Prix européen des Arts Appliqués /European Prize for Applied Arts – Wcc-bf, Anciens Abattoirs, Mons (BE) – 24 Oct.2015-10 Janv.2016

Prix européen des Arts Appliqués

European Prize for Applied Arts

Friday 23 October 2015: opening ceremony and Prize awarding Master Prize and Young Talent Prize and Mons 2015 Prize At the Grand Hall of the « Anciens Abattoirs » of Mons Exhibition from 24 October 2015 until 10 January 2016

 

L’objet d’art actuel, en tant que trace du temps, reflète l’évolution de notre société avec talent et ingéniosité. Aujourd’hui, plus que jamais, le secteur des art appliqués tient une place de choix sur la scène artistique contemporaine, ce que ne contredira pas la troisième triennale du Prix européen des Arts appliqués qui propose les créations de pas moins de 78 créateurs venant de 18 pays d’Europe. Tous, sans exception, apportent une matière, une forme, une couleur, une âme à leur œuvre. Qu’il s’agisse d’arts appliqués à vocation utilitaire ou d’expression libre, les créations ici exposées détruisent les barrières entre les catégories et démontrent tout le talent, la créativité, l’innovation et l’ingéniosité nécessaire à leur élaboration. C’est dans le cadre de «Mons, Capitale européenne de la Cultureen 2015» que cette troisième édition du Prix européen des Arts appliqués vient apporter sa touche contemporaine aux différents domaines de création,qu’ils soient céramique, verre, bijou, mobilier, textile, objets de décorationou encore stylisme…

 

Trois prix sont décernés par un jury d’experts :  le Prix des Maîtres d’art (prix de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles),le Prix Jeune Talent (prix du WCC-Europe) et le Prix Mons 2015.

Annamaria Zanella. – Purple Tubes, 2014 6 x 6 x 2 cm Photo : Daniela Martin

 

participants :  Cécile AHN — Barbara AMSTUTZ  — Nevin ARIG  — Hayley BECKLEY — Marian BIJLENGA — Iris BODEMER –  Nicolas BOVESSE  –  Abigail BROWN  — Sébastien CARRE  — Hermien CASSIERS  — Mathilde CAYLOU  — Marion COURTILLE  — Betty CUYKX — Annette DAM — Tania DE BRUYCKER  — Silke DECKER  — Elisa DEVAL  — Patricia DOMINGUES — SamTho DUONG  — Anja EICHLER  — Sanna ESKOLA  — Maria ESPERSEN  — Flora FIXY  — Nicolas GALAND  — Maryan GELUK  — Christine GRAF  — Margret GUDNADOTTIR  & Olof BJARNADOTTIR  –  Gesine HACKENBERG  –  Michal HANULA  — Malene HARTMANN RASMUSSEN  — Peter HOOGEBOOM  — Camille JACOBS  — Hannah JORIS  — Kaori JUZU  — Ulla & Martin KAUFMANN  — Ulrike KLEINE-BEHNKE  — Saerom KONG  — Tine KRUMHORN  — Therese LEBRUN  — Typhaine LEMONNIER  — Juliette LEPERLIER — Christoph LEUNER  — Ria LINS  — Ruediger LORENZEN  — Yves MALFLIET  — Sofja MARKAROVA  — James MASKREY  — Hugo MEERT  — Hilde METZ  — Frank MEURER  — Rosa NOGUES  — Monika PATUSZYNSKA – Kirsten PLANK  — Tiina RAJAKALLIO  — Marie-Noelle RISACK  — Zoe ROBERTSON  — Bruno ROMANELLI  — Verena SCHATZ  — Isabell SCHAUPP — Helena SCHEPENS  — Karin SEUFERT  — Antonino SPOTO  — Edgars SPRIDZANS  — Frank STEYAERT  — Esther SUÁREZ RUIZ  — Kyoko SUGIURA — Dominique THOMAS-VANSTEENBERGHE  — Alexandra TOLLET  — Yayoi TSUJI  — Jessica TURRELL  — Flora VAGI  — Reinhilde VAN GRIEKEN  — Karen VANMOL — Nelly VAN OOST  — Esther VAN SCHUYLENBERGH  — Luzia VOGT — Monique VOZ  — Annamaria ZANELLA

