From Greece, I keep an EYE on you !!

charms, Fylaxta (amulets), ex-votos, little chapels, good luck evil eyes …… ALL for bringing you LUCK !
YES ! we are in Greece ……..
and I think of you, all my dear Greek jewellers, during the AJW !

Greek lucky blue eye keychain

Dora Haralambaki ceramic jewellery  – juin 2016 – Marita Amanatidou Photography

« Tree in Blossom » / Nefeli Karyofylli – necklace detail

Sofia Zarari Lucky charm

 Victoria Ioannidou, 2015 ,rings,bronze ,silver,burnt acrylics, oxidation.Series « EYE see you »

Nefeli Kariofilli / »Tree InBlossom » brooch

Maria Koutmani (KRAMA school) – « Glancing » / necklace bronze, paper mache, acrylics,plastic comb, rubber, silc wire, felt

 

Maro Vasiliadou - Necklace (2014). Photo by Contemporarty.com – Greek ex-votos

Maro Vasiliadou - ex-votos brooch

 Eleftheria Spantidaki – Fylaxta (means Amulets) Colored wire, silk fabric, glass beads

Xenia Deimezi Necklaces : greek chapels, 2015 Alpaca, clay, resin color, cotton thread 2.5 – 4.5 x 0.5 – 0.7 x 3.5 – 5.5 cm Photo by: Kazaglis Spiros 

 Xenia Deimezi. Brooch: greek chapels, 2015. Alpaca, color resin, plastc. 1.5 – 3 x 1.5 x 4 – 7 cm. Photo by: Kazaglis Spiros

 Poly Nikolopoulou – 2013 Charm. Necklace

 Loukia Richards -  Stitch ‘n bitch, avril 2011  @ The Theoharakis Foundation, Athens.  I will embroider a few ‘talismanic brooches’ during the meeting, so if you are curious to find out what I stuff them with, this is your chance.

 

 

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EXPO ‘JewelScapes’ – Estudio Gallery, Kifisiá (Athens)(Greece) – 27 Mai-4 Juin 2016

at Estudio Gallery : «JewelScapes» with Eleftheria Spantidaki

Textile landscapes -  Wearable landscapes

The artist Eleftheria Spantidaki in her third personal exhibition, presents for first time the comprehensive collection of wearable gardens and landscapes.
Eleftheria’s fantastic wearable gardens traveled twice to SCHMUCK International Jewellery Week and SIERAAD International Jewellery Art Fair in Amsterdam. Her work, ambassador of Greek landscape, the colors and the unique light, sent a message to visitors that despite the difficult everyday the future is bright, optimistic.

Eleftheria Spantidaki  HomyScapes, 2016

Eleftheria Spantidaki - Garden Imprints, 2015 Silk fabric, cotton treads

Eleftheria Spantidaki -jewelScapes -  « Mind the Stone » necklace, 2016 Bubble wrap, cotton treads, mossEleftheria Spantidaki  – detail  of « Mind the Stone » necklace

Eleftheria Spantidaki  – Eleftheria Spantidaki  » Live Outside the Box », 2016 Burlap, cotton treads, live mushrooms

 Eleftheria Spantidaki « Live Outside the Box » necklace – detail

Eleftheria Spantidaki Inside Blooming, 2015 Cotton and linen threads, Silk fabric

 

 

Estudio Gallery
22A, Kyriazi str.,
14562 Kephissia (Kifisiá, ATHENS), Greece
[phone]
[e-mail]://www.estudio.gr/

 

 

 

During SCHMUCK 2016 : EXPO ‘MYTHS 2016 – TEST DRIVE’ – Parked in front of Gallery Weltraum, Munich (DE) – 24 Fevr.-1er Mars 2016

MYTHS 2016 – TEST DRIVE 

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MYTHS is a series of jewellery art exhibitions to promote contemporary Greek design and culture.
MYTHS* shop revenues help us funding our projects including Artist Residencies and stipends, as well as Stray Animal projects in Greece.
MYTHS is curated by Loukia Richards and Christoph Ziegler.

Parked in front of Gallery Weltraum
Rumfordstraße 26, Munich

with:  Joanne Haywood (UK) — Judith Schwendener (NL) — Dita Antonopoulou (GR) — Lital Mendel  (IL) — Yolande Duchateau (BE) — Nolia Shakti (NL) — Anne Dinan (USA) — T-Squared (ISR) — Eugenia Feroussi (GR) –  Linda Savineau (BE) — Marion Delarue (FR) — EDELPLAST/Billie Van Nieuwenhuyzen (BE) — Kalliopi Andrikopoulou /Syn Apeiro (GR) — Juan Harnie (BE) — Thikwa Werkstatt für Theater und Kunst (DE) — Eleftheria Spantidaki (GR) — Martijntje Cornelia (NL) — Christoph Ziegler (DE) — Loukia Richards (GR/UK).

