Alexandru Oancea (Romania)
ALEXANDRU OANCEA
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Designer biography:
I have liked jewelry since I have known myself. So much in fact that I tried swallowing my first one when I was two. Back then, my mom managed to stop me. Some fifty years later, I created my first jewelry. Another ring with a coloured stone, definitely not the same ring. And the first handmade jewelry that I was proud of, I gave it to my mom. What I did in the meantime is less relevant. I feel like I wasted time. But I have always liked jewelry. What is important is what I have been doing since I started making jewelry, and this is what I want to be judged for.
Collection concept:
FANTASTIC BEASTS (and the leaves from which they came to be)
How beautiful and sad is the sound of a dried leaf on the ground crushed under your
shoe.
You almost get an auditory happiness. Isn’t it so?
But isn’t it also true that you never bend to see what’s underneath?
What if the leaves were made out of silver and couldn’t be crushed?
You bend down to see what happened, and you discover a marvellous world
underneath…
alexandru oancea, bracelate, influences, 2024, copper, 9x6x6cm
alexandru oancea, earings, influences, silver plate with gold, emerald, diopsite, 5x4cm
alexandru oancea, earings, influences, 2024, bronze, silver, citrines, 9x13cm
alexandru oancea, pendant, influences, 2024, silver plate with gold, emeraldes, turmaline, 7x3cm