EXPO ‘ARTornamento 2010′ – Alternatives Gallery, Rome (Italy) – 23 Sept.-15 Oct. 2010

 

« The sixth edition of the exhibition ArtOrnamento will present 10 ex-students from the school Alchimia in Florence, one of the best contemporary jewellery schools on an international level. Alchimia represents excellence in innovation in the sector, but is at the same time a place for the conservation and study of ancient goldsmith techniques.
The 10 participants in this year’s exhibition have gained their formation experience through the qualified supervision of the most renowned artists worldwide.
The selected pieces will investigate the close relationship between body and object, by means of a new interpretation of the concept of personal adornment.
The exhibition aims to create a contact between the public and the makers, so as to investigate the result of their research. This is a first important appointment that intends to offer a view on the new frontiers that contemporary jewellery creation is facing.
This year Alternatives has initiated a competition that involves the acquisition of a piece of jewellery that will go to form a new permanent collection dedicated to research jewellery. « 

 

Represented artists : 
Ana Catalina Brenes, Costa Rica  –  Isabel Dammermann, Germany — Joanne Huang Shi-Ping, Australia/Taiwan — Eugenia Ingegno, Italy — Sayaka Ito, Japan –  Anastasia Kandaraki, Greece — Ting-Chun Ara Kuo, Taiwan — Maria Eugenia Lopez, Puerto Rico — Malaika Najem, Spain — Selen Özus, Turkey – Elinor de Spoelberch, Belgium

 

Isabel Dammermann (Alchimia 2007-2010) brooch, silver, shell

« To this artist, jewellery is a journey through material and form. It tells a story of its own, while following curiosity. The pieces are unique in their forms and combine fragments of the past with elements of the present.« 

Catalina Brenes  (Alchimia 2007-2010) brooch
« This artist has an evident disposition to make pieces that grow into multiplying elements. She inherited this from her home culture, a country where the need for company and fraternity influences ones outlook on many aspects of life. The search for balance and tranquility is a constant. A quest to evoke timelessness.« 

JOANNE HUANG SHU-PING (Alchimia 2008-2010) ring

« In the pieces entitled ‘Cover and Discover’, this artist uses contradiction as expression in her works. Showing an element or covering it up, using the materials to express this and transforming them into works of art. »

Anastasia Kandaraki -  Mokume School, Athens

« Continuous research, as a means of escaping. Searching for another type of language to express herself, searching a symmetry inside something asymmetric, searching for an internal balance.« 
Sayaka Ito (JP) (Alchimia 2008-2010)

« This artist is curious about what is inside things that we see. Visually, only the outside of objects can been seen, but often there is more than what the eye can visually see. This brings her to imagine what lies beyond. Similarly, this concept can also be applied to people. Our actions are supported by our body, but come from within. « 

Selen Özus (TR)
« It is evident when looking at the works of this artist that she lets emotion and spontaneity guide her work.« 

 

Alternatives Gallery
Via d’Ascanio, 19 (Via della Scrofa)
00186 – Roma (Italia)
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JOYA 2010 Barcelona – ALCHIMIA presents its students – 16-17-18 Sept 2010

 Alchimia student’s work will be at JOYA

ALCHIMIA – School of contemporary jewellery -
Sera présente à JOYA Barcelona 2010

ALCHIMIA, escuela de joyería contemporánea de Florencia, está ubicada en el distrito de Oltrarno, un barrio que desde el medievo se ha caracterizado por sus talleres artesanos. Esta ubicación es muy relevante para una escuela que entre sus objetivos se encuentra la unión entre el aprendizaje y el conocimiento de las técnicas de los joyeros tradicionales mediante la búsqueda y la experimentación de ambas materias y el estrato conceptual de todo proceso creativo.
Alchimia se ha erigido como el mayor referente en joyería contemporánea tanto en Italia como en Europa. La importancia de generar un ambiente agradable entre profesores y alumnos ha auspiciado resultados de mucha calidad, cuya excelencia ha recibido numerosos reconocimientos internacionales.

