EXPO ‘Materia e colore’ – Studio GR20, Padova (Italie) – 16 avril-15 mai 2010

Gioielleria Contemporanea – Materia e colore / Material and Colour
Omaggio a Sandra Marconato
……. quando la sostanza incide sulla forma e diventa arte

Artists: Karl Fritsch, Bussi Buhs, Beppe Kessler, Annamaria Zanella, Barbara Paganin, Stefano Marchetti, Iris Eichenberg, Ruudt Peters, Lam de Wolf, Robert Smit, Isabella Facco, Silvia Walz, Lisa Walker, Fritz Maierhofer, Fabrizio Tridenti, Sandra Marconato.

« The exhibition focuses on a phenomenon which, originating from artistic experimentation in the 1990s, has gradually outlined itself more clearly in the first decade of this century. Organic, mineral and artificial matter now has a central role : it bears creative stimuli associated with the analysis of its own specificity, which gives rise to fantastic, symbolistic and naturalistic formulations. All materials may be subjected to examination, which inspires free, unregulated schemes devoid of preconstituted ideas. Artists like Karl Fritsch, Bussi Buhs, Beppe Kessler, Annamaria Zanella, Barbara Paganin and Stefano Marchetti in his recent works elaborate images that are profoundly affected by transformations and pulsations of matter which their own rules and energy set into motion. Other artists, such as Iris Eichenberg, Ruudt Peters, Lam de Wolf and Robert Smit choose very different materials: they combine metals with wood, paint, fabric, glass and minerals – the latter in their morphological entirety – and join them with conceptual and symbolic associations related to individualistic representations and esoteric, mythological and historical expressions. Still others convey their messages through objects – sometimes selected as true objets trouvés – the assemblage of which becomes installation-jewellery: such are the works by Isabella Facco, Silvia Walz and Lisa Walker. Lastly, there are artists who have skilfully associated their experience with images defined both by geometric elaborations and by mechanical constructions, like Fritz Maierhofer and Fabrizio Tridenti. Recalling the great Minimalist and Constructivist movements, they carry out experiments with materials that give them freedom of expression: Maierhofer uses Corian, a plastic substance, and Tridenti upsets perfect mechanisms by introducing rust, paints and pigments that jeopardise their functional structures. The exhibition also displays Bussi Buhs’s sculptures and one of Barbara Paganin’s installations.
With this exhibition, Studio GR.20 aims at emphasising the importance of substance over form, and in this context pays homage to Sandra Marconato. The artist uses evanescent materials like gauze, paper, tempera and acrylics to create sculptures and installations that the Paduan public already admired at exhibitions in the Palazzo della Ragione (16th Biennale del Bronzetto e Piccola Scultura, Padua, 1995) and at the Museum of Palazzo del Monte (anthological exhibition, 1996). «   (Graziella Folchini Grassetto)

Fabrizio Tridenti – Spilla, “Limited area”, argento, ferro zincato, vernice acrilica. 2009
Iris Eichenberg – Spilla, “New Rooms”, argento, rame, legno, smalto. 2008
Karl Fritsch – Anello, argento ossidato. 2005

Bussi Buhs – ‘Apsu’

Lam de Wolf - neckpiece 1981-82 – Cane, cloth strips, ribbons; wrapped, tied

Fritz Maierhofer - ring -  corian

Silvia Walz - brooch  ‘Series Dolly’ 2002 – Silver, textile, plastic, paper

Lisa Walker – necklace ‘Stuffed Animal’ 2008  Stuffed animals, thread

Stefano Marchetti - brooch 2007

 

Beppe Kessler – Brooch: Hematite 1997 – wood, textile, acrylic, graphite, hematite

 

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Graziella Folchini Grassetto
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35122 – Padova (Italy )
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EXPO ‘Alternatives of textile jewellery’ – Galerie V & V, Vienne/Wien 24 janv – 9 mars 2010

GALERIE V & V

Vienne (Autriche) du 24 janvier  au  09 mars 2010
Bijoux textile – textile jewelry

« This exhibition shows a variety of current artistic attitudes, techniques and materials in visual arts that make up textile jewels. Trying to define textile jewels is getting pretty hard but this exhibition has the ambition to give it a try as well as to enhance the development of textile jewellery. … Modern jewellery develops from its originally purely decorative function to an autonomous artistic expression. The jewel turns into a statement of the artist and into an interconnection with the customer.

Nowadays, jewel-makers combine precious and ordinary materials and often use the « soft » material of textile or soften the hard metal by applying textile techniques, by sewing or plaiting etc.

The exhibiting artists converted textile jewels into an artistic expression and thus their works of art can be seen within important collections in museums across the world where you can admire the works of famous artists like Beppe Kessler from the Netherlands, Verena Sieber-Fuchs from Switzerland or Elisabeth Krampe and Ines Schwotzer from Germany. The exhibition also presents the works of the emerging generation with their fresh input and masterful techniques. »  ( Source: Press release)

participants : ISA BAUMGARTEN, A  – BLANKA CEPKOVÁ, SK -  SILVIA FEDOROVÁ, SK – URSULA GUTTMANN, A – TOMA J. HILGENFELD, D -  BEPPE KESSLER, NL – CHRISTINE KEYEUX, B -  ELISABETH KRAMPE, D  – CHRISTINA LEITNER, A -  Lubi_Hany ( Lubica Poncik, Hany Kašicková), SK -  IVETA MIHÁLIKOVÁ, SK -  FLOOR MOMMERSTEEG, NL -  KATARÍNA ONDREJKOVÁ, SK – RITA de OLIVEIRA RUIVO, PT -  LUBICA PONCIK, SK – INES SCHWOTZER, D – VERENA SIEBER–FUCHS, CH – BIRGIT SCHLARMANN, A  – TOTA RECICLADOS (Valeria Hasse, Marcella Muniz) AR -

Tota Reciclados – « Ugly birds »

Rita Ruivo – (j’ADORE !!!!) 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rita Ruivo – Jewellery in silver, velvet, synthetic fabrics, perspex, wrist watch bands, copper and beads

 

 

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