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26/11/2016

EXPO ‘20/20/20’ – Galerie Noel Guyomarc’h, Montreal (CA) – 26 Nov. 2016-25 Fevr. 2017

20/20/20

Galerie Noel Guyomarc’h‎ 

Inauguration vendredi 25 novembre à 17:00 – 20:00

20 Ans / 20 Artistes Canadiens / 20 Artistes Internationaux – Galerie Noel Guyomarch:

«La Galerie Noel Guyomarc’h est impliquée dans un grand dessein. Son objectif? Faire découvrir au plus grand monde qu’il existe une forme d’art que l’on peut porter» Susan Cummins, Présidente du Art Jewelry Forum, Conseillère en joaillerie pour la Fondation Rotasa.

Josée Desjardins -  Oracle, 2016 Bague en argent, orthose, porcelaine, linoleumJosée Desjardins -  Oracle, 2016 Bague en argent, orthose, porcelaine, linoleum

C’est en 1992 que Noel Guyomarc’h, alors assistant dans une bijouterie montréalaise, expérimente le choc de sa première rencontre avec le bijou contemporain. Ce jour, la créatrice québécoise Barbara Stutman présente un bracelet composé de tubes en plastique et de fil d’argent. Profondément intrigué par cette pièce unique, il cesse alors de percevoir le bijou comme un simple ornement et réalise que ce dernier peut véhiculer un message, une réflexion, et proposer une approche nouvelle, tant esthétique que conceptuelle. Au cours des années suivantes, Noel Guyomarc’h approfondit ses recherches sur le sujet et rencontre de nombreux artistes. Il n’aura dès lors de cesse de questionner le bijou et la pratique même de la joaillerie contemporaine. Il ouvre sa galerie, entièrement dédiée au bijou contemporain, en 1996. Depuis plus de 20 ans maintenant, Noel Guyomarc’h agit comme commissaire, diffuseur, promoteur et conseiller. Son expérience et son goût lui valent d’être aujourd’hui reconnu comme l’un des principaux spécialistes de la discipline au Québec et à l’international. Il a organisé plus de 90 expositions, individuelles et collectives, parfois itinérantes. Régulièrement invité en tant que jury et conférencier, il est depuis quelques années évaluateur, entre autres, pour le musée des Beaux Arts de Montréal. De par un dialogue personnel, la promotion d’expositions ou encore l’expérience d’ateliers créatifs, Noel Guyomarc’h a su accompagner et pousser les artistes dans leurs reflexions tout en leur offrant une nouvelle visibilité, à la galerie tout d’abord mais aussi sur la scène internationale comme récemment à SOFA Chicago. Questionner le bijou comme objet d’art, l’ouvrir à de nouvelles inspirations, explorer de nouvelles voies de fabrication et d’interprétation, voici quelques unes des pistes que la galerie choisit de mettre en avant. Elle valorise ainsi des artistes qui proposent une esthétique originale et innovatrice, qui questionnent le bijou, son impact, sa relation au corps, les possibilités et limites des matériaux et des techniques, et qui, en un mot, cherchent à le réinventer. D’un petit espace dans un édifice culturel rue Sainte Catherine, la galerie s’est ensuite installée au 137 avenue Laurier ouest avant de déménager Boulevard St Laurent il y a 5 ans. Elle est aujourd’hui la seule galerie dédiée uniquement à la discipline du bijou contemporain au Canada. Le 25 novembre prochain, c’est avec fierté et émotion que la galerie Noel Guyomarc’h célèbrera ses vingt années d’existence.  Une exposition anniversaire « 20/20/20 : 20 ans, 20 artistes canadiens, 20 artistes internationaux » présentera à cette occasion les travaux de plusieurs artistes avec lesquels Noel Guyomarc’h travaille régulièrement depuis des années : 20 créateurs de bijoux canadiens et 20 créateurs étrangers qui, tous, ont répondu présent à l’invitation. Ils présenteront de nouvelles pièces, spécifiquement créées pour l’exposition. Témoignage à la fois de la richesse de cette pratique artistique et de la tache colossale accomplie par Noël Guyomarc’h au cours de ces 20 dernières années, l’exposition mettra en scène des artistes reconnus internationalement comme l’espagnol Ramon Puig Cuyas, l’américaine Rebecca Hannon ou encore le canadien Paul McClure, récent récipiendaire du prestigieux Prix Saidye Bronfman, mais aussi de jeunes créateurs émergents (Gabrielle Desmarais, Silvie Altschuler, Anne-Marie Rébillard…) pour qui l’appui de Noel Guyomarc’h a été décisif.

