In 1992, in collaboration with the artist Arman, in his Bidonville in Vence, France, 2 collections between art and jewerly were born. Uncommon sculpture-jewerly in gold, platinum and diamonds came to life from the decomposition of musical instruments and mechanical pieces. A limited edition, given to the most exclusive international galleries.
The suitcase as a symbol of travel, of departure and of change, but also of the desire to demolish that residual monumentalità still inbred in contemporary art.
Potentia (Dynamis in greek) expresses the potential, the ability, the chance of an unrealized action. Aristotelian precepts also refer to Dynamis which means possibility. Potential is not only a mental concept, but it is the sense of being.
It is about a “pre-conceptual” comprehension, which obliges us reconsider the meaning itself of comprehension and recognition. Tying the complex of cognitive activities such as memory, perception and language.
Existence is vibration. The interaction between the vibrations gives an integral version. Our reality is the one where nothing is separated but all is connected, constantly and everywhere, in space and in time.
Each suitcase represents a story, a portion of knowledge, a part of the body, a feeling…