Alchimia, school of contemporary jewellery in Firenze, is based in the Oltrarno part of Florence, a district of fine artisans’ workshops since Medieval times. This setting is important for a school that has among its goals to connect learning and knowledge about traditional goldsmiths’ techniques with research and experimenting on both subjects and the conceptual substrate of the creative process.
Alchimia has established itself as a major point of reference for contemporary jewellery-making both in Italy and in Europe. The importance of generating the right atmosphere between teachers and students has produced results of a very high quality, with peaks of excellence made evident by many international prized acknowledgements.

 

Estudiantes representados por la escuela ALCHIMA / Represented students :
Selen Ozus (Turquía, 1983), Anastasia Kandaraki (Grecia, 1983), Malaika Najem (Francia – Líbano, 1989), Ana Catalina Brenes Pozuelo (Costa Rica, 1983), Isabel Dammermann (Alemania, 1985), Shu Ping Joanne Huang (Corea del Sur, 1979), Sayaka Ito (Japón, 1979), Ting-Chun Ara Kuo (Corea del Sur, 1985) y María Eugenia López (Puerto Rico, 1975).

Shu Ping Joanne Huang

Sayaka Ito

Selen Ozus

María Eugenia López

Malaika Najem

Anastasia Kandaraki

Catalina Brenes

Isabel Dammermann 

 

JOYA :  FAD, Plaza dels Angels 6-5, 08001 Barcelona

 

ALCHIMIA
Piazza Piattellina 3/R 50124 Firenze Italy
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« PORTRAITS en PIEDs » – « WHO IS THIS JEWELLER ? «

« appel du pied » !        Hey !! ALL of  YOU, JEWELERS !!!
j’ai remarqué que vous aimiez bien prendre … votre PIED !! ou en tout cas des photos de vos pieds !! je voulais faire un « bobinoscope » des créateurs sur mon blog, je vais faire un « pied-de-nez_OH!_scope » !! ENVOYEZ-MOI vos photos en PIEDS !!!!
I saw that you like to take pictures of your feet … so instead of publishing your faces on my blog, to allow people to know « WHO IS THIS JEWELLER ? », I will publish … your feet ! please SEND ME YOUR FEET’s pictures !!   (cet article reste sur le « pied de guerre » !! tout pied est constamment la bienvenue pour augmenter la galerie de portraits ! all « feet’s portrait is anytime welcomed, to increase this picture’s gallery !!!)(summertime is crazy-time, isnt’it ?)

Sylvie Jousset … les doigts de pieds en éventail ! – … et un des ses bijoux (bracelet) – c’est ce qui s »appelle « faire des pieds et des mains » !

Alina Alamorean … c’est le pied (sexy) ! ….. & deux de ses bagues sculpture

Augousta Themistokleous (CY) – une des ses bagues ….. et rougir de plaisir de la tête aux pieds !

ALCHIMIA Jewellery School – là, c’est l’ecole ALCHIMIAde pied … sans cap ! )
mais comment (re)trouver chaussure (créateur)  à son pied ???!!
Sur cette photo : Marianne Casmose Denning (DK), Angela O’Keefe (UK) , Camilla Teglio (IT), Doris Maninger (AT), Eun jea, Marina Elenskaya (RU), Katie Gruber(UK) , Eugenia Ingegno (IT) , Michelle Kraemer (LX)!!!!!!!!!

Marianne Casmose Denning (DK) — Marina Elenskaya (RU) 

Angela O´Keefe (UK) – Rings Untitled 2009 – Diverse materials
Michelle Kraemer (Luxembourg) – brooch

Katie Gruber (UK) – Necklace: Untitled 2009 – Diverse materials

Viktoria Münzker (left), Michelle Kraemer – Viktoria Münzker « C’mon ring » – C’mon !!

UIUC Metals School -  Sur cette photo : Billie Theide (on left) , Kristi Wilson , Eun Yeong Jeong (en bas, celle qui « pointe » tout le monde du pied !), Soyeon Kim (à droite chaussure brune), Keri Kwik (la « nouvelle » à la chaussure rouge !)

Eun Yeong Jeong – ‘vessels of life – growth ‘
Soyeon Kim- Sensual Elegance, 2009 - fine silver, glass, red and pink coral, traditional chain making technique

Keri Kwik (US) – ring – une NOUVELLE découverte ! quel … PIED !!
Billie Theide necklace

avec Hanna Hedman ai perdu (son) pied !! reste plus qu’un doigt ….   - necklace

Susanne Klemm (CH) – « Beach’s feet » !   - … et FABULEUX collier !

