AI Estankona

I understand jewellery as a free artistic expression.

It is artistic expression when the value of the precious material of the piece of jewellery is surpassed by the expressive power of the author's language.

In this case, the jewellery carries a cultural and ideological message.

Art begins with an image-idea and ends with the image-object.

Ainhoa Estankona

Jewellery as A SCULPTURAL CONSTRUCTION THAT CONQUERS THE BODY.

Jewellery as An INTERVENTION IN THE BODY AND IN THE SPACE AROUND THE BODY.

It goes beyond the boundaries of wearability codified by the traditional vision of ornamentation.

The body is a mediator of communication: The jewel as a capsule, or the body as the central axis in which it is located. The body is, either submerged or surrounded by volumes created by the jewel, giving rise to an UNEXPECTED PERCEPTION OF THE BODY.

Wearing art jewellery means being conscious of using one's body as an exhibition space.

The body is not simply DECORATED, but it is involved in an AESTHETIC TRANSFORMATION.

New spaces are found by widening the traditional categories of jewellery, thus creating, through the object,

a dilation of the body structure.

Ainhoa Estankona

The pieces find their PLACE IN THE BODY.

The bejewelled person possesses a SPACE CONTEXT THAT EXPANDS all around.

In comparison with other artistic creations, jewellery has the peculiarity of being wearable.

This disrupts the usual relationship between the object and the body.

In direct physical contact with the person,

by subverting the rule of play....,

it is the object that becomes the subject.

Ainhoa Estankona

Open to personal interpretation and experimentation with shapes, materials and techniques,

an art jewel is an ornament that combines the creative universe of its creator and

the personality, the style, of its wearer.

Ainhoa Estankona

 

ICONOGRAPHY.

I call my jewellery pieces SCULTURE INDOSSABILI /WEARABLE SCULPTURES.

Each piece poses a spatial problem that I try to solve.

These pieces are the result of a reflection on SPACE and VOID.

I explore VOID by creating volumes and shaping space.

In the relationship between the solid mass of the monolith and the space it points to, a HOLE is carved: VOID.

The VOID strips matter bare, pierces it, so that it is the air that embraces it.

The VOID is part of the object, it is a focal point for the observer and it makes understand where the piece is heading. It is a space of potentiality.

An aesthetic that celebrates VOID and SPACE, silence, asymmetry and simplicity without artifice. 

Beyond their decorative impact, my jewellery is designed to provoke a POWERFUL RESPONSE, both sensorially and conceptually. its power lies in the fact that it is designed to exalt the wearer, transcending the everyday.

  

Ainhoa Estankona

  

 MINIMALISM with texture.

" Susan Sontag's in "The Aesthetics of Silence": "... any silence found its identity in a space of time perforated by sound."

 

MINIMAL MATERIALITY.

I WORK BY SUBTRACTION.

I work on my ability to remove matter, to restrict formal limits - without altering expressiveness.

I explore the extreme concentration of the formal and the expressive.

To obtain, SYNTHESIS IN FORM, CONDENSATION OF EXPRESSION and CONCISENESS OF STYLE.

The sobriety and rawness that underlies the essence of my pieces, however, can be masked by another undoubtedly strident and boisterous feature, DISONANCE.

DISONANCE is the inherent tension, a clash- in those contexts that are supposed to be harmonious.

There is nothing serious or elitist in the ESSENTIALITY of my forms. They are elegant without being pretentious.

Nor is there anything austere or humble in the MINIMALISM of my pieces. On the contrary, I believe that it reveals a PROVOCATIONAL and LUDIC value.

Ainhoa Estankona

 

FORMALISM.

THE FORMS ARE ORGANICS, ABSTRACTS, ARCHAIC.

Attentive to detail, I work humbly valuing each form.

I seek the exaltation of beauty by creating emotional and dramatic effects.

The jewellery pieces show a formal composition of infinite possibilities.

Offer as many faces as glances. Each piece reveals INNUMERABLE PERSPECTIVES.

The combination of multiple, changing points of view is fluidly integrated into the composition of each piece of jewellery, giving it RHYTHM AND BALANCE.

In the balance between SIMPLICITY AND COMPLEXITY, the pieces do not get boring, there are always new forms to discover: the beauty is enriched, and their aesthetic value grows over the years.

Jewellery that induce a slow, reflective, solitary gaze.

Ainhoa Estankona

  

GOLD. WEARABLE SCULPTURES

  

...that the personal history is visible in a piece creates a unique added value. The marks, knocks, changes in the shine of the patina, the inevitable wear and tear... these are the traces of a life lived.

  

ALABASTER. WEARABLE SCULPTURES.

  

An art jewel is an ornament that combines the creative universe of its creator and the personality, the style, of its wearer.

  

  

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