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...
Elisabetta Cipriani - Wearable Art includes the 23 projects that came to life in the past 8 years. In this publication readers can find the story of each project within correspondences between Elisabetta and the artists, original sketches and photographs. Explaining the way how these wearable art pieces were conceived and the concepts behind them, the catalogue is an extraordinary lecture also to understand what inspires the artists to create their art.
