Nino Migliori, My Jewels

This exhibition presents a production very different from what we are used to seeing by famous photographer Nino Migliori. As an authoritative and acclaimed Italian artist, his research has ranged among different media, including jewelry design.

It is a series of jewels often made with precious materials but also with everyday and poor objects in which one can find a great coherence with his work.

Like this Armilla in gold, which can be observed here in a 3D model.

Or this brooch in gold and garnets.

The artist overturns the compositional processes, subverts the rules by inserting uncontrollable elements such as flames and voluntary breakages into his artistic work.

The result harks back to some of his photographic experiments from the 1950s, such as the Pyrograms, in which he acted on the film with fire, producing alterations in the final images.

Bracelet, gold, silver and coral.

Brooch, plastic, coral and onyx.

Brooch-pendant with removable stone, gold and agate.

Nino Migliori's jewels are unique sculptures, capable of conveying his enormous experimental power, but also irreverent objects that ironically betray a tradition of precious heirlooms, challenging and winking at contemporary design.

Thumb ring, gold and garnets.