Right here in New York, it’s NYC Jewellery Week, an occasion that kicked off yesterday with a panel dialogue on the work of Wallace Chan led by one Melanie Grant. The British creator, curator, journalist, and stylist could also be newly acquainted to you with final fall’s publication of her great ebook Coveted: Artwork and Innovation in Excessive Jewellery (I obtained it as a 2020 vacation reward).
Earlier this fall, Grant labored with Sotheby’s to curate “Good and Black: A Jewellery Renaissance,” the public sale home’s first-ever exhibition and promoting occasion devoted to Black jewellery designers.
This week she unveils “Pressure of Nature,” one other curatorial challenge, this one a bit smaller in scale and situated in her dwelling base of London. Staged in collaboration with the Elisabetta Cipriani gallery, which makes a speciality of modern “wearable artwork,” it’s a promoting exhibition geared toward additional dismantling the hierarchy that separates artwork and jewellery.
“Pressure of Nature” will showcase practically 40 jewels devoted to an overarching theme of naturalism. Amongst them is a cuff that Grant herself designed. In accordance with this put up from Grant’s Instagram feed, the jewel got here from wanting “to make one thing in regards to the time we had spent in lockdown contemplating our lives. Peering right into a #metaphysical mirror with absolute quiet and stillness for the primary time was like wanting into the solar. We’re all totally different now.”
Grant joins the 17 different modern artists within the exhibition. With approaches each figurative and summary, they’re: Ai Weiwei, Bibi van der Velden, Fabio Salini, Frank Stella, Giorgio Vigna, Giuseppe Penone, Grima, Jacqueline Rabun, James de Givenchy, John Moore, Pleasure BC, Liv Luttrell, Lydia Courteille, Melanie Eddy, Satta Matturi, Ute Decker, and Wallace Chan.
Cipriani stated in an announcement: “The mix of artists Melanie has introduced collectively signifies her willpower to interrupt down limitations between jewellery and effective artwork. It’s a mission I share. Any artist needs to be free to work in any self-discipline, and the enormity of nature as inspiration dwarfs any argument on the contrary.”
The “Pressure of Nature” exhibition debuts on Thursday in a particular preview celebration held in partnership with Serpentine Galleries. All items might be obtainable to buy by non-public appointment at Elisabetta Cipriani or over the cellphone till Nov. 27.
Right here’s a take a look at among the different exceptional “forces of nature” on view under.
Salamander brooch, in 18k gold with diamonds, tsavorite, peridots, fancy sapphires, diopside, and opals, Lydia Courteille
Rings W & M, each in 24k yellow gold, Ai Weiwei
Alligator Biting earrings in 18k yellow gold with tiger’s eye and tsavorite, Bibi van der Velden
Roman Romance ring in carbon fiber with diamonds and pearl, Fabio Salini
Ammonite pendant with diamonds on bark-textured 18k yellow gold collar, Grima
