Julie Hamisky's 'Giardino Alchemico' at Pandolfini Auction House in Milan

During Fuorisalone, French artist and designer Julie Hamisky (born 1975 in Fontainebleau) presents 'Giardino Alchemico' at Casa d'Aste Pandolfini in Via Manzoni, Milan, until April 26. The exhibition, organized with Galerie Mitterrand of Paris, features about twenty works including monumental sculptures like 'La Géante' (a giant poppy) and functional pieces such as jewelry and the chandelier 'Aqua'. Hamisky uses electroplating, a 19th-century technique she learned from her father-in-law, to preserve ephemeral botanical forms by immersing them in a galvanic bath with electric current. The process creates a thin copper layer that captures every vein and fold, with unpredictable chromatic variations from deep greens to electric blues, lilacs, and warm copper tones. Larger works are created by digitally scanning electroplated plants and scaling them six to ten times, then hand-carving details. Hamisky worked for over twenty years in the studio of her grandmother, Claude Lalanne, alongside François-Xavier Lalanne, whose surrealist, nature-inspired aesthetic influences her work. She studied at ESAG Penninghen and ATEP in Paris and deepened sculptural techniques in Mexico.