Nelly Van Oost – With feelings, 2014 47 x 43 x 35 cm Photo : Ophélie Friberg

Flora Vagi. – Pillowaves I, 2014 9 x 9 x 3 cm Photo : Flora Vagi

Jessica Turrell. – Field Unit, 2014 20 x 20 x 1 cm Photo : Mark Ashbee

Patricia Domingues (M.A. 2013) • Brooch « Set Free & Matter » • Necuron, Steel • 2014 • ©photo by Manuel Ocaña

Luzia Vogt - Candy I, 2014 6 x 6 x 4 cm Photo : Luzia Vogt

Monique Voz   – Nomadic eating, 2015 2 x 2 x 8 cm Photo : Monique Voz

Dominique Thomas Vansteenberghe. – Don’t touch me, 2015 19 x 17 cm Photo: D.Thomas

Isabell Schaupp – Sliced tower building, 2014 7,1 x 7,1 x 2,8 cm Photo : Isabell Schaupp

Karen Vanmol

Rosa Nogués Freixas – Por la boca muere el pez, 2015 30,5 x 10 x 6 cm Photo : Rosa Nogués  

 Zoe Robertson - Subscribe series, 2014 80 x 35 x 15 cm Photo : Zoe Robertson

Ria Lins - Beware, 2014 65 x 5 x 3 cm Photo: Dries Van den Brande

Hermien Cassiers   -  Earrings, 2013 gold Photo: © Nice Job

  Sebastien Carré  Bracelet Inflammation # 6, 2013 11 x 11 x 4 cm Photo: Milo Lee

 Saerom Kong.  – Pink Daisy, 2015 9,4 x 6,4 x 3 cm Photo: Saerom Kong

 

 

Les Anciens Abattoirs/ Galerie du WCC-BF 17/02, rue de la Trouille 7000 Mons (Belgique) www.wcc-bf.org Exposition du 24 octobre 2015 au 10 janvier 2016 Exhibition from 24th october to 10th january 2016 Tous les jours (sauf le lundi, et les 24, 25, 31.12.2015 et 01.01.2016) de 10h00 à 18h00 Open everyday (except Monday, 24, 25, 31.12.2015 and 01.01.2016)  from 10:00 to 18:00

EXPO ‘Contemporary Art Jewellery. 10 Different Positions’ – Stadtgalerie Klagenfurt (Austria) – 30 Juin-16 Aout 2015

Contemporary Art Jewellery. 10 Different Positions // ZEITGENÖSSISCHER SCHMUCK
10 unterschiedliche Positionen

Contemporary art jewellery from Austria and Germany, featuring work by Iris Bodemer, Ute Eitzenhofer and Carmen Hauser

 (Wolfgang Rahs, Grüngelbe Sonne, 2014)

Aus Österreich:
Margit Hart — Fritz Maierhofer — Wolfgang Rahs — Petra Zimmermann
Aus Deutschland:
Iris Bodemer — Martina Dempf – Georg Dobler – Ute Eitzenhöfer – Carmen Hauser – Isabell Schaupp

 Martina Dempf, Armreifobjekt (bracelet), 2007

Carmen Hauser, Brosche, 2012

Margit Hart (AT) / broche 2014

Isabell Schaupp, Brosche , 2015

Petra Zimmermann, Armreif, 2014

Georg Dobler – Brosche – 2014

 

 

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EXPO ‘Iris Bodemer & Ute Eitzenhöfer’ – CODA Museum (NL) – 1er Juin-14 Sept. 2014

at CODA Museum  : Ute Eitzenhofer and Iris Bodemer

opening on sunday 1th of june 14:30

In this exposition CODA Museum brings together the jewellery of Iris Bodemer (1970) and Ute Eitzenhöfer (1969). Both Bodemer en Eitzenhöfer approach the materials they use without discriminating between what is valuable and what is worthless. Expression, experiment and exploration play an important role in the work and development of both artists.

Iris Bodemer’s jewellery can be both sensuous and rough. She works with a broad gamut of materials, ranging from gold and gemstones to rubber and string, with no hierarchical relation between the materials she uses to achieve her final form.
It is not just Iris Bodemer’s jewels that are autonomous art objects. Her method is also one of autonomy, of independence or, as jewellery expert Marjan Unger puts it in an article: “Iris Bodemer does not refer to predecessors or contemporaries. She completely follows her own course. But she does not make autonomous works just so they can be exhibited. Her jewels are essentially made for the human body and, as such, come to life when worn.”

