Island #1 by Francesca Urciuoli

Artist list

Francesca Urciuoli

ISLAND \ ˈī-lənd \  is a section that consists of highlighting a series of works by contemporary jewelry artists within the space of the gallery providing them with a special display. 

The first artist we present is Francesca Urciuoli.
She defines her works as "small scale armor and at the same time as talismans, or amulets".
We started collaborating with her since the gallery opened in 2013.
Today she presents three different kinds of research: 

The first one concerns her practice of the art of Mokume Gane that she learned while studying in San Diego.What is striking in the work of Francesca is the way she approaches this Japanese technique (used in the 17th century to adorn swords): as a matter of fac,t she uses its ancient alphabet to form new and different phrases.

The second research is focused on the development of some of her first designs, known as Knots. 
Relics of an action, their formal quality lies in gestural abstraction.

The third study is called Patched and it's created with the 3d technique. Georges Didi-Huberman writes that a patch is an "accident" that "rather than delimiting an object, produces a potentiality". These pieces are twists, drawings, unsettled fragments that weave together not just precious materials but stories too. About our temporary nature, about our attempts and failures to grasp it.

In the field of contemporary jewelry OHMYBLUE is an island that grows fast as it discovers new lands, new authors, new possibilities.
Take note of its position.