. Within the golden threads, Shiota suspends the contrasting silver key with a powerful, dark and dreamlike potency. The traces left behind by a human life are also conceptually explored in the ring/pendant, which is made entirely of golden webbed threads to symbolise the inside of a human body. These two poetical […]

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Opening: 5 October 2018- 2:00-6:00 pm. Elisabetta Cipriani is delighted to present the first wearable art project of the Italian artist Sissi . Nidi (Nests) is a project entirely handmade by the artist and consists of a pair of earrings and two pendants that can also be worn as brooches or displayed as sculptures. Inspired by the idea of a safe place, these wearable sculptures like the natural nests, embrace the life and the body of the wearer. The gold pendant finds protection over the heart and when worn as a brooch, finds its peace between the branches of the ribs.   Manual ability is central in Sissi’s work: she delicately intertwines and welds gold and silver threads with coloured stones and twists hand painted enamelled strips to make a new skin that represent an extension between her work and her body in the space. In the artist’s practise, everything starts from a small element that grows and develops in different forms. This flow take shape from the soul of the artist and is articulated from the body with a potentially infinite form.

Elisabetta Cipriani – Wearable Art is delighted to announce that she will be exhibiting this year at Design Miami Basel from June 12-17 at Stand G17. To be showcased there will be new projects along the ones from the previous years. Ania Guillaume features a wall installation of a debut line of hand sculpted ginkgo leaf necklaces, which are as much artworks as they are wearable. Francesco Arena presents a pair of earrings casted from the artist’s thumb and little finger’s prints. The two artist’s fingers will hold the wearer’s head who will keep on bringing the artist’s hand around to experience anything the wearer lives. Liliane Lijn’s Earth Body Artworks will take you far in time and in space as each piece is essentially a reminder of our origin. The artist playfully shapes a handful of still very warm wax around her wrist and shapes it in something that looks very much like a clod of earth. Her works are in fact titled volcanic magma, meteorites, clods of earth and lunar rocks. Flavie Audi,in addition to her Superlunarycollection in collaboration with Noor Fares, is creating for her first time a 1.7-meter in diameter hand knotted silk rug. The Superlunary Fragmentfalls within the investigation of speculative synthetic future geologies and celebrates the potential […]

Art as Jewellery by collector and gallery owner Louisa Guinnes provides a visually beautiful introduction to jewellery by the masters of twentieth and twenty-fist century art. From Man Ray and Alexander Calder to Ai Weiwei and Anish Kapoor, the publication is a chronological timeline of jewellery presentation with Louisa Guinnes’s insightful commentary about each artist, their work and the stories behind their pieces. To accompany the texts are stunning photographs taken by renowned 20th century photographers  such as Ugo Mulas along with top photographer Alexander English.

Elisabetta Cipriani – Wearable Art is delighted to announce its participation for the first time at MIART during the 23rd edition of the fair. On this occasion Elisabetta Cipriani is pleased to present the wearable art projects she has been doing since the last eight years with 23 established visual artists together with a new initiative that showcases fresh creations by young and talented artists, the EC Lab.   To name just a few of the wearable art pieces Elisabetta Cipriani will be exhibiting at the fair are the ones created by Enrico Castellani, Jannis Kounellis, Giulio Paolini, Pascale Marthine Tayou and Rebecca Horn.  Superficie by Enrico Castellani is the first wearable art project echoing his works on canvas called, indeed, Superficie where the geometric pattern creates an intriguing interplay between light and shadow within the gold surfaces. Jannis Kounellis created a ring called Labbra which is a cast of his own lips and a reminiscent of the ancient Greek funerary masks that symbolize the absence of breath. Giulio Paolini’s creations are a manifesto of the artist’s idea of love and are designed to celebrate the union within a couple, Due in Uno ring, and the connection between the outer […]

Opening: 23 November – 6:30 – 8:30 pm Elisabetta Cipriani is delighted to announce Pommes de Jong, the first wearable art exhibition in London of the Dutch artist Jacqueline de Jong. The Pommes de Jong is an ongoing project that came to life in 2007 in Bouan (Bourbonnais, France) where in the mid 1990’s de Jong and her husband Tom Weyland decided to buy a house. She created a vegetable garden and they planted potatoes in memory of the lack of food during the war. De Jong stored the potatoes in a 13th Century cellar and suddenly realized that she was fascinated by the huge number of sprouts that were growing from the shrunk tubers. When de Jong was asked by a jewellery collector to make a jewel for her, she thought that she might do something with these shrunk potatoes and their sprouts that were getting longer and longer. Having flowers and seeds growing above the ground and the roots underground, de Jong is fascinated by the enigmatic nature of these tubers. The artist finds in them an erotic shade thinking about the potato flower and what she calls the ‘potato balls’ that contain the seeds. De Jong specifically […]