 

20 Artistes Canadiens : Silvie Altschuler –  Bridget Catchpole –  Josée Desjardins –  Gabrielle Desmarais — Christine Dwane –  Anne Fauteux –  Vivienne Jones –  Janis Kerman –  Christine Larochelle – Petra Luz – Paul McClure –  Pierre-Yves Paquette –  Anne-Marie Rébillard –  Pamela Ritchie – Dorothée Rosen — Jan Smith –  Kye-Yeon Son – Despo Sophocleous –  Barbara Stutman –  Lawrence Woodford

20 Artistes Internationaux : Dina Abargil – Ela Bauer – Edith Bellod – Monika Brugger Ramon Puig Cuyas Sandra Enterline – Grego Garcia Tebar – Rebecca Hannon – Arthur Hash – Mirjam Hiller – Yu Hiraishi – Peter Hoogeboom – Yong Joo Kim Judy McCaig – Biba Schutz Silke SpitzerLuzia Vogt Andrea Wagner – Silvia Walz – Shu-Lin Wu

Bridget Catchpole, Dear, What Have You Done With Nana’s Pearl?, 2016, Perles, plastique, argent, rubanBridget Catchpole, Dear, What Have You Done With Nana’s Pearl?, 2016, Perles, plastique, argent, ruban

 Ramon Puig Cuyas -  N°1529, 2014 ‘Suite Dresden : An invisible Landscape’, nickel silver, enamelRamon Puig Cuyas -  N°1529, 2014 ‘Suite Dresden : An invisible Landscape’, nickel silver, enamel

 Silvia Walz, Wind from the South- West, 2016 Broche en acier et émail Silvia Walz, Wind from the South- West, 2016 Broche en acier et émail

 Mirjam Hiller, Arcanes cities and Landscapes, 2014 Broche en acier, titane et poudre thermoplastique Mirjam Hiller, Arcanes cities and Landscapes, 2014 Broche en acier, titane et poudre thermoplastique

Pamela Ritchie, Alien Landscape, 2016 Broche en bois, polymère, argent, peinturePamela Ritchie, Alien Landscape, 2016 Broche en bois, polymère, argent, peinture

Grego Garcia Tebar, Loro Extasiado, 2016 Pendentif en méthacrylate, plastique, argent, cristalGrego Garcia Tebar, Loro Extasiado, 2016 Pendentif en méthacrylate, plastique, argent, cristal

 

 

Galerie Noel Guyomarc’h
4836 boulevard St-Laurent
H2T 1R5 - Montreal CANADA
info@galerienoelguyomarch.com
tel (514) 840 9362   

 

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15/07/2016

Mari Funaki award 2016 – EXPO at Gal. Funaki (AU) – 23 Aout-24 Sept. 2016

2016 Mari Funaki Award for Contemporary Jewellery

The winners of the Mari Funaki Award  will be announced at the opening on Tuesday 23 August 2016.

The Mari Funaki Award for Contemporary Jewellery is a biennial international Award that showcases excellence in international and Australian contemporary jewellery. Thirty-five artists have been shortlisted from an international field of 413 entries from 48 countries.