 Gary Schott - ‘impatient shoes’, brooch – and IMPATIENT to find a MAN’s foot !!!!!!!!!

Heidemarie Herb - ‘my herbs’ ring

Marta Miguel Martínez-Soria – ‘primeros pasos’ … pour ses chaussettes vertes ou pour son collier ?

 
Galatée Pestre - ses pieds parlent pour elle ! -  broches ‘bulles’ de BD

Aude Médori (FR)- De cette nécessité de mouvement et de la liberté qu’elle implique….

Barbara Paganin – bon… elle est partie en vacances …. – spilla ‘corallo nero’

Catalina Brenes &  Ara Kuo – high heels for graduation day !!

Ara Kuo. Ring ‘brush’, pearls gold

Catalina Brenes – feet’s fan !  « vieni qua » ring – zirconia, plata 925

Maru Lopez - pinky feminity ….. « telling stories » (necklace),  silver

Kathryn Wardill (AU)- 7 Sites, 7 Neckpieces – Studio Ingot6 – 21 Aug 2010 « Stairs of Passion »

Chryssa Damianidou (GR) (c’est ce qu’on appelle le « pied grec » !

Federico Vianello – un créateur tout en PIED ! ….. anello ‘piedi’… « hand made » !

Maricha Genovese (US) – “Diamond Ring” Ring: needle felted wool, thread, sterling silver  

Beth Legg (Scotland) -  larkspur and rosewood brooches

Mirla Fernandes – ….. ou faire des pieds et des mains !

Rachel Timmins – tired feet… after a Ruudt Peters’ workshop ! -silicon rubber bracelets

Corrado de MEO – qualè il gioiello ???

Montserrat Lacomba – ‘Too often we are late’… with our feet …- ‘Far away’ brooch – silver, copper, garnets (for me, Montserrat Lacomba is « Mrs mar de Color Rosa » !! )

une découverte !! (aujourd’hui 21 aout 2010, grâce à Montserrat Lacomba : tout ça pour vous dire que NON, je n’ai pas copié l’idée !) ! lesecond blog deDominika Naborowska : promenades vue(s) des pieds  !!!

Genne Laakso -  « au pied levé ….  » neoprene ‘O’ rings, sterling silver, fishing line, latex, fish hooks, copper, steel, 2009. NJB Photography

Silvina Rio – broche ‘lo invisible’

Daniela Hedman

Agnes Figueres   (du groupe « Bijou5″)- en vert et contre tout ! bague en matériaux de récupération, ligne ‘pétillante’

Tiina Rajakallio – « mini vacations » for feet ! -  necklace 

Patricia Lemaire …qui m’a fait « faire le pied de grue« … pendant qu’elle était « au vert… - ‘Grand Jardin’ maillechort et … (Hte couture – 1998 - pièces conçues et réalisées pour Olivier Lapidus)

Manolya Konuk- comment, au pied levé, faire « pieds » ET « mains » ! bracelet ‘semainier’

Chiara Trentin – piedi « Romani » ! è collana ecobottoni

Frédérique Trinchese – pieds …. cousu(s) main ! Bague/pendentif Cannette

Poly Nikolopoulou

Discrets, les pieds des « FOUR » ! – « FOUR » are the jewelry artists: Hanna Liljenberg, Karin Roy Andersson, Malin Lövgren, Ellen Jacobsen Holvik, from Sweden

Nadine Abdallah – son pied … et ses « poissons-bijoux » en galets

Rosanna RO (« Niiro Jewelry« ) -  pieds d’hiver & Entangled wire necklace

et … TA-DAAM ! mon pied ! et un des bracelets de « charms » que je fais & qui racontent chacun une histoire. Ici « La vie en rouge », excessive ….

BON ! Maintenant, vous savez à quoi ressemblent « vos » créateurs ??!!??
Now you KNOW what your favourite jewellers look like !!

