PREZIOSA is the most important Italian exhibition dedicated to contemporary jewellery', a project launched in 2005 by Giò Carbone for Le Arti Orafe jewellery School. PREZIOSA can be considered as an explorative path always in motion. As part of the PREZIOSA project, since 2008, LAO has organised the collateral exhibition "PREZIOSA YOUNG", dedicated to emerging artists selected through an international competition. The aim is to contribute to the circulation of the novelties of research jewellery, as well as to show what the new generations of goldsmiths/designers/artists are "churning out".
An international jury composed of curators, artists and critics selects a small number of young artists from all those who have submitted their applications.
The Winners of PREZIOSA YOUNG 2021
We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2021 edition of Preziosa Young: XINIA GUAN and ZHIPENG WANG from China, ANNE LAHN HORNBÆK HANSEN from Denmark, PILYNN SIRIPHANICH from Thailand, and CHARLOTTE VANHOUBROECK
from Belgium.
The international jury that made the selection was this year composed by: the art historian Alice Rendon; the jewelry historian Maria Laura La Mantia; the curator of Galerie Door in the Netherlands, Doreen Timmers Pijnenburg; the founder of Lost in Jewellery Magazine & MydayByday Gallery in Rome, Laura Helena Aureli; the Chinese goldsmith artist Qiana Wang, former winner of the 2017 PY edition; the artists Lauren Kalman and Conversation Piece (Beatrice Brovia & Nicolas Cheng),
invited to the Florence Jewellery Week 2022.
During this event, curated by Le Arti Orafe, which will take place in several prestigious venues in the center of Florence from April 28 to May 2, an exhibition of the PY winners will be hosted by the Galleria del Palazzo Coveri, accompanied by a high-quality catalog.
Therefore, FJW 2022 will be the first stop of a traveling exhibition, that will reach different places in the world: Padua, at Oratorio San Rocco; the Netherlands, at Galerie Door; Shanghai, in collaboration with the association of artists MODA; Poland, at Legnica Silver Festival; Barcelona, at Hannah Gallery, by Klimt02.
In addition, a selection of pieces will be premiered at the Inhorgenta jewelry fair in Munich, during which one of the winners will awarded a free exhibition space for the following year's edition of the fair. Moreover, the winners will compete for another great opportunity: a three-month stay as 'artist in residence' at the school's laboratories, to deepen the knowledge of goldsmithing techniques and work on a new jewelry collection.
As every year since 2008, the requirements to win the competition are quality of design and making, experimental and contemporary use of materials, conceptual and technical innovation. The selection, carried out in total transparency - since the jurors do not know the participants’ names, nor their country of origin or their education - makes Preziosa Young competition a reliable and internationally recognized event, which captures and promotes the spirit and the new issues of contemporary jewelry.
Now let’s introduce the winning projects by these emerging artists, who stood out among a large group of applicants:
XINIA GUAN
Xinia Guan's work, as she states, is "rooted in process."
Concentration and patience transform technical expertise into meditative practice. Her silver creations speak of a 'slow time', which allows her to delve into the geometry of shapes and patterns observed in nature. Rhythm, repetition, unity, and contrasts are the elements on which her goldsmith research is based, with the aim of giving material concreteness to the incessant flow of existence. The metal is sawn by hand, the dust diligently collected and converted into a new piece, metaphorically representing the hours spent at the goldsmith's bench and declaring a certain sensitivity towards the problem of waste in the profession. Thus, laser welding, preferred to traditional welding, allows her to decide for a more environmentally sustainable technology.
ANNE LAHN HORNBÆK HANSEN
Fascinated by the cloisonné enamel technique during an exchange experience at the Glasgow School Of Art in 2017, Danish artist ANNE LAHN HORNBÆK HANSEN decided to retrace the ancient process to translate into color her joyful illustrations that celebrate the female body in all its differences and imperfections. The criticism made in the series FEMME AND FAB is to the falsified world of filters, plasticized and glossy social media, that offers a single model to which young women end up referring to. These naked busts, to be worn as brooches, embody instead the most exuberant and proud spirit of the 'body positive' movement, proudly showing themselves hairy, flabby, decadent, and in all their precious and authentic variety.
