VENEZIA, 22 January - 22 March 2026
Three Monoju pieces were presented at the windows of Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, located in Via dell’Ascension, Piazza San Marco, Venice.
The presentation was part of a collective exhibition "Sinestesie" featuring works by students of the Master in Contemporary Jewelry Design at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia.
Within this historic context, the pieces entered into a dialogue between contemporary research and the cultural legacy of Venice.
ph Chiara Pascolo
AGÁPE ÁNTHOS
Series of 3 one of a kind contemporary art jewelry pieces.
Born from the observation of the agapanthus flower and its stages of blooming, this series creates an imaginary world where distant natural forms coexist in a fragile, silent balance.
Shells and marine elements, found in a place dear to the artist, merge with the flower into delicate objects — like the beauty they evoke: fleeting, and precisely for this reason, intense. A moment suspended, like a photograph, to hold for an instant which is not meant to last.
INFLORESCENCE
The first stage of blooming
2026
Ring, 2026
Agapanthus, bronze, resin
90 × 110 × 110 mm
The flowers, previously left to wither, become a form of still life that, paradoxically, retains the appearance of something just beginning to emerge.
The illusion of a beginning that can no longer unfold.
VEGETATIVE AWAKENING
The second stage
Brooch, 2026
Shell, flowers, brass and copper, resin
120 × 50 × 50 mm
The flowers spread across the surface of a fragment of a seashell, smoothed by the sea, as if they had always belonged to this form, naturally emerging from it.
A temporary balance in which different elements coexist in a fragile and inevitably transient way.
POST-FLOWERING
The third and last stage
Brooch, 2026
Oyster shell, flowers, steel wire, resin
110 × 50 × 30 mm
The third stage: the flowers, having fallen from the agapanthus plant, find a new form of existence within the shell that protects them. The oyster, now devoid of its mollusk, returns to being a vessel — a casing that holds a fragile and silent vegetal presence.
There is no longer any blooming, yet a trace remains: what is left is preserved, not to save it from time, but to make its passage visible.
My sincere thanks to Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia and all the organizers for hosting my art.
