Hedi Slimane has unveiled the second piece in the Celine artist jewel project, a reinterpretation of the work of American sculptor\u00a0Louise Nevelson (1899 \u2013 1988). The project, launched last year with the \u2018C\u00e9sar Compression\u2019\u00a0Celine jewellery piece, based on the work of C\u00e9sar Baldaccini, again takes sculpture as its starting point...
Nevelson, who is celebrated for her wall pieces that unite separate elements in a fluid wave of wood, also created around 200 jewellery pieces, which now reside in private and public collections, including one at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Now, Celine has brought back to life one of these miniature wearable sculptures in a signed and numbered limited edition of 50.
The black wooden piece set in metal nods to the undulating forms of the sculptor’s larger works in an intertwining of her original, diverse inspirations, from Cubism’s strong silhouettes to primitive art’s emphasis on artistic licence, as well as the offbeat forms of the Surrealists. ‘My grandmother saw how she dressed as an extension of her artwork, assemblage,’ Maria adds. ‘Almost every photograph of my grandmother shows her wearing jewellery, a necklace,. Her entire life she had fun with jewellery. The open-mindedness of the 1960s was perfect for my grandmother to feel uninhibited and make jewellery that suited her style of dressing. Many of us enjoy wearing a special little something or a lot of somethings, I am thinking of the very cool Iris Apfel here.
For Slimane, it is an opportunity to translate his admiration of 20th-century artists into miniature artworks that become entwined with the identity of the wearer. ‘Hedi Slimane selected a powerful piece and made it just a bit smaller, so the scale is just right for us to wear with most clothes,’ says Maria. ‘I think my grandmother would be energised to see others coming up with their own assemblage of clothes and pulling it all together with her jewellery.
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