PILYNN SIRIPHANICH
The innovative material used by Thai PILYNN SIRIPHANICH is called 'Agricultural Waste Composite' and is the outcome of Onuma Wichaikul's doctoral research, Jewellery: The Thread of Self-Sufficiency (2020), focused on the creation of an alternative and sustainable material to be used in jewelry making. That is a compound inspired by the transparency and lightness of the plastic bag, but made using natural fibers. It has involved a path punctuated with trial and error for the researcher. This series of failures - the leftovers - have become the main material of the collection, obeying the logic of upcycling, namely the creative recovery of waste. In doing so, the artist created jewels by folding the thin sheets into three-dimensional, light, and voluminous shapes.
ZHIPENG WANG
The Chinese artist ZHIPENG WANG addresses the question of the identity in jewels, as objects that symbolize specific cultural traditions and as a declaration of belonging to a certain social class. The artist wonders how these values can survive today, in a globalized world where cultural singularities collide and mix together. These signet rings are made of tea and coffee, used as allegorical representatives of Eastern and Western cultures, respectively. Just as the typology of the signet - no longer synonymous with luxury and prestige - the ritual of these drinks also has its origins in the tradition of nobility, now absorbed
into the ordinariness of everyday life.
CHARLOTTE VANHOUBROECK
CHARLOTTE VANHOUBROECK, art historian and goldsmith, as part of her PhD at the PKL-MAD School of Arts in Hasselt, wanted to bring to light the character of Louise-Marie d'Orleans through the study of her inventory, which records the existence of more than a hundred jewels belonged to her. The Stilled Sentiments collection allows not only to retrace and reread an important female figure such as the first queen of Belgium, but also to reveal a whole emotional world of memories and secrets hidden behind these jewels, which contain miniature portraits, locks of hair, and engraved messages. Those pieces, reinterpreted and filtered by the sensitivity of the artist, give life to a collection that tells the spirit of a new time.
We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2021 edition of Preziosa Young: XINIA GUAN and ZHIPENG WANG from China, ANNE LAHN HORNBÆK HANSEN from Denmark, PILYNN SIRIPHANICH from Thailand, and CHARLOTTE VANHOUBROECK
from Belgium.
The international jury that made the selection was this year composed by: the art historian Alice Rendon; the jewelry historian Maria Laura La Mantia; the curator of Galerie Door in the Netherlands, Doreen Timmers Pijnenburg; the founder of Lost in Jewellery Magazine & MydayByday Gallery in Rome, Laura Helena Aureli; the Chinese goldsmith artist Qiana Wang, former winner of the 2017 PY edition; the artists Lauren Kalman and Conversation Piece (Beatrice Brovia & Nicolas Cheng),
invited to the Florence Jewellery Week 2022.
During this event, curated by Le Arti Orafe, which will take place in several prestigious venues in the center of Florence from April 28 to May 2, an exhibition of the PY winners will be hosted by the Galleria del Palazzo Coveri, accompanied by a high-quality catalog.
Therefore, FJW 2022 will be the first stop of a traveling exhibition, that will reach different places in the world: Padua, at Oratorio San Rocco; the Netherlands, at Galerie Door; Shanghai, in collaboration with the association of artists MODA; Poland, at Legnica Silver Festival; Barcelona, at Hannah Gallery, by Klimt02.
In addition, a selection of pieces will be premiered at the Inhorgenta jewelry fair in Munich, during which one of the winners will awarded a free exhibition space for the following year's edition of the fair. Moreover, the winners will compete for another great opportunity: a three-month stay as 'artist in residence' at the school's laboratories, to deepen the knowledge of goldsmithing techniques and work on a new jewelry collection.
As every year since 2008, the requirements to win the competition are quality of design and making, experimental and contemporary use of materials, conceptual and technical innovation. The selection, carried out in total transparency - since the jurors do not know the participants’ names, nor their country of origin or their education - makes Preziosa Young competition a reliable and internationally recognized event, which captures and promotes the spirit and the new issues of contemporary jewelry.
Now let’s introduce the winning projects by these emerging artists, who stood out among a large group of applicants:
XINIA GUAN
Xinia Guan's work, as she states, is "rooted in process."
Concentration and patience transform technical expertise into meditative practice. Her silver creations speak of a 'slow time', which allows her to delve into the geometry of shapes and patterns observed in nature. Rhythm, repetition, unity, and contrasts are the elements on which her goldsmith research is based, with the aim of giving material concreteness to the incessant flow of existence. The metal is sawn by hand, the dust diligently collected and converted into a new piece, metaphorically representing the hours spent at the goldsmith's bench and declaring a certain sensitivity towards the problem of waste in the profession. Thus, laser welding, preferred to traditional welding, allows her to decide for a more environmentally sustainable technology.
