CONCOURS – « Image & Form » – deadline : 25 Sept 2010

The 9th International Competition of Young Jewellery Designers : Image & Form

The Russian Museum of Ethnography – (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation)
Management: Maria Ishchuk, Alexandra Veselova
25.Sep.2010 – 02.Oct.2010
deadline: 25.Sep.2010

website: www.imageandform.ru
mail: [e-mail]

 

subject of the competition :  “Interplay of Volume and Space”
Your main task is to follow the games of volume with ambient space. Dialogue with space emerges at any disconnected form decision. Often contemporary works of art represent three-dimensional structures filled with air. You can get inspired in your constructions with nature, architecture, fashion… You can use combinations of various materials such as metal, plastics, fabric, cardboard, etc., creating your own fantasy spaces, playing over there with ideas, volumes and materials.

Irina Gress (Buryatia Republic)- set of 3 brooches, 3 rings “Don’t get involved with the hard industry” - precious metals, enamel- GRAND PRIZE “IMAGE and FORM” 2008

 

Participation:
Competition is open for artists of two age groups:
I. – from 15 till 23 years;
II. – from 24 till 45 years .

I Nomination
Fantasy
Category:
A – finished piece of jewelry
B – model of piece of jewelry (plastic, paper, skin, etc.)
C – draft of a piece executed in digital equipment (appearance and 3 dimensions)
D – draft of a piece on paper (appearance and 3 dimensions, A4)

II Nomination
Manufacture
Category:
A – finished piece of jewelry
B – model of piece of jewelry (plastic, paper, skin, etc.)
C – draft of a piece executed in digital equipment (appearance and 3 dimensions)
D – draft of a piece on paper (appearance and 3 dimensions, A4)

Works of the C category are accepted by E-mail or on CD (TIFF, JPG). The image size is 42×30 in vector program (300 ppi). It is in addition possible to send work in that program in which it has been developed.

Prizes:
Laureate diplomas, winners and semifinal participant diplomas.
12 prizes: I, II, and III place in each category.
Prize winners receive valuable gifts and money prizes from organizers, sponsors of competition and leading museums of Russia and Germany.
For categories C (3D projects) and D (draft of a piece on paper) prizes-orders for realizing a collection of jewels. Orders are given by the jewelry companies.
Prizes from firms: unique stones, annual subscriptions to profile magazines.

 

The participation in the competition costs 120 euro. The cost includes all events of the Forum “IMAGE AND FORM”:
1. International Symposium «Jewelry art and jewelry business».
2. Round tables with participation of leading Russian and foreign artists, critics and teachers.
3. International сcompetition of young jewelry designers “IMAGE AND FORM”.
4.Author’s jewelry exhibition (winners and semifinal works).
5.Cultural program. Visiting of Saint-Petersburg sights.

 

Competition schedule:
September 25 – reception of participants works (14.00 – 19.00).
September 27, 28 – work of the jury.
September 27 , 28, 29,30 – events of the Forum.
October 1 – award presentation, opening of the exhibition in The Russian Museum of Ethnography.
October 2– the return of works (from 17.00 till 18.00, The Russian Museum of Ethnography).

Anna Deryabina (RU) -  brooch « El’  » – plastic, silver -
2008- Nomination “Fantasy” – category «Â – model of the jewellery piece »PARTICIPANTS FROM 15 TILL 23 YEARS -1st place

 

The Jury:
Nikolay Balabin – jewelry designer (Finland), Jury Baskakov – the head of the Department “Jeweller’s art” VShNI (Saint-Petersburg), Galina Gabriel – art historian, member of the Union of Artists of Russia (Saint-Petersburg), Patimat Gamzatova – art historian (Moscow), Nataliia Korovina – art historian (Moscow), Olga Kostuk – head curator of jewelry collection, the State Hermitage (Saint-Petersburg), Charon Kransen, Gennady Lentsov – artist-jeweler, member of the Union of Artists of Russia (Moscow), Marina Lopato – manageress of the branch of the department West-European Art, the State Hermitage (Saint-Petersburg), Monique Manoha – artistic director Le Porte Objet (France), Diego Percossi Papi – member of Italian Association of Artists-jewelers (Italy), Irina Perfileva – art historian, member of the Union of Artists of Russia (Moscow), Irina Ptakhova – member of the Union of Artists of Russia (Saint-Petersburg), Anna Ratnikova- chief researcher of the State Ethnographical Museum, Saint-Petersburg (Russia), Larisa Tkachenko – board member of the Union of Artists, pattern designer (Saint-Petersburg), Leonard Urso – professor of the Academy of Art Rochester (USA), Fritz Falk, Kornelie Holzach – director of the Pforzheim Museum of Jewelry (Germany), Vera Chernova – artist-jeweler of “Kast” JSC, member of the Union of Artists (Saint-Petersburg), Andrzej Szadkowski – professor of Lodz Academy of Arts (Poland), Inna Shatalova – art historian, member of the International Association of Art Historians (Saint-Petersburg), Gedemin Yablonski – professor of the Design Academy, Gdansk (Poland), Barbara Heinrich – artist-jeweler (USA), Stefano Ricci – artist-jeweler (Italy), Joanna Mirecka Szuleta – artist-jeweler, Gdansk (Poland)

 

Catalogue “IMAGE AND FORM”:
Winners works are published in the catalogue free of charge.
Semifinal works are published in the catalogue on a paid basis

Yurij Bylkov – rings: ‘Stones’ – 2008 – Rubber, paper

Soslan Gabaraev- ‘Waiting for the tide’

Eugeniy Snesar (RU) – Set of male rings “De-Form” – silver, ceramics, plastic, acrylicNomination “Fantasy” – Category «À – jewellery piece»PARTICIPANTS FROM 15 TILL 23 YEARS – 3rd place

Eugenia Zaboeva -  Red Rings – 2008

 

The Russian Museum of Ethnography
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