Mari Funaki award 2014Mari Funaki award 2014

The selected exhibitors are:
Blanche Tilden (Au) / Céline Sylvestre (Fr) / David Bielander (CH/De) / Doris Betz (De) / Dovile Bernadisiute (Lithuania) / Ela Bauer (Nl) / Emi Fukuda (Jp) / Florian Milker (De) / Frieda Doerfer (De) / Genevieve Howard (Irl) / Henriette Schuster (De) / Inari Kiuru (Fi/Au) / Karl Fritsch (De/NZ) / Katie Collins (Au) / Katja Prins (Nl) / Katrin Feulner (De) / Lauren Tickle (USA) / Léa Mazy (Fr) / Lisa Walker (NZ) / Manon van Kouswijk (Nl/Au) / Melanie Isverding (De) / Melinda Young (Au) / Melissa Cameron (Au) / Michihiro Sato (Jp) / Nadja Soloviev (De) / Naoko Inuzuka (Jp/Au) / Paul Adie (UK) / Shachar Cohen (Il) / Sarah Johnston (Au) / Selen Özus (Tr) / Sophie Baumgärtner (De) / Thanh-Truc Nguyen (De) / WenMiao Yeh (Tw) /
Yong Joo Kim (S. Kr) / Yu Fang Chi (Tw)

 Kiko Gianocca, Veneer #2 neckpiece, 2014, wood veneer, balsawood, brass. Winner of the 2014 Mari Funaki Award.Kiko Gianocca, Veneer #2 neckpiece, 2014, wood veneer, balsawood, brass. Winner of the 2014 Mari Funaki Award.

Melissa Cameron. Piece: Ruchnoy Protivotankovy Granatomyot, 2016. Powdercoated steel hand trowel, stainless steel, ribbon, various dimensions. Necklace, brooch, pin. - selected for Mari Funaki award 2016: Melissa Cameron. Piece: Ruchnoy Protivotankovy Granatomyot, 2016. Powdercoated steel hand trowel, stainless steel, ribbon, various dimensions. Necklace, brooch, pin

David Bielander. Bracelet: Cardboard, 2015. Patinated silver, white gold. Photo by: Dirk Eisel. - selected for Mari Funaki award 2016: David Bielander. Bracelet: Cardboard, 2015. Patinated silver, white gold. Photo by: Dirk Eisel

Genevieve Howard. Necklace: The Song of the Chanter, 2016. Laser cut Japanese linen paper, elastic. - selected for Mari Funaki award 2016: Genevieve Howard. Necklace: The Song of the Chanter, 2016. Laser cut Japanese linen paper, elastic

Yong Joo Kim. Necklace: Crossing the Chasm, 2016. Velcro® hook and loop fastener, thread. - selected for Mari Funaki award 2016: Yong Joo Kim. Necklace: Crossing the Chasm, 2016. Velcro® hook and loop fastener, thread

Manon van Kouswijk. Necklace: Figures. Porcelain. - selected for Mari Funaki award 2016: Manon van Kouswijk. Necklace: Figures. Porcelain

Léa Mazy (FR) -  Beneath the surface -  2016  Léa Mazy -  Beneath the surface -  2016 – Léa is a young French designer studying at Design Academy Eindhoven.  Léa ’s jewelry collection “Beneath the Surface” is the result of a research on materials around the notions of intimacy, preciousness, fragility, surprise, but most of all on the beauty lying underneath the surface. Combined, the individual story of each broches and rings creates a personal narration and landscape.

 

Mari Funaki was a unique and passionate advocate for contemporary jewellery in Australia, both through her own remarkable practice and her establishment and directorship of Gallery Funaki.
This Award aims to celebrate Mari’s legacy by rewarding the skills and vision of jewellers both here and overseas and by providing a platform for outstanding new work to be shown here in Australia. A panel of three judges will award prizes in both established and emerging categories, with total prize money valued at AUD$11,000.

 

Gallery FUNAKI
4 Crossley Street
Melbourne, Victoria
Australia 3000
PO Box 24142
Melbourne, Victoria
Australia 3001
Email
tel +613 9662 9446

 

06/09/2015

EXPO ‘Yong Joo Kim – Crossing the Chasm’ – Gallery Ahwon, Seoul (Korea) – 9-20 Sept 2015

Classé dans : Exposition/Exhibition,GALERIES,Korea (KR),Yong JOO KIM (S.KR) — bijoucontemporain @ 0:08

Yong Joo Kim’s Solo Exhibition, « Crossing the Chasm: Beyond the Threshold of Survival and Imagination« , to be showcased at the gallery Ahwon in Seoul, Korea.

