Rivière, James
James Rivière: brand and trade name of Enzo Teora (1948),Italian Jeweller.
The son of a farmer from the South who was brought to his knees by a hailstorm, James Rivière emigrated to Milan where he attended the Avviamento Industriale courses. He then attended the School of Art at the Castello Sforzesco in Milan. During one of the most culturally fertile periods in the Lombardy capital after the Second World War.
A pupil of Giacomo Benevelli, he was inspired above all by the work of designers and artists such as Bruno Munari and Luigi Veronesi. Friends and travelling companions in his work. From the former he borrowed a subtly poetic irony, especially with regard to his research into theories of perception, and from the latter his sensitivity to geometric abstraction and colour games.
He made his debut in the late 1960s. From silver, explored for its expressive potential, he moved on to gold around 1975, combining it above all with coloured stones: turquoise, malachite, lapis lazuli. A significant phase in his work is represented by the introduction of titanium, proposed in a wide range of chromatic variations, combined with gold and pearls.
During the 1980s, he was inspired by space (the brooch-pendant Travelling in Space) and by the myth of Atlantis, manifested in works veined with surrealism and magical accents. In 1995, he presented his personal exhibition Emersioni at the Vismara Gallery in Milan. Since then, he has focused his attention on the decorative and symbolic qualities of semi-precious stones, corals, ambers and pearls. Presenting unique or limited edition pieces in the Milanese ateliers in Via Brera, which opened in 1991. In Via Bigli, it had opened in the autumn of 2002 and also offers silver sculptures and objets d’art.
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