Bijoux d'Autore 2012: Invitation to the Exhibition

Hello!
Between work, travels (I'm writing again from Northern Ireland) and new projects (coming soon...) the time remaining for publishing articles on blog is always too few...and so I find myself really surprised to realize that it's already 10 days that I'm not writing news on CartEssenza's Laboratory work!
Today I want to share with you the invitation to the exhibition I talked about in my last post; it's useless to say that I'll be waiting for you! :)

  
BIJOUX D’AUTORE 2012 
 CONCORSO INTERNAZIONALE – 4a EDIZIONE 

INVITO / COMUNICATO 

22-23-24-25 novembre 2012

Inaugurazione 22 novembre ore 16.30 
Arciconfraternita dei Bergamaschi - Via di Pietra, 70 – Roma 
Orari apertura: 10.30 – 12.30 /16.30-19.30 – ingresso libero 

Bijoux d'Autore coinvolge artisti, designer e artigiani nazionali e internazionali, i quali, sperimentando materiali alternativi e nuove forme, mostrano il volto della bigiotteria contamporanea. 
Ampia la scelta dei materiali proposti, dalla buccia di cipolla al marmo, passando per stoffe e bottoni, fili di rame e di acciaio, e ancora ottone, legno, seta ed altri ancora. 
Un ornamento da indosso che va oltre ‘l’abbellire’ ... racconta poesie, sogni o paesi lontani. 
Una selezione di particolare varietà e bellezza. 
La mostra, con la proclamazione del vincitore, finalisti e menzione speciale, è fissata dal 22 al 25 novembre 2012 a Roma. 
A febbraio 2012 la seconda mostra al Museo del bijou di Casalmaggiore. 

GLI AUTORI SELEZIONATI 

SEZIONE BIJOUX D’AUTORE 
Emanuela Mae Agrini (Cartessenza) • Ilaria Anselmi (Fili e colori di Ila) • Nilma Arraes • Valentina Barella (Oriunda jewels) • Eleonora Battaggia (Caracol) • Giulia Boccafogli • Lorena Bombardelli • Teresa Brescia • Viviana Bullita • Veronica Caffarelli • Silvia Caldarulo • Luciano Capossela • Monica Catrullo e Lorella Greco • Anna Maria Cavallo • Vittorio Ceccoli • Elisa D’anna • Paolo De Alexandris • En=Joy • E-vasiva in collaborazione con Oro SI Gioielli (Simone Censi)• Paola Galli (Cartabianca) • Francesca Gerlini • Eleonora Ghilardi • Lucilla Giovanninetti (Eandare) • Mario Gualandri • Michela Guatto • Veronica Guiduzzi • La Rocca & Figliolia • Floriana Maracchia • Marcilene Rodrigues • Monica Matos • Simone Minonzio • Barbara Muller • Simona Negrini (Andromeda) • Giorgia Palombi • Marilisa Parodi • Grazia Patruno • Angela Pezzino • Giovanna Racca • Alessandra Renzulli • Ludovica Ricciardi • Daniela Ronchetti • Sandra Rosadini • Valeria Eva Rossi • Giuliana Salvadori • Ilaria Sbarzella • Dario Scotto (Exe) • Flora Sica • Viviana Soligo (Maison Vivì) • Vincenza Sorrentino (Viscè) • Maria Tenore • Tintaunita (Anna Cino e Linda Gambero) • Chiara Trentin (Chimajarno) • Barbara Tritapepe 

SEZIONE EMERGENTI Martina Musetti • Marzia Schiavolin 

SEZIONE PROGETTAZIONE Eleonora Battaggia (Caracol) • Flora Sica • Maria Tenore 

GIURIA TECNICO SCIENTIFICA - Bianca Cappello Storica del gioiello antico e contemporaneo - Vittoria Caratozzolo Docente, autrice e studiosa di moda e costume - Silvia Cerroni Orafo designer - Daniela De Lisi Studiosa moda e gioielli - Claudio Franchi Orafo e argentiere - storico e critico d’arte e del gioiello - Fabrizia Ranelletti Critico d’arte - docente di storia dell’arte - Stefano Ricci Architetto e designer di gioielli, orologi e oggetti - Marina Valli Designer di gioielli ed oggettistica 

