Amberif – Gdansk (Poland) – Fair : 19-22 Mars 2014 – Design Award : deadline 10 Fevr. 2014

AMBERIF - International Fair of Amber, Jewellery and Gemstones

On 20 March, Announcement of competition results

Amberif Design Award Entry Deadline: February 10, 2014

entry form HERE

Amberif Design Award 2014 – exhibition of the award-winning works in the International Amber Jewellery Design Competition “Materia Prima” C

The watchword of this year’s Amberif Design Award is not just the alchemic representation of the primal substance able to take on the perfect form but also a direct reference to the contemporary idea of sustainability in design which respects local tradition, refers to the historical heritage of functional arts and elevates natural materials. Prized already in ancient Rome, Baltic amber is predisposed, as a substance close to the ideal, to be transformed into an original design. The unique nature of each individual nugget has always provoked artists to look for the right form, interpret associations, make use of its internal structure, colours, shades, transparencies and natural peculiarities preserved for the lucky finder over the past 40 million years. In an era of disposable products, it is sometimes worthwhile to look back to pre-history and fix your sight on the elusive aspects of both the physical and the metaphysical. The material, the medium itself usually gives designers a hint towards their first decisions; let us try to listen to this hint and follow through with it. We expect jewellery (without any functional limitations at all) in which the amber will be a remarkably strong justification for highlighting its most natural properties.
Prof. Sławomir Fijałkowski

 

Marta Rudnicka - Ring: Untitled, 2013 - Gold plated repoussé brass, oxidised brass, steel spring, amber, silver
Amberif Honourable Mention 2013

Angelina Stoykova – Ring: Untitled, 2013 – Amber, silver, cotton fabric, cotton thread
The Amber Prize 2013

 

 

Amberif 2014, Gdańsk International Fair Co.
11 Zaglowa Street
80-560 – Gdansk
Poland
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EXPO ‘Aeon Profit / Piano Forte’ – Velvet Da Vinci gallery, San Francisco (US) – 5 Fevr.-9 Mars 2014

Velvet Da Vinci is proud to present the US debut of Aeon Profit / Piano Forte, an installation of wearable objects made from reincarnated piano parts by the Swedish jewelry design collective A5.

The show, which has previously exhibited in both Stockholm and Munich, will run from February 5th through March 9th, 2014.  An Opening Reception will take place on Friday February 7th, from 6 to 8 pm.

Musical instruments and jewelry share several fundamental similarities: a rich tradition of craftsmanship, function, ornamentation, and inherent value. Both are meant to last generations and to be passed from individual to individual. Thus when an instrument or a piece of jewelry is no longer wanted or needed it falls into a particular space of limbo, the owner wishes to part with the item yet at the same time hopes that it will continue its existence. It is in this way that the group A5, Adam Grinovich, Romina Fuentes, and Annika Pettersson, came into contact with a piano.

 

 

Velvet Da Vinci
2015 Polk Street,
San Francisco, CA 94109
415.441.0109

EXPO ‘Marta Boan: The appearance of jewels’ – Four Gallery, Göteborg (Sweden) – 7-22 Fevr. 2014

« Marta Boan: The appearance of jewels » – 7–22 février

Basic geomatric shapes, lines and points create a language speaking of chaos and order. Volumes growing into a minimalistic expression that communicates and accentuates a figure.
The jewellery of Marta Boan is an elegant explanation of a complex surrounding world. The thin and seemingly fragile objects make the observer want to come closer to discover the details and the strength of the material. Mathematics and art in a beautiful balance.

Welcome to meet Marta Boan and see the exhibition at Four Friday February 7, 17.00-21.00

On Thursday February 6, 16.00 Marta Boan will make a lecture at HDK – University of Arts and Crafts and Design, please mail [e-mail] for more detailed information.

