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ALBERTO ZORZI
PRECIOUS SCULPTURES
Curator: Enrico Crispolti
3rd December 2005 – 14th January 2006
Open: 4.00 pm – 7.30 pm
Closed on Sundays, Mondays and public holidays
and from the 1st to the 8th of January 2006
Opening: Saturday 3rd December 2005, 6 pm
 The City, 2002 Ring in yellow 750 gold, 6.3x4x3.8 cm |
Galleria Il Ponte continues its exhibitions with a cycle of shows called Close
Up – the show within the show – in which the work
of an artist is seen in greater detail, concentrating especially on
some specific moments of his or her career. This cycle of shows began
last winter. It brings the spectator dramatically closer to the artist,
taking the artist’s work apart and uncovering specific aspects
of it.
Precious Sculptures presents the jewellery and design projects
of Alberto Zorzi. Here, this sculptor of the microcosm
presents his work as a jewellery artist: curious creations with a
particularly inventive slant, sculptural forms made to be worn. The
thirty works presented here are pieces of sculpture-jewellery in
which layers of metals worked in many different ways are juxtaposed
with volumes constructed from solid geometrical forms: brooches,
rings, necklaces, bracelets and earrings made between 1981 and 2004.
The metals and the stones Zorzi uses – engraved, graffiato and
satin-finished gold and silver, quartz, malachite, onyx, agate, and rock
crystal cut in the most bizarre ways – are articulated in shapes
which are concave and convex, forming curves and hollows, contrasts of
light and dark, sometimes also with the chromatic and pictorial effects
of enamels.
At the end of the show there are some design projects displayed which
illustrate the complexity of both the conceptual process involved and
of the execution of the pieces of jewellery.
Biography
of Alberto Zorzi
CATALOGUE: photographed, 17x12 cm, 50
pages, 30 colour reproductions. Text by Enrico Crispolti, biography by Susanna
Fabiani, Edizioni Il Ponte, Florence.
Press office: Susanna Fabiani:
catalogue and photographs available on request
susy@galleriailponte.com