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Signature jewellery has the proposal of becoming strong symbols of artistic expression
Signature jewellery, jewellery by the artist, craft jewellery, design jewellery, art jewellery, contemporary jewellery. This sequence of expressions are about expressing a heterogeneous current in the jewellery sector, where the authors generate a creative process in making their pieces. Signature jewellery can be defined as a reflexive artistic expression, which elaborates creative processes through the pieces of jewellery. The currents of signature jewellery, or craft jewellery, throughout history has been at the hand of the artistic and intellectual currents of the period.
At the end of the 19th and early 20th centuries, artistic currents such as Art Deco or Modernism led to the appearance of artist who placed creativity at the centre of their jewellery production. All these concepts born from the artistic creation of jewellers leads us to define signature jewellery as a catalyst for new ideas and ways of doing that are useful for us to understand the culture of the jewellery of our times. We find an example in Majoral, where its essence is found precisely in signature jewellery, as a tool of artistic expression.
The signature jewellery of Majoral: the challenge of making visible the forms with we represent ourselves in the world
The creative journey of Enric Majoral begins in the nineteen-sixties on the island of Formentera. In a context of transformation of the world of jewellery, Enric Majoral begins his own creative process in a parallel way and decentralised from the usual training processes of jewellery. “I lived far from and to the margin of the official circle of jewellery” states Enric Majoral.
The author was interested in jewellery made apart from the jeweller’s trade and conceived signature jewellery as a form of cultural expression. “Jewellery enables us to make visible the forms with which we represent ourselves in the world. In this sense, it is not an individual language, but something shared”, adds Majoral. Signature jewellery always requires a source of inspiration by the jeweller, whether social, cultural or natural. In the case pf Majoral, the way of living and coexisting on the island of Formentera has become the greatest cultural inspiration of the firm’s jewellery.
When the workshop becomes the artist’s home
The arrival to Formentera was determinant for Enric Majoral choosing the path of craftsmanship in his shared model of life. Inspired by the artisans of clothes, leather and metal, discovered on a previous trip to India, Enric Majoral chose jewellery as a form of artistic expression. Since then, the workshop has become the Catalan artist’s home. A space where Enric Majoral has learnt from a form of knowledge based on the fusion of intuition and skill. The artistic expression that the author is capable of generating with an item of jewellery enables him to realise that his hand is the window to his mind and his tool as jeweller.
The professional journey of Enric Majoral over the decades unfolds from curiosity, experimentation, investigation and the artisanal forms and techniques developed in the workshop. The author’s obsession is to conceive jewellery as a form of vital experience capable of being transmitted onto people’s skin. Like any current of artistic expression, signature jewellery develops its forms through the inspiration of the artisan. This is why signature jewellery is often seen as exclusive and unique jewellery, made by hand and with singular designs. Nevertheless, signature jewellery can go a little further and become strong symbols of artistic expression.
