Jewels cannot be confined within the limits of their function. Through liberating jewels from these limits, infinite experimentation fields are opened, which may lead to fruitful artistic experiences. The founding assumption of these attempts is the wish to return the central role to the intangible aspect in relation to the tangible aspect of jewels. 

By asserting the primacy of the intangible aspects, jewels are seen from a different perspective, an entire scale of values is refounded, with the privilege for the finest perceptions. 

Another aspect combining these attempts with conceptual art is the indifference towards the aesthetic value, which is strictly connected with the formal value. 

The main purpose of this work is to provoke reactions, start discussions, rouse considerations, and open new debates on jewels. The point is shifting the focus from the aesthetic to the intellectual experience, or rather the aesthetic experience is the intellectual experience. 

To obtain this result, the direction followed was to confute the traditional aspects of jewels: the functional, formal, and aesthetic values. 

“Virtual” is a way to create the visibility of what cannot be realized in the tangible dimension. The new technology offers these new expressive opportunities.
The idea of the body or body parts as jewels also develops: a sort of zero degree of jewels. It can also be considered as an inversion operation: the body changes from traditional support of jewels to jewel itself; from background, it turns into protagonist (subject).
In the photo “the room as bracelet”, the concept of jewel is reversed: traditionally, hard materials are made to surround the body. On the contrary, in this case the body is an accessory of an architectural structure. This inversion appears not only as a limitation of movements, but universally as the present condition of human beings suffocated by structures produced by the society. A house is not considered as a shelter and protection, but as a limit to our ability to move, expand, an inorganic, static, and unchangeable shell for an organic, dynamic, and continuously growing creature. In this condition, these barriers can only be crossed through thought.
In the photo “ring”, the concept of ring is brought to the extreme consequences of dematerialization. Not only the ring does not exist, but also the part of the body supporting it is removed. The visual result is anyhow that of a ring, a ring of “absence”. However, while the object is self-limited in a shape, here the absence of the object gives space to the observer to imagine something, a personal ring. Therefore, this creatively activates and interacts with the observer.
I want to exploit our bigger attraction for what we cannot see, for what is not there, for what is indefinite.
“It seems to me that ’Nothing’ is the most powerful thing in the world”, said Robert Barry.
For me, art is not an exact science. There is no evidenced truth. Art is a field where creativity experiments infinite directions towards freedom. Art responds to the stimulations of contemporary culture and uses the scientific and technological progress and knowledge in all their branches.


Fabrizio Tridenti

Fabrizio Tridenti, 1962, S. Giovanni Teatino, Italy.

Lives & work at Vasto, Italy.

Education and Work Experience:
2007 Workshop Giampaolo Babetto, Lucca, IT
2006 Workshop “Snow white”, Cristina Filipe, ArCo. Roma, IT
1993 Opened own workshop in Pescara, IT
1989 to 1992 Apprenticeship at the workshop of Sante Bianchi, Pescara, IT
1983 to 1988 Apprenticeship with various goldsmiths’ workshops in Pescara, IT. 
1982 Graduated at Istituto Statale d'Arte, Penne, in Metals and Jewellery Design.

Work in Public and Private Collections:
2011 Malbork Castle Museum, Amber Collection, Malbork, PL | Collezione Fondazione Cominelli, Cisano di San Felice del Benaco, IT | Amber Museum, Gdañsk , PL | Private Collection Olnick-Spanu, US | Private Collection, Padova, IT
2010 Collection of Contemporary Jewellery, the Gallery of Art, Legnica, PL | MAD Museum, New York, US | Private Collection, Siikakuja, FI
2009 Pinakothek der Moderne, München, DE | Private Collection, Vienna, AT | Alice& Louis Koch Collection of rings | Andy Lim Jewellery Bows Collection, Köln, DE
2008 Museo degli Argenti, Palazzo Pitti, Firenze, IT
2007 Teaching Collection , Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, Oregon , US | Istituzione Castello e Museo delle Arti, Nocciano, Pescara, IT
2006 Collection of the Provincial Building, Pescara, IT

