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Bling with a sting

The Art Newspaper
31 August 2016
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The Algerian artist Adel Abdessemed has turned his hand to jewellery design, with his “first wearable art project” going on show at Elisabetta Cipriani gallery in London next month (14 October-3 November). A piece entitled Game, comprising a chain bracelet (edition of six) and a pair of earrings (edition of ten), blends beauty and brutality, the gallery says. “Game is a weapon and an ornament—a double-edged object. An architecture of razor blades that I developed… it is a prism as well as an evidence, a sort of ‘fatal beauty’,” Abdessemed says. Buyer beware.

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