For jewelry artist Cindy Chao, sculpture is a family tradition and a passion. Cindy Chao’s father is a sculptor and her grandfather is an architect. Under the influence of her family background, she learned to use 3D thinking to create, and in After establishing the eponymous jewelry brand Cindy ChaoThe Art Jewel, she insisted on using the hand-made wax carving technique (Cire Perdue) inherited from the 18th century to create a one-to-one model of the work, and then carried out casting and inlaying.
As one of the few jewelry artists with sculpture skills, Cindy Chao was invited to become the wax sculpture instructor of La Haute École de Joaillerie, the world’s top high-end jewelry school, in September 2023. This is also the first time in the 160 years since the school was founded that an Asian artist has been hired to participate in the core. teaching.Now, the 1.1-meter giant wax sculpture that took half a year of teaching and creation is on display at the Louvre Museum this month. Inspired by the oil painting “The Death of the Virgin” by the famous Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, it combines traditional European craftsmanship and contemporary aesthetic techniques to integrate abstract art and concrete materials, breaking through the limitations of artistic form and bringing New perspectives and inspiration.The oil painting “Death of the Virgin” created by Italian painter Caravaggio in 1606.Cindy Chao teaches at the Ecole Haute Joaillerie in Paris, France.The giant wax sculpture was jointly completed by students from the Ecole Haute Joaillerie in Paris, France.Michele Heuze, professor at the Ecole Haute Joaillerie and jewelry art historian in Paris, France, said: “The rich emotions and vitality displayed in Cindy Chao’s works are extremely rare in contemporary jewelry creation, and are also urgently needed by the high-end jewelry industry in Europe and even the world. Art persists.”
