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14/04/2012

SOFA N.Y. 2012 – 20-23 Avril 2012 – Tzuri Gueta

Classé dans : Exposition/Exhibition,Salon,SOFA (TR),Tzuri GUETA (IL/FR),USA — bijoucontemporain @ 1:26

 

 

SOFA - Tzuri Gueta

 

 

Donna Schneier Fine Arts at donna@donnaschneier.com or telephone 518 441 2884.

EXPO ‘Maria Rosa Franzin, Graziano Visintin, Robi Gottlieb-Cahen’ – Galerie Orfèo, Luxembourg (LX) – 23 Mars-29 Avril 2012

 Orfèo proudly presents jewellery by Maria Rosa Franzin and Graziano Visintin along with paintings by Robi Gottlieb-Cahen

 EXPO 'Maria Rosa Franzin, Graziano Visintin, Robi Gottlieb-Cahen' - Galerie Orfèo, Luxembourg (LX) - 23 Mars-29 Avril 2012 dans Exposition/Exhibition 30057Maria Rosa Franzin – Brooch

Maria-Rosa Franzin: Jewels wearable thoughts
The body ornament is the visualisation of a thought, of states of mind, of sensations aroused by a painting, by music, by a particolar detail of reality.This is the definition suggested when one observes the jewellery created by Maria Rosa Franzin, artist and goldsmith, who received her training at the “Pietro Selvatico” Art Institute of Padua, where she also teaches “Progettazione Orafa (Goldsmith Planning and design).And it is thanks to her teaching commitment at the Pietro Selvatico for years the only school in Italy that has been active in the field of goldsmith research- that was stimulated to abandon her first passion, painting, and choose jewellery.
The change of medium, if, on the one hand required a new awareness of the problems involved in the design and realization of a wearable object, on the other hand has not changed the innate pictorial sensitivity of the artist. Indeed a firm pictorial approach distinguishes all Maria Rosa Franzin’s works, where it is possible to emphasize two principal lines of creative elaboration. The “screenjewel” is composed of gold and silver laminas on which the artist works with oxidation, sanding, engraving, filing, acid baths and inclusions in pure gold. On the surface of the jewel, therefore, emerge images. vision of sidereal space, of boundless territories and landscape, at times even succeeding in evoking expressions of sound, the whistling of the wind, the rustling of leaves.
The protagonist in the necklaces “Hartung” and “Lightness” is the thin steel wire, a graphical sign that infuses the jewels with a slight vibration and at the same time allows it to expand beyond its structural limits, creating a field of forces around the metal elements.
Catalogue : M.C.Bergesio

Maria Rosa Franzin  BroochMaria Rosa Franzin – Brooch « blue moon »

 Graziano Visintin : The geometry of gold
I studied the goldsmith’s art at the “Pietro Selvatico” Institute of Art in Padua, from 1968 to 1973, where I studied under Mario Pinton, Francesco Pavan and Giampaolo Babetto, in whose studio I worked for two years. I have been teaching Laboratory/Workshop Techniques at the same institute since 1976. At first, my works were configured as a reduction of shape and volume, where solids lose their mass yet preserving their outline. Primary geometrical elements such as squares, triangles, circles and ovals aligned, criss-crossed or superimposed, confronting the compactness of gold, an element that was never abandoned even when ebony and ivory were used.
Gold has always fascinated me. It is a precious material, not so much for its pecuniary value, but for its characteristics of workability (malleability and ductility) and therefore requires the utmost attention. In the eighties shapes were elongated, emptied, dematerialised to the point of becoming brilliant light. Double elements, criss-crossing traces of gold thread outline necklaces offering points of incidence and reverberation where light creates extraordinary effects.
Circles, squares, triangles are apparently simple elements, but I have been fascinated by them in trying to understand the expressive potential of primary shapes that are always different when observed with attention. The homogeneous continuity of the circle, confronting itself with its centre, recalls the processes of individuation; in the triangle the polarised disparity recalls the value of force and energy exerted in space. In the nineties I added a strong pictorial effect to my works. Niello, obtained by the fusion of silver, copper, lead, sulphur and borax, is an alloy that was well known by the Egyptians. Sometimes I use it as a colour or to contrast the splendid yellow of gold, and then they are beaten laminas, lozenges, trapeziums, that form compound elements.
The minimal absoluteness of shape almost creates writings on the object, and then enamel, made more unique and precious by thin, superimposed gold leaf, integrates with the laminas joined by small cubes that create geometrical relationships of logical, and rigorous design. Measure, equilibrium, simplicity but above all, vocation to geometry creates the quality of shape in apparently simple objects .
Graziano Visintin

 Graziano VisintinGraziano Visintin – Rings

 Pinned ImageGraziano Visintin – brooch

 

 

 

Galerie Orfèo
28, Rue des Capucins
L-1313 – Luxembourg
Luxembourg
Telephone: +352-222325
website: www.galerie-orfeo.com
mail: orfeo@pt.lu

EXPO ‘Making Home’ – Galerie Rob Koudijs, Amsterdam (NL) – 14 Avril–26 Mai 2012

14 04 2012 – 26 05 2012
Francis Willemstijn Solo Exhibition‘Making Home’ at Galerie Rob Koudijs, Amsterdam, NL
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« Everybody carries burdens, not only the shopping or the suitcases, but also immaterial ones like one’s education and descent. The past is always part of your baggage and Francis Willemstijn referred to that many times in her jewellery pieces. In her first work she made references to her genealogy which goes back to the seventeenth century and later her cherished childhood memories provided the starting point.
However much you might long for the comfort of a safe home, it is impossible to lift your house on your shoulders. Nevertheless that was the subject of Willemstijn’s investigations. Her new pieces are dedicated to a house in the hills where she has been staying regularly over the past few years. The concept goes way beyond a theoretical idea, for every material she used in this work came from this house and the garden that surrounds it (the only exception is the pin on the back of a brooch: some traces of the virulence in the real world beyond seem to be unavoidable). And so slate, zinc, all sorts of woods and fossils found an unexpected application in brooches.
With the new work of Francis Willemstijn we can for once feel equal to the snail: enjoying the luxury of having a refuge available at any given moment. »  Ward Schrijver, 2012, © Galerie Rob Koudijs
Francis Willemstijn - (another new brooch from my upcoming solo exhibition at Galerie Rob Koudijs, Amsterdam, NL) - Brooch 2012  Pro Quadratmeter  Rheinzinc, hazel, golden rain, taxus, oakFrancis Willemstijn -  Brooch 2012 Pro Quadratmeter Rheinzinc, hazel, golden rain, taxus, oak
Francis Willemstijn - Brooch 2012 - Roof - Rheinzinc, slate, spruceFrancis Willemstijn – Brooch 2012 – Roof – Rheinzinc, slate, spruce
Francis Willemstijn  - Brooch 2012  Door  hazel, grape, spruce, boardFrancis Willemstijn  – Brooch 2012  Door  hazel, grape, spruce, board

Galerie Rob Koudijs
Elandsgracht 12
1016 TV Amsterdam
Netherlands
T +31 (0)20 331 87 96
M +31 (0)6 139 05 554
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