Cindy Chao’s jewelry works are often regarded as “works of art with jewelry as the medium” – the commonalities with sculpture are more obvious, so the commonalities with painting are rarely mentioned.
She has always taken wax carving as the initial design version, insisted on 3D visualization, and even used 3D scanning technology instead of sketches to create archives.
The time and energy spent on each piece of work is no less than that of the sculpture masters a hundred years ago.
CindyChao’s work photo Since its inception in 2004, CINDYCHAO art jewelry brand has become the focus of the art world with several museum collection level jewelry works.
Inspired by the newly sprouted cardamom in early spring, this brooch inlays the vitality and hope of spring.
Sculptures are historical objects that a generation of people look up to, touch, respect and pray for.
The coincidence degree of each joint position and angle has been carefully calculated, which makes it impossible to detect the existence of tenon mortise mechanism.
It can be said that ‘architecture’ is still an important spirit throughout my works.” The inheritance of art in different times and media has enabled Cindy Chao’s jewelry works to transcend the limitation of form and leave a historical mark in the form of art works.
In order to present the best three-dimensional radian of the work, the artist assembled it in a tenon and mortise structure, inlaying emerald and diamond balls on the titanium metal structure at the bottom of the pod.
The 2022 BlackLabelMasterpiece series Spring Cardamom brooch artwork has left an important mark in the art history by sculpture in the dimensions that cannot be touched by painting.
Against the background of metal casting and rock carving, they have seemingly eternal power.
Her art history began when she was at home, inheriting their ideas and crafts, and finally realizing her unique media creativity in the jewelry creation field.
During the Renaissance, painters who inherited religious themes aspired to break through the limitations of medieval techniques and explore the realistic visual effects of extreme stereoscopy; At the beginning of the 20th century, cubism painting school led by Pablo Picasso and George Blake rose in France, which revolutionized the deconstruction and reorganization of geometric figures and lines to simultaneously express multiple views of objects; Jasper Jones, Jack Whitten and many other influential contemporary artists also focus on the materiality of painting materials and seek the possibility of three-dimensional in two-dimensional canvas.
With the annotation of painting and sculpture concepts, it is not difficult to understand why CindyChao’s 3D-3 brand new concept has been able to revolutionize its brand’s unique aesthetics, thus leading the creation of future master series.
The thinking of architecture is to connect inside and outside, to contain and carry, to create space rather than occupy space.
In the 2022Black LabelMasterpiece “Spring Cardamom brooch”, Cindy Chao uses the principle of color stacking in oil paintings for reference, deconstructs the combination logic of jewelry design with three-dimensional color matching aesthetics, and uses fancy cut yellow diamonds, emeralds, Shafulais, and round emeralds to match the closely nailed inlay process, which is arranged in their best positions with coffee gold yellow diamonds, Alexandrite, and colored sapphires.
Gems and drill balls also seem to float on the pod, which is so light and dreamy.
This kind of three-dimensional discussion in the traditional two-dimensional media has also formed a profound echo in the design field.
The experience of jewelry artist Cindy Chao from his childhood to observe the blueprint of Han style temple architecture in his grandfather’s studio, as well as the influence of the works of famous architects such as Zaha Hadid and Renzo Piano, has enabled Cindy Chao to systematically establish a deep understanding of space, and finally apply the architectural thinking to the exquisite size of the jewelry structure in his own creation.
It is true that jewelry, as the creation process of three-dimensional objects, has a more significant commonality with sculpture.
It is not difficult to see the dual influence of sculpture and architecture in her jewelry design, so her works are also called “jewelry design with architectural sense, sculpture and vitality”.
Cindy Chao’s father is a sculptor and her grandfather is an architect.
involved in architecture, which enables her to view three-dimensional structure from a macro perspective.
For example, the work “Peony Brooch”, which was collected by the British V&A Museum, has been created for a whole decade.
Trapezoid Rubber Magnetic Chamfer
Today’s “Spring Cardamom brooch” is a combination of multi-level inlays, creating a three-dimensional light and shadow effect and a multi-dimensional 3D wrapped structure.
She is familiar with precision engineering calculation, mechanical structure, three-dimensional perspective, modeling design, etc.
In the long history, sculpture is the carrier of epic and the structure of monument.
This is especially true of Cindy Chao’s creative process.
If the microcosmic form of three-dimensional art is called sculpture, the macroscopic form of expression is certainly architecture.
The brand has been invited to participate in the Biennales Antiquaries, TEFAF, Masterpiece London and other high-level international authoritative art exhibitions for many years, and its works have been included in the collections of Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Paris Museum of Decorative Arts, and British V&A Museum..
She once said: “I use the thought of building a building to create art jewelry works.
This is reflected in the latest master series design of Cindy Chao, a famous Chinese jewelry artist.
