Andrea Vaggione (France)

ANDREA VAGGIONE

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Biography:

I am an artist and a designer. I discovered the world of contemporary jewelry in 2001, in Cordoba, Argentina where I was born. I left Argentina in 2005 for Barcelona where I worked for 5 years at Laura B; later, I learned the forging techniques at the jewellery school “El Taller de Joyería”. In 2012, I moved to Lyon, where I won the “Talents de mode” contest which allowed me to create my boutique workshop in the “Village de Créateurs”. My workshop is currently located in Sète, in the south of France.

Through my artistic gesture, I try to offer a few moments of this nature, of its levitation, its discreet and fascinating unity. A few moments in flight, alive; moments that we are living and that carry this faraway that we are all holding in our heart.

Collection Concept:

My work deals with the notions of permanent transformation, perpetual motion, from birth to rebirth. Created with ancestral techniques and innovative processes, my work is a clean, minimalist and intimate jewelry that both reflects strength and fragility. 

Capturing the essence of an insect and revealing the tiny and the invisible. Capturing the gesture of a flower, its intricate details. For me, nature has always been like a language, the main source of my inspiration. Life as a pretext, a material or a symbol. Through my creations, I explore different concepts: uprooting, rebirth, transience, mutation, transformation. The iron sheet is my blank page. The physical structure of natural forms - wings and flowers - is my message. They all transmute my thoughts and feelings into portable and unchanging objects that are more than a simple decoration. A permanent feature of my work is building volumes from a two-dimension plate, as metal is my only material.

Ring, silver, stainless steel, wire