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Jordi FABRE
Just why do I collect minerals? Any why do I collect certain types of minerals? Why do I only collect minerals from Spain, Portugal, Morocco and France?
These are good questions and I am going to try and answer in the easiest possible way.
In front of an art exhibition many people get a buzz from seeing beauty in a different light. This beauty can be shown through many forms, everyone perceiving it in a different way. Personally I often perceive minerals in an intense way through their beauty, it is nature that has created them. An intrinsic and primitive beauty.
This is why I like minerals and the reason for collecting them.
Being able to collect different types of minerals I am not particularly attracted by those whose size, transparence or gemological quality is spectacular. Yet perfect crystals, being fairly aerial in their matrix and an uncommon variety of mineral, appear to me as having a superior beauty to other pieces. In addition, if these crystals possess a suitable color, an intense shine and a size that is suitable and excellent in relation to the matrix size and the known crystal size for this variety, then, this for me is the most sublime expression of beauty.
Taking into consideration the great quantity of minerals and mines that exist in the world, and my insufficient economic means to take hold of all the excellent opportunities that are presented to me by my job as mineralogist, I have had to limit my collection in a certain way. To do this I chose which country to live in, Spain and the three countries which surround it; France, Portugal and Morocco. In these four countries, it's been 32 years that I have tried to obtain the best available mineral pieces that best represent these countries, and, to go with them other less spectacular minerals that, in the whole, offer a global vision into the mineralogy of the most important mines.
So there are my reasons for collecting and explains my choices. But without any doubt, all I can say is less explicit than the silent beauty of a crystal that the earth has formed during thousands of years, and its magic, when it appears in the light for the first time, always with its amazing inhuman perfection.
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Jordi FABRE (right) at the Munich showClick On Picture To Go Back.
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