'Artists of the Month'......May 2022
'Voice' of this month on Lost In Jewellery Magazine is artist
Adriana Del Duca
Artist Adriana Del Duca
Adriana Del Duca, Italian-Venezuelan, was born in Caracas where she grew up in a flourishing cultural period. The metropolis offers her countless experiences in the artistic field that allow her to merge with an environment full of contemporary works and develop her interest above all for kinetic and optical art, of which Venezuelans are great precursors. After attending the degree course in Communication Sciences in Caracas, she moved to Italy and attended the Paolo Grassi theater school in Milan where, as she says, "she acquired the ability to indulge in creativity in an absolute and pure way"
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BIO & CV OF THE ARTIST
Bio - Adriana Del Duca
Adriana Del Duca, Italian-Venezuelan, was born in Caracas where she grew up in a flourishing cultural period. The metropolis offers her countless experiences in the artistic field that allow her to merge with an environment full of contemporary works and develop her interest above all for kinetic and optical art, of which Venezuelans are great precursors.
After attending the degree course in Communication Sciences in Caracas, she moved to Italy and attended the Paolo Grassi theater school in Milan where, as she says, "she acquired the ability to indulge in creativity in an absolute and pure way" .
In 1995 he moved to Naples where he dedicated himself to theater and writing and at the same time collaborated with a goldsmith company in which she absorbed the creative processes aimed at the production of non-traditional jewels. The growing admiration for jewelry design allows her to channel her creative potential in a definitive way in a single artistic path: contemporary jewelry.
In 2014 she founded Genos, a contemporary jewelry for which designs jewels that are the driving force between traditional proposals and new languages. With the Genesis, Gemme, Aquiloni and Where are you? Collections experiments with geometric and spatial concepts with the use of silver and bronze.
A real experimentation process begins in 2018 with Transparencia, a collection inspired by some concepts related to optical art. It is a collection made of plexiglass and metals such as steel, copper, bronze, silver and brass. Through the shiny surfaces of the metals, the reflections return the image of what is next like a mirror. Thanks to the transparency of the Plexiglass we see the repetition of the shapes thus creating a sequential, architectural scenography. The space left between the tiles, the movement of the wearer of the jewel and of the beholder contribute to further accentuate the concept of instability that "animates" the jewel as a whole.
Afterwards the Kinetic Paper collection exploits some of the aspects experimented with through the Transparencia technique, namely movement and space. This creative process starts from the choice of non-color, that is black and white, since it introduces the concepts of fullness and emptiness.
"My research currently focuses on the application of some principles of programmed art to jewelry design. With my recent works Transparencia and Kinetic Paper I try to offer a reading of reality from different points of view according to an encoding. I don't want to emulate the world, I would like to give it a rational interpretation through programming and calculation, through geometry. I am aware that these concepts, even if often considered cold, can awaken emotions " A.D.D.
EXHIBITIONS AND AWARDS
• Envision Arts ONYX, honorable mention 2018
• Award Redefinire il Gioiello 2018, Bijoux Museum of Casalmaggiore 2018.
• Contribution to the V International Scientific and Practical Conference «Innovative cultural and artistic aspects in the modern world» Kherson National Technical University, Ukraine 2018
• Artistar Jewel eExhibition, Milan, February 2018
• Dynamic Circuits - Wunderkammern Project exhibition, Milan, 27 May / 13 June 2019
• Rossini Gallery, exhibition, Milan 9 - 2 April 2019
• Galerie Caractère Neuchâtel – Switzerland, exhibition 23 March - 27 April 2019
• Lalabeyou Gallery contemporary jewelery, exhibition Madrid - Spain 30 May - 3 July 2019
• Context Gallery, exhibition San Cugat- Barcelona 2 - 31 October 2019
• Beeld & Aambeeld Gallery, Exhibition Enschede - Holland, 17 November - 28 December 2019
• Joya Barcelona - Disseny Hub - October 2019
• Venice Jewelry Week selection - 3 October - 3 November 2019
• AA Collected Gallery- Bacht Store exhibition - Vienna 12 September - 30 November 2019
• Collectiva Gallery - Portugal (May, June, July 2020) Collective Meeting Award 2019, third place.
• Porto Joya 2019 selection award
• Selection, Growth and Evolution, Shanghai International Exhibition 2020
• Selection, Athens Jewelry Week (temporarily suspended due to Covid19)
•Conference on Contemporary Jewelery between Art and Business, Department of Architecture and Industrial Design University L. Vanvitelli Naples
•Alliages Contemporary Art Jewelry – Collective exhibition Precious Places Lille, France Sep. – Dec. 2020
Adriana Del Duca, Italian-Venezuelan, was born in Caracas where she grew up in a flourishing cultural period. The metropolis offers her countless experiences in the artistic field that allow her to merge with an environment full of contemporary works and develop her interest above all for kinetic and optical art, of which Venezuelans are great precursors.
After attending the degree course in Communication Sciences in Caracas, she moved to Italy and attended the Paolo Grassi theater school in Milan where, as she says, "she acquired the ability to indulge in creativity in an absolute and pure way" .
