Paula Isola
Jeweller
Published: 02.10.2017
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Book sheets of Marguerite Duras´s book “The Lover”, silver 925, thread waxed
Photo by: Geraldine Rychter
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Bracelet: The lover III, 2017
Book sheets of Marguerite Duras´s book “The Lover”, silver 925, thread waxed
11 x 9 x 6 cm
Photo by: Geraldine Rychter
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Bracelet: The lover, 2016
Book sheets of Marguerite Duras´s book “The lover”, silver 925, thread waxed
11 x 8.5 x 6 cm
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Necklace: Nowhere to go, 2017
Porcelain, nylon thread, enamel
Photo by: Geraldine Rychter
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Necklace: Threading dreams, 2015
Found wood, Sterling silver, waxed thread, Japanese lacquer
4.5 x 12.5 x 2 cm
Photo by: Pablo Mehanna
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Necklace: Words from others, 2014
Tracing paper, safety pins
40 x 30 x 0.2 cm
Photo by: Pablo Mehanna
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Bracelet: Words from others, 2014
Tracing paper, oxidized sterling silver
13 x 23 x 0.3 cm
Photo by: Pablo Mehanna
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Brooch: Words from others, 2014
Tracing paper, sterling silver, safety pins
18 x 7 x 0.5 cm
Photo by: Pablo Mehanna
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Brooch: Love is like mushrooms, do not realize that is poisonous until it's too late! III, 2012
Found wood, copper, patina, sterling silver
11 x 4.6 x 2.4 cm
Photo by: Damian Wasser
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Necklace: Love is like mushrooms, do not realize that is poisonous until it's too late! IV, 2012
Argentine lignum vitae, copper, patina, waxed thread
22 x 16.5 x 1.3 cm
Photo by: Pablo Mehanna
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Ring: Love is like mushrooms, do not realize that is poisonous until it's too late!, 2012
Argentine lignum vitae, copper, patina
3.7 x 3.4 x 3.9 cm
Photo by: Damian Wasser
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Necklace: Dont groom, you are not to appear in the photo, 2012
Copper, sterling silver, photographs
16.5 x 30 x 0.15 cm
Photo by: Damian Wasser
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Necklace: Dont groom, you are not to appear in the photo, 2012
Copper, sterling silver, photographs
16.5 x 30 x 0.15 cm
Photo by: Damian Wasser
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Necklace: Is there or not the dream I forgot before dawn, 2012
Found woods, objects of childhood, sterling silver, waxed thread
Photo by: Damian Wasser
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Pendant: What will not return / to my old man, 2011
Recycled wood, glass, ancient stamps, object of my infancy and waxed cotton yarn
10.4x 5.2 x 3.9 cm
Photo by: Paul Mehanna
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Brooch: Transparencies: the swimmers, 2010
Sterling silver, resin
Photo by: Pablo Mehanna
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Piece: Mazes, 2010
Sterling silver, copper and cotton paper
4.1 x 4.1 x 1.2 cm; 3.5 x 0.6 cm; 3.7 x 3.3 cm
Photo by: Damian Wasser
Box, Reliquary & Ring
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Necklace: Air, 2010
Nylon
17 x 28 x 3 cm
Photo by: Pablo Mehanna
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Necklace: Loopholes III, 2010
Raulí, quebracho, palo santo, arrayán, lapacho, sterling silver, copper, chaguar fiber
42.5 cm
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Necklace: Ephemeral, 2010
Palo santo, lapacho, rauli, chaguar fibers
5.9 x 4.3 x 3 cm
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Bracelet: Sirens, 2009
Sterling silver, copper and alpaca
8.3 x 6.0 x 4.5 cm
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Brooch: Loopholes II, 2009
Radal, quebracho, sterling silver, copper, photography, mokume gane
Photo by: Pablo Mehanna
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Brooch: Loopholes II, 2009
Radal, quebracho, sterling silver, copper, photography, mokume gane
Photo by: Pablo Mehanna
Detail view
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Brooch: Loopholes II, 2009
Radal, quebracho, sterling silver, copper, photography, mokume gane
Photo by: Pablo Mehanna
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Brooch: Which is what unites us?, 2010
Steel wire, sterling silver
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I studied industrial design at UBA (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina); drawing, etching and photography at L’ESAV, (Ecole Superieure d’arts Visuels, Switzerland). I studied painting with M. L. Manassero and finally jewelry with Graciela Lescano. I’m a jewel designer, a graphic designer, an industrial designer and a potter. Since 2006 I have been part of the Fwiya Group, directed by Graciela Lescano, with whom I expose my work as a jewelery. Since 2008 I have been part of Joyeros Argentinos. Throughout the last years I have carried out numerous projects of design and assembly of contemporary jewelry exhibitions, catalog design and books on this subject, in addition to the production of my work in jewelry. Work, in parallel with the development of my work, in broadening the Argentine public's perspective towards contemporary jewelry, giving it a place within Argentine artistic production and also projecting its international diffusion. I have participated in numerous collective exhibitions of contemporary jewelry in Argentina, Chile, Mexico, France, Poland, USA, Estonia and Bulgaria.
Statement
In 2006, I discovered jewelry and it has ever since become my passion. I find in the world of jewelry a place that brings together varied aspects of art and design, and is this combination what attracts me the most. The counterpoint between imagination and ergonomic possibilities becomes a piece of expression that can be carried around, that is portable.Thorough part of my career I have worked with pieces of wood and found-sought objects with the idea of re-contextualize its natural or cultural elements that have fallen in disuse along the way. Pieces of wood in which time and water have left a mark, of old wire fences, of almost unrecognizable furniture; family photographs, old items left in drawers. They all become jewels that work like bridges, evoking something that moves us: Narrative pieces with stories that combine the object’s own story with the new images that arise from the new composition. All that is imperceptible and about to be lost comes back and change its course to become a new narrative.
My most recent work, on the other hand, was developed around words: Words of others but, who owns the words? They were there before we were born and they would still be here when we are gone. Nevertheless we make them ours. They are our creation, our permanent construction: Old, new, ordinary, obscure; they float within reach for us to grab them. In every single moment of time someone is building the world with words, reinventing it.
I have always been attracted by words. I love to underline, to cut, to write, to copy, to paste. Everything that is written and said around me is leaving its imprint on my work. For the work “The Lover” I have taken actual pages from a book that I love: Marguerite Duras' “The Lover”. The pages dismember themselves, the texts flow and mix: new readings arise through the new form.
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