Black SeaBed Pendant

Bio:

Bruno Micolano is a multifaceted creative whose practice spans jewellery, product/visual design and art projects. While diverse in medium and form, Bruno’s body of work is cohesive and recognizable by a high level of research and a refined aesthetic; the result of a multifaceted artistic preparation and a wide technical knowledge. During his varied training he has learned the best of Italian craftsmanship techniques at many workshops in Italy along with tools of new design-technology in European universities and research centres. His background enables him to design and implement each phase of his artistic projects, proposing works characterized by a high level of Italian craftsmanship and an international concept-design.

Artist Statement:

There are various ways and tools to try to fix an instant or to try and remember a feeling, such as taking a picture or writing a note; in his SeaBed project Bruno Micolano is carried away by a synesthetic flux and he captures the beauty of the seabed, conceiving jewellery that encapsulates the charm of those volumes. He decontextualizes the natural texture and proposes it in special jewels as a multi-sensory concentration. Bruno Micolano crafts brooches and pendants by hand and with a personal technique that reflects his own character; an innovative synthesis between chalcography art and goldsmith art, as a charming synergy between positive and negative, cast and anti-cast. Result of an exciting experimentation where the positive of xylographic mold comes in Silver, creating beautiful graphic elements on complementary colors; or where the negative of Linoleum is no longer the medium but part of the ultimate result embellished with precious metals. First he engraves the xylography mould and then he extracts anti-cast replacing paper with precious and noble metals, using stylistic graphics with a material back that enhances the intensity and value of the compositions.