ANNE LAHN HORNBÆK HANSEN
Fascinated by the cloisonné enamel technique during an exchange experience at the Glasgow School Of Art in 2017, Danish artist ANNE LAHN HORNBÆK HANSEN decided to retrace the ancient process to translate into color her joyful illustrations that celebrate the female body in all its differences and imperfections. The criticism made in the series FEMME AND FAB is to the falsified world of filters, plasticized and glossy social media, that offers a single model to which young women end up referring to. These naked busts, to be worn as brooches, embody instead the most exuberant and proud spirit of the 'body positive' movement, proudly showing themselves hairy, flabby, decadent, and in all their precious and authentic variety.
PILYNN SIRIPHANICH
The innovative material used by Thai PILYNN SIRIPHANICH is called 'Agricultural Waste Composite' and is the outcome of Onuma Wichaikul's doctoral research, Jewellery: The Thread of Self-Sufficiency (2020), focused on the creation of an alternative and sustainable material to be used in jewelry making. That is a compound inspired by the transparency and lightness of the plastic bag, but made using natural fibers. It has involved a path punctuated with trial and error for the researcher. This series of failures - the leftovers - have become the main material of the collection, obeying the logic of upcycling, namely the creative recovery of waste. In doing so, the artist created jewels by folding the thin sheets into three-dimensional, light, and voluminous shapes.
ZHIPENG WANG
The Chinese artist ZHIPENG WANG addresses the question of the identity in jewels, as objects that symbolize specific cultural traditions and as a declaration of belonging to a certain social class. The artist wonders how these values can survive today, in a globalized world where cultural singularities collide and mix together. These signet rings are made of tea and coffee, used as allegorical representatives of Eastern and Western cultures, respectively. Just as the typology of the signet - no longer synonymous with luxury and prestige - the ritual of these drinks also has its origins in the tradition of nobility, now absorbed
into the ordinariness of everyday life.
CHARLOTTE VANHOUBROECK
CHARLOTTE VANHOUBROECK, art historian and goldsmith, as part of her PhD at the PKL-MAD School of Arts in Hasselt, wanted to bring to light the character of Louise-Marie d'Orleans through the study of her inventory, which records the existence of more than a hundred jewels belonged to her. The Stilled Sentiments collection allows not only to retrace and reread an important female figure such as the first queen of Belgium, but also to reveal a whole emotional world of memories and secrets hidden behind these jewels, which contain miniature portraits, locks of hair, and engraved messages. Those pieces, reinterpreted and filtered by the sensitivity of the artist, give life to a collection that tells the spirit of a new time.
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Selected artists 2008-2019
Sally Collins, Eva Franceschini, Sina Emrich, Fuchi Arata, Daniela Hedman, Mirjam Hiller, Vaishali Ashok Morjaria,
Kathryn Partington, Claudia Rinneberg, Sonja Christine Seidl, Julia Walter, Daniel Di Caprio, Estela Vilanova Saez,
Lisa Grassivaro, Nora Rochel, Pia Pasalk, Sharon Massey, Taisuke Nakada, Tamsin Leighton-Boyce, Melissa
Cameron, Eve Cheryl, Yoshie Enda, Adam Grinovich, Monica Haneckova, Erin Keys, Sooyeon Kim, Sachiko
Shouji, Sam Hamilton, Hanna Hedman, Lisa Juen, Heejoo Kim, Seul-Gi Kwon, Marie Pendariès, Elena Ruebel,
Wan Hee Cho, Rob Elford, Benedikt Fischer, Panjapol Kulpapangkorn, Chiara Scarpitti, Antje Stolz, Lauren
Vanessa Tickle, Sang Deok Han, Jie Sun, Tithi Kutchamuch, Seoyeon Lee, Fang Jin Yeh, Qian Wang, Shachar Cohen,
Xiaodai Huang, Yajie Hu, Koen Jacobs, Jongseok Lim.