GIURIA OSSERVATORIO - Elena Agosti Direttore artistico VIART Centro artigianato artistico vicentino - Nadia Camandona Fondatore della ‘Nadia Camandona Editore’ e Vice Pres. Assoc. Scuole Tecniche San Carlo - Serena Ciarcià Fashion designer – Responsabile de ‘Gli Artigianauti’ - Elena Rivieccio Coordinamento progetto Tarì Design Lab - Chiara Sampietro Presidente Consorzio MIBI Fabbriche Italiane – - Paolo Zani Presidente Associazione Amici del Museo del Bijou 

PATROCINI 
● ASSESSORATO ALLA CULTURA COMUNE DI CASALMAGGIORE 
● MUSEO DEL BIJOU DI CASALMAGGIORE 

MEDIAPARTNER 
● VJ VICENZA JEWELLERY 
● CAPODOPERA – NADIA CAMANDONA EDITORE 
● A4mani.it 
● GLI ARTIGIANAUTI 

Realizzazione Logo: Claudio Franchi 
PRODUZIONE: Art & Art® 
ORGANIZZAZIONE: INCONTRI E EVENTI 
IDEAZIONE e PRODUZIONE ESECUTIVA: Norma De Lucia per Associazione IncontrieEventi 
SEGRETERIA ORGANIZZATIVA: Norma De Lucia – Giorgia Primiceri

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CartEssenza has been selected for Bijoux d'Autore 2012!!!

Hi to all,
here it is a really good news: CartEssenza's "The Way To Your Heart" ring has been selected for "Bijoux d'Autore 2012" contest! Do you know what this means? Simple: from 22th to 25th November 2012 I'll be in Rome for the exhibition with proclamation of the winner, the finalists and the special mention!
The exhibition will then continue in February 2012 at Bijou Museum in Casalmaggiore :)

Here is the selected artists' list:
AUTORI SELEZIONATI ed. 2012  

SEZIONE BIJOUX D’AUTORE 
Emanuela Mae Agrini (Cartessenza) • Ilaria Anselmi • Nilma Arraes • Valentina Barella • Eleonora Battaggia (Caracol) • Giulia Boccafogli • Lorena Bombardelli • Teresa Brescia • Viviana Bullita • Veronica Caffarelli • Silvia Caldarulo • Luciano Capossela • Monica Catrullo e Lorella Greco • Anna Maria Cavallo • Vittorio Ceccoli • Elisa D’anna • Paolo De Alexandris • En=Joy • E-vasiva • Paola Galli  (Cartabianca) • Francesca Gerlini • Eleonora Ghilardi • Lucilla Giovanninetti (Eandare) • Mario Gualandri • Michela Guatto • Veronica Guiduzzi • La Rocca & Figliolia • Floriana Maracchia • Marcilene Rodrigues • Monica Matos • Simone Minonzio • Barbara Muller • Simona Negrini (Andromeda) • Giorgia Palombi • Marilisa Parodi • Grazia Patruno • Angela Pezzino • Giovanna Racca • Alessandra Renzulli • Ludovica Ricciardi • Daniela Ronchetti • Sandra Rosadini • Valeria Eva Rossi • Giuliana Salvadori • Ilaria Sbarzella • Dario Scotto (Exe) • Flora Sica • Viviana Soligo (Maison Vivì) • Vincenza Sorrentino (Viscè) • Maria Tenore • Tintaunita (Anna Cino e Linda Gambero) • Chiara Trentin (Chimajarno) • Barbara Tritapepe  

SEZIONE EMERGENTI – ex equo Martina Musetti • Marzia Schiavolin  

SEZIONE PROGETTAZIONE Eleonora Battaggia (Caracol) • Flora Sica • Maria Tenore •

Thank you to Norma de Lucia and to all Incontri e Eventi Association, and also to the contest's Jury: can't wait to meet in Rome! :)
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CartEssenza at Expobijoux 2012: some photos :)

