le PRINTEMPS …………

Le PRINTEMPS ( càd le SOLEIL) enfin !!!!!!?????

voici mon jardin ……

finally !!! the SUN arrived in my garden …………………

Legnica Jewellery Festival SILVER – Amberif Design Award – 30 Avril-30 June 2013

Amberif Design Award 2013

Exhibition presents pieces selected to the 17^th International Competition for Jewellery Project with Amber organized by the International Fair of Amber, Jewellery and Gemstones Amberif. Its aim is promotion of a creative thinking and innovative solutions in jewellery design with amber. This year’s topic was: Simply a ring.

International jury composed of:
Caroline Broadhead – chairwoman, lecturer of jewellery design at the Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design, London, Great Britain
Christophe Burger – jewellery designer, Colmar, France
Katarzyna Rzehak –Institute of Industrial Design, Warsaw, Poland
Agnieszka Jacobson – Cielecka - journalist, art critic and curator of design, Poland
Gisbert Stach – jewellery designer, Graefelfing, Germany

assessed 152 works submitted by 110 artists from 17 countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, France, Spain, The Netherlands, Ireland, Israel, Germany, Norway, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Great Britain and Italy

and awarded the following prizes:

*  GRAND PRIX sponsored by the Mayor of the City of Gdańsk – 10.000 PLN  :
Bożena Czarnecka

Bożena Czarnecka -  Grand Prize – amber inclosed into … caramel ! the ring can also be eaten …….

* AMBER PRIZE  sponsored by the International Amber Association – 1 kg of amber  :
Angelina Stoykova

Angelina Stoykova

* SILVER PRIZE – 1 kg of silver: Bogdan Dowlaszewicz

Bogdan Dowlaszewicz

 

The Jury selected 21 works by the following artists for publication in the AMBERIF 2013 Fair catalogue and for display at the exhibition:
Bożena Czarnecka, Grand Prix, Honourable Mention — Bogdan Dowlaszewicz, Silver Award — Maren Giloy — Paweł Kaczyński — Lidia Karpacz –  Miron Kutarba, Honourable Mention –  Katarzyna Luter –  Adam Łyszkowski –  Marek Mrowinski –  Karolina Navus-Wysocka –  Olga Oblezina — Alain Roggeman — Marta Rudnicka, Honourable Mention — Wojciech Rygało — Svetlana Shagarova — Angelina Stoykova, Amber Prize — Andrzej Szadkowski — Jasper Vanderberghe

Marta Rudnicka  ring

Rings made by Jasper Vanderberghe from Belgium

Ring made by Karolina Navus-Wysocka from Poland

Ring made by Marek Mrowiński from Poland

Ring made by Angelina Stoykova from Bulgaria

Alain Roggeman

Katarzyna Luter

 

Legnica Cultural Centre,

Knights Academy,

Chojnowska 2

Open: 30th April – 30th June, Tue – Fri: 11.00 a.m. – 6.00 p.m., Sat: 10.00 a.m. – 2.00 p.m

EXPO ‘Kajsa Lindberg & Daniela Hedman’ – Platina Gallery, Stockholm (Sweden) – 2 Mai-8 Juin 2013

Platina -    Kajsa Lindberg & Daniela Hedman :
Daniela Hedman – Beach
Kajsa Lindberg – Standard graphs
Opening Thursday 2nd of May 17-19  Runs until 8th June

 Kajsa Lindberg  photo Johan Söderling

Kajsa Lindberg  photo Johan Söderling

Daniela Hedman  brooch, made in red birch wood – photo Johan Söderling

Platina
Odengatan 68
10232 Stockholm, Sweden

http://www.platina.se/

Legnica Jewellery Festival SILVER – 30 Avril-30 June 2013

Legnica Jewellery Festival SILVER  -  May / June 2013  Venue: Gallery of Art in Legnica

This year in the Legnica International Jewellery Competition REVOLT participated 319 artists from 43 countries. They sended 625 pieces. International jury (Galit Gaon (IL), Jiro Kamata (JP/DE), Hans Stofer (CH/GB), Sławomir Fijałkowski and Aneta Lis-Marcinkiewicz (PL)), which sessed in the days 4-5 of April, qualified to the exhibition part of pieces and chosed laureates. Names of the winners we will know on the vernissage, 18th of May 2013  in the Gallery of Art in Legnica, Poland.

