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.
New cognitive maps, new existential scenarios open up to us, intraworlds in which the body embraces metamorphosis, sensorial transmutations in which objects surrounding us and their principles of relation become inspiration and set off a spark for this perceptive change.
There is something in the brain which doesn’t distinguish the difference between us and others. Also the acknowledgement of emotions seems to lie on an ensenmble of neural circuits which, as different as they may seem, share that “mirror” characteristic already witnessed in the case of actions.
The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain. It’s ultimate purpose is the complete mastrey of mind over the material world, the harnessing of the forces of nature to human needs.