Iris Bodemer  -Neckpiece: Untitled, 2008 – Meteorite, pyrite, diamond crystals, agate, silver, polypropylene, glue
From the work « Ingredients« 

Iris Bodemer, Neckpiece, « Ingredients », 2008 – Agate, copper, lemon, reconstructed coral, wool
Photo: Julian Kirschler

 

At first glance, Ute Eitzenhöfer’s jewellery appears to have been made to wear and to adorn. Nevertheless her jewels certainly do tell a story. They contemplate and criticise modern society and encourage observers to think about the relationship between people and materialistic things, the meaning of everyday objects and how we treat them. Materials symbolise superficial beauty, are mass-produced and discarded just as easily. The combination with other materials in Eitzenhöfer’s jewellery gives them a different ‘value’.

Ute Eitzenhöfer

Ute Eitzenhöfer

Ute Eitzenhöfer

 

 

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SCHMUCK 2014 – 66th International Trade Fair, Munich – 12-18 Mars 2014

Schmuck ‘2014
55th Special Jewellery Show
66th International Trade Fair, Munich
de 12 Mar a 18 Mar 2014

 

This special exhibition is the eldest exhibition of contemporary jewellery work in the world. It takes place since 1959 every year during the International Trade Fair in March. Except the transport cost until Munich the participation in the special show is free of charge for you. Three contributions of Schmuck 2013 will be awarded with the Herbert Hofmann Prize. The prize commemorates Dr. Herbert Hofmann, the founder of the special show in 1959. In addition the jury of the Bavarian States Prize will look at the works in the special show. The Bavarian States Prize is awarded to 10 contri-bution of applied art within all contribution of the International Trade Fair. This prize is awarded with 5.000€.

More than 552 goldsmiths from 43 countries around the globe applied to participate in the special “Schmuck” (Jewellery) show at the International Crafts Fair in Munich next year. This great interest once again confirms the importance of this event in the context of contemporary jewellery-making and the significance attached to it worldwide. An above-average number of applications were received this year from Australia, Japan and Taiwan, but also from New Zealand and Argentina, the latter having been among the applicants for only a few years now. The selection for 2014 was made especially interesting thanks to the many new exhibitors nominated by the curator Jorunn Veiteberg of Copenhagen. Unusually, “Jewellery 2014” features over 25 new exhibitors, who will be represented in this renowned exhibition for the first time.

For the year 2014, a total of 66 participants from 25 nations were invited to exhibit. Numerically most strongly represented are goldsmiths from Germany, the Netherlands, Japan, Australia, Denmark and Sweden. The applicants grow younger by the year, an indicator that even before or immediately after finishing their training goldsmiths seek to compete in our special show, present their work to an interested public, experts, gallery owners and museum curators, and rapidly find their way into the jewellery avant-garde. “Jewellery” is an important venue for making a name for oneself in international goldsmiths’ circles, establishing contacts, and not least, witnessing the award of the prestigious Herbert Hofmann Prize on Saturday.

The special “Jewellery” show is characterized by the choice of certain themes which, in the eyes of curator Jorunn Veiteberg, represent salient traits of current jewellery design. As signs of our times and selection criteria, she sees found objects of metal or wood, things that bear definite marks of use, materials that speak an expressive, earthy language, forms and structures reminiscent of architecture, as well as masks, a tendency to mysticism, and forceful color schemes.

Honored as next year’s Modern Classic will be Dorothea Prühl, a goldsmith who lives in Halle. A teacher at Burg Giebichenstein Art College, she not only helped shape an entire generation of young goldsmiths but, over and above her teaching activity, has created an admirable, original oeuvre that holds a very special place within contemporary jewellery design.

Curator of “Jewellery 2014” is Jorunn Veiteberg, a Norwegian art historian who lives in Copenhagen. An arts journalist and exhibition curator, Veiteberg has taught since 2002 at the National Academy in Bergen, Norway. Since 2013 she has been guest professor at the University of Göteborg, Sweden, and chairwoman of the Norwegian Crafts Association. She has published in the fields of contemporary jewellery and ceramics. Veiteberg says it was a great honor for her to make the selection for “Jewellery 2014.” She was especially impressed by the quality of the submissions and their international range. For her as a Scandinavian, it was an enriching experience to see so many submissions from South Korea, Japan, Argentina, the U.S., and many other countries from around the world.

