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Janos Gabor Varga
Spiral Brooch

500.00€
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Year:
2020
Location:
Italy
Weight:
39gr.
Dimensions:
4 x 4cm

Spiral Brooch: I am so attracted to rectangular forms that I decided to challange this affection: by making something curvy-swirly, not so mirror-symmetric. A spiral is quite adequat. It happened to be a Fermat-spiral coded in a digital way that is less loud to our eyes. Patternweld steel ("damascus"), silver.

I was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1976. I graduated as an agronomist in 2002. Until I lived in my country of origin, my passion was animal breeding and ethnography. I did a 10 years long research on the ethnomedicine of animals, involving wonderful, exciting journeys in Transylvania, Ukraine and the Hungarian countryside. The time I spent working with pheasants, shepherds made a deep impact on me: the wisdom of those people, the way they work materials, the way they face the life.
First of all I learnt: there are no „simple people”. We are all bloody complicated.
And... the most beautiful finish on metal is the one a shiny scythe has at the end of the summer.

Then I left Hungary for England where I lived for nearly 3 years, this is where I started to make jewellery. As I spoke very bad English, jewellery become the way of expressing myself.
Starting a new life I become a farm worker, later cheese maker.

Searching for my home I left England and I emigrated to Italy. Here I started again from the beginning, without the knowledge of the language, place. I worked for two years as a goat herd, forest worker when finally I managed to become a full time jeweller. I have my own workshop in a small village in the mountains near to Genoa.