‘Noi Nove’ – 9 approaches/ 9 countries/ 9 jewellers

WELCOME to a NEW GROUP  from Alchimia School  :  NOI 9 

« There are right moments in time, right places.Moments when circumstances create a perfect setting for the interchange, sharing, and creating.Where differences become points of growth.
Where growth is supported. Where the collective and individual walk in hand.
Emerging from these circumstances
NOI 9
9 approaches/ 9 countries/ 9 jewellers
one group »

 

Maru LOPEZ (P.Rico) -  Joanne HUANG SHI-PING (Taiwan) – Selen OZUS (TR) – Isabel DAMMERMANN (DE) – Ara KUO (Taiwan) – Catalina BRENES (Costa Rica) -  Anastasia KANDARAKI (GR) – Malaika NAJEM (Liban/FR) – Sayaka ITO (JP)

 

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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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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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