Me and my ``fantastic`` jewellery
“I started making jewellery when I lost one earring, a gift from a dear friend, so I made a new one.”
Craftsmanship, traditional techniques made in Italy 100% production, the Florentine best artisan collaborators and suppliers she work with, they are all the key elements of her production.
Martina Lončar is a jewellery designer who has moved from Ljubljana to live in Florence, the cradle of Art history and Jewellery craftsmanship. She have always been very fond of everything that concerns Arts and Culture in general and jewellery in particular since she was young. This is why she has studied Arts History in Ljubljana, then moved to Italy and attended courses in fine jewellery making in Milan and in Florence, where she had the chance to worki for some of the most known jewellery artisans, such as Alessandro Dari and Marco Garezzini.
“People say that I appear very calm and sympathetic, no excesses in my way as you may expect from a creative person and then comes the surprise, my jewels! I define them “fantastic” as they are really the products of my fantasy of my “intimate world” that comes to light through my contemporary design! My jewels reveal more of me than my speech and through them I express my inner world full of opposite elements: order and craziness, serious beauty and subtle humoristic lightness, creepiness and hilarity. My creativity does not come from the outside but it represents the surfacing of my unconsciousness!”
What does inspire her? Her life, day-by-day existence, the way she feels dealing with reality, her most profound contradictions. Her jewellery products can be defined as pieces of “contemporary luxury.” With jewels she does not want to impress you with her capability in jewellery craftsmanship but she focuses on the creative idea which is always characterized by opposites which encounter: refined and beautiful materials mixed with raw ones in the most simple way; the craziness of inner mechanisms which are hidden under perfect and simple shapes; precious and luxurious stones without any embellishments as beauty has to stand alone because I think that “beauty has a meaning in itself” or the beauty of imperfection she loves manufacturing as “sometimes it is more important to be unique than perfect!” Research is what nurtures her creativity: new techniques, new materials, new shapes… the search for knowledge has and will always be the real driving force behind her work!
“Every piece has its own story, in each work you will find that child, from my early years, when I was playing with beads.“
Exhibitions
2019
Plecnik in the mirror, solo show, Town Hall, Ljubljana
Narava in nakit, Trzic
History Channel, VBKÖ, Vienna
Fashion show, Fashion week Ljubljana
2018
Openig exhibition, Eho studio, Ljubljana
Tribute to Plečnik, gallery X, Bratislava
Zvezdni kamni – tektiti, Slovenian National museum Ljubljana
O oblikovanje, Cankarjev dom and Museum of architecture and design, Ljubljana
2017
Zakulisje, Vilinski dvor, Maribor
Cliche shop and gallery, Ljubljana
Architectura perennis, Gallery Fenix, Ljubljana
Nora co-working, Florence
2016
Nora co-working, Florence
Museo Bellini, Florence
Salone del Mobile, Milan
Galerija Drat, Izola
Museo Bellini, Florence
2015
Mota, Ljubljana
Fillo Rosso 2015, Muggia
The light caught in stones, Slovenian National museum Ljubljana
Florence Design week, Florence
2014
Nora co-working, Florence
Sierrad Art Fair, Confrontations contest, Amsterdam
Gallery Taktil, Izola
Ex Grege atelier, Florence
2013
Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Florence
Nobil coleggio degli Orafi, Rome
SitiArtstore crystal palace, Ljubljana