1 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2.014

David Rodríguez Caballero 1 de Noviembre de 2.014, 2014 18kt rose gold ring 4.36 x 4.5 x 1.98 cm; 75.40 grams Unique and signed Make it Yours ♥ David Rodríguez Caballero is renowned for his geometrically reduced forms, which have been translated into a new formal vocabulary linked to Minimalism. The themes explored in his wearable art, like his sculptures, recall the Constructivism which has been subject to a sense of lyricism and softness that originates from painting. Geometric abstraction is one of the most important paths of modern painting and sculpture – it is also significant to contemporary music with its streaked structures and colourful overtones. In his wearable art, David Rodriguez Caballero brings his aesthetic obsessions to the third dimension, exploring materials, and the relationship between meaning and object, support and form, dream and paranoia. Caballero manipulates light through his bending and folding of material.

Ute Decker Infinity Spirals, 2020 18kt Fairtrade gold ear sculptures 4.4 x 4.2 x 1.5 cm edition of 6 unique within the series initialled and hallmarked   The wearable sculptures by the internationally acclaimed architectural artist Ute Decker are a meditation on the richness of simplicity. She sculpts space, movement, volume and a subtle texture into a carefully composed interplay of light and shadow with a richly evocative sense of space and story. This essential purity is typical of her work in its minimalism and attention to detail. ‘I am often drawn to the dynamic form of the spiral. powerfully explored from african tribal arts, the celts, the incas to man ray and calder; this archaic form is a rich symbol of our common humanity across the ages, across continents and cultures’. – Ute Decker  

  Jacqueline De Jong Pommes de Jong, 2017 Shrunk potato 18kt yellow gold plated cufflinks 2.8 x 1.5; 1.8 x 1.4 cm Unique ref. C5 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 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 amount 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 longer and longer. Pommes de Jong were inspired by the idea of transforming a humble object into a precious one. In the realization of the wearable art, the potatoes and their sprouts are dried slowly by the artist over a period of two years and are submerged in a bath of platinum or gold becoming exclusive pieces of wearable art.

Kendell Geers The Word (Love) Made Flesh, 2019 Silver and enamel cufflinks 2 x 2cm Edition of 20 Signed and numbered Make it Yours ♥ The Word (Love) Made Flesh collection consists of a pendant and cufflinks featuring an intricate figurine-like design derived from the ‘Hwe Mu Dua’ (‘measuring stick’) symbol – the West African Andrinka symbol of excellence and perfection. The pendant beautifully displays different brightly coloured patterns on each side, whereas the cufflinks reveal positive and negative black and  images. These spiritually charged wearable sculptures cannot, however, be categorised as either European or African, but are rather representative of an interplay between cultures, archetypal signs, and sacred symbols. In the true spirit of Kendell Geers, the archetypal trickster, the ancient African symbols featured in The Word (Love) Made Flesh have been refashioned in an Afropunk style and spell out the word ‘LOVE.’ The Word (Love) Made Flesh thus epitomises the artist’s tendency to subvert ancient iconography by embracing both traditional and contemporary African aesthetics. As the title suggests, The Word (Love) Made Flesh invites the wearer to search for the hidden word within the figure. Words that reoccur throughout the artist’s works include ‘LOVE,’ ‘HATE,’ ‘FAITH,’ ‘FUCK,’ and ‘FREE,’ among others. The pendant […]

John Moore Fin Ray, 2019 18kt yellow gold and hand cut sterling silver necklace with magnets, 24 diamonds, and silicone rubber 13 x 7 cm Unique and signed   John’s fascination with fish and their movement is captured here in a series of necklaces, shaped and articulated like the fin of a ray.  

Paolo Canevari Lupa Romana, 2019 Micro-mosaic and 9kt rode gold pendant 4.5 x 3.5 cm 42.5 cm chain Unique and signed Make it Yours ♥ With his Wearable Art projects, Canevari delves into his ideas of drawing, painting, or sculpting iconography and recognisable imagery into another dimension: into something we can wear. Lupa Romana incorporated the ancient Roman micro-mosaic techniques, and features the She-Wolf, a significant symbol of Rome, celebrated for her nurturing and protective powers.  ‘I believe that the most important inspiration for an artist’s work is people’s way of thinking. Spirituality, as part of the human condition, brings with it a presence, a meaning, a symbol, a soul. I utilise icons in my work as a way of connecting with this fundamental truth. A tire, a skull or a bomb are recognisable images and part of our universal knowledge, just as much as a sacred image, or an image of a dog. What I do is use these icons in a new context, or structure, that places their meaning in jeopardy.’ – Paolo Canevari

Erwin Wurm Cucumber, 2014 Silver brooch with sapphires Cucumber length 4cm Edition of 10 Signed and numbered Make it Yours ♥ Erwin Wurm’s diverse, multimedia, witty oeuvre proclaims that “all is sculpture” in the spaces occupied by both art and life. The artist’s project of the ironic sculpture is one of the essential subversive strategies of modern art, occupying a prominent and original position. For an awards ceremony Wurm created a pickled cucumber, a parody of a figure of victory, outweighing provocation. From this idea he created a series of 40 works entitled Self-Portrait as Cucumber, showing his ability to laugh at himself. The jewellery project in collaboration with Elisabetta Cipriani recreates the provocation and irony of the self-portrait works, with a series of cucumber made in silver and sapphires. What Wurm wants to raise with this work is the astonishment caused by realising that the jewellery, made with precious gems, represent a simple vegetable that would otherwise be unnoticed or considered unattractive.

Alba Polenghi Lisca  Orecchini Isla, 2007 18kt satin yellow and white gold earrings 9 x 2.5 cm Edition of 1/1 , hallmark APL “The artist jewel includes his/her own aesthetic – artistic research, deepening of his reflection, thus becoming a piece of art independent of the jewel intended as an ornament. For me, the jewel reflects the anticipated discourse in painting translated into a new language with different materials, the design of which comes from a design – shape – sign, a process that I follow from the beginning of the work in each piece.”APL    

Sophie Whettnall Bracelet, 2019 18 kt satin yellow gold bracelet 5 cm Edition of 6 Signed and numbered Make it Yours ♥ ‘I had never designed wearable art before, nor had the idea of doing it ever crossed my mind. But when a friend asked if I’d be interested, I immediately said yes. My points of reference were very personal: I wanted to design something that I could see myself wearing, and something that would have a continuity with my work as an artist. That meant that there would have to be holes; recently, I have been particularly fascinated by the texture created through drilling. And there would have to be folds or curves, because they are elegant and mysterious: what’s on the other side? These two considerations led me to think of the bracelet and ring: flat surfaces that would become textured through drilling and voluminous through folding. Surprisingly, pretty much the first sketches I made felt right, and I resisted every impulse to tinker with them.’ – Sophie Whettnall

Paolo Canevari Piovra (Octopus), 2019 oxidised silver and cultured pearls bracelet 10.2 x 7 cm made bespoke Edition of 10 Signed and numbered Make it Yours ♥ The Octopus, which elegantly wraps around the wrist of the wearer, symbolises various facets of power. The seductive power of the eroticism in Japan, the omnipresent power of the mafia in Italy, and in Hollywood, the enigmatic creature of the ocean symbolises the uncanny power of the criminal and terrorist organisation Spectre in the famous Bond movies. The bracelet invites its wearer to reflect on the complex interconnectedness of seduction, danger and authority, as the eight-armed animal once inspired the creation of the gorgon Medusa’s head, in Ancient Greek mythology.