Florence Jewellery Week
Back to the future with Preziosa 2017. Le Arti Orafe, the famous jewellery school in Florence, is organizing an intensive 7-day event devoted to the jewellery world and the complex relationships between artistic research, crafts and design. From 24th to 28th May 2017 in “Oltrarno” district, among the Lungarno and piazza Santo Spirito Square, LAO - Le Arti Orafe Jewellery School - organizes Preziosa 2017-Florence Jewellery Week, a unique event in Italy.
The exhibitions and all other moments of the event place the emphasis on the interactions between tradition and artistic research, manual skills and new technologies, and between the different meanings and symbolical values that jewellery can take on in different cultural and geographical environments. The event also aims to focus on the cultural aspects of identity/diversity, which is one of the main topics of the debate in recent years. The project includes exhibitions by contemporary artists from various countries, lectures and presentations, workshops led by invited artists, lecturers and curators.
Invited artists, curators, lecturers
Fuchi Arata, Robert Baines, Sibylle Umlauf, Tasso Mattar, Danni Schwaag, LOD Metallformgivning, Erik Tidäng, Lena Jerström, Tobias Birgersson, Klara Eriksson, Petronella Eriksson, Pernilla Sylwan, Preziosa Young Contest 2017 , Fang Jin Yeh, Qian Wang, Shachar Cohen, Xiaodai Huang, New Iranian & Persian Jewelry. Group exhibition by students from the Mahe Mehr Institute Teheran, Kevin Murray, Martina Dempf, Maria Cristina Bergesio, Roberta Bernabei, Inger Wästberg, Shruti Agrawal, Maria Laura La Mantia.
Arianna Pinton
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