Limited Edition
Within the cultural proposal of the Marguerite Arp Foundation is the production of a limited-edition object signed by a local designer, on free inspiration from Arpian forms and themes.
Kiko Gianocca
“On Itself”
Photo: Studio Pagi Lugano
Pendants
Silver 925, Yellow gold 9k , Red gold 9k
Limited edition of 100 unique pieces created for the exposition Arp. Journey to the East Fondazione Marguerite Arp, Locarno 9 April-5 November 2023
“Jean Arp’s shapes belong to a fantastic, archetypical, universal imagery. A constellation of possibilities. As if they were extrapolated from a language that is visual and primordial. The strongest feeling is that they have always been there.
His xylography, Siamesisches Blatt (1949), struck me deeply: perhaps because I am a plastic artist/designer, that incision was daring me to bend it, in the middle, between the two main elements. Perhaps it was the movement suggested by the composition,
the wood grain displayed on the paper, the deep black ink in contrast with the sheet or the misleading perspective. Everything stimulated in me that manipulation.”
Kiko Gianocca (Bellinzona, 1974) gratuated with a bachelor in fine arts at the CFP Art Institute in Florence, then he completed his master’s degree at RMIT University in Melbourne in 2004, where he thought until 2007. In 2008 he won the Swiss Design Prize and in 2014 the Mari Funaki Award for Contemporary Jewelry. He collaborates as theacher in the field of artistic jewelry since 2017 at the Hochschule in Lucerne and in 2018 has been tutor and at the IED Institute of Milan. His work has been exhibited and collected around the world.
Giulietta degli Spiriti
"Je suis née dans un nuage"
Photo: Roberto Pellegrini
Covered porcelain vase
Limited edition of 100 pieces created on the occasion of the exhibition «I was born in a cloud» Jean Arp, Fondazione Marguerite Arp, Locarno April 17-October 30, 2022.
«Clouds are a little obsession of mine and to avoid literal choices, with an eye to Jean Arp’s form and a wink at Sophie Taeuber-Arp’s geometries, I drew from my own repertory of curving shapes. This is an architectural cloud, fluid yet solid, a fixed element in space. My signature canary acquires the symbolic meaning of sentinel bird, now joining the flocks finding refuge in the urban oasis of Ronco dei Fiori, home of Jean Arp and Marguerite Arp-Hagenbach in Locarno-Solduno. This small covered vase is meant for a single bloom, but it could evocatively host three.»
Born on July 9, 1965, Giulia Maria Beretta begins her pottery career in 1982 at her grandparents Efrem and Caterina Beretta’s studio on Monte Verità. She trained in London at the Harrow College of Art and Design Studio Pottery Course (1986-88) and at the Royal College of Arts (2013-15). She lived 20 years in Zurich where she is known for playful functional ceramics. Since 2015 she has been living in Locarno where she creates limited editions for her label Giulietta degli Spiriti.