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 If you can check out how a car works, why not check out whether a piece of jewellery makes you look glamorous, popular, funny, sophisticated, attractive etc?
If the project works, it will open new ways to promote and sell jewellery and everybody in this business can profit from the experiment.
If it does not work, it will still be a charming utopian experiment to be remembered for years.
However, we think in a country like Germany with shared economy/swarming/DIY dominant in the public discourse the idea will work and  will sell.
More details on what exactly is Myths 2016-Test Drive soon. Stay tuned.

« Μyths 2016-Test Drive » have the honor and pleasure to announce its cooperation with PLATFORM Munich.
PLATFORM is a pilot project of the city of Munich, financed by the Department of Labor and Economic Development.
It offers space for cultural production, develops concepts for and with actors of the cultural and creative industries and builds new alliances between culture and business.
« Myths 2016 – Test Drive » is inspired by Share Economy, the discourse on saving energy and resources, as well as the change in consumption patterns in developped countries.
http://www.platform-muenchen.de

Christoph Ziegler.  Driver’s Heaven, 2015 -  Pendant with vintage chain. Materials: Recycled material, plastic, metal chain

Nolia Shakti – it-is-time-to-show-your-true-self

Nolia Shakti, « Object hanging »

Linda Savineau (BE) – Time+Deco

 Eleftheria Spantidaki. « Mind the Stone », 2016. Bubble wrap, cotton and linen threads, moss, burlap sack, glass beads Photo credit: Studio Kominis Athens

Edelplast / Billie Van Nieuwenhuyzen (BE). Bracelet

 Linda Savineau – « Balls »

Anne Dinan -  TEST her jewellery @ Myths 2016

Judith Schwendener (CH/NL) is a « Myths 2016 – Test Drive » participant

Anne Delarue (FR) is a participant of our « Myths 2016-Test Drive »

Loukia Richards

Yolande Duchateau, « Feathers ». Necklace made of recycled PE tubes, nylon, red coral and metal chain.

Nolia Shakti Necklace: Black Flowers, 2015 Nespresso capsules, gold plated metal, magnet 7 x 7 x 75 cm Photo by: Jeroen Calon From series: Throw Away Gold

Juan Harnie – Scar(r)ed – Brooch – 2015 - Syringes, steel, latex, thread

 

 

Parked in front of Gallery Weltraum
Rumfordstraße 26, Munich
24.02.2016 – 01.03.2016
14:00-20:00
www.myths2015.de
[e-mail]

 

 

EXPO ‘Human Touch’ – AS Gallery, Iraklion (Greece) – 3 Avril-15 Mai 2015

As gallery

HUMAN TOUCH – CONTEMPORARY JEWELLERY GROUP EXHIBITION

with : Anastasia Gemeliari  — Christina Karakalpaki — Christina Brampti — Barbara Perrakis – Agapi Smpokou –  Eleftheria Spantidaki

Eleftheria Spantidaki – Landmarks

Christina Brampti

Christina KarakalpakiCHAINED MELODY NECKLACE, LEATHER

Inspireme Ceramics (Anastasia Gemeliari) – porcelain brooch

Barbara Perrakis

 

AS Gallery- Agapi Smpokou
Psaromiligkon 9,
71202 Herákleion, Iraklion, Greece
Tel. [phone]
e-mail: [e-mail]

 

During SCHMUCK 2015 – EXPO ‘Mythen/Myths 2015′ – Galerie Weltraum, Munich (DE) – 11-17 Mars 2015

«Mythen/Myths 2015» A contemporary insight in precious Greece

Galerie Weltraum

Opening: 11 March, 7 – 10 p.m.

Sofia Zarari  -  « Chronos », 2013, Photo credit: Myrto Koutoul

Thirteen visual artists, architects and designers and four guest stars turn their daily experience in Greece into jewellery: family violence, mother’s Alzheimer, unconditional love, negation of death, bankruptcy, androgynous sexuality, Charlie hebdo’s impact on freedom of speech etc.
Exhibits make part of a sculptural, walk-in installation reminding of a broken ancient Greek temple or a human-sized trap, a double symbol for the Greek crisis. Daily art performances inspired by contemporary Greek culture reflect on archaic uses of jewellery.

« The Greek drama is taking place right now, almost a third of the young do not have a job, many people live hard lives. Their hardships can be connected to the suffering that heroes from the great Greek stories underwent. Our contemporary dramas both in world politics as in our personal lives resemble those tragedies described in the great Greek theater.
We lose a loved one, we encounter unfaithfulness, we are in warlike situations due to real war or we seem to be in a battle to keep our health or sanity and all of us cope with these things in different ways. All these themes are expressed in the great Greek myths. Every Greek is steeped in her or his heritage as I know from having travelled many times in Greece.
For the artists of this show their Greek background is a focal point that one can always go back to. In the jewelry and other art, made by the exhibiting artists the Greek myth has been an enormous rich well to draw from as you will see.  »
Marietta de Bruïne, Art historian, Amsterdam.

Artists: Katerina Glyka — Christina Karababa — Anna Kitsou –  Maro Kornilaki — Yakinthi Oikonomou — Sofia Paschou — Loukia Richards — Heleni Siousti — Margarita Skokou — Eleftheria Spantidaki — Systemalab (Sofia Daniilidou) — Konstantina Tzavidopoulou — Marianna Tzouti — Sofia Zarari

Guest artists: Eugenia Feroussi — Elina Kakourou — Katerina Kolonellou — Sofia Paschou.

