Erosioni soglie sconfinamenti

Artist list

Sara Barbanti, Iris Bodemer, Patrícia Domingues, Beppe Kessler, Gigi Mariani, Claude Schmitz, Flóra Vági, Yoko Takirai and Pietro Pellitteri

Initially founded as a place where authors engaged in dialogue and conversation, The Blue Room has become both the hub and the catalyst for a new dialogue among contemporary jewellery artists whose personal artistic practice is solicited and challenged.

For the 2026 edition of Schmuck Fair, The Blue Room proposes a site-specific project entirely dedicated to the music of the twentieth century, investigating how some major composers such as Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971), Arnold Schōnberg (1874-1951), John Cage (1912-1992) and Arvo Pärt (1935) changed the nature and the approach to music and sound, by revealing throughout their works the erosions, the thresholds, and the trespassings of the harmonic inquietude that characterized the last century.

As compared to the twentieth-century music, which changed from the tonal to the atonal system, emancipating dissonance and subverting hierarchies, so contemporary jewellery (as all the arts of the last century did) dismantled all the certainties about preciousness and the use of precious materials, subverting the established roles of jewels as mere precious ornamental pieces, and opening a new landscape of creation.

As well as the twentieth-century music eroded the establishment, contemporary jewellery also took its place in the field of the Arts, emancipating personal and collective ideas; releasing the use of different materials from the objet trouvé through plastics, stones, and many other artistic languages, revealing new territories of invention.

Nevertheless, as well as tonal and atonal music, follow precise rules of composition, contemporary jewellery also has its own rules of composition: how do the erosions come? Where are the thresholds traced? How far do the trespassings lead?

As a result, the artists have been kindly asked to create four new pieces based on the works -both literary and musical- of the composers, focusing on the words that compose the title of the entire project: EROSIONI (erosions) SOGLIE (thresholds) SCONFINAMENTI (trespassings).
 
Nichka Marobin, Exhibition Curator


Spotify PLAY LIST – EROSIONI SOGLIE SCONFINAMENTI https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1YPlAO9KQIHwnMKA0xDbK0?si=263b58d5535e45a2&pt=ee26b63688b02a1cab45ff14e4182174


The Blue Room MANIFESTO
Inspired by Catherine de Vivonne, The Blue Room project aims to open a metaphorical yet tangible room where artistic disciplines dialogue. A catalyst for new curatorial projects in the field of contemporary jewellery art. A different space aimed to build bridges among artistic practices and share different artistic languages.
The Blue Room is meant to be a hub for brilliant conversations in and for contemporary jewelry.
The Blue Room is a project founded and curated by Nichka Marobin, art historian and independent curator, and founder of the blogazette The Morning Bark.