On the occasion of the Milan Fashion Week, Artistar Jewels, the international date dedicated to the diffusion of the contemporary jewellery culture, took place in Palazzo dei Giureconsulti, a historical palace that overlooks the Duomo Square, and hosted 450 creations from 170 artists and designers coming from all over the world. The aim of Artistar Jewels is to support the operators of the sector through different strategies to insert them in an ever-changing international market, accompanying the artists in their path of professional growth. The goal is to create opportunities for promotion and visibility useful to lead selected designers to success. The three winners of the Artistar Jewels 2018 Contest are the Ukrainian designer and gemologist Stanislav Drokin, the Italian art director and renowned Tiziano Andorno and the Italian goldsmither and gold working teacher Rosamaria Venetucci. The three winners will take part for free in the 2019 edition of the project. A special mention has been delivered by Enzo Carbone, founder of Artistar Jewels, to the young English goldsmither Katy Tromans. The Italian graphic and designer Angela Simone won the free participation to the SIERAAD ART FAIR for the next November at Amsterdam and the Japanese Hiyu Hamasaki will be hosted by the contemporary jewellery fair Autor in Bucharest. The designer Federica Portaccio has been chosen by Guido Solari, founder of the Scuola Orafa Ambrosiana, to take part in a Professional Goldsmithing course. The creations from the 170 international artists, has been hosted for the whole duration of the exhibition, realized during the Milan Fashion Week. The show has also been enriched by the prestigious special contest and by the works of world-famous artist such as Yoko Ono, Pol Bury and Faust Cardinali. All the works on exhibition are on sale on the e-commerce artistarjewels.com. The Artistar Jewels team has also involved in the project some Italian and European concept stores that will start a collaboration with the artist and designers they selected, to distribute in several points their works.
