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Jewellery by Artists: From Picasso to Koons. Diane Venet’s Collection
“Jewellery by Artists: From Picasso to Koons. Diane Venet’s Collection”, an exhibition organised by the culture and art portal “Arterritory.com”, will be on show in the Cupola Hall of the main building of The Latvian National Museum of Art in Riga. In all, it features 113 pieces of jewellery created by 82 well-known and illustrious artists of the 20th and 21st centuries – Pablo Picasso, Man Ray, Roy Lichtenstein, Max Ernst, Yayoi Kusama, Louise Bourgeois, Jean Cocteau, Georges Braque, Niki de Saint Phalle, Lucio Fontana, Antony Gormley, Keith Haring, Damien Hirst, Anish Kapoor, Yoko Ono, Frank Stella, Robert Rauschenberg, and many more.
Diane Venet (France / USA) has been collecting artist-made jewellery for 20 years, and her collection now contains more than 200 objects. She calls her collection an ‘intimate museum’ – not just because it’s so compact that it all fits into just a couple of boxes, but because these objects are by their very nature a key that connects the private sphere with art history. They represent various romantic, and sometimes also humorous, episodes from people’s lives as well as creative searches manifested in the form of small objects. For example, Spanish-born genius Pablo Picasso made jewellery for his mistresses Marie-Thérèse Walter and Dora Maar. American sculptor Alexander Calder – who made about 1800 pieces in all – sometimes made jewellery in the shape of his friends’ initials. French sculptor César created jewellery using the same technique he used for his iconic ‘crushed’ cars. He invited friends to give him pieces of their jewellery that no longer held meaning for them, and then he crushed them together, creating concentrated pendants of memories called ‘micro-sculptures’.
Many of the pieces in Venet’s collection were made specially for her, and she continues to approach young authors, inviting them to create pieces for her collection, at the same time, of course, challenging them to try something new. But no matter the reason behind making a piece of jewellery, each and every one of them displays the master’s particular style.
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“Jewellery by Artists: From Picasso to Koons. Diane Venet’s Collection”, an exhibition organised by the culture and art portal “Arterritory.com”, will be on show in the Cupola Hall of the main building of The Latvian National Museum of Art in Riga. In all, it features 113 pieces of jewellery created by 82 well-known and illustrious artists of the 20th and 21st centuries – Pablo Picasso, Man Ray, Roy Lichtenstein, Max Ernst, Yayoi Kusama, Louise Bourgeois, Jean Cocteau, Georges Braque, Niki de Saint Phalle, Lucio Fontana, Antony Gormley, Keith Haring, Damien Hirst, Anish Kapoor, Yoko Ono, Frank Stella, Robert Rauschenberg, and many more.
Diane Venet (France / USA) has been collecting artist-made jewellery for 20 years, and her collection now contains more than 200 objects. She calls her collection an ‘intimate museum’ – not just because it’s so compact that it all fits into just a couple of boxes, but because these objects are by their very nature a key that connects the private sphere with art history. They represent various romantic, and sometimes also humorous, episodes from people’s lives as well as creative searches manifested in the form of small objects. For example, Spanish-born genius Pablo Picasso made jewellery for his mistresses Marie-Thérèse Walter and Dora Maar. American sculptor Alexander Calder – who made about 1800 pieces in all – sometimes made jewellery in the shape of his friends’ initials. French sculptor César created jewellery using the same technique he used for his iconic ‘crushed’ cars. He invited friends to give him pieces of their jewellery that no longer held meaning for them, and then he crushed them together, creating concentrated pendants of memories called ‘micro-sculptures’.
Many of the pieces in Venet’s collection were made specially for her, and she continues to approach young authors, inviting them to create pieces for her collection, at the same time, of course, challenging them to try something new. But no matter the reason behind making a piece of jewellery, each and every one of them displays the master’s particular style.
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