[It's LIQUID News] Chiara Scarpitti

.design news	February 13, 2013
Chiara Scarpitti   The symbol word originally means to throw together, but also unite, put together. The symbol in the jewel isher essence. “The symbolic moves itself in the unpredictable feeling, in the natural instinct. The irrationality and the mysticism is a concept that encompasses ancestral all peoples by ever”. The symbol evokes feelings of things in unpredictable ways. Its presence in the jewel is in a dialectical relationship with that elementpoetic and visionary, and becames concrete action in the reality of all days. The assumption is that the fascinating and mysterious world of natural geometric forms, dominated by images, lines, dots, numbers and enigmatic formulas, is particularly suitable for the design of a contemporary jewelry. This stimulating survey of the forms in the universe often leads us in front of ancient myths, who magical powers attract still now.   The design approach is alchemic. The starting point of alchemy is the unity of matter: matter is one, but can take myriad forms and be combined in many others inexhaustible ways. From raw material borns also the work of a designer. Both a designer that an alchemist work with the idea of “practice trasmutatoria”. For both, values are given specifically to the mass, space, light and shadow, and is active the participation of the body to these physical elements. Both live and think the object of their search. Oriented research, however, to the “recovery of manual dexterity, to the practical experiment, to the verify in the laboratory”. The haute couture tailoring techniques, along with inkjet prints on silk combine the industrial chemical cut steel to create a new type of jewellery between design and craftsmanship, unicity and seriality. There’s an attempt to return with an aura of mystery and magic in who wears this jewel. Reactions between jewelry and body, between jewelry and another, between jewelry and the space around him, “Reaction Poétique”.   Chiara Scarpitti is a designer, specialized in contemporary jewellery. Her works are spread over different levels of the contemporary, on new design methodologies, using the most innovative and experimental production techniques between industry and craft.   more. www.chiarascarpitti.com | info: info@chiarascarpitti.com

Women's Studio Workshop - October News

October Happenings   Don't Be Shy, Apply! Art Opportunity Deadlines are Almost Here!     Opportunity deadlines are coming up that you won't want to miss them! WSW provides fantastic residencies, internships and workspace residencies to women artists around the globe.With studios in etching, silkscreen, letterpress, and ceramics, there are plenty of opportunities available. Check out our Opportunity Calendar for the full schedule! Internships: October 15th postmark deadline Studio, Art Administration, and Ceramic Internships Workspace Residencies: October 15th postmark deadline   Art-in-ed, Chili Bowl, and Studio Workspace Residencies Residency Grants: October 15th postmark deadline    Ora Schneider Residency Grant Residency Grants: November 15th postmark deadline  Artists' Book and Art-in-ed Book Arts Residency Grants Get Ready for the Gala! Buy your ticket today!    Women's Studio Workshop is proud to present two brilliant women this year: Gillian Jagger, a prodigious artist and Hudson Valley resident, and Patricia Gould-Peck, an esteemed educator and longtime Kingston resident.      Guests enjoying WSW's 2010 Gala. Please join us at Mohonk Mountain House on November 4, 2012 to celebrate the accomplishments of these two fine women! There will be wining and dining, an exclusive VIP reception, as well as tantalizing items in both our silent and live auctions. Funds raised help to support WSW programs including artist residencies, internships, art-in-education programs, specialized summer art classes, and the production of hand printed artist's books. Call (845) 658-9133 or click here for more information. Tickets: $125 VIP Tickets: $250   Help WSW's Papermaking Studio!    WSW is looking for some fabulous donors to help us purchase 10 new Moulds & Deckles.   Art students from Kingston High School will be working for four weeks with WSW's artistic director, Tana Kellner. These new moulds will improve the quality of the paper students can make, enhancing their artistic experience and giving them a leg up for future art careers. $140 buys 1 new Mould & Deckle.    Tweet Tweet Dig the buzz.  http://twitter.com/WSWorkshop  WSW's programs are made possible in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.    Calendar October Oct 15th Internship Workspace Residency  and Residency Grant Deadlines November Nov 15th Residency Grant Deadline In The Gallery    Work by   Artist in Residence Katy Collier 10/2-10/27/2012 Gallery hours M-F 9am-5pm

Current Exhibitions!

