Rosalba Balsamo was born in Naples. She moved to Rome in 1994, where she now lives and works. Its is a way made of slidings of language and experience. In her work, with the realization of jewels, sculptures and interior design, the dimension spaces has been inquired trying to render represented factors like the depth and the movement. “In my job like designer of jewels for the art galleries and design, I use methods and processes of planning action, that allow to me the realization of pieces only or limited editions. Above all, I try to conjugate the technology and the planning of design to the goldsmith’s art, using every time the more appropriated techniques, from the lost wax to the construction, from the chemical shearing of the metals to the cuts laser, and to the new technologies, without never to penalize the features functionals of the traditional jewellery. “The body is always an integral part of the plan, with its fragility and ergonomic imperfections, its geometries anatomical and the complexity of the articulations. The jewels must be able to be wear comfortably and, at the same time, to be donating.”* Her jewels are characterized from the search of geometric and rigorous forms. She rarely use precious stones. “Instead I look for the light and color within the folds, the curves and the twists of the forms; within the gold and burnishing, spirals of light and dark, natural contrasts existing already in the forms and the materials.” Moreover she has collaborated to the realization of scenographs and jewels for the theatre and the cinema.
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