Tales of Transformation in Athens

Artist list

Mayte Amezcua, Elvira Bessudo, Raquel Bessudo, Annarita Bianco, Sandra Bostock, Alice Brazzit, Gisella Ciullo, Clara Del Papa, Renee Harari Masri, Lorena Lazard, Letizia Maggio, Anna Retico

Organic, multiple, plural tales.

The plot continues to thicken and grow, articulating and enriching itself more and more with new lives, perspectives, and points of view.
For several years now, Raquel Bessudo and Letizia Maggio have embarked on a common path of sharing and artistic production, made up of complicity, projects and contaminations.

A journey that began in 2019 with Adagio.Uno. A special edition, and then arrived in 2023 at a point of convergence, with Converging Nodes, in which the synergy of languages has harmonised further, albeit through a progressive refinement of the two identities.

In their respective research, they have both maintained a great openness and porosity of thought, which has allowed the projects to compare with other disciplines and languages, such as photography.

This year, on the occasion of the Munich Jewellery Week, the contaminating effect of the Bessudo-Maggio duo has involved eight other artists, other absorbing and reflective identities, other multiplications of languages and styles, infinite potentialities of existence that resonate together, each with its own rhythm, message and personality.

The great work of these artists is situated in the constant confrontation diluted over time, in the dialogues at a distance and in finding those intimate shares that then become artistic expression.

The exhibition, entitled Tales of Transformation and supported by the photographic work of Alice Brazzit and Renee Harari Masri presents the work of Mayte Amezcua, Elvira Bessudo, Raquel Bessudo, Annarita Bianco, Sandra Bostock, Gisella Ciullo, Clara Del Papa, Lorena Lazard, Letizia Maggio, Anna Retico.

Metals, fabrics, organic elements and experimentation through the use of new materials and techniques alternate in the different creations of the artists who weave independent but complementary parts of a single variegated story.

Within this large, diversified, and articulated plot, there are some narrative threads that connect the research and allow us to identify some common themes.
The most evident concerns the almost constant presence of elements or references to organic subjects related to nature, such as the use of wood and the representation of seeds, flowers, and blooms.

Clara del Papa praises the creative and rebirth potential of wounds, while Letizia Maggio, in rediscovering the ancient pleasure of modelling, experiments and arrives at a hyper-realistic vision of sprouts shaped by hand through PLA filaments originally intended for 3D printing. Anna Retico radicalises her work on matter in a creative game of polarization and harmonisation between nature and artifice, resulting from long research and experimentation. She thus gives life to new forms and images. Gisella Ciullo represents an entire life-death cycle through three wooden brooches that tell about the epidemic of the Xylella Fastidiosa bacterium that destroyed a heritage of 21 million olive trees in just a few years.

Annarita Bianco, in her collection of translucent Seeds of the future, draws the secret of a possible coexistence between species in nature through continuous and constant regeneration and healing, while Lorena Lazard tells of the regenerative dynamic between chaos and order through a conceptual, spiritual and abstract approach, where the black colour metaphorically neutralises differences.
Even in the most minimal and essential results of the works, as in Elvira Bessudo or Sandra Bostok, who expressly speak of transformation and change of states, lines and materials, the transformative dynamics of the world emerge in its structure and propulsive force. Even in Raquel Bessudo's work, we can see a more contained, synthetic result, which points to the stratification of colours as a constant element of transformation and growth.

In this interweaving of feminine, plural languages, through the use of organic and natural elements, we also find intimate outcomes, such as the personal story of Mayte Amezcua, who sees in the characteristics of wood that resilience necessary for life, and of Rita Martínez, who in her magical and esoteric amulets, rich in smells, perfumes and aromas, activates the ancient rite of metamorphosis.
We could then mention other invisible, subtle, unconscious, perhaps, threads of dialogue between the artists: the idea and perception of time passing, the experience of memory, personal and collective, but above all, this necessary search for the natural potential of life in its self-re-generative, self-healing, reparative and vital qualities emerge.

As we said, not only jewels, but also a dense contribution of visual imagery, human and urban views, perspectives and architectures elaborated by photographers Alice Brazzit and Renee Harari Masri, which, as in an endless flow, accompanies on a transformative journey between peoples and cultures.
We hope that this spontaneous aggregation can represent a new creative practice, like a participatory cultural production model that opens new ways for artistic confrontation.’
/ Text by Ilaria Ruggiero


Event duration: 
Tuesday, Thursday &  Friday  [  9.00 – 3.00 ]
Wednesday & Saturday   [ 10:00 - 6:00 ]
Sunday    [ closed ]
Monday  [10:00 - 1:00 ]