After showing alongside the Venice Biennale in April, London jewelry gallerist Elisabetta Cipriani’s latest exhibition on home soil opens today; Constellazioni, a solo show of the work of Italian artist Giorgio Vigna charts a creative career spanning four decades. by Kate Matthams, Senior Contributor at Forbes Read

“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

“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 […]