THE BLUE ROOM 2024 

The site-specific Project for SCHMUCK 2024

Conceived as a “hub” for brilliant conversations, our contemporary Blue Room aims to gather jewellery artists from both sides of the world, to show their artistic "language”, practice, and processes on the specific theme of colours.

For the 2024 SCHMUCK edition, The Blue Room hosts a site-specific contemporary jewelry project entitled  A TALE OF MULTIPLE WORLDS | Synthesis and possibilities on colours and preciousness.

Colours (and specifically the seven following shades: WHITE – RED - BLACK – BLUE- YELLOW- GREEN- VIOLET) have been part of humankind since the beginning. As jewellery, they convey any sort of message; as jewellery, colours are related to the body, to power, religion, art, love, life, and death. As jewellery, colours are connected to social history, anthropology, science, religion, politics, art. As jewellery, they are connected to the significance we give to artifacts. As jewellery, colours are both metaphors and messages. As art, jewels, and colours are full of stories and leit-motiv: they are stories, memories, and journeys.

This project aims to emphasize the synthesis and the possibilities provided by colours in a group of artist jewellers who did not use pigments/colours in their artistic practice or who used their potential marginally.

In this way, The Blue Room becomes both the hub and the catalyst for a new dialogue among the artists (colours have different meanings in different cultures) where the personal artist practice is solicited and challenged.

For this project, the artists were kindly asked to create seven new pieces based on the aforementioned shades, showing the multifaceted worlds and possibilities provided by colours.