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By cloelea, Jan 24 2018 Beautiful video by Yara Diaz, Alchimia Contemporary Jewellery School, Florence.

By cloelea, Jan 3 2018 The idea behind it was to find the close connections between the body and our own feelings. Jewellery as a metaphor of that ‘space’, that in-between, the link between the physical body we live in and our inner emotions, our inner self. Instead of viewing that ‘space’ as a border,Continue reading ““J’écrivais des silences, des nuits, je notais l’inexprimable. Je fixais des vertiges” Arthur Rimbaud”

By cloelea, Nov 8 2017 “Like the face of Medusa in Greek mythology, jewellery attracts and disturbs those who design, wear or gaze upon it”. I went to see the jewellery exhibition: Medusa, Bijoux et Tabous, at the Musee d’art Moderne de Paris (http://www.mam.paris.fr/fr/expositions/exposition-medusa-0). The building in itself (it is part of the Palais de Tokyo)Continue reading ““Jewellery attracts and disturbs…” Medusa, Bijoux et Tabous”

By cloelea, Oct 26 2017 Pearl earrings that embrace the body… Life is made up of all the small and big dreams we have. Sometimes they are all around us, hugging us, sometimes they are queuing, waiting in a line for the right time, other times they are pressing down on us, strangling us toContinue reading ““Elles emportèrent la beauté du monde avec elle” Auguste Rodin”

By cloelea, Oct 17 2017 “This is the kind of unique, strikingly atmospheric and emotionally charged experience that could hook you for life” Last weekend I went to see The Dreamers Ever Leave You, choreographed by Robert Binet, and shown at an unusual venue for a ballet, the Printworks, an old newspaper print factory in LondonContinue reading “The Dreamers Ever Leave You, Robert Binet”

By cloelea, Oct 12 2017 The use of performance in jewellery is a subject which fascinates me, whether it is through dance, photography, video, music or a combination of these. It seems to be an essential aspect of jewellery since jewellery as an object doesn’t exist in my opinion, it would merely be a sculptureContinue reading “But If the Crime Is Beautiful … Lauren Kalman”

By cloelea, Oct 4 2017 Here are some thoughts collected from artist’s (working in jewellery or not) interviews which I think participate in the definition and perhaps aims of contemporary jewellery. “… because in the end, reduced to an abstract thought, what I offer to the public is my time transformed into these pieces ofContinue reading ““Jewellery is an emotional phenomenon” Ruudt Peters”

By cloelea, Oct 2 2017 Lucia Massei, director of the contemporary jewellery school ALCHIMIA in Florence (http://alchimia.it/), says, talking about jewellery: “the jewel represents the gift par excellence. It is one of the oldest responses to an aesthetic and emotional human impulse; it has a special potentiality of communication, and allows to better define theContinue reading “Jewellery as a “special potentiality of communication” Lucia Massei”

By cloelea, Sep 28 2017 Medusa, Ailleurs, Au fil de l’Autre, Traces, Emotional Nudity, Sous Influence, Rêver un Rêve Impossible, Le Flou, le Faux, le Double – Trouble dans l’Ornement, Deep Love, Enveloppe, Paris est un Prétexte… So many enticing titles for an autumn in Paris! A major international jewellery event is taking place thisContinue reading “Ailleurs, Emotional Nudity, Traces, Au fil de l’Autre…. Paris Parcours Bijoux 2017”

By cloelea, Jul 27 2017 I recently visited two exhibitions, on simultaneously in the South of France: “Picasso Perpignan, Le Cercle de l’intime, 1953-1955” presented in Musée d’art Hyacinthe Rigaud de Perpignan, and “Eureka Dali”, presented in Musée d’ar moderne de Céret. Whereas I am not a great fan of Picasso’s work, I like veryContinue reading “Food Obsession?”