CLASSIC
3rd May – 31st July 2018
Phoenix Ancient Art
Rue Verdaine
Geneva, Switzerland
www.phoenixancientart.com
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PRESS RELEASE
The Phoenix Ancient Art is pleased to announce the launch of the Classic exhibition in collaboration with Juan & Paloma Garrido. A breath-taking array of ancient ceramics, objects of metal and marble will merge with the most vanguard designs in metal furniture, remarkable for their exquisite quality in refined artistry and iconography. We would be delighted to invite you to share with us the delight of enjoying the conversation between the ancient and the contemporary.
Our aim, with this exhibition is to demonstrate that a merging point of the ancient and the contemporary exists, and that objects of precious archeological value can be displayed alongside exquisite art-furniture, providing a balanced and aesthetically contrasting marriage.
Juan and Paloma Garrido, the second generation of silversmiths and owners of one of the most innovating studios of contemporary silver craftsmanship, develop their own creations inspired by pieces of archaeology and geometric objects. At the Classic you will see the finest example of the decorate art pieces by GARRIDO workshop, innovative in terms of design, functionality and finishes. GARRIDO’s abundance of different treatments of the surfaces; be is highly textured finish or high gloss, executed in plated gold or silver, evoke the works crafted by the goldsmith masters of the ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome, developing metal objects in the fashion of what will be later called the Applied Arts.
Not only is there an interplay of aesthetic juxtaposition seen through out the exhibition, but you will also find links between the old and the new, through the use of related ancient goldsmith techniques, applied to both furniture and the objects. It is surprising how pieces of such contemporary and architectural design can be achieved through the use of these ancestral techniques that GARRIDO preserve in the crafting processes at their workshop, allowing for such exquisite quality of their finishes.