Claire Fontana

Claire Fontana

After studying sculpture and painting at the Decorative Arts Institute at Strasbourg, Claire Fontana decided to make sculpture her speciality, at the Carrare Academy of Fine Arts in Italy.

As Claire was lucky enough to have her own foundry on the spot, she began to create her bronze sculptures there, but she also produced works using glass and stone. From painting to sculpture, including drawings on the way, her creative evolution was marked by a symbiosis linking tradition and innovation, a fitting homage to the spirit of Italian artistic expression.

Claire Fontana x Adler Joailliers Geneva

When bronze is her chosen medium, her artistic research tends to focus on the expression of moods and emotions.  Using a study of a living model as her starting point, she then includes visual memory, a sense of rhythm, and proportions, to establish a certain equilibrium between these different inspirational elements.

Her sculptures, produced using the lost wax method, recreate all the elegance of the movements of the human body. An aquatic element is also important in her work.  Claire presents it as fundamental and beneficial for mankind.

Among all her creations, it is the series of Divers which attracted the Adler teams the most.  Here Claire demonstrates her ability to capture and immortalise an ephemeral moment, and to apprehend and share with the viewer an instant of suspended joy.  In the Adler windows this summer, her slender, aerial silhouettes enhance the loveliness and the colours of the sumptuous jewellery sets they display.  A dialogue has been created, the magic of the encounter charms the beholder.  The freshness and purity of this collection inspires us to plunge into the enchanted ocean called Beauty.