Jewellery light impressions
1 – 9 October 2022
Edmond à Venise Concept Store – Palazzo Contarini Polignac
Sestiere Dorsoduro, 872 – 871
Waterbus n.1 e n.2 stop Accademia
Meet the designers on October 2nd, 2.30 p.m.
Reserve your spot on eventbrite or via email at rsvp@venicedesignweek.it indicating “Meet the designers Jewellery light impressions”
Project curated by Valeria Accornero
White, black, light. Hypnotic and fascinating images with contours that seem familiar, but not entirely decipherable. Man Ray created them, around 1921-22, by making an everyday object (a key, scissors, a whisk…) react on sensitive paper by simply exposing it to light. Without a camera. He called them “rayographs,” unique images that made the unreal enter the real, giving another appearance to objects, bringing the everyday into an unknown universe.
This was a hundred years ago. And the protagonist was Man Ray, experimenter, innovator, creative icon with a Dadaist gesture and photographer of Surrealism.
And today? Today these pictorial and intense photograms continue to surprise and fascinate. From an almost chance encounter with a book dedicated to this very theme, from immersing page after page in the black and white “Rayographies,” the inspiration for this collective project dedicated to jewelry, IMPRESSIONI LUMINOSE luminous impressions, was born. Four creators, four very different personalities, through very distinct expressions return those engaging atmospheres that exert an almost magical fascination. Catherine Le Gal worked on the contrast between smooth and uniform surfaces with oxidized ones to convey a feeling of instability between reality and unreality. Robin Clerici chose to create extremely graphic, sharp, two-dimensional jewelry. Perfect for revealing exactly their shape under a beam of light. Sylvie Doagio was inspired by Man Ray’s signed photograph Noire et Blanche, 1926. The double face sculpture in her jewelry juxtaposes the light and shadow sides. Virginie Ricour Lambard captures the total darkness of the background of the Rayographies by proposing black metal necklaces illuminated by gold rings or smoky quartz with square lines counterbalanced by chains that reflect light.
Pictured above from left clockwise are creations by:
Catherine Le Gal, Robin Clerici, Sylvie Doagio, Virginie Ricour Lambard.
Catherine Le Gal lives in Paris. After studies in Economics and an MBA at Boston University, she has dedicated herself to her passion, jewelry making, since 2004, studying first in Paris then in Nepal traditional Newar techniques and continuing to learn from international master goldsmiths. She loves materials such as steel and bronze often transformed in color and texture by patinas, lacquers, industrial paints for a final ” worn” effect by time. Her jewelry is often modular and interchangeable.
catherinelegal.com
@catherine_le_gal
Robin Clerici lives in Rome. Her eclectic expressiveness manifests itself through painting, photography and the creation of jewelry, Jewelsculptures, made with lost wax. She trained at the Academy of Costume and Fashion in Rome and then worked as a costume designer for film and theater. In fact, her taste for precious fabrics is particularly found in her bronze and silver jewelry with a textural and unpredictable surface.
robinclerici.com
@clericirobin
Sylvie Doagio has lived in France for a long time, but Genoa and Florence remain in her heart. Her years of study in History at the Sorbonne also influenced her method when it came to devoting herself totally to the birth of the Doamabijoux line after a training in jewelry. Her jewelry is born from research on a historical figure, an image
in art or from an original reading of symbols in mythology, such as the tower of Babel, or elements of common culture such as the jigsaw puzzle.
doamabijoux.com
@doamabijoux
Virginie Ricour Lambard, after her university studies in philosophy and art history, discovered the world of Parisian high jewelry and took advanced courses in architectural technical drawing and industrial design at École Boulle. He collaborated with the big names in French luxury jewelry such as Guy Laroche, Baccarat, Mellerio, and Chanel before joining the maison Van
Cleef & Arpels where she stayed for a few years. For the past few years having moved to Nice, she lets her imagination run free, creating small collections of unique pieces.
ricourlambard.com
@ninericourlambard
Bibliography:
Man Ray, Rayographies, Emmanuelle de l’Ecotais, éditions Léo Scheer, 2002