The Handwerkskammer organizes the special shows Exempla, Talente, Modern Masters and Schmuck at the International Handwerksmesse München with the Herbert-Hofmann-Award 2014 ceremony on Saturday 15th March at 4 p.m. We will show in our Galerie Handwerk the exhibition WUNDERRUMA – Jewellery from New Zealand.

 

Program HERE

 

Patrícia Domingues – Reconstructed Material 

Anne Achenbach (DE) — Tobias Alm (SE) — Sawa Aso (JP) — Rut-Malin Barklund (SE) — Peter Bauhuis (DE) — Nicole Beck (DE) — Alexander Blank (DE) — Iris Bodemer (DE) — Bas Bouman (NL) — Sungho Cho (KR) — Eunmi Chun (KR) — Kat Cole (USA) — Annette Dam (DK) –  Rian de Jong  (NL) — Laura Deakin (AU) — Peter Deckers  (NZ/NL) — Paul Derrez (NL) — Bin Dixon-Ward (AU) — Georg Dobler (DE) — Iris Eichenberg (NL/USA/D) — Réka Fekete (HU) — Benedikt Fischer (AT) — Kyoko Fukuchi (JP) — Antje Godglück (NL/D) — Andi Gut(DE) — Gésine Hackenberg  (NL/D) — Cecilia Hecker (RA) — Hanna Hedman (SE) — Akihiro Ikeyama (JP) — Karin Johansson (SE) — Mareike Kanafani (DK) — Beppe Kessler (NL) — Ulrike Kleine-Behnke (DE) — Jun Konishi (JP) — Manon van Kouswijk (NL/AU) — Marie-Louise Kristensen (DK) — Daniel Kruger (DE) — Dongchun Lee (KR) — Sally Marsland (AU) — Sharon Massey (USA) –  Yutaka Minegishi  (JP/DE) — Shelley Norton (NZ) — Maria Nuutinen (FI) — Kristi Paap (EE) – Noon Passama (TH/NL) — Ruudt Peters (NL) — Lina Peterson (GB) — Nicole Polentas (AU) — Jo Pond (GB) — Auba Pont (ES) — Tabea Reulecke (DE) — Patricia Rodriguez (RA) — Mette Saabye  (DK) — Karin Seufert (DE) — Despo Sophocleous (CA/DE) — Christoph Straube (DE) — Jie Sun (CN) — Fumiki Taguchi (JP) — Anna Talbot (NO) — Sabina Tiemroth (RA) — Karola Torkos (DE) — Karen Vanmol (BE) — Gabi Veit (IT) — Andrea Wagner (NL) — Florian Weichsberger (DE/I) — Wen-Miao Yeh (TW)

Retrospektive bei Schmuck 2014: Dorothea Prühl, Deutschland

SCHMUCK 2014 – OFFICIAL SELECTION – (Munich, Germany) – 12-18 Mars 2014

Schmuck 2014 -  déjà ! … encore !! ……

OFFICIAL SELECTION

Place: Willy Brandt Allee 1 (Munich, Germany)
Management: Wolfgang Lösche
12.Mar.2014 – 18.Mar.2014

 

More than 552 goldsmiths from 43 countries around the globe applied to participate in the special “Schmuck” (Jewellery) show at the International Crafts Fair in Munich next year. This great interest once again confirms the importance of this event in the context of contemporary jewellery-making and the significance attached to it worldwide. An above-average number of applications were received this year from Australia, Japan and Taiwan, but also from New Zealand and Argentina, the latter having been among the applicants for only a few years now. The selection for 2014 was made especially interesting thanks to the many new exhibitors nominated by the curator Jorunn Veiteberg of Copenhagen. Unusually, “Jewellery 2014” features over 25 new exhibitors, who will be represented in this renowned exhibition for the first time.
For the year 2014, a total of 66 participants from 25 nations were invited to exhibit. Numerically most strongly represented are goldsmiths from Germany, the Netherlands, Japan, Australia, Denmark and Sweden. The applicants grow younger by the year, an indicator that even before or immediately after finishing their training goldsmiths seek to compete in our special show, present their work to an interested public, experts, gallery owners and museum curators, and rapidly find their way into the jewellery avant-garde. “Jewellery” is an important venue for making a name for oneself in international goldsmiths’ circles, establishing contacts, and not least, witnessing the award of the prestigious Herbert Hofmann Prize on Saturday.

