Jesús Rafael Soto

Private Collection, England

Loretta Yarlow, Jewelry as Sculpture as Jewelry, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, 1973, another pair illustrated no. 124

Bijoux d’artistes = Artists’ Jewellery, Galerie Sven, Paris, 1976, another pair illustrated, p. 13, no. 21

Diana Küppers, Künstlerschmuck = objets d’art, Hirmer, Munich, 2009, another pair illustrated p. 152

Diane Venet, From Picasso to Jeff Koons: The Artist as Jeweler, Skira, Milan, 2011, another pair illustrated p. 220

Diane Venet, Bijoux d'Artistes, de Calder à Koons, la collection idéale de Diane Venet, Flammarion, Paris, 2018, p. 180-181

Paola Stroppiana, Scultura Aurea, Gioielli d’Artista per un nuovo Rinascimento, Gli Ori, Pistoia, 2019, this example illustrated p. 167

Emmanuel Guigon and Manon Lecaplain, Picasso I Les Joies D’artista = Picasso and Artist’s Jewellery, Fundació Museu Picasso de Barcelona, Barcelona, 2021, another pair ill. p. 15

Jesús Rafael Soto designed these 'Penetrable' earrings concurrently as he was creating large-scale works enabling people to physically enter the piece and observe how the object and body interact. A blend of geometric abstraction, Minimalist sculpture, and playground, his simple grids of colorful PVC tubing were usually suspended from free-standing frames and often placed outside. Soto always considered them ephemeral, and only a handful have survived the inevitable wear and tear. These 'Penetrable' earrings executed by GEM are a good example of how GEM Montebello created unconventional designs by well-known artists at reasonable prices.