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Bio:

Dina Abargil studied and graduated four years at Alchimia - contemporary Jewellery school in Florence. during the years 2003-2007 with the Jewellery artists and tutors Manuel Vilhena and Manferd Bischoff. Over the years she has exhibited in various exhibitions in Europe, United States, Israel and Canada. Was represented by gallery Mangold in Leipzig, gallery Alternatives in Rome and gallery Noel Guyomarc’h in Montreal. And some of her works have been published in contemporary jewellery books such as: New Bracelets: 500+ Contemporary Jewellery Designs, by Nicolas Estrada, The Compendium of Contemporary Jewellery Makers, 500 Pendants by Lark Books, New Bracelets: 500+ by Nicolas Estrada. Currently lives and works in a private studio in Haifa, Israel and her works are represented by Alternatives gallery in Rome, the center for art in wood In Philadelphia and atelier Sphera, in Herzelia, Israel.

Artist Statement:

In each one of my jewelry the registered materials go through a choreographed metamorphosis that attempts to combine connectors that are strangers to each other. The classic approach is unraveled and out of the melting pot appears the authentic, abstract, modern and primitive, qualities of the new jewel. My creations forge the contrasting materials into abstract individual units of shape – featuring geometric and organic asymmetries in tension and in tandem with each other. One by one the individual shapes relate to each other in a circular sequence, stressing them to break and disconnect its continuity. Geometric elements are transformed and modified with subtle organic handcraft. Symbolic to the limbs of the body, amorphous shapes are born from the remains of through processes of burning, scorching, marking and engraving, scratching and bending. The perfection of the wounds in the substance, as they breathe and hurt together, is formed as the elements hold on to each other in a broken sequence, like random atoms and molecules that collide together. The different characteristics of the elements nurture each other into a gentle whole that is a lot more than the sum of its parts. My jewelry is by definition an amalgam of nature and artificial innovation. An imaginary story that rises from the mists of the past. It is a tool for both consolidation and hunting during fictional quests into lost worlds.