perugia
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Anna Fornari trained as a goldsmith and currently works in Perugia, where she designs and entirely handcrafts contemporary jewellery and bijoux. Her unexpected creations express the artisan-artist’s profound research and experimentation, both in formal terms and in their execution. Anna has mastered many traditional goldsmithing techniques, acquired through extensive training with distinguished masters, yet her practice often begins by moving beyond them.
Her collection “Cavità-Dimore”, for example, consists of brooches and earrings made from real beehives or wasp nests, found abandoned in nature and transformed, also through enamelling, into striking pieces of jewellery: objects to be worn, yet also capable of prompting reflection. Some of her projects stem from precise historical references, such as the jewellery created for her solo exhibition Il futuro degli Etruschi or her studies on the seal, always within a perspective of dialogue between past, present, and future rather than mere reproduction.
Anna Fornari’s works – she is also a Lecturer in Jewellery Design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Perugia and a lecturer at several universities – have been featured in numerous exhibitions and publications, both in Italy and abroad.
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A Perugia, Anna Fornari crea gioielli contemporanei interamente a mano, frutto di un’intensa ricerca tra tecniche orafe tradizionali e ...
A Perugia, Anna Fornari crea gioielli contemporanei interamente a mano, frutto di un’intensa ricerca tra tecniche orafe tradizionali e sperimentazione. Nella collezione Cavità-Dimore, favi abbandonati diventano spille e orecchini smaltati, trasformati in monili poetici e riflessivi. Docente e designer, Anna dialoga con la storia – dagli Etruschi ai sigilli antichi – reinterpretandola in chiave attuale. Le sue opere, esposte in Italia e all’estero, uniscono forma, materia e pensiero in creazioni uniche.