Jean-Philippe Rigotti was born in 1970 at the foot of Mont Blanc in France. He devoted himself to a discipline invented by his grandfather in the mid-1970s: engraving on 23.6 carat gold leaf.
With a desire to achieve a realism that enriches the original beauty, he takes inspiration from photographs. He deconstructs to then brilliantly recompose in a three-dimensionality that will stir up even more emotion. He elates the senses with the striking contrast between the brillance of gold and the depth of blacks.
His work is the result of twelve years of research and the combination of a long experience with an in-depth study of various techniques to find to get the mastery of his skills.
Although his monochrome works are reminiscent of daguerreotypes, his work has been strongly influenced by the emotion of Caravaggio's chiaroscuro and the genius of Pierre Soulages who challenges us with the power of blacks.
It is a technique exclusive to the Artist, who even today is the only one in the world to offer real three-dimensional work on gold leaf, scintillating and delicate works, but intense and of great depth.