Artist, designer and lecturer

Vigna is an artist and designer. He makes jewellery, sculptures, body accessories and interior accessories that are predominantly functional. He designs jewellery for film, theatre and television and produces special collections for fashion designers. His work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions, and extensively published in international magazines. Giorgio Vigna teaches, gives conferences and presides over workshops in Italy and abroad.

He has also worked in art publishing, where he learned and experimented with traditional marbling techniques, later applying them to porcelain, ceramic, paper, fabric, wood and glass. He experimented with engraving techniques in the workshop of the Calcografia Nazionale in Rome.

Sculptures to wear

At the same time, he designed and created jewellery and sculpture to be worn as ornaments. He produced designs and costume jewellery for opera (among them Salomé and Don Carlos for Pier Luigi Pizzi) and film (Belly of an Architect by Peter Greenaway, Stealing Beauty by Bernardo Bertolucci, Le Fate Ignoranti by Ferzan Ozpetek and L’Odore del Sangue by Mario Martone) as well as theatre and television productions. He also created special jewellery collections for international fashion designers.

Interest in glass

He extended his interest into the world of glass. For Venini, he created the Siderale vase, a very successful collection of single pieces called Fuochi d’argento and the limited edition Fior d’acqua as part of the millennium lll collection. For the 85th Anniversary of Venini he created a light sculpture Luce Siderale. He was artistic director of the first Venini project in gold and glass jewellery, for which he designed the Lapilli and Eliofora collection.

For Salviati Vigna has created a jewellery collection of unlimited pieces and as well a collection of unique pieces of jewels.