2015. 9. 9. (Wed) – 9.20 (Sun)

Opening reception : Wednesday, 9 September, 5 – 7pm.
Please join us to meet the artist.

Yong Joo Kim  Gallery Ahwon - 9-20 sept 2015

 For the past 6 years, artist Yong Joo Kim has focused exclusively on working with one material, hook and loop fasteners. It is a material people often find unattractive, mundane, or insignificant, but through a series of dialogues with the material, she has continually produced works of art inspired by the qualities of beauty uncovered from within the material. Just as important as the beauty is the surprise. Most recently, she has limited herself to merely three distinct shapes of hook and loop fasteners. She wondered if she could survive with such harsh limitation.
Pushing this material to its limits, she started to experiment by generating many diverse sets of forms by combining one or more of the three shapes. During this time, she was surprised to see unexpected link between survival, variety, and mastery.
Ashby’s Law of Requisite Variety states that only variety can absorb variety. What he means is that, in order to master any problem or process, we have to be able to bring more variety to bear than is inherent in the situation.
To put it more simply, think of two jazz players improvising: one plays a certain melody and another responds with a different melody. Even when an unexpected melody is played, a master improviser has the ability to choose the most appropriate response that expresses the feeling they desire while maintaining the integrity of the ensemble. In this regard, mastery is the stage that one reaches by acquiring a sufficient variety of responses that empowers one to deal with this kind of interaction.
If the jazz players’ continuous playing is analogous to an artists’ being able to keep generating new forms, and the ability to continue generating new forms is related to surviving as an artist, what is the relationship between variety and survival? Could the process of survival be inextricably linked to the process of achieving mastery? These questions have intrigued Yong Joo greatly, and have been fueling her most recent explorations.

Yong Joo Kim Necklace 2015 Material: Velcro Brand hook and loop fasteners, Thread and Sterling Silver Photography by Studio MunchYong Joo Kim- Necklace 2015 – Velcro Brand hook and loop fasteners, Thread and Sterling Silver -Photo by Studio Munch

 Yong Joo Kim / Necklace: Transitions in Red II, 2015 Material: Velcro Brand Hook-and-loop fastener, thread / 35 × 29 × 4 cm Photo by: Studio Munch Yong Joo Kim – Necklace: Transitions in Red II, 2015 – Velcro Brand Hook-and-loop fastener, thread / 35 × 29 × 4 cm Photo by: Studio Munch

Yong Joo Kim  Gallery Ahwon - 9-20 sept 2015Yong Joo Kim

Yong Joo Kim - bunch to dream with .......Yong Joo Kim – bunch to dream with …….

Yong Joo KimYong Joo Kim

Yong Joo Kim braceletsYong Joo Kim bracelets

Yong Joo Kim - Reconfiguring the Ordinary / 2008/ Neckpiece / Hook-and-loop fastenerYong Joo Kim - Reconfiguring the Ordinary / 2008/ Neckpiece / Hook-and-loop fastener

 

Gallery Ahwon
3,Bukchon-ro 5ga-gil,
Jongno-gu,
Seoul – South Korea, 110-200
galleryahwon@hotmail.com
Yong Joo Kim press@yongjookim.com
Read More: http://bit.ly/1Q0OayqOpening hours:
Monday – Sunday 11am- 6pm
Admission is free.

20/08/2014

Cominelli awards 2014 – Fondazione Cominelli (IT) – 30 Aout-5 Oct. 2014

 COMINELLI awards
30 AGOSTO h 18:00 INAUGURAZIONE E PREMIAZIONE DELLE OPERE SELEZIONATE
AGC associazione gioiello contemporaneo. - Cominelli awards 2014
Photo de AGC associazione gioiello contemporaneo.
With the fifth edition of the Fondazione Cominelli Award for Contemporary Jewellery 2014, there will also be the exhibition of the works of the Permanent Collection of Contemporary Jewellery; each edition will enrich the Collection with new works, some by the competition participants and others by artists selected by the Gallerist Rita Marcangelo.
 