Grants, awards, residencies:
2011 3rd Amberworkshop, city of Gdañsk , PL
2010 Second Prize, Premio Fondazione Cominelli, Cisano di San Felice del Benaco, IT | One Tonne of Copper Ore Seminar, Legnica Gallery of Art, Legnica, PL | Erfurter Schmucksymposium, Erfurt, DE | Material Integration Award to The 23st International Cloisonne Jewellery Contest, Tokyo, JP
2009 Honourable Mention, Amber Trip Contest, For you, Vilnius, LT
2008 “Filo Rosso Award ” nomination, Museum of Modern Art “Ugo Carà”, Muggia, Trieste, IT | Silver Prize “Amberif Design Award Elektronos 2008” international competition for the design of jewellery with amber, Gdansk, PL | Award for Encouragement to The 21st International Cloisonne Jewellery Contest, Tokyo, JP.
1981 First Prize for Goldsmith’s Art and Scholarship “Nicola da Guardiagrele” Award, Guardiagrele, IT. 

Exhibitions:
2011 SOFA Chicago, represented by Charon Kransen Art, Navy Pier's Festival Hall, Chicago, US | Open Mind, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, KO | Pensieri Preziosi, Oratorio San Rocco, Padova, IT | Sieradenkoorts, Steinbesser Project, Amsterdam, NL | Conceptual jewellery, Putti Art Gallery, Riga, LV | Pin Anonimum, Experimenta Design ´11, Lisbona, PT | SOFA West, represented by Charon Kransen Art, Santa Fe Convention Center, Santa Fe, New Mexico, US | Premio Fondazione Cominelli, Palazzo Cominelli, Cisano di San Felice del Benaco, IT | Garbage Pin Project, Contemporary Jewellery non-gallery 'new values', Berlin, DE | Ring Party, Rotonda sul mare - Palazzetto Baviera, Senigallia, IT | Friedrich Becker Prize, Deutsches Goldschmiedehaus, Hanau, DE | Premio Pinton: Castelli, miniature, astri e alchimia. La Padova Carrarese nel gioiello contemporaneo, Oratorio S. Rocco, Padova, IT | COLLECT, Alternatives, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK | Garbage Pin Project, Putti Art Gallery, Riga, LT | SOFA New York, represented by Charon Kransen Art, Park Avenue Armory, New York, US| Beneath the Skin, revealing the research that underpins the object, Sheffield Institute of Arts Gallery, Sheffield, UK | Nuove direzioni del gioiello contemporaneo italiano, Galerie Isabella Hund- Schmuck, München, DE | Il futuro nelle mani. Artieri domani, Officine Grandi Riparazioni, MIAAO,Torino, IT. |13. Erfurter Schmucksymposium- Break up to Italy, Alchimia, Firenze, IT | True Colours, New Traditional Jewellery Award, Museum for Modern Arts in Arnhem , Arnhem, NL | 13. Erfurter Schmucksymposium- Break up to Italy, Villa Bengel, Idar Oberstein, DE | True Colours, New Traditional Jewellery Award, Villa Bengel, Idar Oberstein, DE
2010 True Colours, New Traditional Jewellery Award, Villa Bengel, Idar Oberstein, DE (14 dic) | Pezzi di Luna – Music and Contemporary Jewels, Maribor, SL | Forma Vs Materia, Galleria Cristiani, Torino, IT | True Colours, New Traditional Jewellery Award, Sieraad Art Fair, Amsterdam, NL | SOFA Chicago, Charon Kransen Art, Chicago, US | ONOFF-Spazio Aperto II ed., AGC special event, Paolotomasinstudio, Padova, IT | 13. Erfurter Schmucksymposium- Break up to Italy, Galerie