Giampaolo Babetto
Giampaolo Babetto
1947, Padova – Italia
Babetto’s work appears as a tireless and rigorous analytic investigation of form, plumbed in all its expressive and compositional possibilities. Geometry was the starting point for the development of a constructive approach to jewellery conceived as architecture, jewels that can be read in all their parts and that emanate a dense formal tension. Minimalism, architecture, but also the painting of Pontormo are just some of the sources that have nourished Babetto’s complex language, in which the quest for form is melded with technical expertise, always taken to extremes to pursue an ever-vital spirit of experimentation.
The artist chosen by Giampaolo Babetto is Helen Britton
1947 Born in Padova, Italy, lives and works in Arquà Petrarca
1969-83 Lecturer at Istituto d’Arte “P. Selvatico”, Padova
1979-80 Visiting lecturer at the Rietveld Akademie, Amsterdam
1983 Visiting lecturer at the Rietveld Akademie, Amsterdam
1984 Concetto e progettazione architettonica dell’esposizione “Gioiello Arte Contemporanea d’Austria” Ateneo di San Basso, con il patrocinio della Biennale di Venezia, Venezia
1985 Professor at the Fachhochschule, Düsseldorf
1987 Visiting lecturer at the San Diego University, USA
1990 Professor at the Royal College of Art, London
1993 Visiting lecturer at the Sommer Akademie, Graz
1994 Visiting lecturer at the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, USA
1995 Professor at the Sommer Akademie, Salzburg
1996 Visiting lecturer at the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, USA
1998 Professor at the Sommer Akademie, Salzburg
2002 Progetto al Marunouchi Building per Mitsubishi Estate Co. Ltd., Tokyo.
2004 Collabora con Pastoe, Ultrecht, per la progettazione della serie di tavoli “Quadro”. Progettazione e realizzazione della medaglia per il Comune di Arquà Petrarca in occasione della celebrazione del 700° anniversario della nascita di Francesco Petrarca.
2006 Esegue servizio in argento per cerimonia religiosa per la Chiesa di St. Michael, Monaco.
2007 Workshop presso la scuola “Le Arti Orafe”, Lucca.
2007 Palazzo Pitti, Museo degli Argenti, Firenze.
2006 Design Flandesr, Brussels.
2005 Galerie Heike Curtze, Wien; Galerie Heike Curtze, Salzburg; Galerie Fred Jahn, München; Centro ricerche Nardini, Bassano del Grappa (VI).
2004 Galerie Heike Curtze, Salzburg.
2003 Scuderie Storiche, Poggio a Caiano; Eurema Interni, Dolo; International Design Zentrum, Berlin.
2002 Galerie Handwerk, Mümchen.
2000 Museo Correr, Venezia; Gewerbemuseum, Winterthur.
1998 Taideteollisuusmuseo, Helsinki.
1997 Galerie Fred Jahn, München; Palazzo del Monte di Pietà, Padova;
1996 Loggia Rucellai, Firenze.
1995 Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venezia; Museu Textil i d’indumentària, Barcelona; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
1994 Neue Galerie der Stadt Linz ; Museum Für Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt;
1993 Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg.
1992 Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporaine, Nizza; Kunstverein, Düsseldorf.
1989 Provinciaal Museum Voor Moderne Kunst, Oostende.
1977 Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Gemeentelijke Van Reekum Museum, Apeldoorn.
2006 Affaires Culturelle, Cagnes- sur-Mer; Sofa, New York; Marijke Studio, Padova; “Plastica, Oro Contemporaneo” Studio GR 20, Padova; Venice Design Gallery, Venezia; “ Armonici Contrasti” Le Arti Orafe, Firenze; Galerie Marzee, Nijmegen;
2005 Triennale di Milano
2001 The RISD Museum, Providence; American Craft Museum, New York.
1996 New Times, New Thinking: Jewellery in Europe & America, Crafts Council Gallery, London.
1995 Musee des Arts Decoratives, Lousanne.
1994 “In Touch” de Sandvigske Samliger, Lillehammer.
1993 “93 The Art of Jewellery” Japan Jewellery Design Association, Tokyo; “Facet 1” International Jewellery Biennale, Kunsthal Rotterdam.
1993 “13 Goldschmide Von Amsterdam bis Tokyo,” Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste.
1992 Triennale du Biyou, Musée des Art Decoratives, Paris; Centrum Beeldende Kunst, Grooningen.
1991 “Europäisches Kunsthandwerk; “Haus der Wirtschaft, Stuttgart.
1989-90 Triennale du Bijou, Paris; “Perth International Craft Triennal”, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth and Power House Museum, Sydney.
1989 “Ornamenta I°”, Pforzheim.
1988 “Tragezeichen”, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen.
1987 “Schmuck, Zeichen am Körper”, Francisco Carolinum Museum, Linz;“Europea Joieria Contemporània”, Fundaciò Caixa de Pensions, Barcelona; Biannale du Bijou, Paris.
1986 Art Gallery San Diego State University, San Diego; Croft and Folk Museum, Los Angeles; Concepts Gallery, Palo Alto; Hoffman Gallery, School of Art and Craft, Portland, Oregon; Concepts Gallery, Carmel, California; Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue.
1985 Geementen Museum, Den Haag.
1984 “Contemporary Jewellery America, Australia, Europe and Japan”,National Museum of Modern Art Kioto and National Museum of Art, Tokyo; “Jewellery International” American Craft Museum, New York.
1983 “International Jewellery Art Exibition”, Isetan Art Museum Tokyo, and Nabio Gallery, Osaka.
1980 “ Schmuck International 1900/1980” Künstlerhaus, Wien.
1977 “Schmucktendenzen” Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim.
1970 Museum Boymas Van Beuningen, Rotterdam.
2003 RISD New York Athena Awards for “excellent carrier”, Providence.
1998 Ring of Honour “Foundation of the Ring of Honour of the Association of Goldsmiths’Art”, Hanau.
1991 Goldmedaille des Freistaates Bayern, München.
1985 Herbert Hoffmann Preis, München.
1983 Grand Prix, Japan Jewellery Design Association, Tokyo.
1975 Herbert Hoffmann Preis, München.
Schmuckmuseum , Pforzheim;
Danner Stiftung, München;
Victoria and Albert Museum, London;
National Gallery of Western Australia, Perth;
Musée des Art Decoratives, Paris;
Musée d’Art Contemporaine, Nice;
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg;
Nordenfieldske Kunstindustrimuseum Trondheim, Norway;
Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin;
Museum Für Konkrete Kunst , Ingolstadt ;
Museu Textil i d’Indumentaria, Barcelona;
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island USA;
Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt.
Grassi Museum, Leipzig.
Musei Civici, complesso Museale Palazzo Zuckermann, Padova
National Gallery of Australia, Camberra.
Museo degli Argenti, Firenze.