Newsletter | 06 March 2012 CURRENT EXHIBITIONS London Katie Paterson 09 MAR - 28 APR This exhibition - launching Haunch of Venison’s new gallery space in Eastcastle Street, Fitzrovia - presents a selection of recent projects including the UK premiere of the project '100 Billion Suns'. Paterson’s work strives to communicate unimaginably large or distant occurrences in nature or the universe by staging intimate, poetic and philosophical engagements and transforming them to a human scale. New York Afro Burri Fontana 08 MAR - 28 APR This is the first US exhibition to focus on the work of the internationally renowned Italian artists Afro, Alberto Burri and Lucio Fontana. Organised by curator Elena Geuna, the exhibition will feature a selection of seminal works from each artist’s career, many of which have rarely been exhibited publicly. London Mixed Media 01 MAR - 05 APR 'Mixed Media' explores current practices in sculpture focusing in particular on the extraordinarily varied range of materials employed by artists today. The exhibition includes a new work made especially for the exhibition by Richard Long, major works by Giuseppe Penone and Jaume Plensa, as well as new pieces by younger and emerging artists. FUTURE EXHIBITIONS London Jamie Shovlin 18 Apr - 26 May Driven by a fascination in a set of books called the Fontana Modern Master series - a set of pocket guides published in the 1970s on eminent writers, philosophers and thinkers - and a longstanding interest in typography and graphic design, young British artist Jamie Shovlin has created a striking new body of work of large-scale paintings for this exhibition. New York Chiharu Shiota 18 May - 23 Jun This solo exhibition of Berlin-based, Japanese artist, Chiharu Shiota, includes a new installation made entirely from window frames salvaged from demolition sites and deserted buildings in east Berlin following the fall of the Berlin Wall. The work investigates physical and spatial perception and draws on the troubled history of her adopted city and its people. New York Marlene Mocquet 18 May - 23 Jun This exhibition is an intimate display of new work by French artist Marlène Mocquet. Her paintings depict a fantastical world of animated and anthropomorphic creatures inhabiting a universe filled with hallucinogenic splashes of color. At first glance the works appear to portray a vision of whimsical fantasy, but upon further observation reveals a much darker more sinister existence. NEWS Heatherwick Studio exhibition at the V&A The V&A presents the first museum solo exhibition of work by Heatherwick Studio, one of the most inventive and experimental British design studios practicing today. Recent projects include the new London 'routemaster' bus and the 2012 Olympic Cauldron. Tom Wesselman has major retrospective at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts The first major retrospective in Canada of American Pop artist, Tom Wesselmann, will be at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in the Jean-Noël Desmarais Pavilion from 18 May - 7 October, 2012. Tibetan artist Gonkar Gyatso is the first artist to have a solo exhibition at Queensland University 'Three Realms', a survey show of Gonkar Gyatso's work from 2003 to present day, will be on display at the Giffith University Art Gallery and Queensland University Art Museum, Brisbane, Australia. Haunch of Venison celebrates its fifth year exhibiting at TEFAF Maastricht Haunch of Venison will be at TEFAF Maastricht 2012. Situated in TEFAF Modern, on stand 525, Haunch of Venison will show a group of internationally renowned artists’ work that closely relates to the gallery’s program. Barber Osgerby awarded three nominations for Designs of the Year 2012 Nominated for their design of the Olympic Torch 2012, their 'Ascent' exhibition at Haunch of Venison in September 2011 and the Tip Ton chair, for Vitra. The winner will be announced on Tuesday 24 April at an awards ceremony at the Design Museum. FILMS Curator Catherine Lampert discusses 'The Mystery of Appearance' Catherine Lampert, curator of 'The Mystery of Appearance' - recently on display at Haunch of Venison London - discusses the exhibition and explores some of the links between the artists, and between the works on display. Katie Paterson's '100 Billion Suns', Venice, 2011 Katie Paterson discusses '100 Billion Suns' in Venice, a project coinciding with the opening days of the 2011 Venice Biennale. Photographs from the project form part of Paterson's current exhibition at Haunch of Venison London's new Eastcastle Street gallery. BOOKS & EDITIONS Afro Burri Fontana Elena Geuna Published on the occasion of 'Afro Burri Fontana' at Haunch of Venison, New York, 8 March - 12 May 2012, the exhibition catalogue includes an insightful essay by curator Elena Geuna focusing on the experimentation of each artist from 1950-1968, during the height of post-war Italy’s cultural flourishing. Katie Paterson 100 Billion Suns Gamma Ray Bursts are the brightest explosions in the universe, which burn with a luminosity 100 billion times that of our sun. The confetti cannons created for '100 Billion Suns' contain 3,216 pieces of paper whose colours correspond to each of these cosmic events. Every burst of confetti creates a miniature explosion of all of these vast explosions, in just under a second. This limited edition print reproduces the 3,216 colour swatches created for each confetti canon. The Mystery of Appearance Catherine Lampert The catalogue published to accompany 'The Mystery of Appearance' is a fresh appraisal of ten post-war British artists – Andrews, Auerbach, Bacon, Caulfield, Coldstream, Freud, Hamilton, Hockney, Kossoff and Uglow – reproducing over forty paintings and drawings, supported by an essay in which curator Catherine Lampert discusses their habits and methods and introduces previously unseen writing by the artists. © Haunch of Venison 2012