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.
Pommes de Jong
Jacqueline De Jong Pommes de Jong 18kt yellow gold plated potato sprouts ring 5.5 x 3 x 2.7 cm; ring: 1 cm Unique
Pommes de Jong
Jacqueline De Jong Pommes de Jong 18kt yellow gold plated potato sprouts ring 5 x 3 x 3 cm; ring: 1.8 cm Unique
Pommes de Jong
Jacqueline De Jong Pommes de Jong 18kt yellow gold plated potato sprouts ring 3 x 6.8 x 4.4 cm; ring: 1 cm Unique
Pentozani
Sophia Vari Pentozani, 2022 White resin and yellow gold ring 3.5 x 7 cm Edition of 6 plus 2 AP Signed and numbered Make it Yours ♥ Pentozani, or Pentozalis, is a gravity-bending traditional dance from the Greek island of Crete, where traditional ways of life still hold strong in many areas of the island. The dance’s name is steeped in symbolism. Officially, it comes from the combination of the words five (penti) and step (zalos, Cretan dialect for step), therefore the dance can be translated as “five steps.” Additionally, the word zali can also stand for “dizziness,” indicating a dance that would make dancers dizzy ; it also symbolises the fifth zeal (that is, the step), that stands for the fifth attempt of the Greeks to liberate themselves from the Ottoman Turks. Abstraction is refined to the hummed mantra of “Beauty and Harmony” where bold geometric forms are accentuated by colour coming from unconventional mediums. They are sculptures that become wearable with the force of a poetic statement.New materials such as amaranth wood and resin appeared in front of her by surprise. For this exhibition, Vari was looking for something distinctive and by chance, when looking at the different colours of wood, she discovered […]