In 1995 he moved to Naples where he dedicated himself to theater and writing and at the same time collaborated with a goldsmith company in which she absorbed the creative processes aimed at the production of non-traditional jewels. The growing admiration for jewelry design allows her to channel her creative potential in a definitive way in a single artistic path: contemporary jewelry.
In 2014 she founded Genos, a contemporary jewelry for which designs jewels that are the driving force between traditional proposals and new languages. With the Genesis, Gemme, Aquiloni and Where are you? Collections experiments with geometric and spatial concepts with the use of silver and bronze.
A real experimentation process begins in 2018 with Transparencia, a collection inspired by some concepts related to optical art. It is a collection made of plexiglass and metals such as steel, copper, bronze, silver and brass. Through the shiny surfaces of the metals, the reflections return the image of what is next like a mirror. Thanks to the transparency of the Plexiglass we see the repetition of the shapes thus creating a sequential, architectural scenography. The space left between the tiles, the movement of the wearer of the jewel and of the beholder contribute to further accentuate the concept of instability that "animates" the jewel as a whole.
Afterwards the Kinetic Paper collection exploits some of the aspects experimented with through the Transparencia technique, namely movement and space. This creative process starts from the choice of non-color, that is black and white, since it introduces the concepts of fullness and emptiness.
"My research currently focuses on the application of some principles of programmed art to jewelry design. With my recent works Transparencia and Kinetic Paper I try to offer a reading of reality from different points of view according to an encoding. I don't want to emulate the world, I would like to give it a rational interpretation through programming and calculation, through geometry. I am aware that these concepts, even if often considered cold, can awaken emotions " A.D.D.
EXHIBITIONS AND AWARDS
• Envision Arts ONYX, honorable mention 2018
• Award Redefinire il Gioiello 2018, Bijoux Museum of Casalmaggiore 2018.
• Contribution to the V International Scientific and Practical Conference «Innovative cultural and artistic aspects in the modern world» Kherson National Technical University, Ukraine 2018
• Artistar Jewel eExhibition, Milan, February 2018
• Dynamic Circuits - Wunderkammern Project exhibition, Milan, 27 May / 13 June 2019
• Rossini Gallery, exhibition, Milan 9 - 2 April 2019
• Galerie Caractère Neuchâtel – Switzerland, exhibition 23 March - 27 April 2019
• Lalabeyou Gallery contemporary jewelery, exhibition Madrid - Spain 30 May - 3 July 2019
• Context Gallery, exhibition San Cugat- Barcelona 2 - 31 October 2019
• Beeld & Aambeeld Gallery, Exhibition Enschede - Holland, 17 November - 28 December 2019
• Joya Barcelona - Disseny Hub - October 2019
• Venice Jewelry Week selection - 3 October - 3 November 2019
• AA Collected Gallery- Bacht Store exhibition - Vienna 12 September - 30 November 2019
• Collectiva Gallery - Portugal (May, June, July 2020) Collective Meeting Award 2019, third place.
• Porto Joya 2019 selection award
• Selection, Growth and Evolution, Shanghai International Exhibition 2020
• Selection, Athens Jewelry Week (temporarily suspended due to Covid19)
•Conference on Contemporary Jewelery between Art and Business, Department of Architecture and Industrial Design University L. Vanvitelli Naples
•Alliages Contemporary Art Jewelry – Collective exhibition Precious Places Lille, France Sep. – Dec. 2020
- Feel the frill exhibition – Collective exhibition Sep. – Dec. 2020
- Shape of Nature International Exhibition Beijin, 2021
- Collectiva Meeting International Exhibition Porto, 2021
- Adornaxis – NY jewellery week – November 2021
Green Modular Ring in steel and plexiglass
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Fluorescent Blue Modular Ring in steel and green plexiglass
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Fiat 2000 Necklace
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KINETIC PAPER collection
"This series of jewels exploits some of the aspects experimented through the Transparencia technique, that is, both movement and space. The fundamental assembly method allows to perceive what is constant, steady, on mutable surfaces, that is in movement.
This creative process starts from the adoption of non-color, black and / or white but recently I begin to introduce the colour. It’s also a study about empty and full spaces. Another aspect that emerges from this research is the programming of its design. It is one of the principles that has characterized optical art, or programmed art."
Adriana Del Duca
"This series of jewels exploits some of the aspects experimented through the Transparencia technique, that is, both movement and space. The fundamental assembly method allows to perceive what is constant, steady, on mutable surfaces, that is in movement.
This creative process starts from the adoption of non-color, black and / or white but recently I begin to introduce the colour. It’s also a study about empty and full spaces. Another aspect that emerges from this research is the programming of its design. It is one of the principles that has characterized optical art, or programmed art."
