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This is the public profile of Rosalba Balsamo, Additional information and high-resolution images are available for accredited press members, to access additional information about Rosalba Balsamo please login as a press member.About Rosalba Balsamo : I am a designer who wants to create jewels and objects that improve people's vote, not only in terms of function. I believe that my work stands out for being both innovative and strong without compromising functionality. I love finding the beauty in new materials that are not necessarily designed for a jewel but that become precious thanks to the jewel, as for my Black Sharp collection presented at Design Miami Basel in 2015 and then at the Vicenza Jewel Museum and the Mudec Museum in Milan, where 3D printing in polyamide was made precious thanks to the post-manual intervention of the pieces that were hand-worked, one by one and painted to obtain a new, more refined skin that exalts the angularity of the shapes. With my work I would like women to feel free to wear something different from a diamond without feeling less beautiful or less "precious"
STATEMENT OF ART:I am a designer. Through language slips ranging from sculpture to the design of furnishing elements to theatrical scenography, then I land also to jewelery, a design jewel that distinguishes me as one of the best designers on the Italian scene in this sector.
In fact, a careful analysis of contemporary jewelry highlights context slips and the mixing of very different disciplinary fields such as design, sculpture, architecture, decorative arts, anthropology and fashion. In my work I use methods and processes of design action, which allow me to create unique pieces or numbered editions and which above all, as far as jewelery is concerned, try to conjugate design technology and design to the goldsmith tradition, using the most appropriate techniques from time to time, from lost wax to construction, from chemical blanking of metals to laser cuts, to new design technologies, such as Rhinoceros 3D, without ever penalizing the functional characteristics of traditional jewelry. The design of my latest jewels is increasingly addressed both to research on form and body and to industrialization, to the weight of materials and available technologies, and also, which is not always very easy, in search of goldsmiths and not only, available to experiment with new techniques, even if they are often pieces that will not follow a mass production, and therefore not always very convenient in terms of cost and time.
ORGANIZATION:
milano
EDUCATION:
1996, Degree in Modern Letters, Naples, Italy
EXPERIENCE:
2000-2003, Assistant to the sculptor Nunzio, exponent of the new Roman school
2003-2007, Assistant in the "Babuino Novecento", design gallery, Rome
2015-2017, Founder and director of the D'Ayala Gallery in Naples, a space for independent designers
2017, Lecture on the innovation of contemporary jewelery at the Milan Politecnico, invited by Dr. Alba Cappellieri, professor of Jewelry Design at the Milan Politecnico
2018, Lecture entitled "Duel Duet" written and exhibited together with Franco Mello, international italian designer, on the links between Art and Design and the new possibilities linked to the design of contemporary jewelery. The conference was held at the opening of the academic year at the Polytechnic of Milan, invited by Dr. Alba Cappellieri, professor of jewelry design at the Milan Polytechnic
PRIVATE EXHIBITIONS:
2003, La Camera chiara, sculture, Gallery Babuino Novecento, Rome
2005, Bronzo, jewellery, Supper Club, Rome
2006, Modulazioni, Gallery Babuino Novecento, Rome
2007, Argento, Gallery Sanlorenzo, Turin
2009, Jewelery exhibition for Berlin Fashion Week, Projekt Galerie, Berlin
2010, Outsiderproject meets Rosalba Balsamo, Gallery Bagnai, Florence
2012, Less is more, Gallery Antonella Villanova, Florence
2012, Ornament, Gallery Jsign, Naples
MIXED EXHIBITIONS:
2009, Omaggio a Gio Ponti for the opening of the Galleria O. in Rome, with Ettore Sottsass, Nanda Vigo, Johanna Grawunder, Kiki Smith, Enzo Cucchi
2010, Arte Fiera Bologna with Gallery Antonella Villanova of Florence
2010, Focus on_ Around, Gallery Antonella Villanova, Florence
2010, Titani preziosi tra tecnologia e ornamento, Museum of Triennale of Milan
2010, New Italian Design 2.0, edited by Andrea Branzi, Santralistanbul Museum, Istanbul
2011, Arte Fiera Bologna with Gallery Antonella Villanova of Florence
2011, Collect, Saacthi Gallery, Londra
2012, Arte Fiera Bologna with Gallery Antonella Villanova of Florence
2012, Collect, Saatchi Gallery, London
2012, Beijing Industrial Design Center presents “The New Italian Design 2.0” , Pechino
2012, National Taiwan Craft Research and Developement Institute of Nantou
2013, “New Italian Design 2.0”, Alhondiga of Bilbao
2013, "New Italian Design 2.0", Cannery Galleries, Academy of Art University of San Francisco
2014, "Forme. Il tempo dei gioielli", Suor Orsola Benincasa, Naples
2014, Design Miami/Basel with Manfred Bischoff, Helen Britton, Lucia Massei,Jacqueline Ryan, Rike Barteles, Peter Bauhuis, with Gallery Antonella Villanova, Basel
2014, "New Italian Design 2.0", Waterfront Lookout, Cape Town
2014, Design Miami, with Gallery Antonella Villanova, Miami Beach
2015, "New Italian Design 2.0", Gwangju Design Biennale, Corea del Sud.