 
SONO STATI SELEZIONATI I 34 AUTORI PER IL PREMIO FONDAZIONE COMINELLI 2014 – SELECTION 2014 :  ALEJANDRA SOLAR – ALJA NEUNER — BABETTE VON DOHNANYI BARBARA UDERZOCLAIRE LAVENDHOMME CLAUDE SCHMITZDIANA DUDEKFABIANA GADANOFARRAH-AL DUJAILIFLORA VAGIFRANCINE SCHLOETHFUMIKI TAGUCHIGABI VEITHANA CHOIHEIDEMARIE HERB — HEIKO NAKAHARA — ISABELL SCHAUPP –  JESSICA TURRELL –  JUDY McCAIGKAREN VANMOLKARIN ROY ANDERSSON — MARCO MINELLI – MARIANNE SCHLIWINSKI — MELISSA CAMERONMICHAEL BERGER — NICOLE TAUBINGER — NIKI STYLIANOUSILKE TREKEL SUNGHO CHOTRINIDAD CONTRERAS –  ULRIKE KLEINE-BEHNKE — VIVI TOULOUMIDIYONG JOO KIMYU HIRAISHI

 

Fondazione Cominelli
Palazzo Cominelli
- Cisano di San Felice del Benaco
Italy

website: www.agc-it.org
mail: premiocominelli@agc-it.org

26/08/2013

EXPO ‘Yong Joo Kim : Spotlight’ – Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge (USA) – 15 Aout-28 Sept. 2013

Classé dans : Exposition/Exhibition,Gal. Mobilia (US),USA,Yong JOO KIM (S.KR) — bijoucontemporain @ 0:10

« Yong Joo Kim: Spotlight » -  Mobilia Gallery  15-Aug-2013 – 28-Sep-2013

From August 15th through September 28th, Mobilia Gallery is pleased to spotlight the innovative sculptural jewelry of Yong Joo Kim, created from ordinary materials such as velcro and thread.Yong Joo Kim
« My work introduces unconventional use of familiar artifacts into a world full of conventions. By assembling, grouping, clustering, and piling, the small and simple elements become complex, and give rise to the unexpected. As the wearer approaches my work, the experience of perspective shifts and sudden realizations spark wonder, discovery, tension, joy and play. My investigation of creation, innovation, and transformation questions the definition of value, and provides a never-ending field for invention. » – Yong Joo Kim
Yong Joo Kim: Neckpiece, Requisite Variety S2-EV9, Velcro® hook and loop fasteners and Thread, 16” x 14” x 1”, 2013  Photographer: Harry Gould Harvey IV
Yong Joo Kim: Neckpiece, Requisite Variety S2-EV9, Velcro® hook, loop fasteners, Thread, 16” x 14” x 1”, 2013  Photo Harry Gould Harvey IV Yong Joo Kim : Brooch, Requisite Variety S2-EV8, Velcro® hook and loop fasteners and Sterling Silver, 6” x 8” x 4”, 2013 Photographer: Harry Gould Harvey IV
Yong Joo Kim : Brooch, Requisite Variety S2-EV8, Velcro® hook, loop fasteners, Sterling Silver, 6x8x4”, 2013 Photo Harry Gould Harvey IV
Yong Joo Kim, Bracelet In Light of Space: Overlapped and Twice Spiraled Grey Velcro® Hook-and-loop fastener, Thread 5x 5 x 7” Photographer: Harry Gould Harvey IV
Yong Joo Kim, Bracelet In Light of Space: Overlapped and Twice Spiraled Grey Velcro® Hook-and-loop fastener, Thread 5x 5 x 7” Photo Harry Gould Harvey IV
Yong Joo Kim - 2012 Reconfiguring the Ordinary / 2008/ Neckpiece / Hook-and-loop fastener
Yong Joo Kim – 2012 Reconfiguring the Ordinary – Neckpiece – Hook-and-loop fastener