Marta Boan jewelry

 Marta Boan necklaceMarta Boan necklaces

 

 

Four

Nordhemsgatan 74, Göteborg – Sweden

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http://www.foursweden.com

Inhorgenta Munich (DE) – 14-17 Fevr. 2014

Inhorgenta Munich – 14-17 Febr. 2014

In 2014, Hall C2 will signify Contemporary Design (HALL PLAN)

Young talents meet with premium designers: at the 41st INHORGENTA MUNICH on February 14 – 17, 2014, Hall C2 will be the platform for the most notable jewelry designers and goldsmiths from all over the world. To date, over 50 new exhibitors from various countries have registered to take part.

Almost half of the exhibitors in C2 come from abroad and include numerous new exhibitors from Spain, Portugal and Poland. Designers from Great Britain, Greece, Portugal and Romania will be presenting at joint booths with a high-quality design.
“The Contemporary Design area is regarded as one of the unique features of the trade show and we will be strengthening it even further with our focus on premium design. Hall C2 is also an important springboard for young jewelry designers because here they can introduce their work to an international audience from the trade. This connection between creative design and young talents from throughout the world is at the heart of this hall”, says Renate Wittgenstein, Product Manager of INHORGENTA MUNICH.
In the Premium Design area, labels like Marion Knorr, Juni, Carl Dau, Galerie Cipango, Angela Hübel and Andrea Frahm will present their collections combining clear forms and esthetics with top-class materials. “There are jewelry designers who have developed from contemporary towards premium design in recent years”, explains Renate Wittgenstein. “We wish to give these exhibitors their own area so they can reach their customers more specifically.”
 
A significant part too is played by the special shows. For the 17th time, the Silver Triennial will present handcrafted utensils and objects by internationally important silversmiths and metal designers at INHORGENTA MUNICH 2014. In addition, the pieces of jewelryby the winners of the INHORGENTA MUNICH Award, Legnica and Preziosa Young – Mari Ishikawa from Japan and Vanessa Tickle from the USA – will be exhibited at the Innovation Forum. As well as that, young talents

such as Sonja Heymann, Atelier Godolé, Tings Jewellery and Nicole Schuster will present their new creations at special areas.
 
The complete reconfiguration of Hall C2 for jubilee year 2013 went down very well among the participants and visitors. “Hall C2 is the heartbeat of design: usefully developed concepts put into diverse effect; unusual design unified worldwide; technical innovations coupled with tradition; individual design presented up close; creative minds with unmistakable jewelry – it’s all about showing something special, discovering something special!” says Monika Seitter, qualified designer and exhibitor in C2.

 

* Espaijoia will attend you at booth hall C2 stand 515E.

 

* Catalina Brenes Orfebre : with great honor  would like to invite you all to my solo stand at the upcoming Inhorgenta Munich 2014. Hope you can join! hall C2 stand525 

 

* Angela Ciobanu  – hall C2 stand 304-405 n°11

* Stephanie Bates  -  To visit Stephanie at Inhorgenta, head to the ‘British Allied Trade Federation’ stand (stand 108/209, Gang A/B)

Stephanie Bates jewellery at Inhorgenta 2014

and, among others :

 

* Atelier Godolé  hall C2 stand 304-405

* Min-Ji Cho   &  Jahyun Rita Baek  hall C2 stand 226

* Karolina Bik   C2.304/405

* Dorit Schubert  C2.232 

* Sophia Epp  C2.339

* Escola D’Art Del Treball  C2.538

* Anke Hennig  C2.227

* Mari Ishikawa  C2.304/405

* Jenny Llewellyn  C2.108/209

* Lauren Vanessa Tickle  C2.304/405

* Le Arti Orafe Jewellery School  C2.446

* Mariko Sumioka   C2.108/209

* Misun Won   C2.108/209

* Niki Stylianou  C2.102

* Eily O’Connell C2.304/405

* Preziosa Contemporary Jewellery Preziosa Young  C2.446

* Hochschule Esd Idar-Oberstein : Meet our new graduates at our booth 535 & 537 • Gang E • Hall C2:  MA: Patricia Correia Domingues • BA: Dagmar Dluzniak •Levan Jishkariani • Katja Köditz • Jia Liu • Stephanie Morawetz • Kathrin Münsch • Sari Räthel • Katharina Reimann

……………….. etc …..