Schmuckfrage, Berlin, DE | One Tonne of Copper Ore Seminar, Legnica Gallery of Art, Legnica, PL | Outside, Castelvecchio Subequo, Aquila, IT | 13. Erfurter Schmucksymposium- Break up to Italy, Kulturhof zum Güldenen Krönbacken, Erfurt, DE | SOFA West, Charon Kransen Art, Santa Fé, New Mexico, US | Frames 2 - totem, disinformations and spiritual crises, Penne, IT | European Prize for Applied Arts at EUNIQUE 2010, World Craft Council Europe, Karlsruhe, DE | Pezzi di Luna – Music and Contemporary Jewels, Museum of Modern Art Ugo Carà, Muggia, Trieste, IT | SOFA New York, Charon Kransen Art, New York, US | Titani Preziosi, Triennale Design Museum, Milano , IT | Italian Jewellery, The Scottish Gallery, Edimburgh, UK | COLLECT, Alternatives, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK | Materia e Colore, Galleria GR20, Padova, IT | Homeland, Galerie Schumm-Braunstein, Paris, FR | AGC, Estro-Orocapital, Fiera di Roma, IT | The Box, Maurer-Zilioli – Contemporary Arts, Brescia, guest at Kunstbüro Reillplast, München,DE | 18 Positionen zur zeitgenössischen Schmuck- und Gerätgestaltung, Deutsches Goldschmiedehaus, Hanau, DE | Art Palm Beach, Charon Kransen Arts, Palm Beach, US | Miami International Art Fair, Charon Kransen Arts, Miami Beach, US
2009 Pezzi di Luna – Music and Contemporary Jewels, Pensieri Preziosi 5, Padova, IT | Garbage Pin Project, Contemporary Art Center Santa Mònica, Barcelona, ES | European Prize for Applied Arts, World Craft Council Belgique Francophone, Mons, BE | Joya y Vidrio. El valor del Reciclaje, Reciclamadrid’09, Madrid, ES | Pezzi di Luna – Music and Contemporary Jewels, International Jazz Festival, Padova, IT | Herinner-ring, Remember-ring, Expo Arte Smykkedesign, Oslo, No | Garbage Pin Project, TOUCH, Los Angeles , US | SOFA Chicago, Charon Kransen Art, Chicago, US | Alatyr 2009, Posthaus Schmuckwerkstatt Galerie, Naturns, Bozen, IT | The bijou through the ages and contemporary goldsmith research, Museo del Bijou, Casalmaggiore, IT | Materia prima, JOYA , Barcelona Contemporary Jewellery Week, Barcelona, ES | Enjoia’t 09, Contemporary Jewellery Awards, Barcelona, ES | Paper Jewellery: poor jewellery,Triennale Design Museum, Milano , IT | Herinner-ring, Remember-ring, Smycke-atelje Sandström – De Wit”, Linköping, SW | The Enamel Show, Velvet da Vinci Gallery, San Francisco, California, US | Joia i Vidre. El Valor Del Reciclatge, Artesania Catalunya, Barcelona, ES | Terra di Mezzo. Contemporary Jewellery Meets the Mediterranean, Museo delle Arti, Nocciano, IT | SOFA West, Charon Kransen Art, Santa Fé, New Mexico, US | Herinner-ring, Remember-ring, Cebra Gallery, Düsseldorf, DE | Garbage Pin Project, Silke& the Gallery , Antwerp , BE | COLLECT, Alternatives, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK | Garbage Pin Project, Galeria Articula, Lisbon, PT | Paper/Text, Studio 20/17, Sidney, AU | SOFA New York, Charon Kransen Art, New York, US | Garbage Pin Project, Galeria MCO Arte Contemporânea, Porto,PT | For you, International Festival of Silver 2009,Galerie Awans, Legnica, PL | Contemporary Bows meet Contemporary Jewellery”, International Trade Fair, München, DE | Herinner-ring, Remember-ring” National Craft Gallery, Castle Yard, Kilkenny, IR | Pop Amber, Amberif Design Award ‘09, Amberif Fair, Gdañsk, PL