Members of the juries for the 2008-2019 editions
Giampaolo Babetto (jewellery artist), Maria Cristina Bergesio (art historian and critic), Shreedevi Deshpande Puri
(Jewellery consultant), Pilar Garrigosa (gallery owner), Charon Kransen (gallery owner and critic), Stefano Marchetti
(jewellery artist), Katja Prins (jewellery artist), Barbara Schmidt (Jewellery designer, jewellery consultant, School
director), Petra Hölscher (senior curator Die Neue Sammlung, Munich, Germany), Wolfang Lösche (editor), Vera
Siemund (jewellery artist), Oliviero Toscani (Photographer), Christel Trinborn (journalist), Petra Marin (publisher),
Michèle Heuzé (art critic), Slawomir Fijalkowski (artist and gallery owner), Graziano Visintin (jewellery artist), Olga
Zobel-Biro (gallery owner), Robert Baines (jewellery artist), Maurizio Stagni (jewellery artist), Mari Ishikawa (jewellery
artist), Johanna Dahm (jewellery artist), Evert Nijland (jewellery artist), Helen Britton (jewellery artist), Angelika
Wildegger (management team Inhorgenta Fair), Dora Liscia Bemporad (teacher, art historian), Inger Wästberg (art critic
and historian, curator), Martina Dempf (anthropologist, goldsmith artist and gallerist), Antonella Villanova (gallery
owner), Francesca Mercanti (blogger), Tasso Mattar (artist and curator); Maria Rosa Franzin (artist and teacher);
Robert Mazlo (artist and gallerist); Irene Belfi (gallerist).
www.preziosa.org
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClZX4GZQu8lJaUt7_gSVclQ/videos
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqK1-s-Ihz42ZDgyxoWZwMw/video
Sally Collins, Eva Franceschini, Sina Emrich, Fuchi Arata, Daniela Hedman, Mirjam Hiller, Vaishali Ashok Morjaria,
Kathryn Partington, Claudia Rinneberg, Sonja Christine Seidl, Julia Walter, Daniel Di Caprio, Estela Vilanova Saez,
Lisa Grassivaro, Nora Rochel, Pia Pasalk, Sharon Massey, Taisuke Nakada, Tamsin Leighton-Boyce, Melissa
Cameron, Eve Cheryl, Yoshie Enda, Adam Grinovich, Monica Haneckova, Erin Keys, Sooyeon Kim, Sachiko
Shouji, Sam Hamilton, Hanna Hedman, Lisa Juen, Heejoo Kim, Seul-Gi Kwon, Marie Pendariès, Elena Ruebel,
Wan Hee Cho, Rob Elford, Benedikt Fischer, Panjapol Kulpapangkorn, Chiara Scarpitti, Antje Stolz, Lauren
Vanessa Tickle, Sang Deok Han, Jie Sun, Tithi Kutchamuch, Seoyeon Lee, Fang Jin Yeh, Qian Wang, Shachar Cohen,
Xiaodai Huang, Yajie Hu, Koen Jacobs, Jongseok Lim.
Members of the juries for the 2008-2019 editions
Giampaolo Babetto (jewellery artist), Maria Cristina Bergesio (art historian and critic), Shreedevi Deshpande Puri
(Jewellery consultant), Pilar Garrigosa (gallery owner), Charon Kransen (gallery owner and critic), Stefano Marchetti
(jewellery artist), Katja Prins (jewellery artist), Barbara Schmidt (Jewellery designer, jewellery consultant, School
director), Petra Hölscher (senior curator Die Neue Sammlung, Munich, Germany), Wolfang Lösche (editor), Vera
Siemund (jewellery artist), Oliviero Toscani (Photographer), Christel Trinborn (journalist), Petra Marin (publisher),
Michèle Heuzé (art critic), Slawomir Fijalkowski (artist and gallery owner), Graziano Visintin (jewellery artist), Olga
Zobel-Biro (gallery owner), Robert Baines (jewellery artist), Maurizio Stagni (jewellery artist), Mari Ishikawa (jewellery
artist), Johanna Dahm (jewellery artist), Evert Nijland (jewellery artist), Helen Britton (jewellery artist), Angelika
Wildegger (management team Inhorgenta Fair), Dora Liscia Bemporad (teacher, art historian), Inger Wästberg (art critic
and historian, curator), Martina Dempf (anthropologist, goldsmith artist and gallerist), Antonella Villanova (gallery
owner), Francesca Mercanti (blogger), Tasso Mattar (artist and curator); Maria Rosa Franzin (artist and teacher);
Robert Mazlo (artist and gallerist); Irene Belfi (gallerist).
www.preziosa.org
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClZX4GZQu8lJaUt7_gSVclQ/videos
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqK1-s-Ihz42ZDgyxoWZwMw/video
lao jewellery school & FLORENCE JEWELLERY WEEK
Premise
A short presentation of the PREZIOSA/Florence Jewellery Week project
LAO has always invested a lot of energy and resources in the promotion and dissemination of jewellery culture,
organising many events, meetings, exhibitions and seminars, in parallel with the many educational activities carried
out since 1985.