Adriana Del Duca
Ovo Necklace
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Ovo Necklace
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Artist Adriana Del Duca
TRANSPARENCIA - shape in constant movement
"Transparencia is a collection that moves from research into the behavior of the characteristic forms of the materials used. The line is made of Plexiglas and metals such as steel, copper, bronze, silver and brass. The creations are inspired by some concepts related to opart and kinetic art as the set of assembled forms is offered in countless versions depending on how you look at it. Through the shiny surfaces of metals, the effects reflect the image of what is next, like a mirror, creating a further tangible volume only with the eye. The transparency of the Plexiglas allows to glimpse the reverberation of the shapes side by side and characterized by a perimeter not always "reassuring" or recognizable, but rather shapes whose paths change direction in an incisive way. It is also thanks to these accents that a sequential set-up is created, giving once again the vision of a volume that can be approached thanks to the look rather than the touch. The movement factor helps to further accentuate the concept of instability in the overall shape of the jewel. A double effect arises because the movement is given not only by the wearer but also by the observer. In this way, it gives a value of inconstancy to the forms, therefore bodies in constant change."
Adriana Del Duca
"Transparencia is a collection that moves from research into the behavior of the characteristic forms of the materials used. The line is made of Plexiglas and metals such as steel, copper, bronze, silver and brass. The creations are inspired by some concepts related to opart and kinetic art as the set of assembled forms is offered in countless versions depending on how you look at it. Through the shiny surfaces of metals, the effects reflect the image of what is next, like a mirror, creating a further tangible volume only with the eye. The transparency of the Plexiglas allows to glimpse the reverberation of the shapes side by side and characterized by a perimeter not always "reassuring" or recognizable, but rather shapes whose paths change direction in an incisive way. It is also thanks to these accents that a sequential set-up is created, giving once again the vision of a volume that can be approached thanks to the look rather than the touch. The movement factor helps to further accentuate the concept of instability in the overall shape of the jewel. A double effect arises because the movement is given not only by the wearer but also by the observer. In this way, it gives a value of inconstancy to the forms, therefore bodies in constant change."
Adriana Del Duca
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Artist Adriana Del Duca
Sunshine Brooch
Artist Adriana Del Duca
Interview to Adriana del Duca
Brief interview with the Artist
- Where is your inspiration coming from ? My inspiration has a sensorial nature. It comes from my life experience of which the visual experience is a fundamental part as I grew up in a country - Venezuela - with a strong artistic ferment of great international importance. But emotions and thoughts are also part of my experience, which I try to translate into concrete works through the development of a new and personal language that mainly exploits the concepts of geometry and movement.
- What are you trying to communicate with your Artwork ? With my works I try to communicate that there is no single point of view on things, which is why the resources of optical art are a fundamental aspect of my research. My works call for a greater participation of the observer, an amplified participation that is sometimes unconscious. It is always fascinating to discover through movement that an object can apparently generate other forms. At the basis of this principle I place instability, inconstancy or anything that does not have a single reading, a single perception.
- Which material do you prefer to use and why ? The materials are closely related to my project so they can be of any type.
- How much value do you give to researching material for your creations ? I value a lot because their choice is functional to my idea and I admit that they are sometimes very difficult to find, but this is part of the creative processes of an artist. The creation of one's own materials is a completely admirable aspect but unfortunately not always possible so I sometimes find myself falling back on alternative materials that are equally suitable for the project. For the choice of materials I listen to the needs of the project, that is, for the concept of transparency I chose plexiglass (also colored), for the concept of empty-full space the pressed cardboard, for the reflections I used the steel but also mirrored plexiglass and so on. Sometimes the materials surprise you because they behave unexpectedly and intuition almost always turns out to be right.
- Is it more important for you the process, or the final Artwork itself ? The process is important because it allows you to make corrections to the initial project. I feel very enthusiastic and involved during the process, unfortunately when the work reaches its completion I tend to detach myself from it, as if an abandonment happened, but a mutual abandonment. And immediately afterwards it begins to rise from that sediment, the memory of my experience, new inspiration for other projects.
- Is there an Artist you prefer & admire and why ? There are several artists that I admire, I cannot name them all otherwise I would run into the temptation to dwell a lot on them. But I can say that what I admire most in an artist when he creates a jewel is the combination of two aspects: the degree of difficulty in the technique used and the novelty of the language.
- Have you ever thought to collaborate with other Artists, or do you like to work on your own ? Well, if it were possible to find a form of symbiosis where everyone can "use" the other, then it would be interesting to work with 4 or more hands. I believe that this type of collaboration requires a huge sense of balance dictated by a strong motivation to work together. For now I think I'll still be working alone.
- Where do you feel you are at with your last Art collection ? I always feel like I'm at square one. My research is a daily state that does not end once a result is achieved. Walk and evolve.
- What have you discovered about yourself as an Artist along the years ? Before even creating jewels I was an actress of experimental theater. I had already learned that art is a condition of total freedom, a territory in which nothing can be a limit. Making the invisible concrete is an act of magic. Creating is an act of magic that protects us from the materiality of life. Creating is an act of total evasion, of transformation, of salvation.
- Two words to describe your last Artwork collection. In my latest Infinites Homes collection, everything contributes to expressing the sensations and feelings experienced in the last 2 or 3 years. It is a work that, as in the previous ones, exploits geometry and their applications. Perhaps it is a work of transition between the previous language towards a more narrative project. We'll see.
