Its is a way made of slidings of language and experience. In her work, with the realization of jewels, sculptures and interior design, the dimension spaces has been inquired trying to render represented factors like the depth and the movement. “In my job like designer of jewels for the art galleries and design, I use methods and processes of planning action, that allow to me the realization of pieces only or limited editions. Above all, I try to conjugate the technology and the planning of design to the goldsmith’s art, using every time the more appropriated techniques, from the lost wax to the construction, from the chemical shearing of the metals to the cuts laser, and to the new technologies, without never to penalize the features functionals of the traditional jewellery". The body is always an integral part of the plan, with its fragility and ergonomic imperfections, its geometries anatomical and the complexity of the articulations. The jewels must be able to be wear comfortably and, at the same time, to be donating. Her jewels are characterized from the search of geometric and rigorous forms.
She rarely use precious stones. “Instead I look for the light and color within the folds, the curves and the twists of the forms; within the gold and burnishing, spirals of light and dark, natural contrasts existing already in the forms and the materials.”
The last jewels, because of these characteristics have been reported by ADI Index 2010: the Bracelet Diamond, a tribute to Gio Ponti, in silver and gold, in three limited editions. The bracelet uses the shearing chemistry of the metal and the laser welding, but the first cuff was made by hand despite the complexity of the piece, thanks to 3D design that allowed an embodiment precise and accurate. And thanks to technology, it was possible, using the same design file, the same bracelet in titanium, which is very interesting and yet to be exploited in jewelery, given the lightness and the ability to give the beautiful colored patinas otherwise impossible. The Bracelet was presented in June 2010 at the Triennale Museum in Milan at the exhibition "Titans precious."
And it is after this last show that the jewels of Rosalba Balsamo were selected by Andrea Branzi and the Triennale Museum in Milan, and included in the exhibition New Italian Design 2.0, a kind of nation-wide census of the most innovative and valuable Italian designers. The exhibition, which will be traveling for a few years after the inauguration of the Museum of the Triennale in Milan in December 2012, was to Santralistanbul Museum in Istanbul, then landed in July 2012 in Beijing, at the Beijing Industrial Design Center, and 20 September 2012 will be at the National Taiwan Craft Research and Developement Institute in Nantou. From february to may 2013 at the Museum Alhondiga of Bilbao and from june to august 2013 at the Cannery Galleries, Academy of Art University di San Francisco. Recently, in October 2014 at the Waterfront Lookout to Cape Town , from October to November 2015 at Gwangju Design Biennale , South Korea.
Moreover she has collaborated to the realization of scenographs and jewels for the theatre and the cinema.
Solo Exibition
2003, La Camera chiara, sculptures, Gallery Babuino Novecento, Rome
2005, Bronze, Supper Club, Rome
2006, Modulations, Gallery Babuino Novecento, Rome
2007, Silver, Gallery Sanlorenzo, Turin
2009, Jewellerys for Berlin Fashion Week, Projekt Galerie, Berlin
2010, Outsiderproject meets Rosalba Balsamo, Gallery Bagnai, Florence
2012, Less is more, Gallery Antonella Villanova, Florence
2012, Ornament, Galley Jsign, Napoli
Group exibition
2009, Homage to Gio Ponti, Gallery O., Rome
2010, Around, Gallery Antonella Villanova, Florence
2010, ArtFirst Bologna, stand Gallery Bagnai, Florence
2010, Titani preziosi tra tecnologia e ornamento, Museum Triennale of Milan
2010, New Italian Design 2.0, Santraistanbul Museum , Istanbul
2011, ArtFirst Bologna, stand Gallery Antonella Villanova, Florence
2011, Collect, Saatchi Gallery, London
2012, ArtFirst Bologna, stand Gallery Antonella Villanova, Florence
2012, Collect, Saatchi Gallery, London
2012, Beijing Industrial Design Center presents "New Italian Design 2.0",Pechino
2012, National Taiwan Craft Research and Developement Institute di Nantou presents "New Italian Design 2.0"
2013, “New Italian Design 2.0”, Alhondiga of Bilbao
2013, "New Italian Design 2.0", Cannery Galleries, Academy of Art University of San Francisco
2014, "Forme. Il tempo dei gioielli", Suor Orsola Benincasa, Napoli
2014, Design Miami/Basel con la Galleria Antonella Villanova, Basilea
2014, "New Italian Design 2.0", Waterfront Lookout, Cape Town
2014, Design Miami, with Gallery Antonella Villanova, Miami Beach
2015, "New Italian Design 2.0", Gwangju Design Biennale, Corea del Sud.
2016, "Skin", Museum of Jewellery of Vicenza
2016, "Ornament", The Shape of venerable art, Vernice in a bottle, Design. Venezia
2016, "Crafting the Future, stories of craftsmanship and innovation" Museum Mudec Milano
2017, "Builders of tomorrow", MIC International Museum of Ceramics of Faenza, edited by Giovanna Cassese and Marinella Paderni
2018, "III Edizione del Museumo of Jewellery of Vicenza",biennial exhibition from Dicember 2018 at Dicember 2020 at the Sala Design, of jewellery of Rosalba Balsamo, for the section Design & Design, edited by Alba Cappellieri
Award
2009, Finalist at the Italian Jewellery Awards, Naples
2011, Finalist at the UK jewellery Awards, London
Theatre
2007, Jewels of scene for Medea,un vajtim arbereshe, direction of Francesco Suriano
2008, Scenography and costume for Salvatore, Cacaticchiu…..e Ferdinando, write and directed by Francesco Suriano
2009, Scenography for Territori, direction of Francesco Suriano
2010, Object of scene for Perché il cane si mangia le ossa, write and directed by Francesco Suriano
Cinema
2009, Jewels of scene for the Short Film Questione di gusti, direction of Pappi Corsicato
2016, Realizza gioielli per il film in prossima uscita “La Parrucchiera”, regia di Stefano Incerti
Press Publications
2007, Mystrerious sculptural form, catalogue with text of Johanna Grawunder, Rome
2010, The Reinassance of Naples, Interni, n° 599, March, pag. 84-89
2010, The contemporary handcraft of Rosalba Balsamo, interview on daily magazine Corriere della sera, pag.19
2010, Focus on design in We Ar, n°23, July, pag.192
2010, The elegance of alchemist, exclusive interview for Elle, n° , October
2010, New Italian Design 2.0, Catalogue of exhibition, edit by the Museum Triennale of Milan
2010, ADI Index Catalogue with Bracelet Diamond, homage to GioPonti
2012, Jewlbook International Annual of Contemporary Jewel Art 2012/1
2016, "Forme, il tempo dei gioielli", University Suor Orsola Benincasa, text by Alba Cappellieri
2016, Exibition Catalog "Skin", pubished by Museum of jewellery of Vicenza, edit by Alba Cappellieri
2016 Exibition Catalog "Crafting the Future, stories of craftsmanship and innovation" pubished Museum Mudec Milano
2017, "Builders of tomorrow", exibition catalog, published by MIC International Museum of Ceramics of Faenza, edited by Giovanna Cassese and Marinella Paderni
2018, Jewellery & Jewellery, third edition of Museum of Jewellery of Vicenza, Silvana Editoriale
