The discipline of moderation

A piece of jewelry is precious because of the creative and manual act it expresses. This is the philosophy behind exhibition "Hand-Made" by Annamaria Zanella and Renzo Pasquale, two important names out of the Goldsmith School of Padua.

Admired throughout the world, the School of Padua is a unique phenomenon in Italy, with its non-commercial and anti-decorative approach, based on pure shapes, moderation with materials, balanced proportions and a constant experimentation with new techniques and materials.

Annamaria’s work is apparently distant from the geometric abstractions that are typical of the School of Padua. But her compositional freedom and deconstructed shapes express the subtle re-elaboration of those perfectly assimilated rules she tries to invert, in a play on contrasts.

Renzo Pasquale, Annamaria’s companion and teacher, a master in the art of cutting and filtering light through materials, instead goes from the exploration of shapes in space as in recent years, to an investigation on opaque translucencies in materials, in which light itself designs forms as if in a photograph.

An exhibition at Galerie Louise Smit in Amsterdam displays the minimalist shapes of this Italian duo, in which expressive elaborations maintain a fundamental structural rigor and the discipline of moderation.


















Photos via flash-pub.com