The Artists in the Melencolia Catalogue. Iris Bodemer, Gigi Mariani, Yoko Takirai and Pietro Pellitteri

Amidst this opacity, one sometimes gets lost in the forest of interpretations; in the middle of the fog of all the historical and philosophical evidence, the bewilderment of beauty and the fascination this engraving casts are still just breathtaking. Despite all that, there is a subtle thread -made precisely of gold- that gathers all the artists involved in this journey. From Albrecht Dürer to the living ones, this gold thread reunites, fuses, and transforms not only the world of Renaissance and the one of contemporary jewellery, but also all the worlds belonging to each participant of this exhibition project

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