Hello there,
the last week end CartEssenza attended to Expobijoux 2012 in Montiglio Monferrato (AT) with Martina of the clothes' brand "La Soffitta".
Here you'll find some photos of my stand:

Thank you to those who came to meet me and to all collagues I met during the event: one of the biggest richnesses of fairs and exhibitions is like always the humane and professional experience with which I return back home, often inclusive of new travel mates ;)

I end with the image of the tasteful sunday morning's breakfast we had at Casa Costa B&B in Murisengo (AL) ;)

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"Spiritual Lasagna" - Work and life of Gemma Taccogna in the documentary by Evie Elman

It doesn't matter what you create. It's that you're living with principle, you're living with passion, with honor, and you have a visual statement of your bravery.

Gemma Taccogna

I can't remember if in all these years I ever talked on my blog about other artists, maybe just sometimes of dear collagues and friends: when your work is that of a "one man band", as I like to define it, you don't have so much time left to dedicate to what is not yours. This time I'll make an exception to talk about the work of an artist who in some manners inspired and encouraged me in the tortuous ways of my project.

I knew of Gemma Taccogna's artistic work since 2007, exactly in those months in which CartEssenza project was seeing its birth and my personal research on papier maché technique was at its dawn. That was not an easy period for my project: I had left suddendly my university studies and I started to search for a new path to follow, and almost all those who were around me were astounded with my substantial program change. However I was feeling that there was something more deep in my decision, that my sudden turn was going to transform not only my daily occupation, but my entire style of life, and so (luckily) I didn't change my mind.

It was in this period and state of mind that, surfing the web in search of information on papier maché technique, I ran into Gemma Taccogna: I was literally amazed when I saw her works, so perfect to seem porcelain and at the same time so incredibily eloquent to talk without problems with eyes and heart of everyone about beauty, life, sun and strength.

Then I read her story, the one of a person who, really young, began her artistic way and she never stopped, until death: Gemma Taccogna was born in Bari, here in Italy, in 1923, and then she moved to America. In the late 40s and in 50s her works were already famous and sold in California, then she moved to Mexico where she opened her own art atelier and her works have been collected by great and famous people, such as Peggy Guggenheim. When she saw her works copied and reproduced she decided to close her atelier and to return to the USA, where she began to create even jewels and tiles. She has been for all her life, quoting the definition by her grandchild Evie, "a tireless teacher, fearless mother, passionate grandmother, dear friend, mentor and certified prankster". She left us in 2007, a few months after my discovery and way before I had the courage to contact her.

I think it was 2008 when I came in touch, via MySpace, with her grandchild Evie Elman, who was managing Gemma's official channel on the social network.
Evie and I started to exchange some messages and I was really surprised by the kindness and openness with which she talked to me: she was from the beginning incredibly friendly. Unfortunately my english at that time was really bad and so comunication possibilities were definitely limited. However she talked to me of her project, the documentary "Spiritual Lasagna", based on life, work and ideas of Gemma Taccogna. Then MySpace started its decline and so for some years unfortunately we lost contacts.
Despite of this, I never forgot this experience: Gemma Taccogna's work and story remained always as a vivid example for my project, and Evie's kindness and willingness reminded me in every moment that to have a gift doesn't mean to close to who is around us.
Around two weeks ago, since I restarted to work to CartEssenza seriously, suddenly I had in mind Evie and her project: from years I was not having news, but I would have liked to know how it went and to write about it on my blog. I searched for her contact and wrote her a mail to ask for news; when she replied me I found that once again life times of life were created in a perfect mechanism, since she was working exactly in those days to the opening of the new site and to the official presentation of "Spiritual Lasagna" documentary. And so, this is why I'm talking you about this now :)

Evie carried on, on her grandmother's request, Gemma Taccogna's artistic way: she continues the creation of her marvellous busts and she teaches folk art and papier maché in workshops in schools.

Now I share with you the links to see the "Spiritual Lasagna" documentary and to know better Evie's project :)

About Spiritual Lasagna
Gemma Taccogna's MySpace
Spiritual Lasagna Documentary

Photo credits:
http://cargocollective.com/wwwspirituallasagnacom/About-Spiritual-Lasagna
http://www.papiermache.co.uk
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