Elisabetta Cipriani is pleased to announce a new collaborative project with renowned Italian artist Enrico Castellani. Nastro (1963-2016) is an exclusive jewel made from 18kt yellow satin gold that can be worn either as a brooch or as a necklace. The artist has created an edition of ten pieces, on show and available at Elisabetta Cipriani gallery, London from 29 February 2016.
Enrico Castellani is regarded as one of Italy’s most important living artists. The new work Nastro can be located within the artist’s wider practice in the way in which it expresses Castellani’s consistent poetical engagement with the manipulation of surfaces and light, evident here in the elegant bending of a single strip plate into an intriguing anthropomorphic shape. Nastro has a connection with Castellani’s personal history, first coming to life in 1963 when the...
Internationally renowned fashion designer Stella Jean will show her new collection FW 2016|2017 in collaboration with Elisabetta Cipriani Gallery during Milan Fashion Week on February 28th. Using Elisabetta's wearable art sculptures, Stella Jean emphasises the cultural encounter and overlap between art and fashion in her new iconographic Fall-Winter collection.
Erwin Wurm: One Minute Sculpture will be at the Tate Modern on February 22nd at 19:00 and 19:45.
During an exclusive out of hours viewing of Performing for the Camera featured artist Erwin Wurm invites you to make a “One Minute Sculpture”. Using everyday domestic objects and found furniture, Erwin creates situations and instructions that allow you to become an artwork for sixty seconds.
Erwin Wurm has created in collaboration with the gallery Cucumber, a series of jewellry representing the provocation and irony on the artist’s self-portrait.
Elisabetta Cipriani is delighted to announce a unique exhibition with renowned Chinese artist Ai Weiwei. Cipriani works with internationally acclaimed contemporary artists to create one of a kind wearable sculptures made from precious materials. The exclusive collection by Ai Weiwei entitled Rebar in Gold will be on view at Elisabetta Cipriani Gallery in Mayfair from 12 November 2015 – 16 January 2016. Rebar in Gold takes root in Ai Weiwei’s investigation into the devastating 2008 Wenchuan earthquake in Sichuan Province, China, which killed approximately 70,000 people. Ai’s concern focused on the distressing number of children who perished due to the poor construction techniques used to build government schools. Upon visiting Wenchuan after the earthquake, Ai found a mass of contorted steel rebar, left behind from the fallen school buildings....
