GIULIA FULGENZI

Cluster Contemporary Jewellery Exhibitor | 2022 & 2024

Sculptural bags positioned in a Hi-End/Luxury market segment. Born from the union between jewelery materials and an essentialist design, the mission of Clangbag is to create an accessory of fine craftsmanship, iconic and distinctive.

A research product that starts from wearable design and extends to a deep selection of materials, chosen for their performance in terms of aesthetics, durability and weight; the product is designed to be functional and time-proof. In a research market oversaturated by fast consumption and provocation, Clangbag celebrates the values that characterized Italian design and refinement for decades.

Clangbag was founded and is entirely handmade in Italy 2023.

Clangbag is the brand created by Marco Goffi and Giulia Fulgenzi In 2023. It represents the Italian handicraft and the union between accessories, jewellery, sculpture, innovation and tradition.

All of this is made possible by the worlds the two founders come from. Marco used to work in the clothing sector, specialising in the knitwear programming.

In 2019 he decided to leave his job in the business firm to become self-employed and follow his artistic flair.

Giulia graduated in artistic jewelry in Madrid and after working in atelier for two years she returned to Italy. In 2020 she decided to create her own laboratory and firm. During this year the two meet each other and soon start to dream about a project which could join both of their passions, therefore developing handbags and accessories never seen before. By combining glass, metal and leather they create unique pieces, expressing genius and handicraft, products of Italian excellence.

PREVIOUS EDITIONS

“My love for metal was born at a very early age. Its shaping reassured me through the possibility of error: if I got something wrong I could just fuse it all back and start again. It felt like giving a second life to things. Hence my interest for recycled materials, first silver then aluminium. Through these I was able to express my aesthetic at its fullest: lightness through big volumes.Thus I tried to combine nature and jewellery, the one respecting the other and making the other possible. Working on aluminium is an art of great complexity if compared to other materials and requests great attention to detail. Welding is its main difficulty. These «obstacles» allow me to always find new solutions and make the creative phase more and more interesting. I weigh my every move in the lab, almost making it some kind of meditation. My artwork has an aim to break the conception of weight=value. To me, the concept lies in material telling a story.”

— Giulia Fulgenzi

Giulia Fulgenzi was born in 1995 in a small region in central Italy (Le Marche). She is an Art School graduate from Jesi (province Ancona, Italy), her main focus being the jewellery design section. She continued her studies at “Escuela de Arte3 Joyeria Artistica” Madrid and won a lost wax-casting scholarship at the Jewellery School in Porto (Portugal). She is the winner of the French competition “ Un bijou qui voyage”, representing her school in Madrid. After her studies, she began working for a luxury atelier in Madrid, where the Queen of Spain was a regular herself. It was in this environment that she made jewellery her main career and acquired valuable knowledge in the field through ever new experiences. After these years abroad, she went back to Italy to put into practice what she had learned. She built and created her laboratory herself in a space of artistic sharing with other brilliant minds. She lately took part in the Milan Jewellery Week 2022, sharing the premises with artists from all over the world.