Rita Martínez is an Italo-Costarican artist. She studied History at the University in Costa Rica and got a Master in Resolution of Intercultural Conflicts at the University of Verona, Italy. She has been living in Verona since 2004 and co-owner of an Atelier in Verona since 2016.
For two years she got a Venice Design Week prize 2016 and 2019, Joya Barcelona 2021, Autor, Tincal Lab, Porto 2021, Bucharest 2022, Collectiva Meeting, Porto 2022 . She has had her pieces on show in galleries and museums in Switzerland, Bucharest, Porto, Athens, Chicago, Milan, Venice, Adria, Casalmaggiore and has been present in reviews like Vicenza Jewellery, Preziosa Magazine, Vogue, Gioiello Contemporaneo, Joyería Contemporánea., Roof Magazine, Klimt02, Cosmo.kz, Author, Ilsole24ore, Grupoduplex etc.
Creative vision
For her every object represents a story with a mixture of happiness, melancholy, love, fear and passion. At times it has a leitmotiv and gets shaped in progress, at times it is just a stimulus, a sensation and can bring up a memory or show a route, not necessarily following the artist’s intent, but the personal experience of the person who observes or wears the jewel.
Every piece she makes has no season, no place, is simply a part of a journey, a piece of her life and the fruit of a deep, constant research: a tale turned into an object by the storyteller she has inside.
In a historical-socio-political moment where beliefs, values, popular sovereignty, peace, spirituality and the world natural resources are in constant danger, I had a pressing need to find a common thread that would lead me to represent, through contemporary jewelry, the depth, the essence of memory, the unconscious and the purity of nature.
In this research I came across something majestic, magical and almost unknown: the imagination of the natives of North America.
I started from "wakan" which, beyond the simple term, is a collective representation of the cosmological vision of the natives with which they tried to explain the inexplicable, the incomprehensible, the mystery, the extra-ordinary.
As a recurring element in their daily life there is the concept of invisible power (manitou) whose holders are natural elements and animals with whom they try to live in harmony.
Objects, animals, plants, atmospheric phenomena are transformed into magical and extraordinary because each possesses a power, active, like the wind that pushes the clouds, or passive, like a stone, a piece of wood, a bone or a horn, with its strength of resistance and endurance.
In my research I found the essence of spirituality that I imagine as the representation of that mysterious power that penetrates everything and makes it part of the entire universe.
So, with this approach, I tried to give an extraordinary, magical and powerful sense to each element that over the years the flora and fauna have made me encounter and that I have jealously guarded as a "wakan".
I thought I could do a rereading from the perspective of contemporary jewelry and give recognition and importance to amulets, tools, ornaments that have been part of the culture of the natives, where the sacred spirit of the wakan embodies the ancestral bond, now almost forgotten, of man with nature.
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