IDEA:

It is better not to turn on the television today. We are being attacked by images of economic crises, stock market crashes, falling ratings, budget deficits, cost cutting programs and increasing unemployment from everywhere. As a reaction to the overwhelming impression of a lack of opportunities there are emerging movements such as « Occupy … », helplessly protesting against banksters, corporations and governments. Doesn’t speaking in such circumstances about jewellery – the subject invariably associated with the demonstration of wealth and selfish hedonism – seem socially unacceptable and even ethically suspect? After all, the burning  of ATMs and the broken glass of jeweller’s shops have become part of the frustration of all the Indignados.
But there is also another aspect of the design and use of jewellery – which – like no other product of the imagination – can be an effective message, manifesting the point of view of the user – a voice of protest, being anti-or pro-, attitudes of rebellion, rebellion and guerrilla warfare. Can a standard set of slogans written out on banners, T-shirts and slap tags be complemented with another more sophisticated message? Are jewellery designers able to demonstrate their own opinion and join the discussion concerning non-aesthetic issues? Is the tradition of exclusive gold jewellery going to be our irreversible remorse? And will the chorus « Diamonds are a girl’s best friend » always sound  as infantile as the recent testimony before the European Court of Justice in The Hague of the famous model Naomi Campbell, who at one time accepted an embarrassing gift from the dictator of Liberia, tried for war crimes, so evocatively reconstructed in the movie « Blood Diamond » with Leo DiCaprio as a ruthless mercenary?

 

List of artists qualified to the exhibition :

 Agata Bartos (PL) — Nicole Beck (DE) — Claudia Betancourt & Ricardo Pulgar (Chile) — Krzysztof Borkowski (PL) — Andrzej Boss (PL) — Vernon Bowden (NZ) — Laura Bradshaw-Heap (Irl) – Bartosz Chmielewski (PL) — Sungho Cho (S. KR) — Jeongsun Choi (S. KR) — Teresa Dantas (PT) — Katharina Dettar (DE/ES) — Sara Gackowska (PL) – Tamara Grüner (DE) — Mieczysław Gryza (PL) — Nils Hint (EE) — Susanne Holzinger (DE) — Maja Houtman (NL) — Marta Hryc (PL) — Joanna Hryniewicz (PL) — Dorry Hsu (Taiwan/CA) — Mari Ishikawa (JP) — Timothy Information Limited (GB) — Luijt Janjaap (NL) — Lee Jeong Hwa (S. KR) — Christina Karababa (GR) — Renata Korpas-Sutowicz (PL) — Dominik Kotwicki (PL) — Solveiga Krivičiene & Alfredas Krivičius (Lithuania) — Marzena Krupa (PL) — Claudia Küster (DE) — Lena Lindahl (SE) — Ria Lins (BE) — Susanne Matsché (AT) — Marek Mrowiński (PL) — Marek Nałęcz-Nieniewski (PL) — Michalina Owczarek (PL) — Andrzej Pacak (PL) — Fiona Parkinson (GB) — Krzysztof Piotrowski (PL) — Sari Räthel (DE) — Mandy Rasch (DE) — Berta Riera Ruiz (ES) — Isabell Schaupp (DE) — Kveto slava Flora Sekanova (Slovakia/ NZ — Katarína Siposová Węgry (HU) — Ludmila Šikolová (Czech Republic) — Grzegorz Radosław Ślączka (PL) — Terajima Takayoshi (JP) — Bartosz Ulatowski (PL)

 

 

