ENVIRONNEMENT MODERNE
…. environnement urbain : travaux, béton, ferrailles, échafaudages, palissades, barrières, outillages, machineries, matériaux de construction, lignes, cartes, plans, routes, échangeurs, sens interdits …….. démolition, reconstruction …. tout cet environnement, même hostile ou menaçant, fascine ….. un moment, le mouvement est arrêté, « photographié », pensé, intériorisé puis réinterprété selon chacun, retraduit, « miniaturisé » pour devenir bijou … une construction nouvelle, en quelque sorte ….
(voir également l’article « Architectures …………… en broches »)
Andrea Zeuner – Superhighway Brooch 2011 Brass, asphalt crack repair, steel
The inside of this brooch is composed of 5 pierced disks to make that image. The top of the brooch screws off so the wearer can take out the slices and do something else with them
Phoebe Porter - transit necklace
Stephanie Barbié -Lo natural, lo artificial – broche – alpaca, plata, resina, metacrilato
« El mapa de una ciudad, como primera aproximación de un espacio, reune lo artificial y lo natural, lo simbólico y lo real. Confronta imaginación y deseos con vivencia y realidad. Esas piezas surgen de esta confrontación. «
Maru Lopez – Derrumbe paredes – 200 – Silver,Iron and cement
Dana DiPlacido (2011 graduate from MassArt, Massachusetts College of Art and Design ) – House bracelet, 2011 – stainless steel
Robean Visschers «under-construction» structure ring -Gold, silver (oxidized)- 2006
Robean Visschers - construction/structure ring
Robean Visschers Untitled 2009 Brooch
Bin Dixon-Ward – brooch – 2009
Ara Kuo – ‘MAZE’ brooch
Alice Bo-Wen Chang Bodyspace/bodyscape serie – red brooch
Linda Hughes Square Neckpiece and bracelet
« Colour plays a very important part in your jewellery and it is often bold and bright. Would you consider this a signature style or do see yourself moving towards a different palette in the future?
The palette relates directly to street signage but I do feel free to incorporate other colours and don’t feel inhibited by it.
What ignited your interest in signs? Was it marked by a particular experience or moment?
Some of the urban landscape in Australia seems particularly contrived, like a theatre set. A mixture of international influences all mixed up, often without connecting to the environment. My attention is drawn to signs as ‘street furniture’ if you like, ‘props’. «
Linda Hughes – Necklace
« In her new body of work, contemporary jeweller Linda Hughes explores the ‘stripe’, historically favoured as a metonym for danger, exclusion and as a device to attract attention. Hazard signage, ubiquitous in the urban landscape, changes when placed on the body as jewellery. In this exhibition, Hughes applies the visual language of the stripe to the sculptural form of the wearable. Displayed against as a series of graphic backdrops, the work explores the tension between body and environment, critiquing the complex theatre of public space. »
Linda Hughes - necklace – « It’s got legs » exhibition
« Shared Zone, is both the culmination of Linda Hughes master’s research and her first solo exhibition.
Hughes utilises the familiar urban language of invisible everyday objects such as road signs, posts and hazard markings. Juxtaposing these symbols on the body she uses them to define space and create landscape. Her work invites the wearer to become a part of the “theater of the wearable” that arises when the brooches, neckpieces and bangles are placed so as to interact and create their roles – transforming the body into a stage. »
Linda Hughes, Wing Brooch, Red & White Series, 2009, laminate and acrylic. Photography Argonaut Design
Analiese Stinson (2011 graduate from MassArt, Massachusetts College of Art and Design )- Map Bracelet #2–The Trip to School and the Long Way Home, 2011 silver, fabricated
Fabrizio Tridenti’s complex structures
Bergner Schmidt – Concrete jewellery
Benita Dekel, Massconstruction – silver & concrete (ciment)
« Benita Dekel, a graduate of the Department of Jewelry Design at Shenkar College of Engineering and Design (Israël), developed a series of jewelry pieces that combine silver with concrete. The results of the combination of concrete, which we usually associate with heavy, industrial construction, and delicate constructions in silver is that despite being made of concrete the pieces do not appear heavy. The shapes of the pieces, which are very familiar, almost as though they have been taken from various construction sites, manage to surprise both in their shape and new function«
Todd Pownell – architectural nest
Donna Veverka – Spiral Staircase bracelet
Silvia Walz – série « Casitecturas » Victors Haus – brooch – silver, copper, enamel
Sabine Conrad – necklace Burnt Future 2011, copper, silver, wood, paint
Esther Knobel – 4 brooches From “The Mind in the Hand” series
Renzo PASQUALE – OLIMPICA – spilla (brooch) – omaggio a Palladio (2008)
Christina Elleni Cox « Changeable Cities » bracelet (on Kit&caboodle)
