Fabiana Fusco (Italy)

FABIANA FUSCO

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Biography:

After having earned a degree in Art History with a final dissertation on the Greek Goldsmith, the artist attended Salvatore Gerardi’s Goldsmith School and at the same time a renowned silverware workshop in Rome. In 2002, she started her workshop. During last years she decided to concentrate on contemporary jewelry and the foreign market. After two awards during Artistar Jewels in 2019, she was selected for Romanian Jewelry Week, AUTOR Fair 2020 and took part in the selection for Arte y Joya Annuary in 2020. During the pandemic period she was part of the Arte y Parte exhibition in Studio Squina, Madrid.

Lost wax microsculpture is my media. Holding a little  figure, often 1-2 cm no more, and turning it on itself with the simple movement of the wrist, allows me to have a total control that gives the figures grace and harmony of movement and proportions. When I create a jewel I not only technically build the structure that allows people to wear it comfortably but also its history; the emotions hidden behind a story that takes place within a few centimeters, emotions that come from my experience, from my passion and in which I hope the collector can recognize a part of himself.

In every collection / work I look for the compromise between the narrative needs and comfort and wearability  with an exception where the inspiration and the expressive needs take over, turning the object into a “wearable sculpture”. Over the years I have arrived at what best represents me: the human figure in movement that suggests and evokes moments and emotions in an ideal world that rests delicately on the neck, wraps gently your fingers or whispers in your ears or that, most in the last years, tells and complaint what happens now a days. I tell, through  jewels, what touches my heart without compromising with fashion or market demands, only my bare soul, my point of view on the world around me, my voice that screams or whispers disappointment, joy, sadness.

Collection Concept: COVID-19: A personal reflection.

Covid has its worst and best; the chance to have time to reflect and think is what led me to appreciate things that often we do not consider despite having it under our eyes every day and that usually remain closed behind the house door, hidden by the day that always passes the same. The domestic violence on the rise, exacerbated by forced imprisonment during the lockdown period; our houses that were colored and become full of sound and voices more than usual; the lack of physical contact and the desire to hug each other again; the desire to spend time cooking for our family in the hope of filling the gaps caused by the lack of love; the nature rediscover of the world around us, nature that takes her spaces back, the sky above our head.

Brooch, sterling silver, bronze

Ring, sterling silver, red and yellow bronze

Ring, sterling silver, epoxy resin

Ring, sterling silver, epoxy resin, swinging mirror