Fracture
Exhibition
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01 Dec 2018
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24 Dec 2018
Published: 30.11.2018

Fracture is a new project for LAO students. Every year LAO involves its students in many projects of all kinds, to test their creative ability and their technical skills.
"Contemporarieamente" is an initiative promoted by a committee of traders, artisans and citizens of the Florentine Oltrarno, with the aim of presenting the variety of craft and artistic activities present in this area.
LAO has participated in all editions of this event, every year with a new project.
For the 2018 edition, the students were called to create objects (jewelry, but not only), using fragments of porcelain from the famous Richard Ginori factory.
Students of different nationalities were confronted with a beautiful and difficult material. Sharp, hard, and unusual compared to the traditional materials of the goldsmith's creation, obtaining unexpected results: rings, brooches, bracelets, necklaces, patiently constructed by combining silver, copper and precious stones with porcelain fragments, thus living a second life.
It is still and for now only imperfect prototypes, evidence of objects that will be perfected and declined in the subsequent phases of the project, which will lead to the creation of a collection of objects that will then be sold during a charity auction, whose proceeds it will be completely donated to the "Amici di Doccia" association, to contribute to the fundraising for the Museo della Ceramica di Doccia, which is currently closed due to economic difficulties.
Students of different nationalities were confronted with a beautiful and difficult material. Sharp, hard, and unusual compared to the traditional materials of the goldsmith's creation, obtaining unexpected results: rings, brooches, bracelets, necklaces, patiently constructed by combining silver, copper and precious stones with porcelain fragments, thus living a second life.
It is still and for now only imperfect prototypes, evidence of objects that will be perfected and declined in the subsequent phases of the project, which will lead to the creation of a collection of objects that will then be sold during a charity auction, whose proceeds it will be completely donated to the "Amici di Doccia" association, to contribute to the fundraising for the Museo della Ceramica di Doccia, which is currently closed due to economic difficulties.
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