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R-I-N-G-S ETC...Artistic Contemporary Jewels. by Barbara Uderzo
Quote from the “Catalogo dell'arte moltiplicata in Italia" (Catalogue of multiplied art in Italy)
""In Italy, Barbara Uderzo inaugurates (in the artistic field, Editor's note) a series of working procedures based on an electroforming technique that allow her to create internally empty and therefore very light shapes, which she can elaborate in indistinct and imaginative volumes, based on anatomic relations." DEINOS rings, in rhodium-clad silver, expand between fingers and perfectly adapt to articulations; they recall Bijorn Wechstrom and Henning Koppel's North European experiments during the Fifties, whose naturalism was influenced by Jean Arps's abstract surrealism. "There is no doubt this artist's extravagant shapes are inspired by a biological representation, as her BLOB rings confirm." This uncontrolled plastic mass, moved by molecular needs, becomes an uncertain agglomerate whose sinister destroying power, though mitigated by smooth colours, seems finally to adapt to a domestic environment. The magmatic flow replaces the ring's setting, capturing small dishes, ceramic fruit or tools, in a multicoloured and multi-material representation of an everyday images' Babel. The artist's techniques enable her to cooperate with gold crafting companies and give a completely new instrumental lexicon to her research.
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"Catalogue of multiplied art in Italy. Graphic and art objects, #25",
(Goldsmith section- Graziella Folchini Grassetto).
Published by Giorgio Mondadori, Milano, 1997