Schmuck 2013 – EXPO ‘Vintage Violence’ – Antiquariat Dieter Zipperich, Munich (DE) – 7-9 Mars 2013
08 March – 09 March 2013
Opening: Thursday – 07. March 2013 – 6:15 pm
- the background to the exhibition is as follows:
Some time ago, I was invited to exhibit in a nineteenth century villa, where I made an exciting discovery. Behind the villa was a stranded ghost ship, in the form of an enormous, abandoned jewellery factory, the captain of which was still sitting behind stacks of dusty files and reading the latest newspaper. The ship’s lieutenant led me through the treasure-filled wreck…
A year later my wife and I returned on a 14-day mission to hammer out the bitter remnants of the past. Embossing, punching, winding… the 1950s fashion-jewellery aluminium we found went into the early-industrial machines with such finality, that it was almost impossible to reproduce standard pieces, as is the case with genuine handicrafts. Through cottage-industryesque labour, the crude output of the machines was bound together into sheaves of lovely jewels. The pieces are numbered and stamped with BfG (Bund für Gestaltung / Confederation of Design ). The title “Vintage Violence” as well as the arrangement of the scene photographed for the invitation card are taken from a completely different context and originate from an early 1970s’ record sleeve (John Cale).
Despite all the retrospect, the pieces are completely fresh and untarnished and are now on display for the first time in the Zipprich antiquarian bookstore, within the wider context of the Internationale Handwerksmesse ‘Schmuck’ exhibition.
We heartily invite you to come and see them.
Brigitte & Volker Atrops
Antiquariat Dieter Zipperich,
Zieblandstraße 2, 80799 München
kontakt@v-a-info.de
www.v-a-info.de
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