LAO's initiatives in the field of research jewellery have made a decisive contribution to bridging the
enormous gap that existed in Italy compared to many other European countries.
The LAO gallery in Florence
From 2004 to 2007 LAO has managed in Florence the first gallery dedicated to contemporary jewellery.
Here below a short list of the most important exhibitions, while other exhibitions were reserved for student graduates at
LAO.
2004
Giovanni Corvaja and Jacqueline Ryan
Carla Riccoboni and Officina del Gioiello
2005
De Rebus Naturae.
The theme of nature expressed through the jewels of six European artists-goldsmiths: Xavier Monclús, Susanne Klemm, Ralph
Stautner, Terhi Tolvanen, Barbara Uderzo, Felieke Van Der Leest.
Catalogue curated by Maria Cristina Bergesio.
Chroma. Jewels from six European jewellery schools.
Transformations. Jewels and sculptures by Helfried Kodrè. Catalogue.
In the Mood of the Rings. “Monatsringe+Tagesformen” project by German artist and design/manager Barbara Schmidt.
2006
Janna Syvänoja solo exhibition. Catalogue curated by Maria Cristina Bergesio.
Harmonic Clashes in Research Jewelry.
Giampaolo Babetto, Diana Dudek, Maria Rosa Franzin, Helen Britton, Karl Fritsch.
Catalogue curated by Maria Cristina Bergesio.
Nel Linssen solo exhibition.
Catalogue curated by Maria Cristina Bergesio.
Andrea Mizzau – Hermetic Amalgams
2007
Annamaria Zanella. The Jewel as a poetic construction. Solo exhibition
In January 2007, LAO organized Giampaolo Babetto’s retrospective at Silver Museum, in Pitti Palace (Florence).
PREZIOSA History /explan. Jul 2021
The PREZIOSA project
PREZIOSA is a cultural project, a biennial exhibition/meeting dedicated to the world of jewellery and to contemporary jewellery research. The project, imagined, managed and coordinated by Giò Carbone and supported by LAO - Le Arti Orafe Jewellery School in Florence, started in 2005, and has quickly become one of the worldwide most important events devoted to contemporary jewellery, exported with great success abroad. PREZIOSA can be considered as an explorative path always in motion, the most important Italian exhibition dedicated to contemporary jewellery.
PREZIOSA ISSUES
From 2005 until 2013 the event was conceived as a collective exhibition: every year the artistic
approach to the complex subject of contemporary jewellery research was explored through a specific
concept and with the selection of artists from the international scene. Each edition was presented in
important venues and some exhibitions were exported abroad. Prestigious catalogues were published
every year for the main exhibitions.
Since 2015, the formula has been radically changed in favour of a synergistic event, where artists and
visitors can meet, and where the focus continues to be on contemporary research, but at the same time
many other aspects of the world of jewellery are explored.
The aim of Florence Jewellery Week is to contribute to reactivating the dialogue
between artistic research, traditional craftsmanship and design.
This objective is pursued through the organisation of a week of small solo or collective exhibitions by
artists and craftsmen, days of conferences on various themes related to jewellery, with the activation of
workshops, and with the invitation and extended hospitality to numerous artists, curators, critics,
craftsmen from different countries, in order to create opportunities for debate and mutual understanding.
PREZIOSA 2005 A new concept of preciousness. Material, source of creative inspiration.
Lucca, June, 2005
Artists Peter Chang, Giovanni Corvaja, Nel Linssen, Kadri Mälk, Xavier Monclús, Erico Nagai Francesco Pavan,
Jacqueline Ryan, Peter Skubic, Janna Syvänoja, Annamaria Zanella.
PREZIOSA 2006 No Body Decoration
Lucca, September-October, 2006
Artists Friedrich Becker, Bruno Martinazzi, Gerd Rothmann, Gijs Bakker, Christoph Zellweger,
Frédéric Braham, Ruudt Peters, Naomi Filmer, David Watkins, Marjorie Schick, Naom Ben–Jacov.
