One of the founders of Vicenza Jewelry Museum is Ms. Alba, who enjoys a high reputation in the Italian jewelry industry and also teaches fashion at Milan Polytechnic University. It is said that this museum changes a batch of exhibits every year, some of which are personal collections, and some belong to various museum-related institutions. /kloc-at the beginning of 0/8, I finally had the opportunity to go to Vicenza for this museum. The museum is divided into nine exhibition areas (symbol, magic, function, beauty, art, fashion, design, icon, future), which respectively describe the various possibilities of jewelry as a symbol, amulet, functional product, simple beauty, artistic works, fashion accessories, design works and future exploration. Each theme invited an industry tycoon to select exhibits and design exhibitions, just like stringing nine pearls of different colors with a silk thread.
This museum is really not as big as expected, and it is even impossible to arrange an independent exhibition hall for each theme. However, its internal display design is varied, using the wall to divide different plates skillfully and using different display props to show different themes. Therefore, when tourists enter from the door and walk along the tour route, they can feel a very smooth spatial narrative. It is worth mentioning that because the museum is located in an old building with an arc dome, with the help of this old house, it can be regarded as a space transformation. It retains the original mottled wall and dome structure, which makes people feel like they are in a gentle old time. Not only that, it also has excellent lighting design, including direct lighting and indirect lighting, which are skillfully used.
Under the theme of beauty, jewelry means decoration, which means it can add beauty to the wearer. Beauty is also the inherent characteristic of jewelry, and the technology, color matching, material and shape behind it are all combined in a harmonious proportion. Nicholas? Nicholas Bos skillfully explained that beauty is based on nature. The forms of jewelry exhibited here are all inspired by nature and delay time through their dazzling beauty.
In the traditional sense, a piece of jewelry is a symbol of power, status, identity or memory. But a piece of jewelry can also symbolize dedication, emotion and even a piece of territory. The series selected by Glen Adam Sen (the curator of this theme) skillfully connects the past and the present through the symbolic meaning of jewelry. Cross, high crown, dragon ... these jewels have changed from simple aristocratic popular symbols to symbols of power, wealth and nobility.
Amulets (as jewelry) are the earliest decorations in human history; They wear out not because of vanity, but because of the divine kindness they can attract. This is a protective, soothing and therapeutic article, which has the functions of exorcising evil spirits and treating diseases. Maria, the curator of this theme? Christina. Del? Maria Cristina del Mare suggested choosing some "magic" jewelry, and told us through the power of time and culture that the original demand for jewelry is a supernatural power superstition that it can control unpredictable factors such as health, luck and disease.
People often think that jewelry is useless and has no other use except decoration. The functional jewelry we show here is just the opposite. The jewelry selected by Alessandra posamai, the curator of this theme, is all functional items, and these items have been converted into jewelry. They perfectly reflected the tastes, materials and techniques at that time and were witnesses of the times.
In the 20th century, many sculptors devoted themselves to making jewelry and passed on their figurative skills, sometimes in a simple miniature form, and sometimes in the tiny size of the jewelry itself. Jewelry can represent a sculpture of everyone, expressing body, concepts and desires, especially in artistic research. The jewelry chosen by Helen Deluce (curator) is made by American artists, who, like alexander calder or art smith, reinterpret the relationship between jewelry and art.
Jewelry has always been closely related to fashion. Since ancient times, fashion jewelry has always been a mirror of society, clothing development and scientific and technological progress. The curatorial choice of this theme is to pay tribute to Anna Piaget, who is a muse of many designers and a dreamer. The fashion jewelry in the fashion show belongs to her, and it also belongs to her dramatic infection ability to the context. Anna Piaget? (Anna? Piaggi)？ Is one of the most valuable fashion critics in the world. At the same time, he is also a stylist, fashion editor, fashion designer and jewelry designer.
Design is one of the most interesting expressions in contemporary society, because it can interweave different disciplines and create knowledge exchange. The result is a jewelry concept, in which preciousness is defined not by the nobility of the materials used, but by their creativity and innovation. The theme of this exhibition is Italian design, which shows the relationship between Italian designers and jewelry from the post-war to the present, as well as their transformation of outdated materials and new significance to the jewelry industry.
Icon is the narrative object of jewelry, which can tell extraordinary stories through its technical and historical details. Paola Venturelli (curator) chose these jewels specially designed for Italy: these Italian jewels are innovative in language, shape, meaning, materials and technology, such as relief, coral, miniature Roman mosaic and gold foil. I hope the viewer can rediscover and understand the present from the masterpieces of the past and design the future.
What will jewelry look like in the future?
The choice of Oddo Fioravanti (curator) will try to answer this question, and show the vision and panorama of the future by observing materials and innovative technologies, objects with new contents, new interactions with the body and new contexts. This is a world of futurism, new horizons and mixed disciplines (these terms are usually not related to jewelry). This is also a future trip full of inspiration, brain waves and suggestions.