EXPO ‘NEW PLACES – Abstractions of a City’ – Jewelers’ Werk Galerie, Washington DC (USA) – 13 Oct.-3 Nov. 2012

Karin Johansson: NEW PLACES – Abstractions of a City

(Karin Johansson Necklace: Overview 2012 Gold, oxidized silver, enamel, reconstructed turquoise, reconstructed jade, reconstructed onyx, acrylic)

« In the beginning, a variety of many-coloured images of a city: meeting points, streets, people, blue skies, night and day. Staying in a playful mood, capturing the pulse, the movement, or the silence.
Sketching, cutting paper, creating a map of sorts in my studio, micro and macro at once as my perspective. Picking out colours, choosing materials, thinking about my purpose, reflecting on meanings and limitations. Giving each element its shape, assigning it a size and its place, connecting it further to circumscribe in to space.
Having it all transform into a necklace seemed only most obvious to me: no up, no down, playing around the neck, constantly finding new directions. Wearing the object, you become the inhabitant of the new place. «  Karin Johansson

  Karin Johansson Necklace: Shortcut 2012  Gold, enamel, reconstructed white coral, reconstructed pink coral, reconstructed jade, acrylic  88 cm  photo by Johan Hörnestam

Karin Johansson  Necklace: Between 2012  Gold, oxidized silver, enamel, reconstructed onyx, reconstructed pink coral, acrylic  75 cm  photo by Johan Hörnestam

  Karin Johansson  Necklace: The Hidden Garden 2012  Gold, oxidized silver, enamel, reconstructed onyx, reconstructed white coral  90 cm  photo by Johan Hörnestam

 

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