Riccardo Dalisi's sustainable jewels

Only recently the goldsmith world has caught awareness of a necessity to ponder on sustainblity, the central theme of contemporary thought and future development.
So an homage to the jewels created by Riccardo Dalisi who was the first to retain the jewel a symbol of more responsibility toward environmental resources and of a territorial capital's valorization. Riccardo Dalisi is a leading figure in the international panorama of the Contemporary Art. He is a designer who coniugated the industrial-scale work with the hand-crafted work, winning the "Golden Compasses" in 1981. He was one of the first artists to assemble recycle and poor materials as tin, paper, copper, iron, sheet, ceramic, glass, wood and fabric transforming them in works of art with patience and craft abilities.

This exhibition shows for the first time the "opera omnia" of Riccardo Dalisi's jewels: this is not only a due act to one of the most interesting artists in the contemporary panorama but especially the acknowledgement of the expressive value, the linguistics coherence and the artistic autonomy of his jewels. According to Alba Cappellieri, curator and Professor of Jewel Design at the Politecnico Institute in Milan, "if Dalisi's work is generally credited in design areas - from the percolators of Alessi to the lamps of O Luce and to his sculptures which decorate many squares and museums' collections -  on the other hand his jewels belong to a silent production, outwardly accidental, which is little known although is extraordinarily deep and suggestive.
 
These jewels well describe the misterious world (created by) Riccardo and its creatures: trees, flowers, stars, chimneypot on which placid dove alight, doors and windows wich open onto bewitched forest populated by giraffes, lions and elephants, welcoming hands, hugging hearts, smiling faces from a cameo's balcony".

There are one hundred jewels self-produced and realized by hand between 1990 and today: delicate and pure, colourful and created from "ultra dirt poor" materials as tin, brass, foil that place side by side gold and silver and sweetly immerse us in an artistic performance on metamorphosis and movement.

Dalisi introduced the theme of  the refusal, the jewel's discard, showing that not only the precious materials have preciousness but also a little piece of glass or a ceramic fragment can have a new life, often better than the previous one.
The Neapolitan stage at the PAN follow those ones of Triennale di Milano and of Palazzo Bonin Longare di Vicenza, both seen by over 5000 visitors. 

In Naples there are two novelties. For the first time the ri-edition of "La Foresta Incantata" ("The bewitched forest") collection, a silver pieces' limited series realized by the Antico Borgo Orefici consortium will be presented and for the first time will be on sale at principal Neapolitan stores, in confirmation of the useful relation between design and craft.

For the first time also a preview of Pintaderas collection will be exposed: this is a new collection of ceramic jewels with a polycrome glazings and  golden and silver lustres' finish realized by Terre Blu, to which Dalisi is working in these days, which will be presented next autumn.