Artist jewelry, from Picasso to Koons. Diane Venet's ideal collection..
Thirty years ago, the artist Bernar Venet wrapped a thin rod of silver foil around the fi nger of the woman who would become his wife . . . It was this touching, spontaneous gesture that would forever mark Diane Venet and instil in her a passion for the collection of artists’ jewellery, rare and rich in symbolic power.
This impressive collection of small works of art has seduced audiences in several museums around the world, and it is now the turn of the City of Luxembourg to welcome a selection of pieces from one hundred international artists in a new exhibition conceived by the Cercle Cité team and curated by Diane Venet.
The exhibition at Cercle Cité takes visitors on a chronological and thematic journey through a display specifically designed by NJOY to accommodate these miniature works created by leading avant-garde artists (Georges Braque, the Pomodoro brothers, Alexander Calder), Surrealists (Hans Arp, Salvador Dalí) , Man Ray), Pop artists (Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Indiana), Minimalists (Frank Stella, Lucio Fontana) and contemporary artists (Kader Attia, ORLAN, Anish Kapoor . . .).
For this exhibition, Diane Venet has given the opportunity to the Franco-Luxembourgish duo Martine Feipel & Jean Bechameil to create their fi rst piece of jewelry, a ring that perfectly embodies their artistic style.
The exhibition at the Cercle Cité pays tribute to the creativity of artists, inviting visitors to connect with their own sensitivity as well as with that of the artists, whose perspective – at times critical, at others playful – and ingenious work accompany us in all circumstances and will continue, again and again, to introduce an element of dream into our daily lives.
Passionate about art, Diane VENET acquired her first artist’s jewel—a brooch by painter Roy Lichtenstein—in New York in 1967. But it was her encounter with sculptor Bernar VENET in 1985 that led her to begin assembling a collection of artist’s jewelry, gradually built through encounters, artistic favorites, and special commissions.
Over the course of 30 years, Diane VENET has brought together a remarkable collection of more than 230 artist’s jewels. 180 of them will be unveiled for one month at the Grimaldi Forum Monaco. From Picasso to Jeff Koons, including Roy Lichtenstein, Frank Stella, Niki de Saint Phalle, Keith Haring, Louise Bourgeois, ORLAN, Miguel Chevalier… the exhibition features both modern and contemporary artists, French and international alike.
Her jewelry collection is part of her daily life—she has never stopped wearing the pieces. But exhibiting and sharing this passion has also become essential. Since 2008, her miniature artworks have been exhibited in international institutions, placing them firmly within the field of art. The jewel, in its reduced form, often embodies the artist’s core concerns—sometimes even the original idea, the concept, the starting point of a larger work. The infinitely small meets the infinitely large. Diane Venet passionately grants each jewel the status of a true artwork.
As proof, she enjoys creating dialogues between “her” miniatures and the monumental works of renowned artists: André Derain, Max Ernst, Frank Stella, Bernar Venet… Yet here, it is the intimate gaze and commitment of a woman that guide the narrative of the exhibition.
From love of the artist to love of art, this collection is a heartfelt tribute to creation—one that Diane Venet shares with grace and talent.
Jewellery by Artists: From Picasso to Koons. Diane Venet’s Collection
Latvian National Museum of Art.
“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 (Jaņa Rozentāla laukums 1) from 4 November to 3 December 2017. 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.
From Picasso to Koons: The Artist as Jeweler is organized by French curator and jewelry collector Diane Venet.
The exhibition of some 200 works by 135 artists is an intimate, often whimsical side of some of the greatest artists of recent times, each offering a singular vision of adornment. The exceptional and little-known works of wearable sculpture will reward viewers with new insights into the creative wellsprings of such artistic giants as Georges Braque, Max Ernst, Lucio Fontana, Louise Nevelson, Anthony Caro, Yoko Ono, and Anish Kapoor.
French Venet first became fascinated with artist-made jewelry when her-then-beau sculptor Bernar Venet rolled a thin piece of silver around her finger to form a wedding ring. Since then, she has acquired jewels made by her husband’s confreres, a group that has included Arman, César, Mimmo Rotella, and Villéglé, and she has commissioned pieces by Kader Attia, John Chamberlain, Wim Delvoye, Orlan, and Frank Stella. “I’m careful to ask only those artists whom I think will find the request challenging and fun,” says Venet. “It’s important they recognize that the jewel should be seen as an extension of their art-making.”
While many of these wearable sculptures are crafted out of precious materials, what makes them so compelling is the beauty and candor of the artistic expression. Often conceived for a lover or a cherished family member or friend, a number of these pieces reveal a surprising tenderness or whimsy. The wearable sculptures will be presented in three groupings—the Early Masters, Representational, and Abstraction—with sections devoted to the human figure, nature, Popsubjects, words, geometry, and new technologies and materials.
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Since 1923, one of the curiosities of the museum of Roubaix is magnificent set fineries of romantic period when bequeathed to him the textile trader Henri Selosse.
This fund, rediscovered in 1990 at the time of the inventory of collections, gave the idea to integrate the contemporary jewel into the fashion section which introduced then the team of the future Piscine
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