Gold and Lines: The Design of Giampaolo Babetto

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.

Babetto’s artistic language is anything but mere decorativeism. His jewellery is a small- scale architectural wearable artwork consisting of abstract elements broken down into modular and modulable units linked through ingenious mechanisms. The sophisticated, minimalist, and vibrant plastic features that characterise his pieces are immediately recognisable – sharp and delicate at the same time.

The exhibition explores the unique synchronicity of geometry and colours that characterise Giampaolo Babetto’s wearable art, allowing wearers to feel the formal tension and the impact of the composition.