Arielle de Pinto
Formidable yet feminine...
Arielle de Pinto at this month's Pangaea Pop-Up:
Born in 1985, Canadian designer Arielle de Pinto, launched her accessory line upon graduation from Concordia University’s fine arts program in 2007. Renown for her self-developed method of crocheting metal, Arielle’s central line displays a growing collection of hand worked silver and vermeil jewelry produced by hand from her studio in Montreal, Canada. With over forty unique designs to date, her treatment of chain as fiber generates detailed forms with intrinsic structural weight and texture. While maintaining a vital sense of precision, she freely explores techniques culled from her background in other artistic disciplines and adopts a direct and physical approach to creation. Most recently, Arielle introduced brass and silver castings from a series of hand carved figurines. Like her crochet pieces, the work holds firm ground within current culture while balancing an inherent sense of indefinable age and transformation.
Indifferent to borders between art and fashion, Arielle also continues to grow a sculptural body of work including shirts and facemasks that tour and exhibit on a regular basis. Using a free-style approach that does not rely on pre-conceptualization or patterning, and drawing inspiration from the world around her, she is directed by ideas of movement and exaggeration to heighten aspects of character and the unexpected.
Space 15 Twenty is excited to carry Arielle de Pinto's collaboration with German contemporary label Anntian incorporating textiles and thread in addition to de Pinto's typical crocheted metal.
For more information, please email us at info@space15twenty.com.
