Open Call: TILISMAN 2024 – The good luck
SCD Studio, Perugia, IT
Deadline: 05.10.2024
Barbara Pavan
SCD STUDIO is continuing its exploration of the artistic dimension of the jewelry by selecting through a CALL OPEN TO ALL ARTISTS, a series of wearable works that know how to collect an ancient legacy by telling it in the contemporary and that will be displayed in an exhibition that will be set up in SCD STUDIO's exhibition space at 22N Bramante Street in Perugia, IT, from November 16, 2024 to January 6, 2025.
ṬILISMĀN - the title of this annual event - is inspired by the wish that, implicitly, our ancient fathers and mothers enclosed in small objects to keep with them, so that the beauty (and the good) might overcome evil and adverse fortune. So good fortune will be the theme that the art jewelry/bijoux should be inspired by and that will characterize the spirit of the 2024/25 edition of this project.
ṬILISMĀN is the Persian root of talisman, an object decorated with symbols, signs and figures loaded with meanings to which, from the dawn of civilization, was attributed a kind of magical power that was auspicious and, by extension, even protective (although it was rather the amulet that had apotropaic characteristics). The talisman held an implicit promise of happiness: it could guarantee good fortune, beauty, love and, above all, the comfort of being able to influence one's destiny by entrusting its fate to a small artefact to wear. Starting from the elaboration and assemblage of simple natural elements, the creation of talismans - like that of amulets - has had an increasingly sophisticated and refined evolution sometimes resulting in true works of art, including goldsmithing.
What today we generically refer to as jewelry, trinkets, bijoux, in fact derives from various declinations of the objects that men and women since ancient times used to adorn the body, attributing to them a semantic cipher that transformed them, to all intents and purposes, into language.
“Consecrated” or secular, the accessories worn indicated religious affiliation, social status, political faith; in short, they were carriers of messages that revealed the character, thoughts, hopes, desires, and fears of the person who wore them. Evidence of their narrative and identity characteristic is provided by the custom since the dawn of time of including them in the burial trousseau and/or passing them on from generation to generation by bequeathing the object-often precious-as the custodian and symbol of a memory, a meaning, an authority.
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