Giorgio Vigna | Costellazioni | 29 May – 5 July 2024

“My work and research are situated on a boundary, a margin, between reality and imagination. Throughout my exploration, this boundary expands and creates a suspended space-time where time is subjective and space is imaginary. It is within this suspension that new “natural states” of matter and form can emerge and manifest. The micro and the macrocosm intertwine – the large and the small, the light and the heavy, the solid and the liquid, the cold and the hot. They interchange positions and generate artworks that ask us to suspend our biases and preconceptions.”  Elisabetta Cipriani Gallery is thrilled to announce its major exhibition of Giorgio Vigna’s ever-evolving work – Costellazioni, 29 May – 5 July 2024.   Celebrating fifteen years of exciting collaborations between Giorgio Vigna and the gallery, the exhibition will feature 50 pieces, including wearable artworks, sculptures, and works on paper made from the 1980s to the present.   Costellazioni is not a retrospective; it is a storytelling of over four decades of Vigna’s transformative material poetry, resulting in stunning pieces that achieve the perfect balance between materials, forms, and concepts.   The works are a statement of Vigna’s experimental and metamorphic artistic research. At the forefront are his wearable sculptures, alongside Cosmografie (Cosmographies), the works on […]

Rings, necklaces, earrings resembling wearable sculptures. The exhibition Elisabetta Cipriani. Jewellery by Sculptors and Painters features more than forty pieces of artist-designed jewellery, including iconic pieces by Enrico Castellani and Jannis Kounellis, as well as new pieces unveiled for the first time at the Biennale. Read

Wearable works by artists and designers, including Sophia Vari, Ute Decker and Giuseppe Penone, will go on show in Venice next week in a canalside venue behind St Mark’s Square. The pieces will be a part of the “Jewellery 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 jewelry and Sophia Vari’s miniature sculptures, Cipriani has curated over 40 jewels that blur the lines between art and adornment.

“One should either be a Work of Art or Wear a Work of Art” Oscar Wilde Elisabetta Cipriani Wearable Art is honoured to announce the opening of her new exhibition Elisabetta Cipriani. Jewellery by Sculptors and Painters at the Hotel Monaco & Grand Canal in Venice from 15 to 21 April 2024. The exhibition will run in conjunction with the opening of the 2024 Venice Biennale and showcase over 40 jewellery pieces by world-renown contemporary artists and jewellery designers, including recent and historical jewels by Giampaolo Babetto and Sophia Vari, pieces by Enrico Castellani, Jannis Kounellis, Giulio Paolini, and Giuseppe Penone, and new commissions by Ute Decker, Gigi Mariani, and Giorgio Vigna, which will be revealed there for the first time. The pieces are breathtaking and unique, challenging the boundaries between art and wearability. Made of precious and unconventional materials – from gold, silver, and pearls to glass, resin, ebony, and amaranth wood– each piece is a sculpture that becomes a wearable poetic statement. A unique event in the history of Venice, Elisabetta Cipriani. Jewellery by Sculptors and Painters will be the first art jewellery exhibition since Diane Venet presented her historical collection in 2015. Moreover, it will be the […]

The neck piece is an exploration of the power of metamorphosis, development and growth, and forms part of an ongoing project the Venetian artist has been working on since 2020.“ Caló incites viewers to contemplate the dual nature of freedom. By Kate Matthams for Forbes October, 13th 2023 Read   

      Plato considered Sappho the best poetic voice in Greek history, and called her ‘The Tenth Muse’ La Decima Musa_G.P._2023  

Playing with scale, volume and weight, Joanne Thompson creates unique sculptural ornaments experimenting precious metals that can mutate into a sensual tridimensionality that embraces and flows with the body. We are delighted to share our conversation with the Artist explaining her creative process and the joy of making. EC: Tell us about yourself and what do you do? (What is your background?) JT: I am a designer and maker of contemporary chain jewellery, living and working from my home studio in Edinburgh, Scotland. I studied jewellery design firstly at Edinburgh College of Art, (1st class honours degree) followed by a Masters at RCA in London. I set up my studio in London in 1995, moving back to Edinburgh in 1999. EC: You are known as the ‘Master of chain making.’ In 2021 you received the Gold Award (The Worshipful Company of Gold and Silver) ‘Wire Innovation’ held at the Goldsmith Hall in London. How did you come up with the idea of chain maille pattern? JT: I have always been interested in unit construction and textile techniques in jewellery making.  With chain making it is possible to take solid precious metals and fabricate them into something soft, fluid, and tactual. […]

As Elisabetta Cipriani Gallery unveils 40 new jewels by the Greek artist, Cipriani joins the artist’s daughter, Ileana Bouboulis to speak about her late mother. By Kate Matthams for Forbes June 16th, 2023 Read  

Fino al 7 luglio Elisabetta Cipriani rende omaggio a Sophia Vari, la grande artista di origine greca, recentemente scomparsa. In mostra una serie di gioielli d’artista, alcuni dei quali pensati espressamente per l’esposizione londinese e realizzati per la prima volta con materiali come resina e amaranto, un legno esotico di grande resa cromatica e materica. By Paola Stroppiana for Canale Arte.Tv June 12th, 2023 Read    

Elisabetta Cipriani unveils 40 of Sophia Vari’s wearable sculptures at exhibition ‘All Mediums are Noble’ By Hanna Silver for Wallpaper June 12th, 2023 Read