Liliane Lijn Press Release

Liliane Lijn Press Release

Nov
01

Elisabetta Cipriani Gallery is excited to continue its ongoing collaboration with acclaimed American artist Liliane Lijn, unveiling a stunning new collection of art jewellery. Lijn’s artistic approach is deeply rooted in natural forms and elements, drawing inspiration from raw materials—volcanic magma, meteorites, clods of earth, and lunar rocks. These forces are translated into wearable sculptures, crafted from pure electroformed silver in Italy, embodying an organic, almost primordial aesthetic. Each piece reflects humanity’s connection with nature and the cosmos, serving as conceptual explorations of our relationship with the planet. Lijn presents a mesmerising new collection of pendants, and a cuff inspired by the ancient landscapes of Pompeii and the movement of lava. The collection explores fluidity, nature, and the powerful bond between humanity and the natural world. Her visit to Vesuvius and Pompeii ignited a creative vision. “These pieces evoke volcanic or lunar landscapes and even our inner selves. They combine ancient luxury with raw landscapes and cliffs,” she explains. Crafted both in silver with hues of blue pigmentation and in gold, the pieces evoke the textures of cliffs and crevices found in volcanic terrains. On the silver pendants intricate details are highlighted that contrast with the smoother, gilded surfaces of […]

Michele Oka Doner in Conversation with Elisabetta Cipriani

Oct
28

EC: It’s an honour to work with you. Your art jewellery project is incredible! Would you like to share with us your idea behind this new collection? MOD: First of all, thank you for your kind words. I’m delighted my work fits your vision of small sculpture as wearable art.The Winter Branches are an ongoing stream feeding the flow of Doner Studio. As I walk the forests as well as urban streets my eyes follow the wonderful branching patterns of trees. For years I have picked up small twigs, their dynamic patterns mostly flattened underfoot. They became an unplanned collection detailing the genius of variety, growth, and form in nature.The jump to jewellery was spontaneous as well. I left the cast bronze twigs dark as the wood they once were, and old cut diamonds both brought them light and replicated the sense of dew, or a touch of frost, a nod to their life in different seasons. EC: I find that your art has this special connection with underground energies. How would you describe the relationship between your large-scale works and art jewellery? Does the latter engage with the same energies as the former? MOD: Both the jewellery and large […]

Michele Oka Doner Press Release

Oct
28

Elisabetta Cipriani Gallery is thrilled to announce a unique collaboration with acclaimed American artist Michele Oka Doner, resulting in an extraordinary art jewellery collection. The collection is an homage to “The Botanic Age”—a time long before the Stone Age, when plants and trees were central to human development and creativity. Dr. Dean Falk’s research at Florida State University positions this era as the true cradle of civilisation, where botanic inventions like woven baskets shaped our cognitive and cultural evolution long before we wielded stone tools. Drawn from Oka Doner’s profound connection to the natural world and human history, her designs serve as spiritual meditations of this era, reflecting a time when humans were stewards of the earth rather than its masters. Her message resonates powerfully in today’s world as we face the consequences of “Plant Blindness,” a term recently coined to describe how the Industrial Revolution has distanced humanity from the natural world. The collection is a call to action for a New Botanic Age. Oka Doner’s work is distinguished not only by her evocative vocabulary of natural forms but also by her ability to transform these forms into talismanic objects that resonate with elemental energies. Her creations are not […]

Salon Art + Design

Oct
21

Salon Art + Design Booth B6 7-11 November 2024 Elisabetta Cipriani Gallery is delighted to announce its first participation in the 13th edition of Salon Art + Design 2024, New York. With an eclectic selection of wearable artworks, the gallery is proud to present jewels by world-famous visual artists, as well as experimental creations by exceptional jewellery designers. It will be a unique opportunity for collectors and art enthusiasts to immerse themselves in the fascinating world of wearable art – from classic masterpieces to bold experimentations. Among the twenty artists on display, we are thrilled to launch an exclusive collaboration with incredible American artist Michele Oka Doner. The collection comprises five one-of-a-kind Winter Branch brooches, a bronze Talisman pendant, a sculptural necklace, Nightflight, adorned with huit-huit old cut diamonds, and a treasure box, Mitosis, in limited edition. The pieces reverberate with the talismanic elemental energy that distinguishes Oka Doner’s practice and places it among the most magnetic and evocative works in contemporary art. Meticulously crafted in bronze, old-cut diamonds, 18kt gold, silver, and electroformed bark – a beautiful piece of wood that she retrieved from the Hudson River upstate many years ago –, each piece serves not only as an […]

Gold and Lines: The Design of Giampaolo Babetto

Sep
23

Gold and Lines: The Design of Giampaolo Babetto “Each time I make a jewel it’s a new challenge because I know that what I create is meant to be worn and cohabit with the body.” – Giampaolo Babetto Elisabetta Cipriani Gallery is thrilled to present an unprecedented selection of jewels by Giampaolo Babetto. Gold and Lines: The Design of Giampaolo Babetto, will open at the gallery on the 10th of October and run until the 18th of October. Collectors, friends, and art jewellery enthusiasts are invited to our opening on the 10th of October from 5 to 8 pm. As one of the most influential exponents of the Padua goldsmith school and avant-garde jewellery since the 1960s, Babetto has redefined the concept of art jewellery worldwide. The exhibition features thirteen unique works conceived from the 1970s to the present. The works include rings, earrings, necklaces, brooches, and a bracelet – gold corporeal architectures that come alive through the incorporation of ethereal and vibrant materials such as colourful glass, niello, ebony, and velvet-like pigments of luminous primary colours. The pieces are geometrical kaleidoscopic compositions that possess their own life and create a symbiotic and unique aesthetic relationship with the wearer’s body. […]

The Italian Artist Celebrating The Power Of Nature With Wearable Art

May
30

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

Giorgio Vigna | Costellazioni | 29 May – 5 July 2024

May
02

“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 […]

Designer Jewellery

Apr
17

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

VENICE | Jewellery by Sculptors and Painters, 15-21 April 2024 | Press Release

Mar
08

“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 […]

Mushroom Jewelry And A Live Moth: Two Gallery To Visit At PAD London

Oct
13

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