About festival

For more than thirty years, the Gallery of Art in Legnica has specialised in promoting contemporary jewellery and artistic objects made mainly of silver. We have been organising individual and group exhibitions of Polish and international artists, publishing exhibition catalogues, organising conferences and symposia, as well as fashion and jewellery shows, competitions and fairs. The most important event we organize is Legnica Jewellery Festival SILVER. Every year we present individual and collective exhibitions as part of the festival, including:
LEGNICA INTERNATIONAL JEWELLERY COMPETITION The competition dates back to 1979 and every year it has a different topic. The competition is open and addressed to all artists, whose task is to present their work on a given topic – every year a different one – including an original artistic idea and representing a high level of artistry and technical skills. What is favoured is the concept, value and meaning of an artistic expression. Works entered for the competition are assessed by an international jury, on which over fifty outstanding goldsmithing artists and theoreticians have sat so far. What is characteristic of the competition is the fact that the winners of the first three prizes receive – according to a long-standing tradition – silver pellets and cash prizes.
The submitted works are qualified by an international jury. Over the years, we have invited a number of distinguished artists to seat on the jury, including: G. Babetto, G. Bakker, O. Boekhoudt,  S. Bronger, R. Puig Cuyás, P. Derrez, G. Dobler, A. Gut, F. Falk, M.R. Franzin, M.J. van den Hout,  E. Knobel, O. Kűnzli, T. Noten, V.K. Novák, R. Peters, M. Petry, K. Pontoppidan, G. Pucsala, A. Ratnikowa, P. Sajet, B. Schobinger, P. Skubic, Z. Songqing, W. Tasso-Mattar,  T. Smeets, D. Watkins, M. Vilhena, A. Zanella and from Poland – M. Dubiel, M. Gradowski, I. Huml, S. Fijałkowski, G. Jabłoński, J. Sokólski, A. Szadkowski, T. Zaremski, A. Wolski.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS is a cycle of retrospective presentations of distinguished personalities in jewellery art from Poland and abroad, including: J. Byczewski (PL), S. Fijałkowski (PL), P. Kaczyński (PL), N. Cherry (GB), H. O’Connor (USA), E. Knobel (IL), V.K. Novák (CZ), F. Peters (AU), M. Petry (GB), Rose & Gisbert Stach (D), L. Šikolová (CZ), W. Tasso-Mattar (D).  Soon: R. Puig Cuyás (E), H. Hedman (S), P. Sequeira (P).
SILVER SCHOOLS is a cycle presenting the artistic oeuvre of jewellery art schools from Europe, their professors, graduates and students. So far there have been presentations of schools from Barcelona, Birmingham, Bratislava, Düsseldorf, Edinburgh, Florence, Hanau, Idar-Oberstein, Lappeenranta, Łódź, Matosinhos, Munich, Oslo, Padua, Pforzheim, Prague, Stockholm, Tallinn and Vilnius. Continuing the cycle in the subsequent years, we are going to show one after the other all European silver schools. A total of 22 schools has been presented so far. The cycle will be continued with the intention to show all of them.
DEBUTS is a cycle presenting pieces of young Polish artists, who just start their activity in the field of design and art. Our plan is to invite novices from abroad.
THE BOUNDARIES OF GLOBAL ART is a cycle of science sessions devoted to the newest art, goldsmithery and design.

 INVITATION/PROGRAM

 

 

The Gallery of Art in Legnica
Pl. Katedralny 1
59-220 Legnica, Poland
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EXPO ‘ Zimmermann Vintage Collection’ – Galerie V & V, Wien (AT) – 19 avril-4 juin 2013

Petra Zimmermann Vintage Collection

Vernissage: am Donnerstag, dem 18. April 2013, um 19:00 Uhr

Petra Zimmermann – ring 2010 – vintage costume jewellery findings

Petra Zimmermann  – bracelet 2012 historical evening bag

Petra Zimmermann  – bracelet 2012 antique handbag, vintage costume jewellery

 

Galerie V&V

Bauernmarkt 19
1010 Wien (Austria)
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EXPO ‘CHAINED’ – Bilk Gallery, Manuka (AU) – 12 Avril-18 Mai 2013

Bilk gallery – Chained – Thirteen Australian artists interpretation of “The Chain”

he artists have explored the theme in gold, titanium, silver, aluminium, glass, wood, recycled signs, all with an over riding link of movement as they beautifully fit the body.

