Eleonora Castagnetta presented some unpublished works, inspired by “Invisible Cities” by Italo Calvino, transforming into a jewel four of the utopian cities described in the volume: Dorotea, Fedora, Sofronia, and Tecla. These representations of ideal cities, which reflect Eleonora’s in-depth research in the geometric, volumetric, and chromatic field, found their crystallization in as many silver and enamel brooches with gold-plated and diamond details, welcomed by a casket that contextualizes their volume in space. The exhibition path was enriched by the presence of other previously created jewels, inspired by great masters of architecture and the Bauhaus: the Mognolo ring (for the realization of which she drew inspiration from the Church of San Giovanni Battista in Mogno, Switzerland, designed by the internationally renowned architect Mario Botta, with whom Eleonora collaborated for 13 years); Ziggurat; Homage to Le Corbusier and Homage to the Bauhaus.

Alex Pinna, a sculptor with over three decades of research and international exhibitions, presented the unpublished project Believe me: a group of sculptures on which the artist has worked intensively in the last five years. The “irons”, as the artist defines his works, are a natural evolution of works on geometric supports, usually horizontal, that the artist uses to create an imaginary and personal world where to place his figures. The irons are born from numerous drawings, made at once, which the artist selects for some possible three-dimensional transformations: a landscape linked to curved elements freely expanded in space that refer to a biomorphic world, not without anatomical references. An expressive research field that is also well-suited to reflection on the jewel, with which Pinna has recently chosen to measure himself: the “leaf-men” are present in the exhibition, born from the casual observation of the leaves of a magnolia tree during his stay in Pantelleria, where the human element merges with the natural one in a perfect visual symbiosis.