Yakinthi Oikonomou, Bonds, 2014, Photo by Orestis Rovakis

Yakinthi Oikonomou  - »Tough love », Mixed technique, Canelloni, paper, silver, 2014 Photo credit: Orestis Rovakis

SYSTEMALAB Ring: Peristerionas 3D printed Rings, 2013 Photo by: SYSTEMALAB

Loukia Richards, « Pornogirls/Sirens », 2013 Photo credit: Christoph Ziegler

Anna Kitsou, “Kyklikos Chronos” (“Κυκλικός χρόνος”), 2012, Ρhoto credit: Giannis Seferos – Anna Kitsou’s reference to aesthetics can be traced back to the Neolithic settlements, the Acropolis of Tiryns with the Cyclopean Walls, the Cycladic idols or the harmonious aerial photographs of excavations.  Her jewellery reflects magic rituals and the hope of humankind that with fire, gemstones and knots can gain control over destiny. Long before the construction of houses, roads, airplanes or refrigerators, mortals created jewellery to give them strength to confront not only enemies of the terrestrial world, but also the demons from beyond.  Jewellery was a companion for eternity, emphasizing faith in immortality.
“Each piece is a journey through land, water and fire… My inspiration is the Earth, Greece and cultures,” says the young designer and ceramist.

Mix & match of shapes and materials by Maro Kornilakh

Heleni Siousti « Synapsis/Alzheimer ». Work in progress  2015 -

Helices or spirals are characteristic patterns of ancient Greek jewellery. They symbolize the moon, mazes, snails, snakes, ebb and flow, cyclical time, regeneration, perpetual motion, echo, appearance and disappearance, consciousness and unconsciousness, memory and oblivion, even the human brain itself.
The jewellery of Helen Siousti, often unfinished or imperfect, signifies memory fading away due to Alzheimer disease.
It illustrates the pain of those who, unable to act, watch their loved ones crossing the river of Lethe while being alive. Her pieces are relics of beautiful, powerful moments – the offspring of the unknown future and love.
Heleni Siousti uses her art to unite robust remembrances with glimpses of memory in an attempt to explain how fragile and vulnerable we become through the memory of what has been and will not be — no more.
She hauls childhood fears to the surface, fears which become alive as our parents walk slowly, but steadily, towards the dark forest of fairy tales while we – like helpless Hop-o’-My-Thumbs – have only crumbs in our pockets to help them trace the path leading back to us…
Heleni Siousti studied Economics in Athens and worked in the private sector. She is an acrtive member of the ecological movement in her home town Kozani in Macedonia.

Peace man!  -  Christina Karababa, « Bang-Bang 1″, 2014 Photo credit: Christina Karababa

and should god Hephaestus, the famous blacksmith of Olympus, continue making weapons and jewellery in his workshop, he would possibly use a 3D printer.
Renowned for its decoration and apotropaic/defensive perfection is the shield Hephaistos made for Achilles.
Bang bang!
The sound of the gun in comic strips suits the myth of revolutionary subversion of aesthetics standards.
Such myths are endlessly created by fashion and technology in modern urban centers.
Everything goes, but in a different way…
« In my work I mould odd objects with contradictions as far as their operation, meaning and interpretation are concerned. These items should be conceived mostly as comments, as toys or as dangerous and naive fantasies, » writes Christina Karababa.
The artist teaches in Applied Science University Düsseldorf. She has held numerous individual and group exhibitions and co-curated the international art jewellery meeting « Zimmerhof Symposium » in 2014.

Katerina Glyka  – « Lethal Jewellery » -  « war-like jewellery » of Katerina Glyka which has as starting point scenographic imitations of archaic weapons made with the technique of paper mache and ends up being potentially lethal tools made from cement.

 

Galerie Weltraum
Rumfordstrasse 26, Munich
Opening 11.03.2015 19:00 – 22:00
12.03.2015 – 17.03.2015
14:00 – 20:00Rumfordstrasse 26, Munich
Opening 11.03.2015 19:00 – 22:00
Mail: [e-mail]
tel : [phone]

https://www.facebook.com/weltraum.me

 

 

EXPO ‘FYLAXTA’ – Estudio Gallery, Kifisiá (Greece) – 23 Mai-5 Juin 2013

at Estudio Gallery : « FYLAXTA » (talisman) with Eleftheria Spantidaki

« The exhibition « FYLAXTA » (talisman) is my second solo exhibition. I have created a collection where small square fabrics (when I was a child my mother used to wear on me a small fabric Talisman for good luck) became flowers or combined with other materials like wire, plexiglas, cords. « 

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Eleftheria Spantidaki  Fylaxta (Amulets) Colored Wire, silk fabric, glass beads

Eleftheria Spantidaki

 

Estudio Gallery
22A, Kyriazi str.,
14562 Kephissia (Kifisiá), Greece
[phone]
[e-mail]://www.estudio.gr/