2016, "Skin", Museum of Jewellery of Vicenza
2016, "Ornament", The Shape of venerable art, Vernice in a bottle, Design, Venice
2016, "Crafting the Future, story of craftsmanship and innovation" Mudec Museum, Milan
2017, "Builders of tomorrow", MIC Museum Internazional of Cedramics, Faenza, edited by Giovanna Cassese and Marinella Paderni
2018, "III Edizione of Museum of Jewellery of Vicenza", biennal exibition from Dicember 2018 at Dicember 2020 of ring Ellipse of Rosalba Balsamo in the Section Design, for Designer without Design, by Alba Cappelli
EVENTS:
Some exhibitions at presenting young Neapolitan talents and their self-productions in my Gallery Space D'Ayala
AWARDS:
2009, Finalist at the Italian Jewellery Awards, Naples
2011, Finalist at the UK Jewellery Awards as the "Best Italian Jewellery Designer of the year"
PRESS APPEARANCES:
2007, Mysterious sculptural forms, catalog with text by Johanna Grawunder
2010, The rebirth of Naples, Interior n. 599, March, pag.84-89
2010, Rosalba Balsamo's contemporary crafts, interview with Corriere della Sera, p.19
2010, Focus on Design in WeAr, n. 23, July, pag.192
2010, The elegance of the alchemist, exclusive interview for Elle, October
2010, Catalog "New Italian Design 2.0" published by the Museo della Triennale di Milano
2010, Reporting of the Diamond Bracelet, a tribute to Gio Ponti, in the Adi Index Catalog
2012, "Jewelbook International Annual of Contemporary Jewel Art 12 | 13"
2016, "Forme, il tempo dei gioielli", University of Studies Suor Orsola Benincasa, text by Alba Cappellieri
2016, Catalog of the exhibition "Skin", published by the Vicenza Jewelery Museum by Alba Cappellieri
2016 Catalog of the exhibition "Crafting the Future, stories of craftsmanship and innovation" published by the Mudec Museum Milan
2017, "Builders of tomorrow", exhibition catalog, published by the MIC International Museum of Ceramics in Faenza, curated by Giovanna Cassese and Marinella Paderni
2018, Gioiello & Jewelery, third edition of the Vicenza Jewelery Museum, Silvana Editoriale
LANGUAGE SKILLS:
Italian and English
COMPUTER LITERACY:
RHINOCEROS 3D
COURSES, SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS::
In 2016 and 2017 she is invited by Dr. Alba Cappellieri, Professor and Professor of Jewelery Design and Director of the Jewelery Museum of Vicenza, to hold Lectures on her work as a designer and on innovation and new technologies of Jewelery contemporary at the Milan Polytechnic
COLLECTIONS:
Museum of Jewelery of Vicenza, Gallery Giustino Stagetti at Rome, Gallery A tonella Villanova Florence
HOBBIES:
Painting
CLIENTELE:
Private Collector
WEB SITE:
www.rosalbabalsamo.com
PORTFOLIO URL:
https://artemest.com/artisans/Rosalba-Balsamo ; https://www.museodelgioiello.it/it/mostre-temporan
ee/mostre-temporanee/skin-la-superficie-del-gioiel
lo-mostra-temporanea
RSS URL:
google search
REGISTRATION DATE:
2018-02-18 16:41:02
COUNTRY/REGION:
Italy
ACCOUNT TYPE:
Professional
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