Among the historical exponents of what has been defined since 1983 by Fritz Falk, then director of the Schmuckmuseum in Pforzheim, as the "Padua goldsmith school", the goldsmith artist Graziano Visintin presents an exhibition where gold, a material rejected by contemporary goldsmith , returns to be forcefully brought to the foreground.
Visintin is known for the use of the niello technique which exploits an alloy of previous metals - copper, silver, lead and sulfur - capable of giving a ductile and reactive sculptural material to the design ideas of the master goldsmith.
The alloy is also an essential chromatic material for the depictions created by Visintin;
His jewels are often compared to pictorial representations due to the strong play of chiaroscuro they possess and the great interaction with light they implement.
His works are today present in numerous museums around the globe.
The rooms of the temporary exhibitions of the 'Mac' Dino Formaggio Museum of Contemporary Art in Teolo, in the province of Padua, will host his exhibition, entitled "Everything is fragment", from March 22nd, which presents a precious solo show by the master goldsmith protagonist international research jewelery and one of the main exponents of the Padua Goldsmith School founded by Mario Pinton.
The exhibition displays around forty jewels, mostly enamelled or nielloed brooches, some of which are unpublished, and takes place simultaneously with an important exhibition event of which Visintin is the protagonist in Munich, Germany, one of the European capitals of contemporary jewellery. .
The Visintin exhibition also inaugurates, on March 22nd, at 6 pm, the new season of the Teolo Museum of Contemporary Art, inside the Euganean Hills Park.
The museum, housed in the sixteenth-century Venetian palace seat of the Vicars of the Serenissima, was founded in 1993 by the art philosopher Dino Formaggio and this year celebrates thirty years of activity.
The display of the works in the collection, which includes paintings by Renato Birolli, Aligi Sassu, Alberto Biasi, Fiorenzo Tomea and many others, has been revised as every year with a view to rotating the works on display.
A tribute is paid to the engraver Albino Palma, who recently passed away at the age of 99, with a wall dedicated to him which collects ten of his very refined etchings.
Today the MAC Dino Formaggio lives by welcoming artists, writers, poets and musicians, presenting personal exhibitions and events, increasingly becoming a cultural workshop that contaminates the territory and integrates the excellence that it offers.
A small and precious cultural reality that lives thanks to the commitment of Daniele Formaggio (guarantor of the donation and son of the philosopher), Stefania Gallana (voluntary collaborator for communication and computerization of the Museum) and the Councilor for Culture of the municipality of Teolo, Raffaella Cosentino Bag.
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