 

 

Selected Artists: Anne Achenbach, DE –  Tobias Alm, SE – Sawa Aso, JP — Rut-Malin Barklund, SE — Peter Bauhuis, DE — Nicole Beck, DE — Alexander Blank, DE — Iris Bodemer, DE — Bas Bouman, NL  — Sungho Cho, KR — Eunmi Chun, KR –  Kat Cole, USA – Annette Dam, DK — Rian de Jong, NL — Laura Deakin, AU — Peter Deckers, NZ/NL – Paul Derrez, NL — Bin Dixon-Ward, AU — Georg Dobler, DE — Iris Eichenberg, NL/USA/DE — Réka Fekete, HU — Benedikt Fischer, AT — Kyoko Fukuchi, JP — Antje Godglück, NL/DE — Andi Gut, DE — Gesine Hackenberg, NL/DE — Cecilia Hecker, Arg. — Hanna Hedman, SE — Akihiro Ikeyama, JP — Karin Johansson, SE — Mareike Kanafani, DK — Beppe Kessler, NL — Ulrike Kleine-Behnke, DE — Jun Konishi, JP — Manon van Kouswijk, NL/AU — Marie-Louise Kristensen,DK — Daniel Kruger, Südafrika/DE — Dongchun Lee, KR — Sally Marsland, AU — Sharon Massey, USA – Yutaka Minegishi, JP/DE — Shelley Norton, NZ — Maria Nuutinen, FI — Kristi Paap, EE — Noon Passama, TH/NL — Ruudt Peters, NL — Lina Peterson, GB — Nicole Polentas, GR/AU — Jo Pond, GB — Auba Pont, ES – Tabea Reulecke, DE — Patricia Rodriguez, Arg. — Mette Saabye, DK — Karin Seufert, DE — Despo Sophocleous, CA/DE — Christoph Straube, DE — Jie Sun, CN — Fumiki Taguchi, JP — Anna Talbot, NO — Sabina Tiemroth, Arg. — Karola Torkos, DE — Karen Vanmol, BE — Gabi Veit, IT — Andrea Wagner, NL — Florian Weichsberger, DE/IT — Wen-Miao Yeh, TW

 

Retrospektive bei Schmuck 2014: Dorothea Prühl, Deutschland
Honored as next year’s Modern Classic will be Dorothea Prühl, a goldsmith who lives in Halle. A teacher at Burg Giebichenstein Art College, she not only helped shape an entire generation of young goldsmiths but, over and above her teaching activity, has created an admirable, original oeuvre that holds a very special place within contemporary jewellery design.

 

The special “Jewellery” show is characterized by the choice of certain themes which, in the eyes of curator Jorunn Veiteberg, represent salient traits of current jewellery design. As signs of our times and selection criteria, she sees found objects of metal or wood, things that bear definite marks of use, materials that speak an expressive, earthy language, forms and structures reminiscent of architecture, as well as masks, a tendency to mysticism, and forceful color schemes.

 

 

Willy Brandt Allee 1 (Munich, Germany)
Management: Wolfgang Lösche
12.Mar.2014 – 18.Mar.2014
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EXPO ‘Jewellery by Iris Bodemer & Ute Eitzenhöfer’ – Pforzheim Jewellery Museum, Pforzheim (DE) – 9 Nov. 2013 – 26 Janv. 2014

Jewellery by Iris Bodemer and Ute Eitzenhöfer

Pforzheim Jewellery Museum (Germany)

Dedicating an exhibition to Iris Bodemer (*1970) and Ute Eitzenhöfer (*1969), Pforzheim Jewellery Museum will present the works created by two contemporary jewellery artists who have introduced a new visual language of form and design to the jewellery world and understand jewellery as a means of artistic expression. Both have an eminently democratic approach to materials that transcends the valuable/ worthless dichotomy. Also very keen to experiment, they both create highly complex and multifaceted pieces.

