The art of Fontana’s cuts rises again in Cuts collection by Mattioli: sudden fissures on gold surfaces.
The art, especially painting, has always been a source of inspiration for the Turin Maison Mattioli. After the Arcimboldo’s paintings that suggested the namesake collection, here’s the line Tagli or, if you prefer english language, Cuts. This time, with a jump of four centuries, the jewelry are ispired to informal style by Lucio Fontana, founder of the “spatialist group”, an Italian artist known especially for its cuts to the canvases that, in this way, earning a third dimension. As in the works of the famous series Spatial Concept, also in the Licia Mattioli jewelry are alternated sudden flat and surface cracks. In these cuts, at times, it is also placed a small diamond. The jewelry is made of yellow gold, white and rosé. The grooves, with a similar geometry, run through rings, bracelets and earrings. There are also pieces with a pavé diamonds on white gold. M.D.