EXPO ‘Abwandlungen, Umwandlungen, Verwandlungen’ – Galerie V&V, Wien (Austria) – 14 Juill.-16 Sept. 2010

‘Abwandlungen, Umwandlungen, Verwandlungen’  (modifications, transformations)

SCHMUCK AUS DER ALCHIMIA IN FLORENZ / bijoux des élèves/créateurs de l’Ecole Alchimia de Florence (Italie)

(bijou Doris Maninger)

Works by : Doris Maninger, Maru Lopez (P.Rico), Marianne Denning (DK), Joanne Huang (Taiwan), Geri Nishi (CA), Daniela Bensason (IL), Coco Dunmire (US), Camilla Teglio (IT), Ara Kuo (Taiwan).

Doris Maninger- « walls » – two brooches – foam, resin, paper  silver

Coco Dunmire -  Resin Collection – The Captive Ring, 2008  – Resin, Pigment, Iron
Coco Dunmire -The Cypress Tree – Ring – 2009 – Resin, Iron, Silver 925

Ara Kuo – rings

Camilla Teglio – collana ‘laces and colors’ -  legno/wood, fimo, colore, perle, argento

Maru Lopez (P.Rico) – broche

 

 

Galerie V&V

Bauernmarkt 19 (unter der Ankeruhr)

1010 Wien (Austria)

www.kunstnet.or.at/V+V

 

 

EXPO ‘Spring’ gallery Sofie Lachaert, Tielrode (BE) – 21 mars-9 mai 2010

« SPRING*«  is an exhibition with sparkling, new work of upcoming talents.
Small objects and experiments with new techniques, with unknown materials, holding a world of imagination. A glimpse of poetry and fairytales.

exposants :  Catalina BRENES – Isabel DAMMERMANN – Elinor DE SPOELBERCH – Daniela FIESELER – Anna FROHN -  Bettina GÖTSCH – Birgit HAGMANN – Isabelle HERTZEISEN – Leonore JOCK – Ting-Chun Ara KUO – Momoko KUMAI – Thanh-Truc NGUYEN – Nikolay SARDAMOV – Isabell SCHAUPP -  Munsun SCHUMACHER – Angelina TSVETKOVA – Misun WON

Isabell Schaupp (DE) – brooch, silver, coral

Ting-Chun Ara KUO (Taiwan) - Ring „brush“, pearls gold

Birgit Hagmann (DE) – necklace – silver

« This work is based on drawing. Using the wire, the drawing is transformed into a three-dimensional space. Crystalline-organic structures come to life and become jewellery. » (Birgit Hagmann (Germany))

Leonore Jock       –       Bettina Götsch

Elinor de Spoelbergh (BE) collier cuir  –  Momoko Kumai (Japan)- paper necklace

« I use tactile material to create jewellery that evokes a spectrum of memories and address inner landscapes in my mind. I fold, twist and roll paper using my hands, at times unconsciously. The uneven layers of texture emerge from light and shadow, conveying emotions of permanence to impermanence that reflect the ephemeral breath of nature with its fragility. » Momoko Kumai (Japan)

Isabell Dammermann  –    Isabell SCHAUPP- Brooch

Isabelle Hertzeisen (CH) – Necklace rubber, silver

« Structures, accumulations, duality and tension between the different materials.« (Isabelle Hertzeisen (CH) )

Nicolay Sardamov. Brooch, “The secret of the garden“, gold.

Thanh-Truc Nguyen -  Brooch, silver, textiles.
« Following a fascination, personal impressions and emotions, and translate them into tangible forms. For me it is important not to merely copy already existing forms, but instead to portray my own perceptions as they are through my eyes.
While working with textiles I create new possibilities within my working process. Qualities like elasticity and translucence begin to emerge and play an important role in my work. Voluptuous shapes come to life through colour and filling, whose soft curves remind me of cherry-blossoms. The material hold an innumerable number of small pearls tightly together like a warm embrace. The forms and the sensibility of the material evoke emotions in the viewer and give the pieces sensuality and a sense of life. In the same way that one would handle a cherryblossom, the pieces should be handled delicately as the fragile objects they are« ( Thanh-Truc Nguyen (Germany))

 

 

Gallery Sofie Lachaert
st. jozefstraat 30
B-9140 Tielrode(Belgium)
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closed on 2,3,4 april