Ute Eitzenhöfer small Shampoo brooches 1 & 2 – engraved shampoo caps (PP) rhodolite, garnet, 900 gold, 750 gold & 925 silver – 2013

Iris Bodemer Neckpiece: Ingredients 2008 Agate, copper, lemon, reconstructed coral, wool

 

Iris Bodemer Neckpiece: Untitled 2012 Silver, tourmaline, rutilated quartz, mounting adhesive

Iris Bodemer brooch -’ingredients’ – copper, pine cone scales, 2008 – & detail 

Iris Bodemer brooch -’ingredients’ – copper, glass, wood, fishing line , 2008 – & detail

Ute Eitzenhöfer brooch -’squiggle 3′ -  plastic packaging material 2013  & detail

 

 

Pforzheim Jewellery Museum

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EXPO ‘Iris Bodemer and Vera Siemund’ – Galerie Marzee, Nijmegen (NL) – 3 Mars-22 Mai 2013

Iris Bodemer and Vera Siemund

Iris Bodemer  Brooches (20 Brooches) : Relief I  – 2013  Silver  26 x 36.5 x 1 cm 

Iris Bodemer  Brooches (4 of the 20 brooches): Relief I, 1, 2, 6, 9/20 2013  Silver  5 x 10 x 1 cm

Iris Bodemer  Neckpiece: Words 2013  Steel, parcel string, tape  15 x 38 x 2.5 cm

Vera Siemund, brooch, 2012, Brooch, enamelled copper, steel – mounted, enamelled, sawn – 60 x 100 x 45 mm – lamp shape outside blue, inside white basin like, covered with a steel lace

Vera Siemund – brooch, 2012, Brooch, steelsawn, mounted -  sawn portraits in historicised shapes of jewellery, hanging drops

Vera Siemund – brooch, 2012, enamelled steel, silver embossed, sawn, enamelled (printed portrait), mounted – 70 x 100 x 35 mm – hemisphere covered with a rose window, inside a portrait, mounted on a floor plan

Vera Siemund, brooch, 2013, Brooch, enamelled copper, steel – mounted, enamelled, sawn75 x 125 x 60 mm – floral lamp shade with a green/white enamel cover, mounted on a floor plan sawn in steel, a silhouette of a cathedral as background

Vera Siemund – Necklace, 2013,  enamelled copper, steel mounted, enamelled, sawn, handmade chain – 220 x 300 x 40, one element  60 x 100 x 40 mm – blue lamp-shades, inside white like a basin, one shape covered with a sawn lace ornament

 

Galerie Marzee
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EXPO ‘Contemporary German Jewellery’ – Testa Gallery, Sofia (Bulgaria) – 25 Oct.-31 Dec. 2012

Contemporary German Jewellery

With the Contemporary German Jewellery exhibition TESTA Gallery is pleased to present 17 innovative artists from Germany working in the area of contemporary jewellery. Some of them are well-known and internationally recognized.
Inspired by classical techniques and materials or entirely experimental in their approach, the works of each participant are wearable art objects, original and exiting, with their own distinctive style.

 

Artists:  Anke Hennig — Beate Eismann — Bernhard Simon — Bettina Goetsch — Birgit Hagmann — Claudia Rinneberg — Doris Betz — Iris Bodemer — Isabel Dammermann — Isabell Schaupp — Karin Seufert – Melanie Nuetzel — Nora Rochel — Sibylle Krause — Silke Trekel — Ulrike Poelk — Verena Schreppel.

 Doris Betz – Brooch: Untitled  Silver, lacquer

Isabell Schaupp  Brooch: Untitled  Silver, copper, enamel, photo, coral, textile

Nora Rochel  Ring: Untitled  925 blackened silver 
Isabel Dammermann  Brooch: Vesica  Silver, plexiglas, transparent paper

Bettina Goetsch  Necklace: 02 Linje  Silver, coral

Birgit Hagmann  Necklace: Untitled  Wire

Beate Eismann  Brooch: Untitled  Silver, lacquer, textile thread

Silke Trekel  Necklace: Rollers II  Chased iron, enamelled, alpacca

Anke Hennig  earrings « Anomaly 3″  rayon, nylon, glass beads,silver 925 oxydized

Anke Hennig – Flourish Ring

Karin Seufert  rings – silver, colorit

Verena Schreppel – shot ring

Claudia Rinneberg  rings – iron, silver

Bernhard Simon – rings serie ‘Austern’ – glass

 

