Jewelry exhibition Awakening kicked off in in the cultural and exhibition space of the Great Orangery of Peterhof Park in St. Petersburg.
This project is a large-scale display of a collection of original works by the world-famous jewelry artist Ilgiz Fazulzyanov, a master who has won the Grand Prix of the International Jewelery Design Excellence Awards twice. His works were exhibited twice at the Diamond Fund of Russia and the Moscow Kremlin Museum (2016) and are part of the collections of the Moscow Kremlin Museum, museums of the Republic of Tatarstan, Van Cleef & Arpels in Paris, etc.
The Awakening Project represents 100 jewelry works from the Ilgiz F. brand.
Since Peter the Great's times, the Great Orangery has served as a place for preserving unique creations of nature: rare and valuable specimens of the plant world. This spring, the Petrodvorets Greenhouse is showcasing masterpieces of a contemporary jewelry artist inspired by botanical images and natural motifs. Thanks to a special interior design and special equipment, on an area of 600 sq.m. an immersive space has been created, where visitors to the exhibition go from a blooming spring park with fountains, sculptures and flower beds of tulips and daffodils to the greenhouse space, where among the plexiglass tulips in transparent columns are displayed precious works of art - necklaces, earrings, rings - styled after different flowers, birds and insects.
“Spring is a period of large-scale awakening. This is the time when cold and heat collide in battle. Good wins, and the earth turns green, decorating itself with countless flowers. The space is filled with sounds coming from everywhere: birds, insects and the rustling of leaves - everything has its own tonality. It is important not to pass by, but to hear, see and preserve this beauty in your memory, so that later you can create something that will delight people and give an incentive for new ideas and bright thoughts,” says Ilgiz Fazulzyanov about the exhibition.
“Awakening is a moment of nature captured in a miniature piece of jewelry,” he notes. Ilgiz Fazulzyanov is artist-jeweler, author of the project organized jointly with the ANO Center for the Preservation and Development of Original Jewelry Art.
Galina Semyonova for Rough&Polished
