Cartier

Following the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain’s first exhibition at Art Dubai in 2011, the King of Jewellers is delighted to join Art Dubai as a main sponsor this year where it will reveal ‘Cartier Naturellement’, a unique high jewellery creation never seen before in the region.

Cartier has always been passionate about nature, and motifs derived from nature became a hallmark of the jeweller from the turn of the twentieth century. A dream of nature, the nature of a dream: Cartier captivates with its sumptuously beautiful, thrilling and wild pieces of jewellery.

‘Cartier Naturellement', imagined by the artist Christophe Ponceau, is inhabited by dazzling animals and flowers, where the rarest of substances are used to evoke fur, flowers, feathers and twinkling eyes.  It is a magical menagerie and a conservatory of light, soothed by the regal song of a bird in rubies or sapphires, or by the exhilarating scent of an orchid whose heart lulls in the depths of white diamonds.

On this occasion, Cartier and the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain present Aquarium, a mobile of precious stones by the Brazilian artist Beatriz Milhazes, staged in this enchanted setting.

Internationally renowned for her paintings and collages, Beatriz Milhazes was commissioned by the Fondation Cartier to create an artwork inspired by Cartier’s collection of precious stones. She has imagined a singular work, a mobile made of pearls, precious and semi-precious stones.

Crafted by the Ateliers Cartier, Aquarium is both a unique installation and a work of jewellery of unexpected dimensions. Composed of 15 rods, with the longest measuring nearly two meters, Aquarium reinvents a new vocabulary, one made of XXL pearls, spheres, and precious discs. It is a veritable celestial and aquatic treasure, both imposing and light, intricate and overwhelming, inviting the spectator to contemplate an ideal purity.