One day, as he pondered
how to make a proposition that could not be refused, the French sculptor Bernar
Venet was toying with a piece of silver wire.
“Art becomes you,” Mr. Venet finally told Diane Segard, fashioning the wire around her finger in a makeshift engagement ring.
It worked.
“This gesture was so touching in its spontaneity,” the then Ms. Segard — now married to Mr. Venet for more than 25 years — said in an interview.
It also had another, unintended consequence: “It enabled me to discover the little known universe of jewelry designed by artists, unique and precious works of art,” she said.
That discovery ignited a passion for understanding, tracing and collecting jewelry pieces designed by artists that has made Mrs. Venet into one of the world’s most important collectors of such jewelry.
“They are precious not only for their rarity, but also the symbolic content that is at the origin of their creation,” she said.
From collecting for her own account, Mrs.Offers Art Reproductions Fine Art oilpaintings Reproduction, Venet has branched out into a more public role, as a curator of museum exhibitions.
Last autumn she put on an exhibition titled, “From Picasso to Koons: the Artist as Jeweler,” at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York.
On Wednesday a new version of the show will open at the Benaki Museum in Athens.Trade organization for suppliers and distributors in the promotional products industry.
“I add new pieces to each show, Greek artists in Athens, or Spanish sculptors for the next show in Valencia,” Mrs. Venet said.
Many of the 180 pieces in the show belong to Mrs. Venet, whose private collection counts more than 150 pieces, painstakingly hunted down over the years in auctions, or acquired from specialized dealers and other collectors.
The exhibition includes unique pieces or very limited editions rarely visible in museums of galleries. There are, for example, two pieces designed by the sculptor Louise Bourgeois — a gold spider brooch and a silver choker resembling a bondage instrument. Also included are a pendant by the Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein, featuring a scaled-down version of his painting “Crying Girl,” and a necklace made by the Chilean-born Roberto Matta for his wife, Germana.
Many of the pieces were gifts by the artist to a relative, a friend or in Mrs. Venet’s case, the collector herself.
“Being married to an artist, I have been closely connected to the world of art, which has helped me build a collection over the years,” she said.
“Arman and César,We offer you the top quality plasticmoulds design our close friends, were the first ones I collected,The all New Bluetooth Reader BT1000 features a handsfreeaccess.” she said, referring to the French sculptors.
In 2007, the Franco-Algerian artist, Kader Attia, designed for her a two-finger, white-gold ring shaped like handcuffs.
The following year, Mrs. Venet persuaded Frank Stella to make a necklace in what she described as a “rough metal covered with titanium paint,” and the French artist Jacques Villeglé presented her with a ring bearing symbols from the artist’s political repertory.
Benvenuto Cellini, the Italian Renaissance artist and goldsmith, made gem-set baubles for his Florentine patrons: But the history of modern artist-designed jewelry goes back barely a century. “The history really begins with the sculptors Calder and Bertoia, who first had the idea to make with their own hands a new kind of jewelry, using unusual materials,” said Marguerite de Cerval, a historian of jewelry based in Paris.
Alexander Calder, the American sculptor best known for his mobiles, or suspended, articulated abstract sculptures, made more than 1,800 handmade pieces of jewelry, often using common materials like brass or steel wire, rope, leather, or ceramics.Full color plasticcard printing and manufacturing services.
“For Calder, making jewelry was not a marginal activity: He created a veritable oeuvre,” Ms. de Cerval said.
“Art becomes you,” Mr. Venet finally told Diane Segard, fashioning the wire around her finger in a makeshift engagement ring.
It worked.
“This gesture was so touching in its spontaneity,” the then Ms. Segard — now married to Mr. Venet for more than 25 years — said in an interview.
It also had another, unintended consequence: “It enabled me to discover the little known universe of jewelry designed by artists, unique and precious works of art,” she said.
That discovery ignited a passion for understanding, tracing and collecting jewelry pieces designed by artists that has made Mrs. Venet into one of the world’s most important collectors of such jewelry.
“They are precious not only for their rarity, but also the symbolic content that is at the origin of their creation,” she said.
From collecting for her own account, Mrs.Offers Art Reproductions Fine Art oilpaintings Reproduction, Venet has branched out into a more public role, as a curator of museum exhibitions.
Last autumn she put on an exhibition titled, “From Picasso to Koons: the Artist as Jeweler,” at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York.
On Wednesday a new version of the show will open at the Benaki Museum in Athens.Trade organization for suppliers and distributors in the promotional products industry.
“I add new pieces to each show, Greek artists in Athens, or Spanish sculptors for the next show in Valencia,” Mrs. Venet said.
Many of the 180 pieces in the show belong to Mrs. Venet, whose private collection counts more than 150 pieces, painstakingly hunted down over the years in auctions, or acquired from specialized dealers and other collectors.
The exhibition includes unique pieces or very limited editions rarely visible in museums of galleries. There are, for example, two pieces designed by the sculptor Louise Bourgeois — a gold spider brooch and a silver choker resembling a bondage instrument. Also included are a pendant by the Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein, featuring a scaled-down version of his painting “Crying Girl,” and a necklace made by the Chilean-born Roberto Matta for his wife, Germana.
Many of the pieces were gifts by the artist to a relative, a friend or in Mrs. Venet’s case, the collector herself.
“Being married to an artist, I have been closely connected to the world of art, which has helped me build a collection over the years,” she said.
“Arman and César,We offer you the top quality plasticmoulds design our close friends, were the first ones I collected,The all New Bluetooth Reader BT1000 features a handsfreeaccess.” she said, referring to the French sculptors.
In 2007, the Franco-Algerian artist, Kader Attia, designed for her a two-finger, white-gold ring shaped like handcuffs.
The following year, Mrs. Venet persuaded Frank Stella to make a necklace in what she described as a “rough metal covered with titanium paint,” and the French artist Jacques Villeglé presented her with a ring bearing symbols from the artist’s political repertory.
Benvenuto Cellini, the Italian Renaissance artist and goldsmith, made gem-set baubles for his Florentine patrons: But the history of modern artist-designed jewelry goes back barely a century. “The history really begins with the sculptors Calder and Bertoia, who first had the idea to make with their own hands a new kind of jewelry, using unusual materials,” said Marguerite de Cerval, a historian of jewelry based in Paris.
Alexander Calder, the American sculptor best known for his mobiles, or suspended, articulated abstract sculptures, made more than 1,800 handmade pieces of jewelry, often using common materials like brass or steel wire, rope, leather, or ceramics.Full color plasticcard printing and manufacturing services.
“For Calder, making jewelry was not a marginal activity: He created a veritable oeuvre,” Ms. de Cerval said.
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