 

 

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EXPO ‘Barocco’ – Museum of Art & Crafts ITAMI, Japan – 8-30 Sept. 2012

Barocco – Baroque Pearl Jewelleries by 24 Artists  08.09.2012 15:00 ~

Chitose Ohchi × Jun KonishiKarin Seufert necklaces

« `Baroque-water-pearls´ got their name, next to other aspects, because of their irregular outer shape. And just because of this special shape, they are sometimes also categorist as `scrap water pearls´. They are not first choice, their shapes don’t fit into special norms and conceptions, they are not perfect round with a smooth straight surface and their luster is broken due to their vivid appearances.
The image, which came up into my mind was to hide every visible detail because they do not fulfill certain expectations. I thought to put them into textile in a way that you only can feel them. It is then your fantasy, which gives the pearls their beauty without seeing them ever.
But nevertheless pearls are always beautiful just because of their unique shapes, their special colors, their sizes and their luster. And every pearl is individual because of this. It is a creation of nature and this beauty is worth to be shown, unless different expectations.
To emphasize this idea, I decided to not hide them.
It seemed to be much more interesting to place them into transparent textile, instead of hides them totally inside an opaque material. Now it is possible to see a bit of their shapes, to feel the weight, to hear the sound when the pearls touch each other and to move them like you want.
The design, which was the result of this idea, is a square tube.
It should be as minimal as possible to give all attention to the pearls inside. The textile I used for this tube/bag is black organza silk. Depending on where the pearls are, the form of the bag will be different and is made by the movement of the pearls. » Karin Seufert

Karin Seufert – detail 1

Karin Seufert – detail 2Jiro Kamata  Pearl Ring 2009
« So,”what does it feels like to be inside of a pearl?” With such a simple questions, these rings were coming. it’s just like a taking a taboo in my mind.When I shaved it, I found another pearl inside. As if you were in a time machine inspecting the history of pearls.Here are the extraordinary pearl rings.« Jiro Kamata « So,”what does it feels like to be inside of a pearl?”

Jun Konishi – Natural shapes and  artificial shapesFelix Lindner  - brooch, orange plastic & pearls
« How to put pearls in my jewellery? So easy – it was love at first sight – I guess I am not the first one – later on I try to classify, making small groups, some pearls are attracting me more then others, but in almost every kind I can find details that are beautiful – I am amazed! » – „ice cream“   Felix Lindner – „pimp my ride“ – I can pimp your tin toy ride… cultured bubble pearl wheels – other parts were taken from my work “les nouveaux classiques”… „Babe we’ll ride in style movin’ all along…“Beate Klockman neckpieceBeate Klockman neckpiece (detail) –
« The landscape around here inspires me. It is very rough and wild. The weather is changing fast, everything moves. Only the mountains are a constant. I find perfect harmonies in this chaos and bring those to the body. I create Jewelry in a same way as the nature grows. Letting the same coincidental imperfections, decide the character of the jewel. I make jewelry like drawings. The Pearls are the shiny dots in my composition… » Beate KlockmanAnnelies Planteijdt -  city-White place 2009Annelies Planteijdt -  city-White place 2009

Mariko Yamashita – ‘party’ necklace – pearl, 18k, paintPhilip Sajet necklace & detail

Mirei Takeuchi – necklaces – pearl, panty

Mirei Takeuchi détails necklacesIris BodemerRobean Visschers earringsKatja Prins ringsKarolina Bik  necklaceFlorie Dupont brooches

Dorothea Dahnick – “floral swing”

 

 

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EXPO ‘Iris Bodemer’ – Jewelers’ Werk Galerie, Washington DC (USA) – 21 Avril-11 Mai 2012

In these new pieces by Iris Bodemer, Iris has gone back to her roots in metals and has deleted, at least for the time being, her signature wool, and other non-precious materials. These neckpieces and rings show brute force, both in style and construction, with an impact that is bold, resolute and non-conciliatory.

Iris Bodemer Neckpiece 2012 – Silver

Iris Bodemer Neckpiece 2012 – Silver, tourmaline, rutilated quartz, mounting adhesive

Iris Bodemer Neckpiece 2012 – Silver

 

 

 

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