EXPO ‘BASALT- Volcanic bijoux’ – Geological Museum, Ramat Hasharon (IL) – 26 Sept. 2016-31 Janv. 2017

BASALT- Volcanic bijoux -

Soon in the  Geological Museum  -

Opening on Monday September 26th, 20h30

An international exhibition that reunites 25 artists from Europe and Israel who have created jewelry especially for this show, utilizing basalt as the central motif.
Taking into consideration the unique properties of this igneous rock – its natural structure, color and texture – the artists have created pieces that provoke questions about preciousness, esthetics, mythology and beliefs.
The exhibition was originally shown in Agde, France (a city built from basalt) in 2015 and was re-curated for the Geological Museum in Ramat HaSharon. / Jean-Yves Le Mignot, Curator, Rachel Sasporta, Curator in charge

« Taking into consideration the unique properties of this igneous rock – its natural structure, color and texture – the artists have created pieces that provoke questions about preciousness, esthetics, mythology and beliefs. « 

Artist list :    Vered Babai — Christian Balmer — Yakov Bloch — Brune Boyer — Esther Brinkmann — Seliena Coyle –  Johanna Dahm — Clara Denidet — Georg Dobler – Marine Dominiczak — Pia Farrugia — Sophie Hanagarth — Naama Haneman — Noga Harel — Lia Kirel — Florence Lehmann — Taïr Delia Littman — Stefano Marchetti –  Eliane Michel — Renzo Pasquale — Ramon Puig Cuyàs — Philip Sajet — Ilona Schwippel — Annamaria Zanella

Marine Dominiczak – «Noyade au Cap d’Agde» Copper, basalt, patinated bronze, hemp rope  20 x 9 x 8 cm and …. VERY HEAVY !

Annamaria Zanella Ring: Monolite, 2016 Basalt 3.8 x 1.8 x 3.6 cm Photo by: Marco Furio Magliani

 Ramon Puig Cuyàs Brooch: Metamorphic, 2016 Nickel silver, basalt, ColorCore, acrylic painting, reconstructed pink choral 8 x 6.1 x 1 cm Photo by: Ramon Puig Cuyàs

Stefano Marchetti Ring: Untitled, 2016 Gold, basalt-resin 4 x 2.5 x 3 cm Photo by: Stefano Marchetti

Georg Dobler Brooch: Untitled, 2016 Silver, basalt, red paint  11 x 3.5 x 1 cm Photo by: Georg Dobler

Vered Babai  Pendants: Black orchids, 2015 – Basalt, resin, polymer  7 x 6 x 2 cm Photo by: Vered Babai

Sophie Hanagarth   »Dyke » 2015 – basalt, resin  13/7/3 cm

Lia Kirel

Christian Balmer - ‘Spitzberg’ 2016- forged iron, white gold, silver, basalt, diamond

Yakov Bloch - 2015 – basalt, silver, polymer 11x5x1,6cmSeliena Coyle  brooch « Carraig Dubh #1″-2015 silver, image on Di-bond, basalt, steel 10x10x6cm
Taïr Delia Littman. Ring: The trail, 2016. Basalt, silver, gold plated, 24k gold leafs, resin, polymer. 3 x 3.5 x 2.5 cm. Photo by: Vered Babai

Renzo Pasquale. Brooch: BAS-ALT, 2016. Basalt, gold, steel. 8.7 x 6.1 x 1.5 cm. Photo by: Marco Furio Magliani.

 Philip Sajet ring for « BASALT »

 

Programme

A conference on contemporary jewelry will be held before the opening at Yad Lebanim, 3 HaMahteret st, Ramat HaSharon.

19:00   Welcome and greetings – Rachel Sasporta, curator in charge.
19:10   Behind the scenes: nursing, staging, curating contemporary jewelery - Nicole Brémond, marketing and communication, luxury goods (Paris)
19:40   Eyes sink into stone: my work and other stories - Johanna Dahm, contemporary jeweler (Zürich)
20:30   Exhibition opening in the Geological Museum.

Admission is free.

