Crystalline
Giorgio Vigna Crystalline, 2019 18kt yellow gold and yellow sapphires ring 3.63 x 3.11 x 1.7 cm Edition of 10 + 3 AP Signed and numbered Make it Yours ♥
Salvia (Sage)
Giuseppe Penone Salvia, 2022 18 kt yellow gold ring 6.20 x 2.35 x 2.6 cm Edition of 10 Signed and numbered Make it Yours ♥ “… a material, a thing, an object, a colour has the strength to provide us with an apparent comprehension or suggestion of the complexity of life” (G. Penone, 1998) After eleven years from the creation of Foglia (Leaf), Giuseppe Penone designs exclusively for Elisabetta Cipriani Salvia (Sage) rings. Known for his sculptural work addressing the relationship between man and nature, Giuseppe Penone has often employed his own body as a mean to investigate issues concerning the perception of reality, often stepping into the metaphysical. Penone’s work reveals the interconnected nature of everything that exists. He achieves this through the concrete (visual, tactile, and olfactory) aspects of nature, which he explored until he uncovers it magical primal essence. Incredibly versatile and having worked with a variety of materials on different scale, Penone’s project for Elisabetta Cipriani Gallery is a natural extension of his artistic oeuvre. Produced in a limited edition of 10, Salvia (Sage) ring is a wearable sculpture reproducing a highly detailed sage leaf upon which a musical note has been gently applied. Using the lost-wax […]
SUGAR RING
Meret Oppenheim Sugar ring, designed in 1936, executed in 2014 Silver gold plated ring with sugar and white marble 3.4 x 2.5 x 2 cm Gems and Ladders edition Make it Yours ♥ ‘I love natural materials. But everything man makes is nature, even plastic, even the atomic bomb,’ Meret Oppenheim observed in an interview with Valie Export in 1975. The sugar ring, which Meret Oppenheim designed in the mid-1930s, is an absurd and delightful combination of artifice and so-called nature, of opulent and cheap materials. The throwaway and frangile sugar cube is elevated to the status of a lasting, precious stone; an edible material is made wearable. At any time the wearer can exchange the cube for a fresh ‘jewel’ or even for a real gemstone.
In my bubble
Gigi Mariani In my bubble, 2014 Ring / object Silver, 18kt yellow gold, niello 5 x 2.7 x 2.7 cm
Labbra (Lips)
Jannis Kounellis Labbra (Lips), 2012 18kt yellow gold lips ring 2.1 x 6 cm Edition of 12 Signed and numbered Make it Yours ♥ When Elisabetta Cipriani proposed the jewellery collaboration project to the noted artist Jannis Kounellis, he liked the idea of recreating his 1972 gold sculpture, which was stolen in the 1980. However, this time with an entirely different purpose, as wearable sculpture – a ring. The Labbra (Lips) ring, a cast of Kounellis’s lips, is reminiscent of the purpose of the ancient Greek masks.