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Complex, heterogeneous and ambiguous; contemporary jewellery has represented a new way of conceiving the practice of jewellery, displaying its artistic and creative side. The creation of usable objects, which share the same mission as contemporary art: to question pre-established tastes, rules and limits of artistic practice. This new way of conceptualising jewellery has promoted innovation in artisanal jewellery workshops. Using different materials as an expressive resource, without abandoning ancestral working methods, Majoral has found a space in which to develop their creative practice, managing to evoke images and transmit sensations through their design.

Enric Majoral has developed his jewellery activity through being self-taught, using jewellery as a tool of artistic expression. Majoral’s insatiable search around volume and space in jewellery, has enabled them to create a dynamic dialogue between the body, jewellery and space. Acrylic paint, titanium, nylon and even wool and silk can be materials used in jewellery, capable of producing harmony alongside more common precious metals, such as gold or silver. In this article, we show you some collections where Majoral has incorporated non-traditional materials in their creations: .

The Rain collection is one of the main cases where noble materials coexist with a material as humble as nylon thread. This combination leads to a bold and provocative collection, different items of jewellery and an example of the capacity of contemporary jewellery to break moulds. Nylon, also known as polyamide, is a synthetic fibre appreciated for its resistance and flexibility. In Rain, nylon is at the service of the jeweller, playing a determinant role on joining the circles of gold or silver, emulating the drops of water falling in a random way on a rainy day. The flexibility of nylon enables the metal discs to move, tinkling subtly, creating alternative, stunning items of jewellery.

Bots: the challenge of painting a noble metal

Silver is a noble metal, highly appreciated in the jewellery sector. It is a bright, malleable and ductile material. Its white shine means that it combines elegantly with colour. Majoral has used different shades of blue, indigo, red or green acrylic paint to colour their jewellery. In the case of the Jars collection, it features items of jewellery that combine the silver with deep blue, in brushstrokes of acrylic paint added in the workshop. The result is a collection made up of small interlinked jars, which together create pieces with simple but inspiring volumetric movements. The blue of the sky and the sea is transported to the inside of the jars, turning them into small recipients that guard the purity of the Mediterranean.

Materials conceived as living and changing substances

Majoral relates to matter as a living and changing, singular, concrete, heterogeneous substance, that imposes its own limits, times and processes. A hand-to-hand dialogue with each fragment of material that gives form and substance to their jewellery. Other examples of the capacity to break with limitations through innovation in jewellery is found in the creative jewellery of Majoral. The unique pieces of “Mohair Jewellery” by Enric Majoral incorporate such an everyday and humble material as wool. “The brightness that an item of precious jewellery requires, we achieve with an old, humble and nearby material such as wool, with a little silk”, explains Enric Majoral.