EXPO ‘True Colors’ – Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem (NL) – 20 Fevr.-29 Mai 2011

True colours. New Traditional Jewellery

All over the world, jewellery is worn to decorate the body, to indicate status and identity, or for its religious significance. The biannual international design competition New Traditional Jewellery challenges contemporary jewellers from all over the world to use these emblems of historical or ethnographic significance as a starting point for new designs. In addition to this general concept, each year concentrates on a specific theme.
This year the theme is True Colours. In the most literal sense, it is about the history, meanings, value, magic, and power of colour. For example, the inhabitants of ancient Mesopotamia believed that the colour blue would protect them from evil, while 35,000 years ago primitive man used pink fibres to decorate clothing.
True Colours can also be interpreted literally as revealing one’s colours or one’s true nature. For example, the red and black pompons on the hats worn by women from Germany’s Black Forest indicate whether or not the person wearing the hat is married, and women decorate their clothing with traditional buttons.
Both meanings of True Colours appear again in again in over three hundred submissions from thirty-four countries. The exhibition presents a selection of these submissions demonstrating the great variation of colour in contemporary jewellery.

Winners NTJ 2010:
*Student winners:
Serin Oh
Penka Arabova
*Established jewellery artists and silverdesigners:
Amanda Caines
Tove Rygg
Auk Russchen

 

Young-Joo LEE

The theme for the biennial international design contest New Traditional Jewellery is True Colours. This is the fourth edition of the contest and may said to have been very successful, with more than 300 entries of jewellery designers from 33 countries. The pieces submitted were judged by a technical jury of six persons, each with their own background – teacher, jewellery designer, academic, curator and fashion designer.
An important aspect of New Traditional Jewellery is that the participants should find their inspiration in historical and/or ethnographic jewellery. The theme selected this year has a double meaning. It is about colour, literally, but also means ‘showing your colours’ or ‘showing your true nature’. The entries were representative of this dichotomy with pieces showing an outspoken use of colour, but also with an enormous ethnic variety. It gave the jury a splendid opportunity to get an idea of what is happening at an international level in the field of contemporary jewellery design, with jewellers coming from countries like Finland, Iraq, Australia and Chile.
After some elaborate discussions the jury has selected the five winners listed below, among whom two students. While making the selection the jury aimed at diversity in order to show the various aspects within the theme of True Colours.

Het juryrapport is te lezen op http://www.newtraditionaljewellery.com/ntj/NL/winners_2010.html

Amanda Caines (1961) multi-coloured Urban Tribal Necklace 

The multi-coloured Urban Tribal Necklace of Amanda Caines (1961) from Great Britain fits the theme of the contest perfectly. She has taken a good look at the necklaces of coloured beads worn by the Zulus where the necklace is a means of communication and the colours stand for a code that tells something about the age group and social status of the wearer. To make her contemporary version Caines uses rejected telephone and computer wires made of plastic in bright colours – she winds wool around them, fastens vintage fabrics to them and subsequently decorates them with beads.

 

The jury was pleasantly impressed by this year’s powerful entries of the students, with surprising and original designs. The prizes for the students were awarded to Penka Arabova (1980) from Bulgaria and Serin Oh from Korea.

Penka Arabova green brooch

Penka Arabova’s green brooch was inspired by an old Bulgarian tradition where red and white cotton threads tied together are worn as pendants, brooches or bracelets. The colour red of these so-called Martenizas is symbolic of youth and the colour white for age, and wearing them brings health and happiness. For her brooch Arabova has used different colours and materials which she associates with the old tradition in her native country and in doing so created her own modern guardian against illness and misfortune.

Serin OH – ring

At first sight Serin OH’s ring looks like a bronze nugget, coloured black, mounted on a classic ring. But upon closer inspection all kinds of jewellery and parts thereof can be distinguished, among which precious stones and a small angel, which have fused together. It is a reference to the costume jewellery that is sold in the shopping centres of Korea, mass-produced and no longer bearing any relationship to the history of Korea. Serin Oh pictures the confusion and identity crisis of modern Korea by fusing these trinkets to a whole.

Auk Russchen (1971) brooch ‘Ode’

The brooch Ode by Auk Russchen (1971) was discussed extensively by the jury and became the surprising winner. To Russchen True Colours means who you are deep inside. Showing your inside to the world. Her unusual choice of material agrees with this. Using thinly cut strips of goatskin she crochets an organic form reminiscent of intestines. The tips are of pink yarn and resemble socks. The raw, almost grubby colour of the goatskin makes the small pink details stand out. She arrived at the colour pink after reading an article about primordial man using pink coloured fibres to decorate clothing as long as 35,000 years ago. Her brooch is an ode to her and our distant ancestors. 

 Tove Rygg (1963) necklace Link

The necklace Link by Tove Rygg (1963) from Norway does not catch the eye because of its distinct, but rather its very subtle use of colour. During a labour-intensive process she crochets long cords of gold, silver and high-grade steel. She adds small precious stones and plaits the cords into one long chain, based on old chains of the Vikings. The various stones, haematite, smoky quartz, agate and peridote, are symbolic of the various aspects of the Norwegian landscape, such as lakes, fjords and forests. The blood agate is a personal reference to her own blood and her personal relationship with her native country Norway. 

