Letter to Graziella Folchini about the book review The Padua School of jewellery, considered from inside.

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what would have interested me as a reader,
is the question of meaning.
What does a material represent to an artist? In the short history of contemporary art jewellery, the semiotic function of certain materials, the values (beyond the economical) and meanings which are attached to materials by artists, is very interesting.
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