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Since January 2024, Elisabeth Quin—journalist, writer, director, and host—has been showcasing jewelry by contemporary artists four nights a week on Arte in her show 28 Minutes. With her characteristic intelligence, wit, and elegance, Elisabeth is a wonderful ambassador; over the months, she has also become the gallery’s muse. Many designers and sculptors collaborating with MiniMasterpiece are now creating new wearable sculpture designs, hoping one evening to adorn Elisabeth’s ears...  

Paola Stroppiana, art historian, will speak with Diane Venet, collector, and Esther de Beaucé, gallery owner. From the 1930s to the present day, artist jewelry has established itself as an autonomous, intellectual, and identity-defining language—a work of art in its own right. Paola Stroppiana, art historian, journalist, and specialist in artist-made jewelry, traces its history with a focus on Italian masters: from Lucio Fontana to Arnaldo Pomodoro and Gio Pomodoro, including Giuseppe Penone and Giulio Paolini; the scope broadens to include international figures such as Man Ray, Lee Ufan, and Joanna Vasconcelos. The special guest is Diane…

Check out the 10 articles published about the MiniMasterpiece gallery in the French and international press this winter.

For over 30 years, Giampaolo Babetto has enjoyed a fruitful collaboration with Naïla de Monbrison.    The MiniMasterpiece gallery is delighted to take up the torch of representing him in Paris and to exhibit a selection of his jewelry sculptures.  

In 2018, Solange Thierry de Saint-Rapt published a magnificent book entitled Bijoux Contemporains, une passion (Contemporary Jewelry, a Passion) with Editions du Regard, written by Chantal Bizot and Nadine Coleno. A woman of letters, journalist, exhibition curator, and more, Solange Thierry de Saint Rapt is also an extraordinary collector, inspired by the radical nature of her culture. In this book, she shares part of her collection, which is mainly devoted to jewelry by contemporary designers. For several decades, Solange has been passionately collecting hundreds of pieces of jewelry: rings, necklaces, and bracelets, but never brooches or…

Tout un bouquet is the second solo exhibition devoted to the jewelry sculptures of artist Maïlys Seydoux-Dumas at the MiniMasterpiece gallery, following Format Raisin in 2023. “My hands are the buds of my life,” writes Maïlys about her artistic practice. She is bursting with ideas, her mind in turmoil, and then her hands get involved. As if nothing had happened, each gesture has been weighed, reweighed, and repositioned. The poetic value of her creations almost makes you forget the hard work, the procrastination of the material, until the doubt is finally resolved. The result is a collection of original silver and vermeil jewelry for the…