 

 

The Geological Museum
12 Hapalmach st
Ramat HaSharon -  Ramat Hasharon
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EXPO ‘Omnia Vanitas’ – Wcc-bf Mons, Anciens Abattoirs de Mons (BE) – 24 Oct. 2015-10 Janv. 2016

Omnia Vanitas By Wcc-bf Mons

Exposition du 24/10/15 au 10/01/16 aux Anciens Abattoirs de Mons

puis/et à la Galerie Koma, Mons  du 24 octobre 2015 au 20 décembre 2015

 

Résultat de l’appel à candidature aux créateurs des pays de l’Union européenne. Toutes disciplines des arts appliqués, ainsi que design, photo,…
Resultat of the call to the artists from the European Union countries. Each discipline within the applied arts, as well as design, photography,…

Vanity is a theme as old as the existence of Art itself. “Remember you will die” whispered the slave to the Roman General during the triumphs. Nowadays, this superstition which became obsession cannot be hidden. Her rebirth in the Contemporary Art is such that Vanity has become true fashion or a lifestyle. “Vanitas vanitatum, omnia vanitas”. How better than the current age of technology and overconsumption to update this adage? In this month of the dead, Omnia Vanitas proposes a stop in space-time, a time for reflexion to ask themselves the right questions once again.
On this occasion, the WCC-BF and the Koma Gallery exposed 62 artists from Belgium, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, France, Italy, Portugal, Poland, Finland and Estonia. In their own way, each of them present their personal interpretation of death and Vanity. As in the exhibition of the European Price for Applied Arts, the artworks will be seen with all the contemplation and the reflexion it requires. In its own way, Omnia will propose to visitors a more intimate perspective on our relationship with life and death.

 

Faezeh AFCHARY-KORD — Nathalie AMAND — Tanneke BARENDREGT — Alice BERTRAND  — Philippa BEVERIDGE  — Frédéric BRAHAM — Philippe BRODZKI  — Isabelle CARPENTIER   — Sébastien CARRE  — Anne-Sophie COSTENOBLE — Rose-Marie CRESPIN — Betty CUYKX  — Emmanuelle DARNAULT — Estefania DE ALMEIDA — Anke DE KORT — Trees DEMITS  — Nathalie DESMEDT  — Nicolas DESTINO — Camille DUPUIS — Emelyne DUVAL  — Ana ESCOBAR  — Hilde FOKS — Trini GAINZA  — Adinda GODDYN — Elodie GONZALVEZ  — Sabine HERMAN — Peter HOOGEBOOM –  Irving S.T. Garp (Bernard CAELEN) – Delphine JOLY — Christer JONSSON — Arthur KEMPENAAR — Désirée KERKLAAN — Anke LAND — Nathalie LATOUR — Claire LAVENDHOMME  — Thérèse LEBRUN — Antoine LEPERLIER — Geraldine LUTTENBACHER — Jan MACHATOVA — Kadri MAELK — Jorge MANILLA — François MARCADON — Helena MARK — Olga MATHEY — Laurence MEYER — Julika MÜLLER — Rosa NOGUES — Barbara PAGANIN – Renzo PASQUALE — PATBOUN — Monika PATUSZYNSKA  — Nathalie PERRET  — Ruudt PETERS — Alet PILON — Olivier REMAN — Hélène RIVIERE — Sophie SCHRAEN — Johanna SCHWEIZER — Carolein SMIT  — Alejandra SOLAR  — Olivier SONCK  — Luus URMAS  — Dorothée VAN BIESEN — Monique VOZ  — Annamaria ZANELLA .

Frédéric Braham Installation: Agape, 2006 Lackered wood, glass, metronome, fabric, plastic, insects, iron and Buchenwald stones jewellery, candlelight, pure pigment obtained by the calcination of bones, oxidized silver, chrome-plaited and painted metal, leather 290 x 95 x 200 cm Photo by: Paul Duvochel

Sébastien Carré - My Sweet Disease, 2014 – harnais
Structure en cotte de maille acier inoxydable et papier japonais crocheté ; Brodé avec des perles (Rocaille, plastiques, métalliques et pierres semi précieuse) ; coton, soie, fibre bi-composée (60%soie 40% algue), laine et nylon crochetés et graines d’arbres.
Harnais fais à ma taille / Harness made in my size

Ruudt Peters Object: Costa, 2011 Polyurethane 13 x 22 x 3,5 cm

Luus Urmas Brooch: Purification, 2015 Kitchen Sponge, acrylic paint, glue 8,5 x 6 x 3,5 cm Photo by: Luus Urmas Carved with bared hands

