ITALO CALVINO QUICKNESS SERIES

This is something Calvino recognised when he wrote, вЂњit is natural to digress, to jump from one subject to another, to lose the thread a hundred times and find it again after a hundred more twists and turns.вЂќ That said, a creative spark will often take many weeks or even months to develop fully into the physical form. Much like Calvino, my ideas come to me as flashes of inspiration. Italo thinks of quickness in a physical sense, but more importantly in relation to speed of thought. The two pieces I designed and created for this exhibition are my response to Italo CalvinoвЂ™s lecture about the virtue of quickness or rapidity. вЂњThe moment an object appears in a narrative, it is charged with a special force and becomes like the pole of a magnetic field, a knot in the network of invisible relationships.вЂќ How can we detect movement through the structures and the technique of goldsmithing applied to contemporary jewellery? How can the internal rhythm be achieved and detected by the wearer and the viewer? Starting from the concept of quickness, intended as rhythm in structures, we can think about rapidity as a movement. It might be considered a contradiction in terms talking about quickness and rapidity in jewellery, since goldsmithing is an art that has lot to do with patience and concentration. Multiplicity: Robert Baines & GГ©sine Hackenberg Lightness: Karin Johansson & Patricia DominguesД®xactitude: Ezra Satok-Wolman & Lin Cheung

ITALO CALVINO QUICKNESS SERIES

The result is a series of five lectures which are a truly summa poetica of CalvinoвЂ™s way of thinking and working.ДЇollowing the author along the path of his literary wanderings and on the aspects such as Lightness, Quickness, Exactitude, Visibility, Multiplicity and their antithesis, we enter a world made by literary, philosophical juxtapositions and values that encompass the simple field of writing: this is the reason why we want to read this works under the lens of contemporary jewellery.

The collected memos, published in Italy under the title вЂњAmerican LessonsвЂќ, and translated in English in 1993 highlight the values of literature that Italo Calvino felt important to lead in the new millennium. Rings for exhibition by invitation: each invited Artist was invited to create two new pieces inspired to the specific subject of the book вЂњSix memos of the next millenniumвЂќ a collected essay derived from the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard University that the author was invited to give in 1985.

Italo calvino quickness