PREZIOSA 2007-08Timetales, Jewellery as a representation of reflections on Time.
Barcelona, Museo Textìl, November 2007-January 2008
Lucca, April- May, 2008.
Artists Giampaolo Babetto, Vera Siemund, Stefano Marchetti, Ramón Puig Cuyàs, Mari Ishikawa,
Eija Mustonen, Jivan Astfalck, Mah Rana, Katja Prins, Tanel Veenre, Ted Noten.
PREZIOSA 2009 Cutting the mirror. An aesthetic lexicon
New Delhi, April 2009
Lucca, May 2009
Artists Mario Pinton, Yasuki Hiramatsu, Graziano Visintin, Robert Baines, Georg W. Dobler, Annelies Planteijdt,
Karl Fritsch, Svenja John, David Bielander, Lisa Walker, Sally Marsland, Sebastian Buescher
PREZIOSA 2010 Dialoghi/Dialogs
Florence, Leopoldine old Cloister, 21st of May-20th of June, 2010
Artists “Couples” Giampaolo Babetto/Helen Britton
Johamma Dahm/Andi Gut
Ruudt Peters/Evert Nijland
PREZIOSA 2011 Monologue. Parellel worlds. Personal retrospective of Mari Ishikawa
Florence, “La Specola” Museum, 5th to 23rd of October, 2011.
PREZIOSA 2013 Un Certain Regard
Florence, Marino Marini Contemporary Art Museum.
20th of June – 21st of July, 2013
Artists David Bielander, Sigurd Bronger, Sophie Hanagarth, Suska Mackert, Philip Sajet, Karin Seufert
PREZIOSA History /explan. Jul 2021
FJW Florence Jewellery Week
FJW 2015 - 28th of May- 3rd of June, 2015
Artists, Workshops, Jewellery presentation
Philip Sajet, Xavier Monclús, Mimì Moscow, Nora Fok, Bifei Cao, Wang Zhenghong,
Wang Kezhen, Sang Deok Han, Jie Sun, Tithi Kutchamuch, Seoyeon Lee, Daniela Hedman
Special sections The magical of India. Public demonstration of Indian craftspeople. The project had been supported by
the India-based company Ganjam & Son, Bangalore
Traditional Jewellery from Africa. An exhibition of traditional and ceremonial jewellery objects fron East
Africa, by Martina Dempf
Lectures Shannon Guo, Associate Professor, Jewelry and Metals Studio, Fine Arts College of Shanghai
University and Artistic Director Two Cities Gallery, Shanghai.
Martina Dempf, Jewellery Designer and Social Anthropologist, Berlin.
Barbara Schmidt, Jewellery Designer, director of the Akademie für Gestaltung, Munich.
Shruti Agrawal, Gunjan Shruti Jewellery, Mumbai.
Gabriele Goretti, Istituto Europeo per il Design, Firenze
FJW 2017 24-28th of May, 2017
Artists, Workshops, Jewellery presentation
Solo exhibitions Robert Baines, Tasso Mattar, Arata Fuchi, Sibylle Umlauf, Danni Schwaag
Group exhibition
Jwahr, New Iranian & Persian Jewelry.
A group of young Iranian artists by Aria Gallery in Teheran, Curated by Kevin Murray
Contemporary Swedish Silver, New approaches to an enduring tradition,
Curated by Inger Wästberg
Preziosa Young Contest. Group exhibition, PY2017 winners
Conferences Inger Wästberg, Sweden
Martina Dempf, Germany
Kevin Murray, Australia;
Roberta Bernabei, Italy/GB
Robert Baines, Australia
David Loepp, USA/Italy
Maria Laura La Mantia, Italy
Maria Cristina Bergesio, Italy
Shruti Agrawal, Italy/India
Tasso Mattar, Spain/Germany
Closing speech: Petra Hölscher, Curator of Die Neue Sammlung. The Design Museum at
Pinakothek der Moderne. München, Germany
A short presentation of the PREZIOSA/Florence Jewellery Week project
LAO has always invested a lot of energy and resources in the promotion and dissemination of jewellery culture,
organising many events, meetings, exhibitions and seminars, in parallel with the many educational activities carried
out since 1985.
