Italian artist Fausto Melotti (1901-1986) is best known for his slender brass sculptures, and small ceramics often described as “inner realms of the human experience”.
After obtaining his degree in Electrotechnical Engineering in 1924, Melotti’s preoccupations increasingly shifted towards the fine arts, with a particular interest in the field of sculpture. His artistic passion led him to enrol in the Accademia di Brera, where he met and befriended fellow artist Lucio Fontana, with whom he collaborated until Fontana’s passing in 1968.
A prominent figure in the interwar artistic scene, Melotti emerged as a leading member of the group of Milanese abstract artists. His work became heavily inspired by his engineering and music studies. As a result, both his larger-scaled work and his jewellery pieces have an immaterial, rhythmic and intellectual effect on its viewers. Melotti’s jewellery is an exquisite mixture of nature, geometry and music delicately expressed.