2008 “Contemporanei” Fioretto Arte Gallery, Padova, IT. | Papierschmuck, Apex Gallery, Hopfgarten, AU | II International Meeting of Creative Jewellery With Glass, MAVA Museum, Alcorcón, Madrid, ES| ” Rememberrings” Beeld & Aambeeld Gallery, Enschede, Netherland.  | “Connections”as part of Mounth of design in Slovenia, Studio AgAu ,Lubiana, Slovenia. | “Senza confini” Museo Etnografico , Udine, IT. | Intimacy, New Traditional Jewellery Award, Sieraad Art Fair, Amsterdam, NL | “The Pendant Show”, Velvet da Vinci Gallery, San Francisco, California. | Gioiello Italiano Contemporaneo, Museo delle Arti Decorative, Torino, IT | “ Vedere e Ricostruire” sculpture, Casa della Cultura, Spoltore, Pescara, IT. | “Prime Location - Architectural Follies in Jewellery Art” Museum of Applied Arts, Cologne, Germany. | “Samnium Fluxus” Museum of Micro Art, Pietrabbondante, Italy. | Gioiello Italiano Contemporaneo, Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin, DE | New Play in Art, Heller Garden Foundation, Gardone Riviera, IT | “Sofa New York” 11th Sculpture Objects & Functional Art fair, The David Collection Gallery, New York. | “Studio Aperto” AGC special event, Paolotomasinstudio, Padova, IT. | Papierschmuck, Osterreichisches Papiermachermuseum, Steyrermuhl, AU | Exclusive, International Silverart Competition , Legnica, PL | Gioiello Italiano Contemporaneo, Castello Sforzesco, Milano, IT | “Mineralart” International Design Competition, Idar-Oberstein, Germany | Talisman, Amberif Design Award ‘08, Amberif Fair, Gdañsk, PL | Touching Warms the Art!, Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, Oregon, US | Refined V : Abundance, The Art center @ the Old Opera House, Nacogdoches, Texas, US | Gioiello Italiano Contemporaneo, Palazzo Valmarana, Vicenza, IT
2007 Papierschmuck , PapierWespe Studio, Vienna, AU | “Arts & Craft Expo” Province of Pescara, Roma Fair. | ” Italia Gioielleria” Beeld & Aambeeld Gallery, Enschede, Netherland. | “Il rosso come colore : dalla Eat Art alla Drink Art” sculpture, MAAAC, Nocciano Castle, Pescara, IT. | “Forma e Qualità” Artpolis, VII edition dedicated to Applied Arts, Alanno, Pescara, IT. | “Dall’Etna al Gran Sasso” S. Agostino Auditorium, Città Sant’ Angelo, Pescara, IT. | Fabrizio Tridenti, samples, Abruzzo Council of Arts and Monuments, Taverna Ducale, Popoli, IT (solo) | Stratigrafia di un luogo, Filomusi Guelfi Winery, Tocco da Casauria, IT (solo) | La sottile linea che separa le Arti Applicate dall’Arte, MAAAC, Castello di Nocciano, Pescara, IT | Milano Fuori Salone ’07, Galleria Blanchaert ,Milano, IT | Natural Mystic, Amberif Design Award ‘07, Amberif Fair, Gdañsk, PL
2006 Abruzzo terra di personaggi illustri, sculpture, Province Library, Pescara, IT (solo) | Ad ogni cultura il suo gioiello, Museo Nazionale di Arte Orientale, Roma, IT
2005 Timeless shape, Bac Art Studio Gallery, Venezia, IT (solo) 

