Creative Process according to Gaia Repossi
Gaia Repossi is the daughter of the master jeweler Alberto Repossi. Gaia was appointed creative director and designer of all Repossi collections, turning the label into the most wanted fine jewelry brand of the moment and casually earning her master’s in archaeology and anthropology along the way. She is talking about her creative process, why pink diamonds are so precious, and how opulence can be redefined in the 21st century.
It always starts with a pattern—a shape, a sculpture, a drawing, a grid. It can be the way some kid in Ethiopia wears an earring, or a line of a Frank Lloyd Wright house. My references come from contemporary art, and the effects of metal within modern sculpture and architecture. I take inspiration from the works of Alexander Calder, Cy Twombly, Franz West, Richard Serra, and Le Corbusier, as well as from the brutalist, minimalist, and Bauhaus movements. I like blending and pushing the boundaries between architecture and traditional high jewelry techniques. I also like working through systems. So one idea can be done in infinite variations. If we take the Berbere series as an example, it comes in more than 1,500 variations: one row, two rows, three rows, seven rows. Thin row, thick row, colors, pavé. I like the idea of infinite possibilities.
Familiar Fashion Faces
x Theodore Bradley
15 EMERGE
Fashion and Art are symbiotic, it is mandatory to stay on top of both to do good work. Here is a very convenient run down of 15 up and coming artists by GOOP.
The Kiosk
Print Media and its outlets seem to have a come back or are reflected on nostalgically. Here you see the classic NY newsstand, interpreted by Brooklyn-based artist Kimou Meyer, aka Grotesk for Juxtapoz magazine.
Grotesk brought the newsstand to life by creating a functional wood replica for the 2014 SCOPE Miami Art Show. And now, Grotesk, Victory Journal, Juxtapoz magazine, and Times Square Arts are bringing the newsstand to the heart of NYC: Times Square.
Meanwhile Monocle’s Tyler Brulé opened Kioskkafé to celebrate magazine- and Middle Europe inspired coffee shop culture.
David Hockney
An interview. There’s something art can do for the soul that you can’t really put into words, he says. He talks about a Matisse exhibition that he saw at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Critics can be dismissive of art that makes people feel good – as they have been at times of Hockney’s. Sod ’em, he says.
“That Matisse show was unbelievable. It was pure joy. Pure joy. And joy is a great thing to give to people.”