Alejandra Solar (M.F.A. 2014 idar Obersteon) • Brooch « Murmullos » • Onyx, slate, silver, print • 2015 • © photo by artist

 Isabelle Carpentier – Diadème « Miss  » Argent, résine, dents en porcelaine

 

 

 

 

Deux lieux :

*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

*Galerie KOMA
4, Rue des Gades
7000 Mons (Belgique)
www.asblkoma.be
Exposition du 24 octobre 2015 au 20 décembre 2015
Exhibition from 24th october to 20 December 2015
Mercredi jeudi samedi et dimanche de 14h00 à 18h00
Wednesday Thursday Saturday and Sunday from 14:00 to 18:00

 

EXPO ‘Annamaria Zanella & Renzo Pasquale’ – Galerie Slavik, Vienna (AT) – 7 Mai-20 Juin 2015

exhibition at Galerie Slavik :
Annamaria Zanella & Renzo Pasquale

POESIE UND GEOMETRIE

Vernissage:  7. Mai 2015, 18 – 20 Uhr

  (Annamaria Zanella « popp Cell » brooch)

JEWELLERY ART POETRY AND GEOMETRY
Annamaria Zanella and Renzo Pasquale Exhibition  For the period of the Vienna Festival the Slavik Gallery is presenting a special duo exhibition devoted to the work of the artists – and married couple – Annamaria Zanella and Renzo Pasquale. Although they have quite different styles, their jewellery is complementary. Together, their artefacts form a wonderfully harmonious whole.

Renzo Pasquale, Halsschmuck 2013 « Cilindri liberi », Gold, Silber, Niello, Titan

Annamaria Zanella‘s fascinating jewellery objects are as exciting as they are unusual. In this exhibition she is presenting colourful necklaces made in idiosyncratic materials to which she gives a special finish with elements in gold. But in her diverse and highly imaginative creative world there is also room for glass, enamel and plastics, all radiant with powerful, finely harmonized colours. Every one of her miniature sculptures is an expression of the artist’s breathtaking inner power and bubbling energy. All richly poetic, many also have a special story to tell, such as the « Gala » brooch in silver, enamel and red plastic that she dedicated to Gala Eluard, who was muse and wife to both Paul Eluard and Salvador Dali.

Annamaria Zanella, Brosche « Gala », 2014, Silber, Gold, Email, Plexiglas mm

The work of the jewellery artist Renzo Pasquale is permeated by a great love of geometry. Masterfully worked in silver, titanium and plexiglass, his brooch « Olimpico » betrays his admiration for the Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio, whose example has inspired Renzo Pasquale to an oeuvre characterized by aesthetic balance, perfect proportions, and the noble harmony of classical Italian poetry. Also a stonemason by training, he invests his gold rings with a special clarity and liveliness through a precise use of cut lapis lazuli, jasper and agate.

 Renzo Pasquale – « Riflessi » gold, ceramic (gres), titanium, 80 x 60 x 10 mm

Annamaria Zanella « Othello » Silber, Eisen, Email, Gold, Lapislazuli – Puder, Resin, Edelstahlgewebe 55x 47 x 18

Renzo Pasquale « cilindri sezioni » silver, gold, niello, white gold wire, 210 x 31 x 13 mmAnnamaria Zanella ring « Blu Boll » gold, silber, glass microspheres, iron powder, mother pearls powder, 37 x 33 x 37 mm

Renzo Pasquale brooch « passaggi » gold, aluminium

Renzo Pasquale brooch « street » porcelain, titanium, white gold

 

Galerie Slavik
Himmelpfortgasse 17
A-1010 Vienna
Austria
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EXPO ‘Annamaria Zanella & Renzo Pasquale: Oltre la materia’ – Galerie Rosemarie Jäger, Hochheim am Main (Germany) – 22 Juin-12 Juil. 2014

Annamaria Zanella & Renzo Pasquale: Oltre la materia – Jenseits der Materie

Couples in jewelry :
« Our jewelry narrates our lives, our thoughts and our dreams and our desire to turn matter into beauty.« 
Annamaria Zanella & Renzo Pasquale

Annamaria Zanella,   Fortuny Rings, 2014 – Silver, enamel, gold

Annamaria Zanella Brooch: Island of the Blue, 2013 Glass, silver, enamel, gold

Annamaria Zanella Brooch: Island og the Red, 2013 Polyurethan, silver, enamel

Annamaria Zanella - Brooch: Dahlia, 2013 – Silver, gold, niello, enamel, lapis powder