.Lectures, teaching, curatorship:
2012 Jemposium, Whitireia NZ Performance Centre, Wellington, NZ
2011 The HandShake project, 2010-13 mentor for the emerging artist Becky Bliss, NZ
2009 Beauty and Harmony in Contemporary Jewellery. Time, Territory, Technique and Conceptuality, partecipant to Agc round table, Museo del Bijou, Casalmaggiore, IT | Hard Wear Beauty, lecturer, Departement of Contemporary Jewellery, Massana School, Barcelona, ES | Terra di Mezzo, Contemporary Jewellery Meets the Mediterranean” curator of the international exhibition in collaboration with the Institution Castle and Art Museum of Nocciano, IT
2008 Vivi il tuo spazio, artistic workshop and final exhibition for the children of the city of Scafa, IT 

OTHER
2011 Juror for Amberif Design Award 2011, Story Telling, Gdañsk , PL | Juror for Best of 500 Jewelry, Lark Books Editions, Asheville, US
2010 Vice Chairman AGC, Association for Contemporary Jewellery, Trieste, IT

Books 
2011 Monika Richardson, Amber route, Świat Książki, Warszawa | Contemporary Portraits, Fashion Photography and Jewellery, Volum 4, cover, Noovo Editions, Barcelona | Brenda Schweder, Steel Wire Jewelry, Lark Books Editions, Asheville | Art Jewelry Today 3, Shiffer Publishing, Atglen | 500 Silver Jewelry Design, Lark Books Editions, Asheville | Sarah Kelly, Paper jewellery: Methods and Techniques, AC & Black Publishers, London | Nicolas Estrada, Rings book, Promopress, Barcelona | Best of 500 Jewelry, Lark Books Editions, Asheville
2010 Miquel Abellán Joyeria Contemporanea, Monsa Editorial, Barcelona | Anastasia Young, The Workbench Guide to Jewellery Techniques, Quarto Publishing, London
2009 500 Plastic Jewellery Designs Lark Books Editions, Asheville | Andy Lim “The Compendium Finale of Contemporary Jewellery Makers” Darling Publications, Cologne & New York, | Joanne Haywood “Mixed-media Jewellery:Methods and Techniques” A&C BlackPublishing, London | 500 Enameled Objects, Sarah Perkins juror, Lark Books Editions, Asheville | Sławomir Fijałkowski, Top Amber, International Amber Association, Gdañsk | Fabrizio Tridenti, Hard Wear Beauty Darling Publications, Cologne & New York | Ana Cardim, Garbage Pin Project, Klimt02 Publishers, Barcelona
2008 Martha Haveman, Herinner-ring, Remember-ring, Enschede | Amanda Mansell “Adorn: New Jewellery” Laurence King Publishing, London | Jeffrey B. Snyder, “Art Jewelry Today 2 ” Shiffer Publishing, Atglen | “500 Pendants & Lockets” Lark Books Editions, Asheville | Marthe Le Van “500 Wedding rings” ” Lark Books Editions, Asheville |  Alba Cappellieri “Gioiello Italiano Contemporaneo” Skira-Rizzoli International , Milano |Terry Taylor “The Art of Jewelry : Wood” Lark Books Editions, Asheville

Catalogs
2011 Mirella Cisotto Nalon, Pensieri Preziosi, Padova | Maria Rosa Franzin, Rossella Tornquist, Premio per il Gioiello Contemporaneo Fondazione Cominelli | Mirella Cisotto Nalon, Premio Internazionale Mario Pinton I edizione: Castelli, miniature, astri e alchimia, la Padova carrarese nel gioiello contemporaneo, Padova | Maria Rosa Franzin, Nuove direzioni del gioiello contemporaneo italiano, Padova | Slawomir Fijalkowski, Trend Book 2011+, Gdańsk
2010 Mariola De Meglio, Maria De Ambrogio, Forma Vs Materia, volume 2, Moncalieri | Legnica Copper Ore Seminar, The Gallery of Art in Legnica, Wroclaw | 13.Erfurter Schmucksymposium-Break up to Italy, Erfurt | Ornella Casazza, Gioiello Contemporaneo Due, Sillabe, Livorno | EUNIQUE arts & crafts, Karlsruhe | Alba Cappellieri, Titani preziosi, Electa, Milan | Craft Council UK, COLLECT, London, Alternatives Gallery, COLLECT, Rome | Graziella Folchini Grassetto, Materia e Colore, Padova | Motonari Yoshimura “The 23st International Cloisonne jewellery Contest” Tokyo
2009 European Prize for Applied Arts, World Craft Council Belgique Francophone, Mons | Pezzi di Luna, catalog and CD, Padova | VV.AA Alatyr 2009- schmuckaustellung - 14 Goldschmiede konfrontieren sich mit dem Bernstein, Bozen | Patrizia Bonati, Il bijou nel tempo e la ricerca orafa contemporanea, Cremona | VV.AA JOYA, catalog of the Contemporary Jewellery Week , Barcelona | Alba Cappellieri, Bianca Cappello, Gioielli di carta, Electa, Milan | VV.AA Joia i Vidre- El valor del reciclatge, Fundacio Centre del Vidre de Barcelona, Barcelona VV.AA SOFA West pg 70, Santa Fe, | Ivan D’Alberto, Terra di Mezzo, Pescara | Alternatives Gallery, COLLECT, Rome | VV.AA Amberif 2009, Gdañsk International Fair, Gdañsk
2008 Luisa Martínez García, II Encuentro de Joyería Creativa con Vidrio, Alcorcón | VV.AA “Senza Confini” Udine | Antongiulio Zimarino “ Vivi il tuo spazio 5° edizione – Vedere e Ricostruire “Pescara | MAK, Koln | Evi Pilartz, Willem Spanninga “in Toplage! - Architekturphantasien im Schmuck” Koln | Ellen Maurer Zilioli ”New Play in Art” Brescia | Lino Alviani “Samnium Fluxus” Castel di Sangro | Isabella Bembo ““Filo Rosso” enclosure of Juliet Art Magazine, Trieste | Monika Szpatowicz, Magdalena Banska “Exclusive” The Gallery of Art in Legnica, Wroclaw | Motonari Yoshimura “The 21st International Cloisonne jewellery Contest” Tokyo | MTG “Amberif 2008” Gdansk | Christian H.Cutler “Refined: Abundance” SFA State University, Nacogdoches
2007 Ivan D’ Alberto Il rosso come colore, dalla Drink Art alla Eat Art (tribute to Daniel Spoerri and Joseph Beuys), Pescara | Roberto Franco, Ivan D’Alberto “Fabrizio Tridenti, samples” Pescara | Ivan D’ Alberto “La sottile linea che separa le Arti Applicate dall’Arte” Pescara | MTG “Amberif 2007” Gdansk
2006 Lucia Sabatini Scalmati, Cristina Filipe “4 points of contacts between Rome end Lisbon” agc, PIN, Lisbona,

