Antonio Pineda .970 Silver Modernist Pins

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Antonio Pineda .970 Silver Modernist Pins

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Being offered are a pair of .970 silver pins by Antonio Pineda of Taxco, Mexico. Pins adorned with Mexican jade stone, set in a sleek modernist design. Dimensions: Marked as illustrated. In excellent condition. Stanley Szaro Antonio Pineda Collection In the mountain town of Taxco in Mexico’s state of Guerrero, large-scale mining can be dated to the sixteenth century, and silver is a way of life. In the years following the Mexican Revolution (1910–20), jewelry and other silver objects were crafted there with an entirely innovative approach, informed by modernism and the creation of a new Mexican national identity. Today, at the age of 89, Antonio Pineda is one of two living members of the Taxco School and is recognized as a world-class designer and a Mexican national treasure. Nearly two hundred examples of Pineda’s acclaimed silver work will be displayed in Silver Seduction: The Art of Mexican Modernist Antonio Pineda, a traveling exhibition debuting at the Fowler Museum Aug. 24, 2008. Significantly, given Pineda’s many accomplishments and international renown, he identifies himself primarily as a taxqueño, or Taxco, silversmith. From its inception, the Taxco movement broke new ground in technical achievement and design. While American-born, Taxco-based designer William Spratling has been credited with spearheading the contemporary Taxco silver movement, it was a group of talented Mexican designers who went on to establish independent workshops and develop the distinctive “Taxco School.” These designers incorporated numerous aesthetic orientations—Pre-Columbian art; silverwork, religious images, and other artwork from the Mexican Colonial period; and local popular arts—merging them within the broad spectrum of modernism. Pineda himself is lauded for his bold designs and ingenious use of gemstones. Silver Seduction traces the evolution of his work from the 1930s–70s, and includes more than fifty each of necklaces and bracelets, as well as numerous beautiful rings, earrings and diverse examples of his hollowware and tableware. All of the works feature Pineda’s hard-to-achieve combination of highly refined execution and hand-wrought appeal. Pineda’s jewelry is especially known for its elegant acknowledgment of the human form. It is often said that a Pineda fits the body perfectly, that it feels right when it is worn. So, for example, a thick geometric necklace that might at first glance seem too weighty or rigid to wear comfortably is, in fact, faceted, hinged, or hollowed in such a way that it gracefully encircles the neck or drapes seductively down the décolletage. In addition, no other taxqueño jeweler used as many costly semiprecious stones or set them with as much ingenuity, skill, and variety as did Pineda. Only the most talented of silversmiths could master the unique challenges posed by setting gemstones in silver at the high temperature necessary to work the metal. Pineda, however, managed to set gems with as little metal touching them as possible, giving them a free or floating look while still holding them firmly in place. In Pineda’s hands, some stones were embedded; rows of gems were set close together to emphasize the structural lines of a design; or stones were cut to fit irregular shapes in a design. Pineda often used cultured pearls, large amethyst drops, and onyx in his designs, many examples of which are on display in the exhibition. Able to abstract and refine design elements from Mexico's past into superb modernist silver pieces—jewelry, sculpture, and tableware—artist Antonio Pineda produced elegant, spare, and geometric works that revealed a profound respect for the wearer. Pineda was also instrumental in the formation of Mexico's Taxco School of silver design. Please request a free copy of "Silver Seduction: The Art of Mexican Modernist Antonio Pineda" by Gobi Stromberg. This is the catalog for the Pineda exhibition at the Fowler Museum of UCLA. The more than 200 works in the catalog, from Pineda and others, reflect the artist's intense imagination and his quest for technical perfection.

Creator:
Antoñio Pineda
Metal:
Sterling Silver
Stone:
Jade
Place of Origin:
Mexico
Period:
1960-1969
Date of Manufacture:
1968
Condition:
Seller Location:
New York, NY
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU61412302