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Majoral understands jewellery as a tool of expression capable of dialogue between different artistic disciplines. The ‘Created with’ initiative of Majoral brings together in the workshop the signature jewellery of Enric and Roc with other artists to create different and enriching points of view.

“My jewellery is neither an artistic nor design project. It results from a creative field in which things appear”. With these words, the Catalan jeweller Enric Majoral defines his creative process, the outcome of which are the Majoral collections and jewellery. Thus, Majoral’s contemporary jewellery becomes the result of a way of perceiving the world and of a capacity of expression through multiple materials.

The interweaving paths of design, craftsmanship and art converge in the work of Enric Majoral, his small contribution to contemporary and Mediterranean jewellery, and creating a personal language in his own style capable of breaking pre-established rules in the field of jewellery.

This desire of Enric Majoral to insatiably seek new forms around volume and space have led him to collaborate with artists and creators to bring to the world of jewellery different and enriching points of view. And he has done so under the title ‘Created with’, an initiative that transfers the knowledge and expressive capacity of different contemporary artists to the sphere of jewellery.

The ‘Created with’ initiative has had the collaboration of different creators and artists, such as Gilbert Herreyns, Willie Márquez, Alfons Borrell, Erwin Becthold, Estela Rahola and Michel Mouffe.

In fact, the collaboration with the Belgian artist resident in Formentera, Michel Mouffe, has resulted in the creation of jewellery and sculptures that enable the joining of the contemporary vision from different disciplines and three-dimensional arts.

Michel Mouffe (Brussels, 1957) is a contemporary artist who explores the foundations of painting, challenging its very limits. His works are characterised by showing multiple thin layers of paint and enamel, and with protuberances and undulations that surpass the two-dimensional nature of the canvas, causing a visual experience that goes beyond lines and colours.

Belgian by birth, but from Formentera by adoption, Mouffe and Majoral met on the island. The mutual interest in artistic and creative development of the two creators made them forge a friendship that has lasted over the years.

This friendship and shared interest in the observation of reality (visible and invisible) as an inseparable part of their creative processes, has led them to collaborate on pieces of jewellery and sculpture with a strong artistic presence. The creators’ joint work has produced a complicity in the workshop that has enabled them to create joint projects with great artistic presence. One example we can give is the Ánima ring, a unique ring that becomes a small object converted into jewellery, and of which a limited and numbered edition was created of 21 units of silver, 14 silver-plated, and 7 in 18-carat gold.

However, the collaboration between the Belgian artist and the Catalan jeweller goes back many years. In 2012, the two contemporary creators presented “The weight of the soul”, an exhibition held in Formentera that showed “the result of 20 years’ connection between two complicit souls based in Formentera”. The exhibition forms that dialogue with each other, with pieces of different volumes that aimed to reflect upon gravity and the creation of life.

With a practically divine mystic connotation, the exhibition also showed a chalice created with a gold-plated cup that symbolised an evocation of everything human, as well as some small boats that floated in the air to recall the idea of a way and constant journey throughout our lives.

Majoral’s ‘Created with’ initiative arises from many links that Enric Majoral has developed on the island of Formentera since his arrival in the seventies. Despite its modest size – being the smallest of the Balearic Islands – Formentera has become, for decades now, a social, cultural and vital benchmark of the Mediterranean. The natural and cultural heritage of Formentera has resulted in many craft and artistic expressions.

A good example is the Art and Artisan Fair of La Mola, an initiative promoted by Enric Majoral and other artists and artisans from the island, also representing a meeting point for making connections between different contemporary creators. So the Art and Artisan Fair of La Mola has become a referent of the island, and has been useful for many artisans and artists as a space to show their work and to inspire their colleagues.

The collaboration between creators of different artistic disciplines, boosted by the ‘Created with’ initiative, not only gives rise to jewellery with a high expressive worth, but is also a champion of exhibition projects, able to give visibility to a process of stimulating thought of the creative curve of contemporary art. ‘Created with’ has shown the strength of jewellery for being a tool of artistic and aesthetic symbiosis.