This book portrays the work of 216 jewelry artists. Jewelry is since ever an artistic gesture, based on an aesthetic concept. Besides its role of embellishing, one’s look, it is a statement, a message, often a provocation, hence an escape to banality. Vehicle of meanings, jewelry has been a way to relate generations but at the same time an intellectual claim, an expression of a concept, stretching to become an unexpected performance. Today, the overall
concept of contemporary jewelry has even further extended its significance and approach. Not only just a decoration or a creative element, contemporary jewelry is a way to conceptualize an idea, a vessel to express one’s individual talent. In a world that is nowadays beyond ‘he’ or ‘she’, a contemporary jewel is all about self-expression, comprising a spectrum that transcends any rule. With this publication, Artistar Jewels pays homage to creativity that
should never stop and needs to be preserved specifically in the times we are living into
