EXPO ‘Giampaolo Babetto – L’Italianità dei Gioelli’ Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich (DE) – 6 mars-30 mai 2010
« Babetto’s works mirror a refined aesthetic concept based on dialogue, interrelationships and a blurring of boundaries between art genres. » (Florian Hufnagl)
Giampaolo BABETTO – 1992- bracelet or, pigments – Série limitée Bracelet ‘Triangles’ 1983 Or jaune«
Giampaolo Babetto (b. 1947 in Padua) has had a marked influence on the avant-garde goldsmiths’ scene since the late 1960s and is one of the protagonists of the so-called Padua School. Babetto’s work reflects contemporary art movements such as concrete art, minimal art, kinetic or op art in a unique, purist and plastic manner. Made up of different abstract elements, broken down into modular units, or rendered moveable through the use of ingenious links, Babetto’s works have a strong architectural character – like mini architectural pieces or mini sculptures.
As a jewellery artist who has received a number of awards, he prefers working in gold due to its stable malleability and its warm sheen which he combines with unconventional materials such as plastic or glass, dusting the surface a with velvet-like pigment in luminous reds or blues or using enamel and age-old niello-based techniques.
He has already been called a mixed media artist, working not only on jewellery but also on silver objects, furniture design and architectural projects. His oeuvre reveals the uncompromising demands he himself places on each of the various artistic disciplines, combined with a systematic approach and love of experimentation. With his expressive but nevertheless very wearable pieces, Babetto has advanced to become one of the most influential international jewellery artists.
A publication with photographs by Ulrike Myrzik und Manfred Jarisch will accompany the exhibition »
Giampaolo Babetto – Necklace, 1968 (Photo Lorenzo Trento)
Alla Pinakothek der Moderne di Monaco in Germania si parla italiano. Inaugurata il 6 marzo, sarà aperta fino al 30 maggio la mostra dell’artista esponente della Scuola di Padova che ha avuto grande influenza nell’arte orafa italiana e straniera.
Le opere in mostra sono esemplari di mini architettura o piccole sculture composte da elementi astratti movimentati da ingegni e legami. L’artista, che vanta numerosi premi e riconoscimenti, mostra di preferire nelle sue creazioni l’oro per la sua malleabilità e lucentezza combinato a materie non convenzionali come plastica o vetro, talvolta rivestiti di luminosi rossi e blu così lucidi e morbidi da sembrare velluto. Il suo amore per la sperimentazione lo ha portato a creare pezzi non facili da indossare ma d’indiscusso valore artistico.Dalla collaborazione fra Babetto e la galleria Die Neue Sammlung è stata concepita un’esibizione che come un racconto procede lungo la galleria del secondo piano della Pinakothek der Moderne, le cui qualità plastiche vengono rinterpretate ogni anno da un artista diverso del campo orafo internazionale.
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