philosophy

multidisciplinary artist focused since 2006 on the design and creation of contemporary artisanal jewelery which she believes to be an intimate and great expression of art and emotional language.
for her, jewelery is a creative goal that starts from a philosophical and anthropological research into oneself and contemporary man, man’s continuous need to find a meeting point between body and soul, matter and spirituality.
according to laura this answer resides only in nature, not in simple observation or contemplation but in the awareness of its simple being and becoming, the nature of which we are part is poetry and beauty. create a language that makes matter spiritual, change its physicality, deprive it of its physical ballast to reveal its poetic essence. her creations are thus not limited to being shapes or decorations, Laura creates an extremely transversal language, always different in techniques or materials, they cannot be cataloged in a space of time or in a style but have only one common denominator: balance and harmony.

beauty quality of what appears or is considered beautiful to the senses and the soul. the connection between the idea of ​​beautiful and that of good, suggested by the etymological root (the Latin bellus “beautiful” is diminutive of an ancient form of bonus “good”), refers to the conception of b. as order, harmony and proportion of the parts, which found full expression in Greek philosophy. Subsequently, the notion of b. it has become an autonomous category, characterized by the ability of beauty to be perceived by the senses. from the doctrine of beauty as “sensible perfection” aesthetics was born and established in the 18th century as an autonomous discipline concerning beauty.
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Laura

laura

was born in Ancona in 1967, graduated in goldsmithing at the art institute, moved to Bologna where he graduated in scenography with his teacher Mario Ceroli. she lives in Bologna for 23 years, works in a large theater like the municipal one, is a set designer, painter, designer, graphic designer, teaches pictorial disciplines and drawing for years, holds exhibitions and collaborates many times with great artists, meets and collaborates with werner herzog, learned engraving with luciano de vita, wrote a book of poems, studied and still practices shodo with his japanese teacher norio nagayama. he returned to Ancona in 2009 to rediscover the sea and glimpse the journey into designer jewellery. art is for her a need to live and express herself.

Laura Contri

art: from the Latin ar-tem Aryan root ar which has the main meaning of – to go, to set in motion, to move towards something which in a translated sense is to adapt to make produce, in Latin ars artis the ability to do, produce, the ability to do harmonically in a suitable manner. in its broadest meaning, it includes every human activity – carried out individually or collectively – that leads to forms of creativity and aesthetic expression. aesthetics from the Greek aistetikos: sensitive capable of feeling, I perceive and feel through the senses. this term was modified in the 18th century to indicate a very specific philosophical discipline in which aesthetic truth is not resolved in logical and intellectual truth but in sensitive knowledge which can be affirmed as such by the senses through perception, as a concrete experience. this perception identified as the creative and constructive capacity of human thought is the condition that makes possible not only the artistic experience but also the experience in general and the knowledge itself that derives from it.

there are 2 types of knowledge: conceptual knowledge which derives from logic and culture and aesthetic (or sensitive) knowledge. when you say “I don’t know and I can’t understand” know that this is not the case. Aesthetic truth is knowledge in its own right just as much as intellectual truth. let’s leave the first to critics or analysts and activate the other, we are all able to know through the senses, our history and our culture is written in our DNA and by letting go of sensory perception we are able to activate an experience more complete and total because it has no filters. We thus try to savor the exhibition through an “aesthetic” experience that is not nourished by what others have filtered and codified but only exclusively through our sensitive and sensorial experience, our emotional feeling and our imaginative faculty.

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