Salon « L’Aiguille en Fête » – Paris Porte de Versailles (FR) – 6-9 fevr. 2014

Salon « L’Aiguille en Fête«   – Paris Porte de Versailles – 6-9 fevr – avec Michèle Forest

Michèle Forest - collier

Michèle Forest

Salon « L’Aiguille en Fête«   -
Parc des expositions
Paris, Porte de Versailles
Hall 6
1, place de la Porte de Versailles
75015, Paris, FRANCE

EXPO ‘Carmen Hauser’ – Gallery Marzee, Nijmegen (NL) – 12 Janv.-19 Mars 2014

6 exhibitions at Marzee from 12 January until 19 March 2014
Opening: Sunday, 12 January, 4 pm
Juliane Brandes sieraden jewellery
Carmen Hauser sieraden jewellery
Ulrich Reithofer sieraden jewellery
Nina Sajet sieraden jewellery
Tore Svensson sieraden jewellery
Margriet Smulders foto’s photographs (Exchange NI@Marzee)

Carmen Hauser (MA 2012 at Hochschule Esd Idar-Oberstein) • Brooch: « Schattenwelt 6″• Earth, resin, silver and rubin • 2013 - ©phot. Galerie Marzee

Carmen Hauser (MA 2012) • Brooch: « Schattenwelt 8″• soil, resin, blackened silver • 2013 • ©phot.Nathalie Zimmermann

  Carmen Hauser (MA 2012) • Brooch: « Schattenwelt 5″ • Soil, resin, gingko leaves and blackened silver • 2013 • ©phot. Nathalie Zimmermann

 

Galerie Marzee
Lage Markt 3
6511 VK Nijmegen
The Netherlands

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EXPO ‘Monochromes’ – Hole Of The Fox, Borgerhout Anvers (BE) – 24 Janv.- 2014

The Hot Fox presents « Monochromes«      The not so monotonous jewelry series     A solo exhibition by Shana Teugels  – This exhibition is part of BORGER – nocturnes, vernissages, finissages.

It’s obvious that the work of Shana Teugels revolves around questioning the conventions surrounding jewelry, but more so, she emphasizes the purpose of the classical jewel to an extreme, by adding more shine, more color and increasing volume as she goes.
Her shapes originate from experimenting with different types of materials, which she chooses for their cheap feel. These materials force her to glorify them as she links these experiments to an ongoing research about how the jewel can exalt itself and dance on the fine line between objet d’art and kitsch, the objet d’art being some form of rejected art or better, unclassifiable.
She digests her surroundings, her past and present, pink toys and nature, as well as her personal tastes, in short, the world she, herself, lives in, and out come these molded, shape shifting forms, vibrant of color and life. It’s by forcing her own ideal of beauty onto her audience that she generates a constant push and pull while observing her work. This creates a temporary uncomfortable, but not unpleasant, zone between the spectator/wearer and the work/jewel, itself.
An important aspect remains adding functionality to her creations, most of her objects are wearable, as this is an essential reference to jewelry design in general. Shana Teugels graduated in 2010 at Sint Lucas Antwerp, with a masters degree in jewelry design and did an internship at Galerie Marzee in Nijmegen, Holland. Her work was selected for Der Schmuck Salon at Meesterlijk (Amsterdam) and at Object (Rotterdam), for De Nieuwe Oogst, Galerie Design Vlaanderen (Brussels) as well as FAD at Joya Contemporary Jewelry Week (Barcelona) and as far as Tokyo, Japan with the Belgian Japanese Art Jewelry exhibition at Concept Jewelry Works. Her work was also featured in Current Obsession Magazine, #Youth Edition, a Belgian/Dutch magazine on contemporary jewelry.

Monochromes shows a series of necklaces, broches and objects, each in a single color. This is quite a daring step, as well as a less obvious one in Shana’s oeuvre, as monochromatism raises a certain doubtful attitude. Similarly to fashion and interior design, where monochromatism is swiftly associated with bad taste or affectation. It’s exactly this idea of taste and (un)accepted beauty, which she is trying to question, while combining less conventional materials, such as wool and plastic, with those that have a fixed value, like polypropyleen.

