Giovanni Sicuro

Approaching the work of Giovanni Sicuro is difficult if you're searching for a direct category to fit it in.  Classically trained as a Goldsmith and Sculptor in Udine, Italy, it is evident that Sicuro's work wasn't pushed in the expected aesthetic direction of contemporary Italian jewelry and the Padova school from which most of these artists (but not Sicuro) hail.  The work is incredibly complex, with an appreciation of geometric form, but arranged in a playful manner- like a tower of blocks knocked down by the child who built them up...  yet this complexity is diffused, hidden in a sense by the color and /or textures which Sicuro has chosen and the forms which often lay partially submerged under the surface upon which it sits, slight shifts in the direction of a texture and the angles at which elements are placed and stacked- these decisions are compiled into beautiful compositions whose visual simplicity carries an undercurrent of elemental intricacy, simplicity that masks the many hours spent laboriously fabricating each of these works by hand. 

Sicuro's material choices lean towards the classical, yet the work finds itself situated outside of any of the current trends coming out of the contemporary jewelry world.