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  Her creative process...

Isabelle's gaze takes us beyond the natural raw material. Her refined imagination reveals something unsuspected and precious. Her fondness and respect for the combination of material reveal an emotion. We are both surprised and intrigued. Isabelle's jewels and objects convey a poetic and mysterious language. They talk about travels, experiences, encounters, judicious and unexpected fusions. Metal, precious wood, seeds, horns, mother-of-pearl, pearls, shells… This virtuoso interprets the materials throughout a creative and unique score. Precision and technique give it the accent of modernity and timelessness.

 

Learning new techniques and new expressions of jewelery and objects, linked to different ethnics, religions… so many challenges that seem essential to her creations. An explorer of art and alchemist of transformation, she is always open-minded and willingly surprised that her creations draw their form and their strength.

 

Decorative and functional objects, ornaments and other jewels, for Isabelle the definition of creation is not in the use or utility but in the deep meaning and the rarity that is given to each object. The precisely thought out realization of a piece must offer the observer a perfect harmony between material, know-how, unexpectedness and questioning : the still of ideas in search of the absolute.

 

The discovery of her work takes you, according to the cultures, the beauty of the unexpected, a deep aesthetic at the crossroads of all matter.

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Training

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2016: Active member of the fremaa - Craftsman (Chamber of Trades of Alsace)
1995 - 2009: Numerous stays in East and West Africa: Tanzania, Zanzibar,

            Kenya, Malawi, Senegal.

1983: CERTIFICATE OF COMPANION JEWELER

           Chamber of Trades of Alsace, Strasbourg
1980 - 1985: DNSEP (Higher National Diploma in Plactic Expression)

           Jewelry/Goldsmithing Section, Strasbourg

           Ecole Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs

Course...

Isabelle Fustinoni lives and works in Strasbourg. She studied jewelery and goldsmithing from 1980 to 1985 at the Ecole Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Strasbourg, now called HEAR (Haute Ecole des Arts du Rhin).

In 1983, she obtained a Jeweler-Joaillier Companion Certificate (issued by the Chamber of Trades of Alsace) and at the end of her course in 1985, a DNSEP (Higher National Diploma in Plastic Expression) in jewellery/goldsmithing.

 

Since then, she has exhibited her creations at numerous fairs, exhibitions and has collaborated with various galleries in France and abroad.

Also passionate about travel and black Africa, she spent long periods of time working in local workshops to learn traditional goldsmithing techniques.

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