My artistic approach

My name is Sylvie Doagio, I am Italian and French, passionate about art, history, crafts, creation and research.

Interested in communication, people, relationships and exchanges between different worlds.

“French touch, Italian spirit”

My artistic approach is entirely linked to listening, empathy, authenticity and artistic research.

I am very sensitive to personalized projects, to respecting the eco-responsible value chain, to the traceability of the entire production chain (metals, stones, partner artisans).

This is a local production, respectful of the values ​​of artistic craftsmanship.

I create my pieces in my workshop, I collaborate with Parisian artisans such as the founder, the setter, the engraver, the lapidary, the diamond cutter.

It's incredible how such a small object, a piece of jewelry, can contain and crystallize so much information, value, and emotion.

My jewelry is created from an idea, a symbol, an encounter, a story, an image perceived during my travels or from a very personal request.

I see jewelry as the culmination of a project that brings together feelings, emotions and arts such as architecture, sculpture, history, as well as humanity, aesthetics, research, technique, innovation, precision, design, luxury craftsmanship, know-how, memory, …

The jewel is the synthesis of all these elements; it is micro and macro.
It represents a symbol, a memory, a link, a legacy.

Beyond its monetary value, it is cherished in an irrational and emotional way; its sentimental value is inestimable; it is the gratuitousness and freedom of this value that make it rich!

During my artistic studies in Genoa, I was immersed in the spirit of the Italian Renaissance (14th-16th centuries), where man is at the center of the worldview , where nature is in perpetual transformation , regeneration, renewal.

Creation is thus a constant renewal, in search of inspiration, innovation and new and old ideas, taken up and revisited.

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) took up this concept of " Natura Naturans " , of "Nature in becoming" , where the microcosm, Man , reflects the macrocosm, the Universe .

A parallel can be drawn between the micro functioning of the cell and the macro functioning of space: at different scales, their modes of operation are so similar, they give and inspire life.

Leonardo da Vinci's work, " L'uomo di Vitruvio " (The Vitruvian Man), in which he studies the proportions of the human body, features these two illustrations :
- In the Middle Ages, the circle represented divine perfection: the macrocosm,
- the square represented the earth, the microcosm and its earthly dimension.

Man represented the link between the two universes, like a kind of medium, a mirror of the universe, a humanist model that places man, his value and his dignity, at the center of the world.

 

My sources of inspiration are numerous.

Art, history, the Renaissance, Japan, Italy, nature, Opera, symbolism, futurism, architecture, Africa, sculpture , materials, dreams, life, movement… in reality, everything is a source of inspiration and above all, everything is a question of perspective , observation, curiosity and exchange .

If I have an idea, I write it down in my notebook, I make sketches, I think about it, I develop it, the idea matures, transforms and finally it takes shape: I sculpt the model in wax, then with the lost-wax casting process, the sculpture is transformed into metal: silver, bronze or gold.

Sketches inspired by various sources: spindle drawing, sanguine, gouache