EXPO « KGB » – Four Gallery, Göteborg (Sweden) – 28 fevr-29 mars 2014

at Four KGB: Kim Buck, Tore Svensson & Karin Seufert -

Welcome to the opening at Four Friday February 28, 17.00-21.00

Friday 21st, 13.00 Karin Seufert will make a lecture at HDK – University of Arts and Crafts and Design, please mail [e-mail] for more detailed information

Kim Buck, Tore Svensson and Karin Seufert are three of the most prominent artists of the modern jewellery scene. With experience from long careers they stay in the frontline and continue to develop the genre with an impressive creativity and craftsmanship. The exhibition KGB was shown for the first time in Copenhagen and after the show in Gothenburg it will open at Gallery Martina Dempf in Berlin.

Tore Svensson, tube Ring, 2012 - Steel, Paint, Etched – Fired with linseed oil

Tore Svensson Box Brooch

Karin Seufert brooch – pvc, paper, silver, steel – 2010

Kim Buck – « It is no use crying over »-ring 750 gold :: 2008

 

 

Four

Nordhemsgatan 74,

Göteborg – Sweden

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EXPO ‘Märta Mattsson: Rebirth’ – Four, Göteborg (Sweden) – 24 Sept.-15 Oct. 2011

Four is proud to present jewellery artist Märta Mattsson. Her exceptional skill to find balance on the edge between the beautiful and the disgusting has made her work well known internationally.

« Sometimes I see beauty in things that other people find strange or are even repulsed by. I become fascinated when there is something you do not want to see and the feeling you get when you do not want to look at something, yet you still do. My jewellery deals with the tension that lies between attraction and repulsion. I take seemingly inappropriate materials, making ordinary and familiar objects seem extraordinary and unfamiliar.« Märta Mattsson

In the 18th century many new breeds of animals and plants were discovered and it was the main era of cabinets of curiosities. People collected rarities because it gave them the feeling of being in the presence of something extraordinary and marvellous. The cabinets of curiosities were not meant to sympathize with the creatures on display, only marvel over their oddity. In a world where not many new and exotic breeds are discovered I use dead creatures in my pieces to evoke wonder. The creatures are transformed and reborn; given a new life as objects of astonishment.

Märta Mattsson – Brooch: Fossil 2011 – Cicadas, crushed copper ore, azurit and malakit, silver, From the series ‘Fossil’

Märta Mattsson – Fossil Brooch – Moths, crushed copper ore, azurit, resin, silver – From the series ‘Fossil’

Märta Mattsson – earrings From the series ‘Inside’ – Copper electroformed beetle, cubic zirconias, lacquer, silver

Märta Mattsson – brooch: Brown ‘beetle’ From the series ‘Inside’ – 2011 – Electroformed Rhino beetle, lacquer, cubic zirconias, silver

Märta Mattsson – necklace Fossil 2011 – crushed pyrite, resin, cicadas, silver, From the series ‘Fossil’

 

 

Four
Nordhemsgatan 74
41309 – Göteborg
Sweden
website: www.foursweden.com
mail: [e-mail]

EXPO ‘Four: One of a Kind’ – Four, Göteborg (Sweden) – 3-18 Sept. 2011

Four is turning one year old. It has been a year full of experiences, new acquaintances and a lot of jewellery.  To celebrate we are showing 10 rings made by 10 jewellers especially for this occasion.

Welcome to celebrate our birthday with us.

 

Participants:
Lisa Björke, Linnea Eriksson, Ellen Jacobsen Holvik, Hanna Liljenberg, Malin Lövgren, Nina Mårtensson, Pernilla Persson, Anna Rongedal, Karin Roy Andersson, Sanna Svedestedt

Linnea Eriksson – ring: Spread 2011 – Steel, silver, spray paint

Karin Roy Andersson – ring: Matrix 2011 – Silver, titanium

Hanna Liljenberg – ring 2011 – Iron 

 

Four
Nordhemsgatan 74
41309 – Göteborg
Sweden
website: www.foursweden.com
mail: [e-mail]

EXPO ‘FOUR Escapes’ – Lilla Galleriet, Klädesholmen (Sweden) – 2-3 Juill. 2011

Summer is here – time for escapes
Lilla Galleriet was founded in  2009 by Lisa Holvik and has since then regularly been showing exhibitions. Klädesholmen is situated north of Göteborg. It is a beautiful island with its characteristic penurious west coast scenery.
Changing location, breaking the everyday rhythm – getting exposed to unfamiliar situations and aesthetics. For a routine addicted person like me this can, at first, be quite frightening but once the first few steps are taken; there is nothing like a short escape.

- Karin Roy Andersson :
« I want to captivate the magic in nature forms by creating a space in between and inside of my jewellery. By repeating small pieces, like microscopic cells, I build structures and miniatures of nature »

- Malin Lövgren :
« Inspired by the beautiful brutality of nature I want to give shape to my own growth. A paper made vegetation to put on your body. I see a beauty in being able to give my time to this fragile and ordinary material and make it into something present and portable. »

 

Participants:
Ellen Jacobsen Holvik – Hanna Liljenberg — Malin Lövgren — Karin Roy Andersson

 

Hanna Liljenberg - brooch: Paper Work 2011Paper, silver, steel

Hanna Liljenberg -  Pieces of sleep

Hanna Liljenberg -   brooch

Malin Lövgren – ‘captivate’

Karin Roy Andersson-  ‘bomb’  rings, silver, pearlsilk

Karin Roy Andersson- Black Creature, bracelet, silver, titanium

Karin Roy Andersson- Chaos II, necklace, silver, pearl thread

Ellen Jacobsen Holvik  – In my dreams – 2010

Ellen Jacobsen Holvik  -Air – 2010 – Rings and pendants in blackburned iron and enamel.

