Founded in 2018 by architect Paolo Gambarelli, Lunante draws a constant lymph from the notions I acquired in architectural knowledge and from my innate propensities and deep love for manual work; the design, the construction and the presentation of these jewels are part of the many expressions of my training. Every jewel shall be considered as a constant translation and semantic reinterpretation of forms and concepts of our everyday life. I use geometry as a metalanguage, sometimes serious, sometimes amused, sometimes intelligent or silly, and it would be nice if every life were like this.
Lunante means a different perspective, a new way of working with curiosity to research new expressive forms remaining into the bonds and peculiarities of a weareable art. Aware of an evolution made of historical recurrences, my jewels should be considered as pre-minimalists: the expressive power of the geometric composition resists to a total simplicity and amount of materials employed.
Publications, awards
- ADN – Une chaine de créateurs, Musée du bijou contemporain, Espace Solidor, Cagnes-sur-Mer, 2023
- “Purifyng the Soul” – Vomno Gallery, Beijing 2022
- “Jewelry and Nature” – Tincal Lab, Porto, 2021
- Second prize Jewelry Selection 2021 – Venice Design Week
- “Shape of Nature”, Beijing, 2021
- “Double Yellow Line”, Moscow, 2021
- “Rinascere” a cura di M.Chiocchetta e S.P.Catena, Galleria Rossini, Milano, 2021
- 2019 Jewelry and Metal Survey (JAMS), USA 2020
- 1st Growth & Evolution International Jewellery Exhibition, Shanghai 2020
- “Artistar Jewels 2019 Fall Edition” – The Contemporary Jewel as never seen before. Logo Fauso Lupetti Editore, Milano 2020
- “Made In Italy – Jewelevent //2019” a cura di Marina Chiocchetta e Galleria Rossini, Milano 2019
Selections and Participations
PERSONAL EXHIBITION: “TERRESTRIALS – HUMAN VERSUS NATURE” , Sistema Museale di Palazzo Bracci Pagani, Fano, 2023
DNA – ALLIAGES CONTEMPORAY JEWELLERY, Espace Solidor Museum in Cagnes-sur-Mer – 2023
SLOVENIAN JEWELRY WEEK – 2023
MUNICH JEWELLERY WEEK HUB – 2023
SIERAAD ART FAIR – Amsterdam, 2023
PURIFYNG THE SOUL – Vomno Studio, Beijing, 2022
SIERAAD ART FAIR – Amsterdam, 2022
MAISON ET OBJET – Paris, 2022
INTERNATIONAL JEWELLERY ART EXHIBITION – Istituted of Fashion Technology, Beijing, 2021
DOUBLE YELLOW LINE – 9 March Project, Krasnoyarsk and Moscow, 2021
JEWELRY AND NATURE – Tincal Lab Challenge 2021, Porto
VDW JEWELRY SELECTION 2021 – VENICE DESIGN WEEK, Venezia
SHAPE OF NATURE – DBC International Designer Space, Beijing, 2021
1rst LISBON JEWELLERY BIENNAL, Lisbon, 2021
ROJW Romanian Jewelry Week – Bucarest, 2021
BE LUCKI – Fiera Milano, 2021
MAISON ET OBJET – Paris, 2021
ARTE Y JOYA – 11th edition – International Award Arte y Joya, Barcelona, 2021
RINASCERE – Galleria Rossini, Milano, 2021
ROMANIAN JEWELRY WEEK – Bucarest, 2020
ALTAROMA Showcase –Palazzo Brancaccio, Roma, 2020
Newfangled – SplopDesign – online exhibition, 2020
Beijing Design Week, DBC International Designer Space, Dongcheng District, Beijing, 2020
ARTE y JOYA – 10th edition – International Award Arte y Joya, Barcelona, 2020
TINCAL LAB Contemporary Jewelry – Porto, Portugal – selection for open call ANTIVIRUS, Porto, 2020
GALLERY EXHIBITION: BRAVE NEW FIELD – New Centre of Contemporary Jewellery and Fashion Culture, Shanghai BFC, 2020
BABS ART GALLERY – Mostra “Vite Notturne Gioielli Strutturali” – 18 Febbraio/31 Settembre, Milano, 2020
GROWTH & EVOLUTION International Jewellery Exhibition – Kunming, China, 2020
HOMI Fashion&Jewels – Milano, 2020
Milano Jewelry Week – Artistar Jewels 2019 Fall Edition – Palazzo Bovara, Milano
Milano Jewelry Week – “Made in Italy” – Galleria Rossini, Milano 2019
HOMI Fashion&Jewels – Sperimenta, Milano, 2019
ALTAROMA FASHION WEEK – Showcase, Roma, 2019
ARTISTAR JEWELS – MILAN DESIGN WEEK, 2019
OUTSIDELOUNGE 2019 – GALLERIA ROSSINI, Milano, 2019