Renzo Pasquale - Brooch: Note Quadrate, 2009 – Titanium, ceramic, gold, titanium, aluminium

Renzo Pasquale Brooch: Finestra, 2008 Rock crystal, ceramic, gold, titanium

Renzo Pasquale Bracelet: Tronco Cono, 1984 Black granit, gold

Renzo Pasquale – « Olimpica » – brooch

Renzo Pasquale - Ring: Torsione, 1988 Chrysoprase, gold

 

Galerie Rosemarie Jäger
Wintergasse 13
65239 – Hochheim am Main
Germany
Telephone: + 49(0) 6146 2203
website: www.rosemarie-jaeger.de
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EXPO ‘Hand-Made’ – Galerie Louise Smit, Amsterdam (NL) – 1er Avril-4 Mai 2012

Hand-Made : Annamaria Zanella & Renzo Pasquale
01 04 2012 – 04 05 2012

Annamaria Zanella :
The structural emphasis which has always characterised her work is also visible in its compositional freedom, which apparently moves away from the rigour of geometric abstraction typical of the Padua School. Her deconstructed works are therefore always based on rules which seem to be inverted, worn by contradictions, discordant elements, unpredictable opposites. « Poor materials », pigments mixed with lacquers, patinas, niello, oxides and powders corrode surfaces and change the ideal project which, however, can always be recognised.
The dynamic colours of surfaces are not so much informal as imbued with the movements of Action Painting. Zanella’s abundant use of materials unusual in jewellery, such as paper, cardboard, rags and iron, may seem to recall neo-Dadaism, but her work is far from being absurd or onirical; it is always concentrated between compressed emotions and openly expressed rationalism.
Creativity, strength, sensitivity and courageous inventiveness make this artist unique in her formal solutions and in her assiduous and constant experimentation with materials.

Annamaria Zanella – Brooch « Green cell » 2012 – silver, vitreous enamel

Renzo Pasquale – Brooch « Olimpica » 2008 – silver, titanium, plexiglass

Renzo Pasquale :
The geometrical shapes, transparencies, the superb ability in working precious stones like rock crystal, granites, jasper, etc. impressed Prof. Mario Pinton who, as head of the Pietro Selvatico Institute of Art, charges Renzo Pasquale with setting up an artistic laboratory of hardstone and semi-precious stones and also to teach this art to the students of the Institute.
Teaching brought Renzo to confront himself with other goldsmith artists of the Pietro Selvatico Institute of Art: Francesco Pavan, Giampaolo Babetto, Diego Piazza… It is with them that he starts to exhibit his works in various exhibitions form the eighties onwards. His work reveals the transparencies of the material.
The infinite variations of light that filters through these sculptures made of rock crystal or black, opaque granite. Sculptures that can be worn without conveying the impression of a redundancy of lines and volumes. Essentiality of design, concrete perceptions of thought of Euclidean beauty.
Pondered geometries, meditation on the study of shape, equations of pure mathematics: all seem to dissolve in the emotional impact transmitted by these creations of his, that talk not so much of stone but speak a language of pure poetry and perfect equilibriums.
The displacement of solids, sections, torsions, slippage, cutting, breaking through of solids such as cubes, cones, pyramids, cylinders created in different-coloured stones, always matched with small portions of gold. In this case gold emphasizes a drawing, enhances a section, receives the perspective breaking-down of a stone wall.
Plastic transitions of the inorganic, apparently indomitable material (stone) that softens as it is transformed in the hands of the artist. The transition and change in the Paduan artist’s most recent works are evident.
From the consolidated enquiry regarding shape in space of the previous years now reveals a series of pins where « going beyond » is transformed into the play of opaque transparencies, in secret rooms, of misty glass where a window seems to be made of, and created by, light.
A portrait of time, a photographic shot engraved in quartz to look for new emotions that tell of personal abstract perceptions.
A set of landscapes of the life and soul that this artist transforms with the hard stone into delicate water colours that partly evoke the contrasting shades and « chiaroscuro » of the great Dutch painters of the seventeenth century.

