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COLLECTION "SECRETS" – CROSS OF HOPE

Symbol of hope, faith ...

(pendant on a gold necklace, pendant 23 mm x 18 mm, necklace 45 cm, gold)

The Cross of Hope of the Slovenes in the form of a golden necklace symbolizes the hope of the Slovenes united under the fraternal European horizon in the immediate vicinity of the four nations. The artist has smoothed the natural hardness of the karst stone to a softness that illustrates the grace of taming and the embrace of coexistence.

"The Karst rock, which had been soaked in earth oil deep underground for thousands of years and turned shiny black, was used by the artist Oskar Kogoj to carve this cross, which was presented to Pope John Paul II as a sign of respect.
The artist's hand has somehow transformed the natural roughness of the stone into an organic softness so as to present an instrument of torture as gracefully tamed matter, almost stretched into a four-handed embrace."
(Alojz Rebula, May 1987) .

The small version of the cross was made as a silver pendant.

Each piece of jewelry from the collection »Secrets« bears the stamp of Zlatarna Celje, signed by Oskar Kogoj.
ZLATARNA CELJE & OSKAR KOGOJ

THE PRODUCT IS HANDMADE!