Shana Teugels   – Hollywood cerise – Necklace – 2013 – wool, synthetic mica, aryl,  polyester, epoxy, glue, nail varnish, decorative beads

 Shana Teugels  – Hollywood cerise | Necklace | 2013 | wool, synthetic mica, aryl, polyester, epoxy, glue, nail varnish, decorative beads

Shana Teugles – « Monochromes » -  Navy icicles | Necklace | 2013 | wool, polypropylene, lacquer, glitter, polyester, silicones, wood, decorative beads

Shana Teugels – Everything’s Rozy With Bakker Miller | Bracelet | 2013 | wool, polypropylene, lacquer, silicones, wood, iron beads, wax

Shana Teugels – Extravaganza | brooch – 2013 | wool, polypropylene, lacquer, glitter, polyester, iron beads, steel

Shana Teugels - The Last Fantasy | necklace | 2013 | wool, polypropylene, lacquer, glitter, polyester, silicones,  iron beads, onyx

 

 

Hole Of The Fox

Bloemstraat 24

2140 Borgerhout- Anvers (Belgium)

EXPO ‘Suspended in GREEN’ – V&V Gallery, Vienna (AT) – 11 Janv. – 8 Mars 2014

Suspended in Green : Bye Bye Paris and Hello Vienna ! Our next exciting exhibition will be a joint venture in Jan 2014!  V&V Gallery, Vienna, Austria. 11TH January 2014 – 8th March 2014

will bring Suspended in Green to THREE venues!

- JOINT exhibition with Suspended in Pink at V&V Gallery, Vienna, Austria (11TH January 2014 – 8th March 2014)

- For Schmuck! at Studio Gabi Green, Munich, Germany (13th – 17th March 2014 2014)

- As part of London Design Week- at the Lesley Craze Gallery, London, England (14th August 2014 – 20th September 2014)

brooch by Stephanie Morawetz

Stephanie Morawetz (AT) – ring

Katharina Moch ring

 Mercedes Castro Corbat necklace

Lauren Tickle  « $65.00 US Dollars », Currency Converted Brooch - US Currency, Silver, Latex, surgical steel, and Monofilament
2013

Lauren Tickle - earrings

Rachel Timmins brooch for « suspended in green »

Macula : broche de Maria Solorzano

Kelly Munro – 2013

Hilde de Decker (catalogue de « Suspended in green« )

Felix Gill

Frédérique Coomans « architextiles » -wood + cotton (knitting) 2013

OH! by Roseanne Bartley

Jorge Manilla at  ‘suspended in green’

« Illuminate it  » neckpiece by Zoe Robertson Created for Suspended in Green

 

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V&V Gallery

Bauernmarkt 19
1010 Wien (Vienna, Austria)
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Eva GIRBES in black & white

Eva Girbes - Spain, Barcelona, Escola Massana -

« The wearer completes the meaning of my pieces by asking themselves what they are or what they could be. As a jeweller I find human intelligence impressive. I admire the subtlety of relations and the connection between shape and utility. That is what I explore in my work, besides ornamenting the body I would like to give the wearer an identity. The fact that these pieces have a portable size  may make the observer think about tools , but they are not, they are something else …   » (Marzee graduation show 2012)

Recibió el premio Marzee con su proyecto final  » Primitivo despertar » 2012

Eva Girbes - primitivo despertar – broche – 2012 – alpaca y madera torneada.

Primitivo despertar. Diálogo entre lo que es y puede llegar a ser.

Colección elaborada como proyecto final de C.F.G.S JOIERIA ARTÍSTICA -Escola Massana – El material es alpaca y madera torneada.