Galerie Louise Smit
Prinsengracht 615, 1016 HT Amsterdam
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ENVIRONNEMENT MODERNE

…. environnement urbain : travaux, béton, ferrailles, échafaudages, palissades, barrières, outillages, machineries, matériaux de construction, lignes, cartes, plans, routes, échangeurs, sens interdits …….. démolition, reconstruction ….  tout cet environnement, même hostile ou menaçant, fascine ….. un moment, le mouvement est arrêté, « photographié », pensé, intériorisé puis réinterprété selon chacun, retraduit, « miniaturisé » pour devenir bijou … une construction nouvelle, en quelque sorte ….

(voir également l’article « Architectures …………… en broches »)

Andrea Zeuner  – Superhighway Brooch 2011  Brass, asphalt crack repair, steel

Andrea Zeuner – Superhighway Neckpiece – Brass, asphalt crack repair, nickel – 2010

Andrea Zeuner – Neighborhood Brooch – sterling, copper, raw garnets, wood, steel

Caitie Sellers Transistor Brooch – sterling & steel

Caitie Sellers topographic brooch – Sterling Silver.
The inside of this brooch is composed of 5 pierced disks to make that image. The top of the brooch screws off so the wearer can take out the slices and do something else with them

Phoebe Porter - transit necklace

Andrea PIneros – Broche CIRCUITOS, 2011. The city, the friends, the family and you – Brass, Cristal, car paint

Stephanie Barbié -Lo natural, lo artificial – broche – alpaca, plata, resina, metacrilato
« El mapa de una ciudad, como primera aproximación de un espacio, reune lo artificial y lo natural, lo simbólico y lo real. Confronta imaginación y deseos con vivencia y realidad. Esas piezas surgen de esta confrontación. «

 

Michael Dale Bernard Excavator necklace, stainless steel, silver, vinyl tubing, powder coat,  2009

Michael Dale Bernard Dozer brooch, one of a pair designed for the Neo-Rococo show. Stainless steel, aluminum, silver, brass, iron pyrite, powder coat, 2010

Maru Lopez – Derrumbe paredes – 200 – Silver,Iron and cement

Vanessa Arthur - ‘Demolition necklace’ – Reclaimed wood, laminate, copper, wooden beads, gold elastic, 925 silver.

Diego Bisso – Environmental Jewelry – Marmo (marble)

Dana DiPlacido (2011 graduate from MassArt, Massachusetts College of Art and Design ) – House bracelet, 2011 – stainless steel

Robean Visschers  «under-construction» structure ring -Gold, silver (oxidized)- 2006

Robean Visschers  - construction/structure ring

Robean Visschers Untitled 2009 Brooch

Bin Dixon-Ward – brooch – 2009

Ara Kuo – ‘MAZE’ brooch

Alice Bo-Wen Chang Bodyspace/bodyscape serie – red brooch

Linda Hughes Square Neckpiece and bracelet

« Colour plays a very important part in your jewellery and it is often bold and bright. Would you consider this a signature style or do see yourself moving towards a different palette in the future?
The palette relates directly to street signage but I do feel free to incorporate other colours and don’t feel inhibited by it.
What ignited your interest in signs? Was it marked by a particular experience or moment?
Some of the urban landscape in Australia seems particularly contrived, like a theatre set. A mixture of international influences all mixed up, often without connecting to the environment. My attention is drawn to signs as ‘street furniture’ if you like, ‘props’. « 

Linda Hughes – Necklace

« In her new body of work, contemporary jeweller Linda Hughes explores the ‘stripe’, historically favoured as a metonym for danger, exclusion and as a device to attract attention. Hazard signage, ubiquitous in the urban landscape, changes when placed on the body as jewellery. In this exhibition, Hughes applies the visual language of the stripe to the sculptural form of the wearable. Displayed against as a series of graphic backdrops, the work explores the tension between body and environment, critiquing the complex theatre of public space. »

Linda Hughes -  necklace  – « It’s got legs » exhibition

« Shared Zone, is both the culmination of Linda Hughes master’s research and her first solo exhibition.
Hughes utilises the familiar urban language of invisible everyday objects such as road signs, posts and hazard markings. Juxtaposing these symbols on the body she uses them to define space and create landscape. Her work invites the wearer to become a part of the “theater of the wearable” that arises when the brooches, neckpieces and bangles are placed so as to interact and create their roles – transforming the body into a stage. »

Linda Hughes, Wing Brooch, Red & White Series, 2009, laminate and acrylic. Photography Argonaut Design

Galatée Pestre   sautoir ‘Sens Interdit’ – argent noirci, émail.

