BLACK is BEAUTIFUL …… & SHARP ! with Sergey Jivetin

 Sergey Jivetin

« While exploring fascinating histories that shaped many innately human constructions and institutions that are governing the world today, I strive to remake these paradoxical insights into physical form, expose their artifice, and thus try to confront the power that these constructions have over people. By choosing jewelry’s small scale and proximity to the body as a format in this series of work, I hope to visually represent a relationship between multifaceted and delicately balanced construction history of our contemporary perception of time and its manifestation. I want the audience to take a look at our symbolic relationship to time by experiencing it dimension, as something fantastic, and yet tangible. »

Sergey Jivetin- Coordinate Sweep Earrings, watch hands, sterling silver  – 2003

Sergey Jivetin- Battle Formation Brooch, watch hands, sterling silver, steel  – 2003

Sergey Jivetin-  Earrings made from Watch Hands and Silver Posts

Sergey Jivetin-  Empire Necklace (detail) – Jeweler’s Sawblades

 

 

 

SOFA New-York 2011 – 14-17 Avril 2011

opens at the city’s Park Avenue Armory – Fifty-five international galleries and dealers will represent 12 nations

Main jewelry galleries : Aaron Faber Gallery, Charon Kransen Arts, Gallery S O London, Jewelers’ Werk Galerie, Ornamentum, Sienna Gallery

Peter Schmid/Atelier Zobel - Ring, 2010 – sterling silver, black granite, black diamonds  - Aaron Faber Gallery

Efharis Alepedis - Necklace, 2010 - red patent leather, silk cocoons, epoxy resin, silver  - Charon Kransen Arts

Mirjam Hiller -  Brooch Ovalias, 2010 - stainless steel, powder coated  -Charon Kransen Arts

Sergey Jivetin – Cloud Brooch, Drip Brooch, Splash Brooch – 2009 – eggs, carbon-fiber, steel, resin - Ornamentum

Vera Siemund -  Necklace, 2010 – enameled copper, silver  - Jewelers’ Werk Galerie

Jiro Kamata - Arboresque Brooch, 2010 - oxidized silver, camera lenses, acrylic paint  - Ornamentum

Hanna Hedman - Human Tree, 2010 - copper, oxidized silver, paint  - Ornamentum

Jennifer Trask- Acanthus, 2010 – antler, 17th century gilded frame, gold leaf, gold – Ornamentum

Helen Britton -  Grey Brooch, 2009 - silver, paint, plastics, shells, glass  - Sienna Gallery

Bernhard Schobinger – Ring mit Halbkugeln – gold, rose quarz, pearl, diamond-split in bronze, malachite enamel – 2005 -Gallery S O London

 

 

LECTURE SERIES :
Thursday, Friday and Saturday, April 14-16
in the Armory’s Tiffany Room

*THURSDAY, April 14 – 11:30 am – 12:30 pm :
For People Who are Slightly Mad : American Modernist Jewelry
A review of the iconoclastic artists who translated the excitement of surrealism and modernism into wearable jewelry. Their work will be seen in Crafting Modernism: Mid-century American Art and Design at the Museum of Arts and Design, NY in October 2011. Jeannine Falino, Curator, Museum of Arts and Design, NY
Cosponsored by Society of North American Goldsmiths (SNAG) and Art Jewelry Forum (AJF)

Jay De Feo

 

 *FRIDAY, April 15 – 1:30 – 2:30 pm : Sometimes
New Zealand artist Lisa Walker makes jewellery out of a vast collection of materials – plastic, wood, paper, gold, fabric, clay, dirt, dust, aluminum, paint – the list goes on. Her talk will be a retrospective look at pieces and projects of the last 20 years, looking at what extremes are possible, questioning and researching what jewellery means, what it can be.
Represented by Jewelers’ Werk Galerie

Lisa Walker

* SATURDAY, April 16 – 1:30 – 2:30 pm :
Sergey Jivetin and Jennifer Trask: Two Visions
Jewelry artists Jennifer Trask and Sergey Jivetin discuss their individual ideologies and shared studio practices.  Trask will talk about the evolution of her most recent series, “Embodiment”, which encompasses both sculptural and wearable works. Jivetin will elaborate on the role of experimental techniques and materials.
Represented by Ornamentum,
Presented by the Society of North American Goldsmiths (SNAG)

Jennifer Trask  —   Sergey Jivetin

 

 SOFA N.Y.
Park Avenue Armory
Park Avenue at 67th Street
New York, NY, 10021