H20 Collection
The project aims at revaluing waste plastic by reassigning it as protagonist material in contemporary jewelry.
The jewels are made of recycled PET (polyethylene terephthalate) mineral water bottles cut into flakes, squares or strips. A very low temperature treatment turns these flat foil-like elements into volumetric sculptural shapes that are visually light due to their translucency.
The structure of the pieces is done in silver. As PET is a material that cannot withstand high-temperature processes, the assembly and articulation of the component parts is achieved with cold-type unions, such as rivets and shims.
The concern about environmental protection and a careful use of natural resource, water, is present in this project.
The morphological treatment given to the jewels through the evocation of water bodies reinforces this intention.


My Land
Mi Tierra, Cómo quedarme?, Alto, Alto y Beach

These pieces were inspired in the idea of the place where I belong.
The idea was developed considering birth land and blood family as special values to rely on.
I worked in the hope that there will always be strong and permanent underlying bows waiting to arise and become unequivocal.
The bonds that attach land, blood and feelings.
Each piece relates to a personal pray, a sort of customized religion based in belief, hope and finally facts.
The pieces were built using materials I collected in particular situations, such as beach pebbles or oxidized roof tins, intending, with the inclusion of these elements, to communicate the sense of land as the place where I belong.
Other components materialized in silver and nickel silver, allowed me to evoke my memories of that special, relaxing oasis, called bonding feelings. 

Farewell
When my father passed away, I couldn´t farewell him properly. This is an attempt to say him goodbye, recalling him in his world. 
My work talks about shelters. It represents places where to find harmony, peace and well being.
Those spots where it is possible to feel protected, to meditate and rest.
Shelters for the soul.
The body of work includes the representation of physical and concrete refuges like the precarious constructions built somewhere and aims also to evoque immaterial, spiritual refuges where to find states of harmony and meditation.
Outer shelters and inner shelters.
I represent refuges like fragile, precarious, fleeting constructions. Despite invaded privacy, a physical protection is suggested and necessary to feel at home.
Reunion, spaces, readings, thoughts, expectations, hopes, the prospect of finding and the truly found out.

About the artist:
Born in 1963, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Industrial designer focused on contemporary jewelry. After obtaining her degree in Argentina (1989), she moved to New York where she studied Raising Metals at School of Visual Arts.
She came back to Buenos Aires and continued her studies in traditional jewelry at Master Sarquis´s (1993-1998) and contemporary jewelry at Master Castañón´s workshop (1999-2004).
She took part in many collective exhibits in Argentina and abroad: Velvet da Vinci, San Francisco, USA (2004); Galeria Pladi, México City (2010); Museo Yrurtia, Argentina (2009) and Tienda Malba, Argentina (2006).
Her works have been accepted into some books of Lark Editions, USA and lately into Promo Press´s Rings, Spain.
She is actually working and teaching jewelry classes at her own workshop in Buenos Aires. 

About the work:
Industrial designer focused on jewelry.
Concepts bring pieces into materiality.
Artistic expression and technique focus each project.

Fabiana Gadano, 1963, Argentina.

Education:
1982 -1986 Industrial Designer, Universidad Nacional La Plata, Argentina. 
1978 -1981 Fine Art studies, School of Fine Arts, Quilmes, Argentina

Workshops: 
2011 Ma Seminar, Jiro Kamata and Sayumi Yokouchi, Bs. As., Argentina.
2010 Hacking ideas, Stefano Marchetti, Munich, Germany.
2008 Contemporary jewelry, Charon Kransen, Bs. As., Argentina.
2007 Other tools, Gemma Draper, CCEBA, Bs. As., Argentina. 2007.
2006 From inspiration to expiration, Ramón Puig Cuyas, Bs. As., Argentina.
Since 2005, she teaches classes at her own workshop.

Awards:
2012 1st prize. (Acquisition). Salón Diario La Capital. Museo Castagnino. Rosario. Santa Fe. Argentina.

Collective exhibitions: 
2012 Sex, Drugs & Rock ’n’ Roll…Vices or Lifestyle?, Werkschau Simone Winkler, Kempten, Germany | Salón de Artesanías Argentinas. Fondo Nacional de las Artes. Buenos Aires. Argentina | Salón Diario La Capital. Museo Castagnino. Rosario. Santa Fé. Argentina | Fiesta Cómplices. Buenos Aires. Argentina.
2011 SOFA Chicago 2011, Aaron Faber Gallery | Aaron Faber Gallery, In Line/In Metal Exhibition. New York, Usa.
2010 Cómplices at Espacio Ideal, Bs. As., Argentina | Caleidoscopio, Galería Pladi, Mexico
2009 Joyas que cuentan, Fwiya and Fabiana Gadano´s workshops. Museo Yrurtia, Bs. As., Argentina
2008 Arte y Parte, La Nave workshop, Bs. As., Argentina. 
2006, 2007, 2008 Cómplices at Espacio Ecléctico, Bs. As., Argentina. 
2007 Jewellery Journey Air, Germany, Argentina, USA. 
2006 Un lugar, el cuerpo, Tienda Malba, Bs. As., Argentina. 
2004 Joyas, joias, Velvet da Vinci Gallery, San Francisco, USA. 
2003 ArteBA 2003, Crivelli Hand Made Papers, paper and silver jewellery.
2001 La Nave workshop, Centro Cultural Gral. San Martin, Bs. As., Argentina
1990 Wheiler Seidel and Archetype galleries, New York, USA.

Apprenticeships:
2007 - 2001 Jorge Castañón´s workshop, Argentina. 
1995 - 2000 Sarquis´s workshop, Argentina.
1989 Annual workshop: School of Visual Arts, New York, USA.

2011 Contemporary Jewellery Year Book 2011, Grupo Duplex, Barcelona | 500 Silver Jewelry Designs, Lark Books, USA
2010 Rings, Promopress, Spain.
2009 The Compendium of Contemporary Jewellery Makers, Darling Publications, Germany.
2008 500 Pendants and Lockets, Lark Books, USA.
2007 The Art of Paper Jewelry, Lark Books, USA.
2005 500 Bracelets, Lark Books, USA.

www.fabianagadano.com.ar

contact the artist: info@fabianagadano.com.ar