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The new jewellery Project by Celıne

Hedi Slimane continues Celine’s artist jewellery project with a limited-edition collection of 50 pieces, inspired by American sculptor Louise Nevelson.

Hedi Slimane has unveiled the second piece in the Celine artist jewel project, a reinterpretation of the work of American sculptor Louise Nevelson (1899 – 1988). The project, launched last year with the ‘César Compression’ Celine jewellery piece, based on the work of César Baldaccini, again takes sculpture as its starting point in a modern rethinking of wearable art forms.

Nevelson, who is celebrated for her wall pieces that unite separate elements in a fluid wave of wood, also created around 200 jewellery pieces, which now reside in private and public collections, including one at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Now, Celine has brought back to life one of these miniature wearable sculptures in a signed and numbered limited edition of 50.

The artist’s granddaughter Maria Nevelson finds it a powerful experience to see pieces that Louise originally created for her personal use now being enjoyed by a new generation.

The black wooden piece set in metal nods to the undulating forms of the sculptor’s larger works in an intertwining of her original, diverse inspirations, from Cubism’s strong silhouettes to primitive art’s emphasis on artistic licence, as well as the offbeat forms of the Surrealists.