Alchimia Contemporary Jewellery School, Florence, Italy
SILVER SCHOOLS cycle is an annual presentation of the leading European art schools, showing works of their professors, graduates and students. This year shows Insitute of Art and Design, University of West Bohemia (Pilsen, Czech Republic) and Alchimia Contemporary Jewellery School (Florence, Italy).
Alchimia is a school of contemporary jewellery in
The philosophy of Alchimia, a name chosen for its symbolism and suggestions: the ancient discipline between science and thought, the ancestor of chemistry, from which to draw in order to transform the “worthless” into the “highest quality” through the creative impulse, the manual skill, imagination and enthusiasm.
Alchimia’s teaching method, focused on the students and their individual nature, has produced results of a very high quality, with peaks of excellence made evident by many international prized acknowledgements.
The school has obtained full accreditation of its artistic and pedagogic values and is officially qualified for European Bachelor of Fine Arts & European Master of Fine Arts by EABHES the European Accreditation Board of Higher Education Schools.
Hazardous experiments
Mystery, curiosity, try-try-try, risk, trust, transformation, strange…
Do you think a plastic cup is a piece of jewellery?
Probably not.
Every material has it’s hidden value. You just have to look for it.
You could: jump on it for 30 minutes, shoot it from a distance of 25 meters, bake it in an oven for 3 days, try to plant it and wait for it to grow or you could just make it explode.
Maybe, if you are lucky and patient enough that plastic cup could actually turn into something precious and unexpected, which will lead you to your piece of jewellery.
Alchimia
List of artists:
Andrea Melissa Arias - Venezuela
Daria Borovkova - Russia
Amani Bou Dargham - Lebanon
Francesco Coda - Italy
Gabriela Cohn - Spain
Elena Gil - Costa Rica
Ana María González - Colombia
Sana Khalil - Lebanon
Orsolya Losonczy - Hungary
Carla Movia - Italy
Kyla Murrihy - Australia
Federica Sala - Italy
María Ignacia Walker G. - Chile