Analiese Stinson (2011 graduate from MassArt, Massachusetts College of Art and Design )- Map Bracelet #2–The Trip to School and the Long Way Home, 2011 silver, fabricated

Fabrizio Tridenti’s complex structures

Bergner Schmidt – Concrete jewellery

Benita Dekel, Massconstruction – silver & concrete (ciment)

« Benita Dekel, a graduate of the Department of Jewelry Design at Shenkar College of Engineering and Design (Israël), developed a series of jewelry pieces that combine silver with concrete. The results of the combination of concrete, which we usually associate with heavy, industrial construction, and delicate constructions in silver is that despite being made of concrete the pieces do not appear heavy. The shapes of the pieces, which are very familiar, almost as though they have been taken from various construction sites, manage to surprise both in their shape and new function« 

Todd Pownell – architectural nest

Donna Veverka – Spiral Staircase bracelet

Silvia Walz – série « Casitecturas » Victors Haus – brooch – silver, copper, enamel

Sabine Conrad – necklace Burnt Future 2011, copper, silver, wood, paint

Esther Knobel – 4 brooches From “The Mind in the Hand” series

Renzo PASQUALE – OLIMPICA – spilla (brooch) – omaggio a Palladio (2008)

Christina Elleni Cox « Changeable Cities » bracelet (on Kit&caboodle)

EXPO ‘Anna-Maria ZANELLA, Renzo PASQUALE’ – galerie Orfeo (Luxembourg)- 7 mai-30 juin 2010

Bijoux :  ANNAMARIA ZANELLA   –  RENZO PASQUALE

AnnaMaria Zanella -  Brooch ‘Soldati’
AnnaMaria Zanella – broche ‘Combustion’

AnnaMaria Zanella – broche ‘Porta’

AnnaMaria Zanella – ring ‘Bocca’

Anna-Maria Zanella – collier ‘VENIZIANA ROSSA‘ 
Il y a certains bijoux, comme ça, qui vous coupent le souffle, vous laissent le coeur battant, bouche ouverte et yeux démesurement ouverts …. »parce que c’était lui, parce que c’était moi », comme dirait Montaigne ….

Renzo Pasquale broche ‘Oltre’ 

Renzo Pasquale - brooch ‘passaggi’ – gold, aluminium
Renzo Pasquale broche « vedo il cielo »   titanium, white gold and yellow gold

 

Galerie Orfeo
28, rue des Capucins
L-1313 Luxembourg
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EXPO ‘JEWELLERY ART–WINTER JOURNEY’ – galerie SLAVIK, Vienne (AT) – Nov 2009-30 janv 2010

JEWELLERY ART – WINTER JOURNEY

Stefano MARCHETTI, Barbara PAGANIN, Renzo PASQUALE,
Per SUNTUM, David WATKINS, Annamaria ZANELLA
Galerie Slavik’s international jewellery artists
Exhibition period: 10 Nov. 2009 – 30 Jan. 2010

Galerie Slavik invites you most cordially on this year’s Winter Journey, our annual review of contemporary jewellery art.

The most recent works by David Watkins, a well-known British jewellery artist and professor at the Royal College of Art in London, were inspired by nature. Watkins, fascinated by the possibilities of modern materials such as acrylic, paper and aluminium, revolutionised contemporary jewellery art in the 1960s by introducing new materials to complement traditional gold and silver.

The Italian jewellery artist Barbara Paganin, professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, is well known among the gallery’s regular visitors. She presents enchanting creations for our Winter Journey, among them a radiant brooch made of elements of ice-blue Murano glass with diamonds glistening from their midst.

Barbara Paganin – broche « Fiore di luce »

Per Suntum, an acclaimed Danish artist, exhibits a selection of his works at Galerie Slavik for the first time. The artist mounts perforated surfaces of gold and silver on metal plates. The surface of his light and dark silver brooches is reminiscent of the full moon on a clear winter night.

Stefano Marchetti tessellates gold and silver foil into brooches of timeless elegance. Annamaria Zanella presents recent works made of gold, silver and pigments. Her pieces, like Renzo Pasquale’s latest creations, are a highlight of our Winter Journey.

Annamaria Zanella – bracelet « skin » 2005 – silver, enamel, lacquer