LAO's initiatives in the field of research jewellery have made a decisive contribution to bridging the
enormous gap that existed in Italy compared to many other European countries.
The LAO gallery in Florence
From 2004 to 2007 LAO has managed in Florence the first gallery dedicated to contemporary jewellery.
Here below a short list of the most important exhibitions, while other exhibitions were reserved for student graduates at
LAO.
2004
Giovanni Corvaja and Jacqueline Ryan
Carla Riccoboni and Officina del Gioiello
2005
De Rebus Naturae.
The theme of nature expressed through the jewels of six European artists-goldsmiths: Xavier Monclús, Susanne Klemm, Ralph
Stautner, Terhi Tolvanen, Barbara Uderzo, Felieke Van Der Leest.
Catalogue curated by Maria Cristina Bergesio.
Chroma. Jewels from six European jewellery schools.
Transformations. Jewels and sculptures by Helfried Kodrè. Catalogue.
In the Mood of the Rings. “Monatsringe+Tagesformen” project by German artist and design/manager Barbara Schmidt.
2006
Janna Syvänoja solo exhibition. Catalogue curated by Maria Cristina Bergesio.
Harmonic Clashes in Research Jewelry.
Giampaolo Babetto, Diana Dudek, Maria Rosa Franzin, Helen Britton, Karl Fritsch.
Catalogue curated by Maria Cristina Bergesio.
Nel Linssen solo exhibition.
Catalogue curated by Maria Cristina Bergesio.
Andrea Mizzau – Hermetic Amalgams
2007
Annamaria Zanella. The Jewel as a poetic construction. Solo exhibition
In January 2007, LAO organized Giampaolo Babetto’s retrospective at Silver Museum, in Pitti Palace (Florence).
PREZIOSA History /explan. Jul 2021
The PREZIOSA project
PREZIOSA is a cultural project, a biennial exhibition/meeting dedicated to the world of jewellery and to contemporary jewellery research. The project, imagined, managed and coordinated by Giò Carbone and supported by LAO - Le Arti Orafe Jewellery School in Florence, started in 2005, and has quickly become one of the worldwide most important events devoted to contemporary jewellery, exported with great success abroad. PREZIOSA can be considered as an explorative path always in motion, the most important Italian exhibition dedicated to contemporary jewellery.
PREZIOSA ISSUES
From 2005 until 2013 the event was conceived as a collective exhibition: every year the artistic
approach to the complex subject of contemporary jewellery research was explored through a specific
concept and with the selection of artists from the international scene. Each edition was presented in
important venues and some exhibitions were exported abroad. Prestigious catalogues were published
every year for the main exhibitions.
Since 2015, the formula has been radically changed in favour of a synergistic event, where artists and
visitors can meet, and where the focus continues to be on contemporary research, but at the same time
many other aspects of the world of jewellery are explored.
The aim of Florence Jewellery Week is to contribute to reactivating the dialogue
between artistic research, traditional craftsmanship and design.
This objective is pursued through the organisation of a week of small solo or collective exhibitions by
artists and craftsmen, days of conferences on various themes related to jewellery, with the activation of
workshops, and with the invitation and extended hospitality to numerous artists, curators, critics,
craftsmen from different countries, in order to create opportunities for debate and mutual understanding.
PREZIOSA 2005 A new concept of preciousness. Material, source of creative inspiration.
Lucca, June, 2005
Artists Peter Chang, Giovanni Corvaja, Nel Linssen, Kadri Mälk, Xavier Monclús, Erico Nagai Francesco Pavan,
Jacqueline Ryan, Peter Skubic, Janna Syvänoja, Annamaria Zanella.
PREZIOSA 2006 No Body Decoration
Lucca, September-October, 2006
Artists Friedrich Becker, Bruno Martinazzi, Gerd Rothmann, Gijs Bakker, Christoph Zellweger,
Frédéric Braham, Ruudt Peters, Naomi Filmer, David Watkins, Marjorie Schick, Naom Ben–Jacov.
PREZIOSA 2007-08Timetales, Jewellery as a representation of reflections on Time.
Barcelona, Museo Textìl, November 2007-January 2008
Lucca, April- May, 2008.
Artists Giampaolo Babetto, Vera Siemund, Stefano Marchetti, Ramón Puig Cuyàs, Mari Ishikawa,
Eija Mustonen, Jivan Astfalck, Mah Rana, Katja Prins, Tanel Veenre, Ted Noten.
