EXPO ‘Jorge Castañón new jewelry’ – 5 Sept.-7 Oct. 2012

Jorge Castañón at Velvet da Vinci – sept 2012

(The Red Box Brooch)

« Working with Alice in Wonderland, I felt those descents into endless holes in the earth, hidden places perhaps, away from light, where one could not know what was truly there. In an instant, everything belonged to the field of doubts. Then I wanted to talk about abundance and suddenly I knew that I was actually talking about what there is not, about emptiness, and I found myself again making hollow bowls, cavities full of nothing or almost nothing. After that I have kept looking for hidden sites, old hiding places, cracks, containers of many things and of none at the same time, inhabited by mute presences; now I invent them, try to give them voice. Objects and materials that were on the way to oblivion come back to communicate a minimal story, to construct a new illusion.« 

The Black Box Brooch

The Illusion of Flying Brooch

Velvet da Vinci Gallery 2015 Polk Street (near Broadway)
San Francisco, CA  94109
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