Tove Knuts

 

Carolina Gimeno - brooch

 

 Nominees NTJ 2010:

Alejandra Solar	Mexico	Amanda Caines	UK
Anabelle Royo	Spain	Annette Duburg	Netherlands
Annika Pettersson	Sweden	Atty Tantivit	Thailand
Auk Russchen	Netherlands	Ayala Raz	Israel
Barbora Dzurakova	Slovakia	Belinda Koopman	Australia
Carina Chitsaz-Shoshtary	Germany	Carolina Gimeno	Chile
Cattherine Buman	Australia	Daniel Michel	Germany
Denise Julia Reytan	Germany	Dora Haralambaki	Greece
Esther Liebhold	Germany	Fabrizio Tridenti	Italy
Floor Mommersteeg	Netherlands	Francisca Bauza	Germany
Giovanni Sicuro	Italy	Gular Mustafa	Iraq
Hartog & Henneman	Netherlands	Heejoo Kim	Korea
Ingeborg Vandamme	Netherlands	Iris Goldman	Germany
Isabell Schaupp	Germany	Jessica Turrell	UK
Joao Vaz	Portugal	Judith Bloedjes	Netherlands
Judith MacCaig	UK	Karen Vanmol	Belgium
Katharina Tannous	Germany	Kirsi Johanna Kaasinen	Finland
Kirsten Spuijbroek	Netherlands	Lien Hereijgers	Belgium
Maryvonne Wellen	Germany	Melissa Miller	Australia
Michaela Donsbach	Germany	Mirjam Frankle	Germany
Mirjam Geiss	Germany	Nicolas Cheng
Ou Jiun You	Taiwan	Penka Arabova	Bulgaria
Pia Sommerlad	Germany	Serin Oh	Korea
Simone Brewster	UK	Siv Jager Jansson	Sweden
Stephanie Hensle	Germany	Sylvia Potente	Australia
Tamara Grüner	Germany	Thahoura Mona Hadinejad	Iran
Thea Clark	US	Tove Knuts	Sweden
Tove Rygg	Norway	Vivi Touloumidi	Greece
Willemijn de Greef	Netherlands	Young-joo Lee	Korea

 

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Comment se faire un FILM ………. sans faire tout un cinéma !

………….. et sans devoir aller forcément à CANNES !!

 

écharpes en pellicule photographique de la Suisse Verena Sieber Fuchs au Musée des Arts Deco (Paris) :

Verena Sieber-Fuchs- Collier 1997- pellicules photo

Verena Sieber-Fuchs -  Collier [Am rande des Films]  1997

Geraldine Luttenbacher -   Musée des Arts Deco, Paris  

Jaimie MacDonald (UK) film necklaces

Plastic Film Canisters Gone Mad!! : Jeweller Jaimie MacDonald from Strathpeffer in Ross-shire, Scotland creates jewelery that she has named “lay of the land” created from recycled plastic film cartons. Jaimie’s talent brings out the beauty from discarded objects and in so doing makes the statement that increasing awareness through design can be one small step in changing this big wide world. Her materials are predominantly recycled black and white plastic film containers which she then reworks to have new life in a completely different context through cutting, texturing and forming.

Jaimie MacDonald (UK) -those plastic film cannisters live on. they’re reincarnated as these striking ‘wave goodbye’ rings

Jaimie MacDonald (UK) Dappled Wash ring

Jaimie MacDonald « Wave Ring » plastic film container  & metal

 

 

 

BOOK :

Jewellery from Recycled Materials - Jaimie MacDonald - A & C Black Publishers Ltd 2009 – 112pp.

 

Silvia Beccaria – gorgiera « lollobrigida »

Silvia Beccaria – gorgiera – « lollobrigida »  (detail)   

Marchi Wierson – video tape necklace- crocheted !!

Marchi Wierson – knit video tape

Marchi Wierson-  video tape bracelet

Frédérique Trinchese – Radiographies – Papier, radiographies, argent et fils de nylon

Frédérique Trinchese – Radiographies – or, argent et radiographie

Julia Barello -X is for X-ray ‘Flowers of Rhetoric: Mimesis’ Necklace – dyed, recycled X-ray & MRI films

Julia Barello – Necklace, dyed X-ray film, monofilament.

 

EXPO ‘Mikiko Minewaki: Violet no.1′ – Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo (JP) – 13 mai-12 Juin 2011

New show in Violet by Mikiko Minewaki at the Exhibition space in Tokyo International Forum.

(…) Anything hides a good form. I am making my pieces by the work of cutting off plastic goods.
Any object by being pieced can become wearable. Things previously without connection to the body can become wearable to it by this simple operation.
I was born in the countryside of Japan. Every day I picked flowers and leaves from the fields and made jewellery- necklaces, rings, crowns- from them. This feeling is the source of my pieces. (…)

 

 

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