Opened Friday 12 April until 18 May 2013

Movement, articulation and a nod to the historical reference to a reoccurring unit: the link. Or better than a string of pearls!
The results are as varied and imaginative as the makers, some are vibrant, others elegant and restrained with simple coloured lines.The artists have explored the theme in gold, titanium, silver, aluminium, glass, wood, recycled signs, all with an over riding link of movement as they beautifully fit the body.
A real chain of events now showing at Bilk Gallery –
Alice Potter — Blanche Tilden — Jill Hermans — Johannes Kuhnen — Mark Vaarwerk — Maureen Faye-Chauhan — Michelle Taylor — Nellie Peoples — Phoebe Porter — Sarah Murphy — Sophia Emmett — Sean O’Connell — Tracy Pateman

 

 

Bilk Gallery

12 Palmerston Lane, Manuka
[phone]
Tues – Fri 11.00am – 5.00pm
Sat 11.00am – 4.00pm
Or by appointment

EXPO ‘Pasticcio’ – Galerie Marianne Heller, Heidelberg (DE) – 20 Avril-4 Mai 2013

Tamara Grüner: Pasticcio

On the occasion of the Long Night of Museums in Heidelberg and at the same time with the exhibition of the ceramicist Gordon Baldwin the Gallery Marianne Heller shows jewelry art by Tamara Grüner.
The term Pasticcio is used in the history of art to describe works of art being composed of existing elements and parts which then form a new harmonious creation. That’s exactly what happens in the work of Tamara Grüner. We recognize a lot of the individual elements. We can relate them to the corresponding eras but we realize the intensity of the contemporary creation in their combination.
She gets enthused by the opulence and splendor of the shapes and ornamentation. Her clear analytic way of regarding things prevents her from immerging completely but to maintain a critical distance that is necessary to create the suspension an orginary work needs. The mixture of intensive and serious discussion about material, shape and history, the humour that twinkles from time to time and the skill to transform supposed old-fashioned things or kitsch into a modern style make the jewellery of Tamara Grüner to something very special – the finest Pasticcio. 
Cornelie Holzach

(Tamara Grüner Brooch: Indian Siam 2012 Historical metal pieces – blackened, silver, glass, steel – detail)

 Tamara Grüner  Necklace: Indian Siam 2012  Historical metal pieces – blackened, silver, glass  16,4 x 8,0 x 40 cm  Photo: Alexander König, Pforzheim, Germany

Tamara Grüner  Necklace: Crystal Deep Green 2012  Historical metal plate – blackened, glass, blackened silver  15,5 x 5,3 x 43 cm  Photo: Alexander König, Pforzheim, Germany

 

Galerie Marianne Heller
Friedrich-Ebert-Anlage 2
69117 – Heidelberg
Germany
Telephone: [phone] – 61 90 90
website: www.galerie-heller.de
mail: [e-mail]

EXPO ‘Catching Big Fish’ – Beyond Fashion, Antwerp (Belgium) – 25 Avril-22 Juin 2013

Karin Roy Andersson : Catching Big Fish

There is something magnetic with the undiscovered world of the oceans. Frightening, exciting and with the beauty that comes with the tension between these feelings. Welcome to the opening of Catching Big Fish at Beyond Fashion.

(Karin Roy Andersson – Bracelets: Catching Big Fish 2013 – Recycled plastics, textile - Photo: Sanna Svedestedt)

« I love fish; their shape, fens and the pattern of the fish scale. I am intrigued by how they move, their bodies and faces and their, in our eyes, exceptional behaviour. In a society where the view on what is normal is still quite conservative, the way some fish species change sex, size and identity gives you a new perspective.
A few years ago I started working with scales making chains of thin silver flakes. Now some of the scales have grown larger and I have added elements of recycled plastics. To me the pieces looks like traces from an intense struggle catching a big fish. When adding the plastic I sadly realized that jumping into the ocean you might be more likely to end up with plastics on your body than scales from a fish.  »
  Karin Roy Andersson