 

 

 

 

Lilla Galleriet
Skomakaregatan 33
471 51 – Klädesholmen
Sweden
Telephone: [phone]

COUP de COEUR : Malin LÖVGREN

Malin LÖVGREN
HDK konsthantverk (Université de Göteborg, Suede) – smyckekonst (section bijou)
« Une réunion, un événement, un moment qui est passé, tout cela sont des mots. Les mots sont souvent les pensées et les réflexions sur notre existence. Préoccupations qui forment souvent la base de mon travail.  Il s’agit de savoir qui je suis, d’où je viens, où je vais, ce que je fais, à voir et à faire preuve de vigilance. Je suis à la recherche d’un équilibre entre le matériel et le mental, le poétique et le fonctionnel. Mes bijoux sont conçus pour le corps et le porteur. Cela parle de la répétition, des roulements et des dimensions qui composent l’ensemble.  »
quels matériaux utilisez-vous ?
« Je travaille avec des bas de nylon, de l’argent, de la porcelaine, et des perles.« 

Elle fait partie du groupe « FOUR »

Malin Lövgren, Ring – silver – 2011

Malin Lövgren – Brooch

EXPO ‘Utställning – Verket’ – FOUR, Göteborg (Sweden) – 30 avril-4 juin 2011

Four presenterar Pernilla Persson och Sanna Svedestedt smyckekonstnärer från Verket

(Pernilla Persson necklace ‘Skelett’ 2011 Steel, silver)

Sanna Svedestedt- hair jewelry- Bangle ‘Fashionista wrap around’ 2011 Synthetic fibers, laquer
Sanna Svedestedt- hair jewelry- Bangle ‘Fashionista’ 2011 Synthetic fibers, laquer

Pernilla Persson (from HDK school)

Pernilla Persson

Pernilla Persson- 2011

 

Four
Nordhemsgatan 74
Göteborg, Sweden

EXPO ‘Jewellery Artist Lisa Björke’ – Four, Gothenburg (Sweden) – 4 Fevr.-19 Mars 2011

Four presenterar stolt smyckekonstnären Lisa Björke. I februari visar vi « Where dreams belong…« , Lisa Björkes Masterarbete från Konstfack från 2010. Vi startar med Vernissage fredag 4/2 16.00-20.00. Varmt välkomna!

 

 

«  Imagination, fantasy, make believe, dreams, day dreams, there is several thing we can call the world we have inside our mind…. something that we all experience individually but that we can recognize universally when seen in a scenery in theater, movies and pictures and so forth.
My work is about the balance or unbalance between the real and the fantasy. The pieces can be seen as a micro cosmos on the border, they represent a portal to either of the two worlds: the real or the fantasy land.
The pieces can be seen as characters in a play in an unexciting reality; they belong in the same family but play different parts. If this was a fairy tale who would be the evil stepmother and who would be the hero saving them all from despair?
Whatever part they are playing I want them to be on the borderline where jewelery ends and imagination begins…
Jewelery can be a portal to journeys within the mind, as we can say the beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder we might as well say the journey will be in the mind of the same.
Maybe they didn’t grow out of my hand, but out from a dream in to a scenery where they seem to belong. Are they what they look like, or do they keep a secret inside, are they what the hole was in Alice in wonderland or the closet in Narnia, the portal to a surreal world?? I sure hope so…..
Only if I dare crossing the border, drop the control, I can start a travel within the mind, in a land where reality and dream blend in with each other and the order of things is subverted and unpredictable and you are invited to come along. » (Lisa Björke about « Where dreams belong…« )

 

Four
Nordhemsgatan 74
Gothenburg, Sweden
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EXPO ‘Hanna Liljenberg’ – FOUR Gallery, Gothenburg, Suede – 5 Nov.-12 Dec. 2010

FOUR Presents Hanna Liljenberg
We´ll show new pieces in the gallery and new jewellery in the store

Wine and beer !

Trois merveilles blanches ……………

Brosch. Paper and oxidized silver

Brosch. Taguanut and iron

 

 

FOUR Gallery
Nordhemsgatan 74
Gothenburg, Sweden

« FOUR »… à ne pas confondre avec les trois Mousquetaires qui étaient 4 eux aussi !

« FOUR » … à ne pas confondre avec les trois Mousquetaires, qui étaient quatre …. Là elles s’appellent « Four », et elles sont bien quatre, quatre créatrices de bijoux suédoises : Hanna Liljenberg, Karin Roy Andersson, Malin Lövgren, Ellen Jacobsen Holvik.

 

Dans leur « Jewellery Art shop/workingspace/gallery« , elles représentent aussi  les artistes suivants : Rouge Jewellery — Linnéa Eriksson — Pernilla Persson — Sanna Svedestedt — Aor Sutthiprapha — Märta Mattsson — Modefluga — Marc Monzo — Saako

fabric necklace

 

 

 

FOUR : Jewellery Art shop/workingspace/gallery
Nordhemsgatan 74
Gothenburg (Göteborg) – Suede
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http://www.foursweden.com/