SCHMUCK 2012 – « Ädellab – The State of Things » – Die Neue Sammlung /The International Design Museum, Munich (DE) – 17 Mars-29 Avril 2012

Ädellab – The State of Things. Konstfack Stockholm. Schmuck.
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The starting point is the human body which is construed as the link between the person’s outer and inner worlds – this concept defines the design approach taken at Ädellab, the Dept. of Jewelry at the Konstfack Stockholm, University College of Arts, Crafts and Design. On the basis of the existing Dept. of Metals, Ädellab was founded in 2004 by Dutch jewelry artist Ruudt Peters and has since 2006 been emphatically influenced by Danish jewelry artist Karen Pontoppidan, who is head of Ädellab by now. The department¿s methodology cuts across both geographical borders and artistic ideas. Ädellab has made a name for itself with a decidedly contemporary approach that explores the possibilities afforded by the medium of jewelry as an important and independent form of expression today. A persons own ideas, observations, fascinations and obsessions can just as much be lent form as can emotions, issues of identity or interpersonal debate.

Karen Pontoppidan comments: ‘The final-year projects undertaken by exam students are not a matter of fulfilling an educational task, but demonstrate the individual need for expression that spawns creation. The artistic expression and therefore the work of the graduates cannot therefore be understood only in terms of intrinsic logic or the wish to understand the existence of the state of things. The work was created because an artist, a human being with experiences, feelings, dreams and failures, wanted the pieces to be.‘
Exhibition curated by Karen Pontoppidan

 » Ädellab – The State of Things, works by students from Konstfack Stockholm.  This show was set up using red ropes that snaked down a hallway to the back and all became tangled together in one giant ball under a white neon sign. Each rope had the work of one artist so the viewer had to follow the rope along to discover them. There was a great variety and experimentation of materials in these works, I believe there were some made from dried sweet potatoes.« 

Yasar Aydin, Brooch, 2011. Steel, leather, glass

Bernhard Stimpfl-Abele – Brooch: « Orange Evolution 103″  2012 – Fine silver/polystyrene, electro formed

Bernhard Stimpfl-Abele- Brooch « Lemon Explosion » 2012 – Fine silver/polystyrene, electro formed

 

 

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