Karin Roy Andersson  Brooch: Catching Big Fish 2013  – Recycled plastics, textile, paint, steel  9 x 5.5 x 3 cm

Karin Roy Andersson : Catching Big Fish

Karin Roy Andersson: Catching Big Fish

Karin Roy Andersson: Catching Big Fish ring

Karin Roy Andersson Necklace: Catching Big Fish 2013  Recycled plastics, textile, silver, paint  pendant:11 x 4.5 x 2.5 cm, length: 27 cm

Karin Roy Andersson

 

Beyond Fashion 
POURBUSSTRAAT 7
2000 ANTWERP-SOUTH
BELGIUM
www.beyondfashion.be

Yu-Ping Lin Textile Jewellery at the British Craft Trade Fair – 7-9 Avril 2013

exhibiting at the British Craft Trade Fair – 7th-9th April 2013 -  Yu-Ping Lin Textile Jewellery @ Stand 413

Yu-Ping Lin Textile Jewellery – kaleidoscope serie -  Strawberry – Bracelet/ Brooch  Felt, Polyester

Yu-Ping Lin Textile Jewellery 雨曦織品珠寶 -  2012 -  Brooch  Felt, Polyester

Yu-Ping Lin Textile Jewellery 雨曦織品珠寶 -  2012 -   Silver: Ka14-0L/ Purple: Ka14-1L  Bracelet/ Brooch  Felt, Polyester

Yu-Ping Lin Textile Jewellery – 2012  – Blueberry Jellyfish Object/ Brooch

Yu-Ping Lin Textile Jewellery 雨曦織品珠寶    Zen (Ka10-0F)  Bracelet/ Brooch  Felt, Polyester, Silk

EXPO ‘TWEEX I’ – Vander A Gallery, Bruxelles (BE) – 26 Avril-25 Mai 2013

TWEEX 1

Opening: 25.04.2013  from 18:00 to 21:00

An overview of knowledge transfer around « designer jewellery »    With the participation of  La Cambre, Brussels  – IATA, Namur – St. Lucas University College of Art & Design Antwerp – and artist Félix Roulin.

For over a year, the young « vander A » gallery has been showing the work of visual artists and contemporary art jewellery creators. Now, in partnership with the non-profit workshop « Néon Atelier », run by Bernard François, it is to host a stunning display of the knowledge transmitted by masters of « designer jewellery » to their students in Belgian colleges and academies.
Three brand-new exhibitions will be held at the « vander A » gallery from 26 April to 25 May 2013, in September 2013 and in January 2014.
As a young, multidisciplinary genre, contemporary art jewellery is an art form in its own right, and it is undoubtedly part of our heritage.
Is the new generation of Belgian creative artists, or of foreign creators trained in Belgium, making a clear break with the know-how? Do they feel the need to venture beyond these skills, much as our master craftsmen once sought to break with the techniques of traditional jewellery, or do they just want to own them differently?
Probing the influence and role of knowledge in present-day creations, the « vander A » gallery presents the Belgian colleges and art academies frequented by artists who wish to specialise in the traditional and/or modern techniques used in contemporary jewellery.
At a time when young creators often train abroad and no longer really show any specifically national traits, we urgently need to improve our communication of our heritage, assert our undeniable mastery of this art and make known our current contribution to the international scene.

Patrick Marchal – Fukushima mon amour | 2013 – masq 2013 / paper – copper – lead

Nelly van Oost « rencontre 16″ – 2012

Hilde De Decker  – Display – 2010

Shana Teugels  Wild Ocean | 2011

Siegfried De Buck – Toison d’or II – 2013

Arthur Bouillé  Bel ami, 2013  neckpiece  1st Bachelor La Cambre
Joy Hoffmann      Banx!, 2013      belt      2nd Bachelor La Cambre
Eric Dufert  2013  necklace  3rd Bachelor La Cambre

vander A Gallery
Avenue des Saisons 110-112
1050 Brussels
Belgium
Thursday to Saturday
From 14:00 to 18:00
Other days by appointment
+ 32 495 264 281
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