Magazines + web
Silvia Antonioli, David Brough, Titanium's popularity with jewelers growing, Reuters Life!, London | Thu Sep 1, 2011 7:49am EDT
www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/01/us-jewellery-titanium-idUSTRE7801YE20110901
Karolina Bik, Point of view: Fabrizio Tridenti, Polski Jubiler, 05/2011, pg.34-35, Warszawa
Sandra Krastiņa, Dizaina Studija, April- June, No.2, pg. 40, Riga, 2011
Maria Cristina Bergesio, Gioielli d’Italia, Art Aurea 1 – 2011, pg. 72-83, Ulm, 2011
Robert Pytlos, Na Bursztynowym Szlaku, in Czas Morza, 5 (45) dicembre 2010, pag. 11-13, Gdańsk, 2010
Rita Marcangelo, Fabrizio Tridenti, Collegii Acta, n. 3/2010 notiziario periodico dell’Università e Nobil Collegio degli Orefici Gioiellieri e Argentieri dell’ Alma Città di Roma, pag. 2, Roma, 2010.
Jacqui Chan, A Jewelry Pilgrimage , http://www.artjewelryforum.org/blog/2010/06/16/a-jewelry-pilgrimage/
Mike Holmes, London report II, http://www.artjewelryforum.org/blog/2010/06/14/london-report-ii/
AA.VV. Milán expone una muestra única … Magazine Contraste, September, pg. 32, Barcelona, 2009
Giedymin Jablonski, For you- Summary, Baltic Jewellery News, August, pg. 14-35, Vilnius, 2009
Alba Cappellieri, Jewellery Face to Facebook, Vogue Gioiello, n.105, May/June, Milano, 2009
AA.VV. Costruttivismo da indossare, EXIBART on paper, n. 56 April /May, year VIII, pg. 70, Firenze, 2009
Viola Emaldi, London Craft Diary, La ceramica moderna e antica , n.271, January/March, pg.51, Faenza, 2009
Goldschmiede Zeitung, n. 106, Dicember, Hamburg, 2008
Antje Soléau, in Toplage!, Kunsthandwerk, September/October 5/2008, pg.4-11, Frechen, 2008
MAK, 2008
Isabella Bembo, Filo Rosso website exhibition link: http://web.mac.com/filorosso1/filorosso
Jose Barrero, Between art and design, Arte y Joya, April-May, pgg.113-117, Barcelona, 2008
AA.VV. Fabrizio Tridenti, D’A, XIX n.71, January/March, pg.30, Firenze, 2008
AA.VV. Fabrizio Tridenti, SEGNO , XXXII N°214, July/September, pg.83, Pescara, 2007
Eugenio Zangardo, Il mestiere delle arti, VARIO, n. 61, May 2007, pg.81, Pescara, 2007

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