PREZIOSA 2009 Cutting the mirror. An aesthetic lexicon
New Delhi, April 2009
Lucca, May 2009
Artists Mario Pinton, Yasuki Hiramatsu, Graziano Visintin, Robert Baines, Georg W. Dobler, Annelies Planteijdt,
Karl Fritsch, Svenja John, David Bielander, Lisa Walker, Sally Marsland, Sebastian Buescher
PREZIOSA 2010 Dialoghi/Dialogs
Florence, Leopoldine old Cloister, 21st of May-20th of June, 2010
Artists “Couples” Giampaolo Babetto/Helen Britton
Johamma Dahm/Andi Gut
Ruudt Peters/Evert Nijland
PREZIOSA 2011 Monologue. Parellel worlds. Personal retrospective of Mari Ishikawa
Florence, “La Specola” Museum, 5th to 23rd of October, 2011.
PREZIOSA 2013 Un Certain Regard
Florence, Marino Marini Contemporary Art Museum.
20th of June – 21st of July, 2013
Artists David Bielander, Sigurd Bronger, Sophie Hanagarth, Suska Mackert, Philip Sajet, Karin Seufert
PREZIOSA History /explan. Jul 2021
FJW Florence Jewellery Week
FJW 2015 - 28th of May- 3rd of June, 2015
Artists, Workshops, Jewellery presentation
Philip Sajet, Xavier Monclús, Mimì Moscow, Nora Fok, Bifei Cao, Wang Zhenghong,
Wang Kezhen, Sang Deok Han, Jie Sun, Tithi Kutchamuch, Seoyeon Lee, Daniela Hedman
Special sections The magical of India. Public demonstration of Indian craftspeople. The project had been supported by
the India-based company Ganjam & Son, Bangalore
Traditional Jewellery from Africa. An exhibition of traditional and ceremonial jewellery objects fron East
Africa, by Martina Dempf
Lectures Shannon Guo, Associate Professor, Jewelry and Metals Studio, Fine Arts College of Shanghai
University and Artistic Director Two Cities Gallery, Shanghai.
Martina Dempf, Jewellery Designer and Social Anthropologist, Berlin.
Barbara Schmidt, Jewellery Designer, director of the Akademie für Gestaltung, Munich.
Shruti Agrawal, Gunjan Shruti Jewellery, Mumbai.
Gabriele Goretti, Istituto Europeo per il Design, Firenze
FJW 2017 24-28th of May, 2017
Artists, Workshops, Jewellery presentation
Solo exhibitions Robert Baines, Tasso Mattar, Arata Fuchi, Sibylle Umlauf, Danni Schwaag
Group exhibition
Jwahr, New Iranian & Persian Jewelry.
A group of young Iranian artists by Aria Gallery in Teheran, Curated by Kevin Murray
Contemporary Swedish Silver, New approaches to an enduring tradition,
Curated by Inger Wästberg
Preziosa Young Contest. Group exhibition, PY2017 winners
Conferences Inger Wästberg, Sweden
Martina Dempf, Germany
Kevin Murray, Australia;
Roberta Bernabei, Italy/GB
Robert Baines, Australia
David Loepp, USA/Italy
Maria Laura La Mantia, Italy
Maria Cristina Bergesio, Italy
Shruti Agrawal, Italy/India
Tasso Mattar, Spain/Germany
Closing speech: Petra Hölscher, Curator of Die Neue Sammlung. The Design Museum at
Pinakothek der Moderne. München, Germany
FLORENCE JEWELLERY WEEK 2022
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SEMINAR/WORKSHOP SEGNI SUL VOLTO
The seminar/workshop SEGNI SUL VOLTO (SIGNS OVER THE FACE) will take place between October and November 2021, imagined by Carla Riccoboni and organised by Le Arti Orafe. Riccoboni, historic Italian designer and self-producer of jewellery, tells us about the motivations and aims of this initiative, which, taking into consideration the theme of the face, aims to open a collective debate also on the issues that have emerged with the Covid-19 pandemic on a relational, behavioural and identity level…
Read More on Carla's Project here below
https://www.preziosa.org/2021/07/13/segni-sul-volto-nuovi-spazi-di-confronto-e-progetto-new-spaces-for-discussion-and-design/
"Read more about Carla's project below and stay updated on its developments on: https://www.artiorafe.it/en/segni-sul-volto/ "
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