Búsqueda de conexión con los orígenes, con la primera piedra que fue tratada como herramienta. Con las posibilidades que esta ofrecía a la persona para adaptarse al medio y transformarlo en cierta manera.
Juill. 2012

« Esta magia que está en la raíz misma de la existencia humana, que da una conciencia de impotencia y a la vez de poder, que hace sentir miedo de la naturaleza y a la vez desarrolla la capacidad de controlarla, es la esencia misma del arte. El primer constructor de instrumentos, el primer hombre que dio forma a una piedra para ponerla al servicio del hombre, fue el primer artista. (…)el que dio un nombre a los objetos fue también un gran artista. (p.37. La necesidad del arte). »
« Trabajo el imaginario colectivo siguiendo un proceso intuitivo. Para mi es muy impor-tante tener en cuenta el destinatario.
Es la mirada ajena la que completa la obra al cuestionarse lo que lo que son o lo que 
puede llegar a ser.
Como joyera, me parece sublime la inteligencia humana, la inteligencia de las relaciones, las conexiones mentales entre forma y uso. Y es justamente eso lo que más me interesa que surja de mi obra, aparte de embellecer al usuario y aportarle una identidad.
Busco una conexión con los orígenes, con la primera piedra que fue tratada como herramienta. Con las posibilidades que esta ofrecía a la persona para adaptarse al medio y transformarlo en cierta manera. 
Primitivo es aquel o aquello que no tiene ni toma origen de otra cosa, que se trata por lo tanto de alguien o algo que esta vinculado a los orígenes.
Los utensilios, la magia que les rodea en cuanto a sus posibilidades de funcionamiento, es uno de mis referentes más claros en la obra.  No hago herramientas ni utensilios, son formas que inconscientemente se asocian a estos términos.Y eso es justamente lo que más me atrae del arte. El punto donde el espectador aporta su visión y transforma la obra. »

Eva Girbes – primitivo despertar – 2012 – broche

Eva Girbes – primitivo despertar – 2012 – broche worn

Eva Girbes - primitivo despertar – 2012 – broche

Eva Girbes  Brooch: 01 EG 2012  Nickel silver, wood

Eva Girbes – herramientas de l’olvido -juill. 2012 -  broche – Broches de Alpaca, madera torneada, plata y porcelana- 2012

« Entes posibles afloran de la mirada interior, donde lo inconsciente se manifiesta. Dejando volar la imaginación, el detalle puede ser una  historia. « 

Eva Girbes – Spain, Barcelona, Escola Massana – Primative awake / Primitivo despertar, 2012, brooch, alpacca, wood turning – 165 x 50 x 15 mm –

« The wearer completes the meaning of my pieces by asking themselves what they are or what they could be. As a jeweller I find human intelligence impressive. I admire the subtlety of relations and the connection between shape and utility. That is what I explore in my work, besides ornamenting the body I would like to give the wearer an identity. The fact that these pieces have a portable size  may make the observer think about tools , but they are not, they are something else …  » (Marzee graduation show2012)

Eva Girbes - LO IMPOSIBLE – « Joyas Sensacionales 2013″

EXPO ‘EN-CON-TRES’ – Sala Perill, Barcelona (ES) – 30 Janv.-1er Mars 2014

Joyas Sensacionales :  « EN-CON-TRES« , the first Exhibition at the Sala Perill with Eva Girbes, Stéphanie Barbié and Edu Tarín

From January 30 until March 1, 2014    •   Opening: Thursday, 30 January 2014, 7:30 pm

El próximo 30 de enero se inaugura la Sala Perill, una nueva propuesta de programación de exposiciones que se desarrollará en el anterior espacio « La Mirada Expandida », generosamente cedido por la pintora y escritora Antonia Cortijos al grupo « Joyas Sensacionales » coordinado por Silvia Walz en conexión con el Taller Perill.
La idea es organizar muestras y actividades con la clara intención de difundir y hacer más visible la joyería contemporánea como lenguaje artístico, planteando diferentes encuentros entre joyeros y también en colaboración con artistas de otras disciplinas.
La temporada empieza con la exposición del trabajo de tres joyeros en esta primera propuesta de « En-con-tres« : Eva Girbes, Stéphanie Barbié i Edu Tarín

Edu Tarín • Brooch: « Antípoda 3″ • Copper, gold and brass • 2014 • ©phot. by Manuel Ocaña Mascaro

 

Sala Perill

C/Avinyó 46, Principal 2ª,

Barcelona