Men's Rings - Collection Yves Gastou - Tokyo - Until 13-3-2022

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Men's Rings - Collection Yves Gastou - Tokyo - Until 13-3-2022

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21_21 Design Sight Gallery 3
9-7-6 Akasaka, Minato-ku
107-0052 Tokyo


MEN'S RINGS - COLLECTION YVES GASTOU

Until 13th March 2022

In January 2022, L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts, comes back to Tokyo with the breathtaking collection of men’s rings that belonged to Yves Gastou. This collection, unprecedented because it is exclusively dedicated to men's rings, whereas it is rather popular and contemporary to associate the jewel to the feminine, has never been exposed to the public outside L’ÉCOLE.

This exhibition showcases an array of about 400 rings including rings of the 17th century Venice doges, American biker rings of the 1970s as well as ancient Egyptian rings and 19th century “memento mori” skull rings among others.

The selection of rings on display is representative of the five themes that define the collection and illustrate its diversity : neoclassical, Gothic revival, Christian mysticism, vanities and otherness. Each ring contains a story that links it to the collector and resembles him, to which he has identified himself, like so many small pieces of himself. The exhibition, like a secret lair where he reveals his work, aims precisely to tell an anecdote, the story of a life devoted to art and love of objects.

Yves Gastou's name became known thanks to his gallery on rue Bonaparte which he founded in Paris in the mid-1980s and which quickly became a renowned address in the heart of Saint-Germain-des-Prés.

As for his extraordinary collection of men's rings, its existence remained confidential until the exhibition at L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts in Paris in 2018. It is however this side of his personality as a collector, obscured by his public life as a dealer, that this exhibition proposed to discover. He built up this collection with accumulation, frenzy, relentlessness and risk-taking, for more than thirty years, according to his usual path as a treasure hunter (flea markets, public auctions, jewelers' and workshops' stocks), but also his travels. Rich with a thousand rings, it paints a Chinese portrait, as many things of beauty, materialized dreams, bewitching enigmas, concretized memories, skimmed fields of possibilities. From this vertiginous accumulation, the bulimic appetite that Yves Gastou had for beauty and for life. In other words, this collection constitutes both his great work, interrupted by his death in 2020, and at the same time his last testament, his ultimate creation.

Opening hours: 11:00 to 18:00

Admission: Free

https://www.lecolevancleefarpels.com/jp ... exhibition
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