Rongorongo Earrings – Homage to Alan Watts
Tania Pistone Rongorongo, 2021 Homage to Alan Watts 18kt gold with bespoke black enamel earrings 1.5 x 10.5 cm Unique and signed Make it Yours ♥ Tania Pistone’s wearable art project for the Elisabetta Cipriani Gallery came to life following the artist’s Rongorongo series, paintings which depict an imaginary alphabet on gold-leaf plates. In her Rongorongo paintings, Pistone creates symbols in a deliberate attempt to reach an ideal alphabet, which addresses our shared, collective human unconscious. A place which she believes has been shaped by the experiences of our ancestors. ‘This project was dedicated to Alan Watts, an English philosopher born in (1915 – 1973). His major contribution was given as a popularizer in the West of Eastern philosophies (Zen). In one of his many monologues, there is the one on: what is love, which I used to engrave the plates (obviously it is fragmented into the various jewels), but the intention is that the message they carry is that. I am attaching the text:’ -Pistone (translated from Italian) Well now really when we go back into falling in love. And say, it′s crazy. Falling. You see? We don’t say “rising into love.” There is in it the idea of the fall. And it goes back, as a matter […]
Improvisations
Ute Decker Improvisations on ovals – interlocking, 2020 100% recycled sterling silver ear sculptures 10 x 3 cm variable Unique within an edition of 30 Signed – UK Hallmark with artists initials (UD)
Man Ray Twist – Bimetal
Ute Decker Man Ray Twist, 2021 18kt recycled gold fused with sterling silver sculptural earrings (bimetal) 36% gold edition of 24 unique within the series initialled and hallmarked The award winning, internationally exhibited artist jeweller, with pieces in several museum collections including the V&A sculpts movement into powerful minimalist forms for her first solo show at the gallery. Sensuous undulations characterize the new Waves series created for this exhibition. Expressing the beauty of nature through abstractions, Ute Decker is arresting time to take a closer look at the movement of waves, usually so fleeting.