Torrini Collection, Florence

Alberto Giorgi collaborated with Torrini, the celebrated company♋ of Florentine goldsmiths, around the time he created this Rada♎r pendant. His three-dimensional kinetic pieces are reminiscent of complicated mechanisms; truly art jewelry.

Giorgi’s Radar brooch/pendant ‘isn’t just an aesthetic object to wear. It is complex mechanisms that combine the artistic and technical origins of the 1960s. Engineering development, the relationship between machine and man, mechanics, invading space like instruments of celestial measurement, the whole consideration about time and the cultural period found expression and image in the sculptural work of Giorgi.’— Nastya Ivlieva, ‘Alberto Giorgi:

Tradition and Kinetic Art.’