 

Mobilia Gallery
358 Huron Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
Phone: 1-617-876-2109
e-mail: mobiliaart@verizon.net
website: www.mobilia-gallery.com

17/07/2013

EXPO ‘Seams | Seems’ – MADA gallery, Melbourne (Australia) – 17 Juill.-20 Aout 2013

« Seams | Seems » 17 July – 20 August 2013  Exhibition and symposium curated by Marian Hosking (MADA – Monash University Art Design & Architecture) and Robin Quigley (Rhode Island School of Design).
Seams: bringing together, fitting, joining and overlapping.
Seems: to appear to have a particular quality.

Opening Address 19 July, 6pm Professor Edward Byrne AO, Vice Chancellor & President, Monash University

Seams | Seems 17 July - 20 August 2013
Upcoming exhibition  Seams | Seemswhich is a collaborative alumni exhibition by Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and Monash University in Australia. This exhibition will represent a diverse selection of jewelry and objects to emphasize and broaden the discourse around where the boundaries lie for jewelry in 2013. The exhibition will be open from this Wed, the 17th of July until the 20th Aug, 2013 at the MADA Gallery, Melbourne in Australia. The opening event will be held on the 19th of July at 6pm.

Right now, our faculties, Robin Quigley and Tracy Steepy are officially in Australia representing the work of the RISD Jewelry and Metalsmithing Alumni and Faculty. They have begun the installation of the exhibition. Thank you so much, Robin and Tracy !! I will update you when I receive more photos from the exhibition.

Here are the participating Artists from RISD: Yoshie EndaKate FurmanYong Joo Kim — Hye Yeon Park — Lauren TickleMariah TuttleMallory WestonRobin Quigley — Tracy Steepy.

From MADA  : Melissa Cameron — Vito Bila — Lousje Skala — Laura DeakinJill Hermans — Biatta Kelly — Christine Scott-Young — Penelope Pollard — Maureen Faye Chauhan — Meredith Turnbull.

Kate Furman   "Reconciled" - brooch -     (2012 MFA in Jewelry + Metalsmithing at Rhode Island School of Design) - -   http://www.katefurman.com
Kate Furman   « Reconciled » – brooch -     (2012 MFA in Jewelry + Metalsmithing at Rhode Island School of Design)

Yong Joo Kim : Brooch, Requisite Variety S2-EV8, Velcro hook and loop fasteners and Sterling Silver, 6” x 8” x 4”, 2013

 Yong Joo Kim : Brooch, Requisite Variety S2-EV8, Velcro hook and loop fasteners and Sterling Silver, 6” x 8” x 4”, 2013

Lauren Tickle, 27, who is based in Brooklyn, New York, painstakingly transformed paper money into intricate brooches, necklaces and earrings.
Lauren Tickle, $12.50 Brooch, US Currency, Silver, Latex, and Monofilament, 2011
YOSHIE ENDA - Presence : Arms - silicone
Yoshie Enda –  Presence : Arms – silicone
Hye Yeon Park's “Grasping at Clouds”
Hye Yeon Park -  “Grasping at Clouds”
Tracy Steepy - steepy plyportraits -  2012 - resin, wood, steel  http://www.siennagallery.com/
Tracy Steepy – steepy plyportraits -  2012 – resin, wood, steel
Laura Deakin brooch.
Laura Deakin brooch
Turnbull_main_large
Meredith Turnbull – Red-and-Green-painted-brooch
Maureen Faye-Chauhan, Octahedral brooch (2011)

Maureen Faye-Chauhan, Octahedral brooch (2011)

MADA Gallery is located at the Caulfield campus of Monash University
MADA Gallery
Building G, Ground Floor
900 Dandenong Rd
Caulfield East Victoria 3145
t+61 3 9903 2882
eMADA.Gallery@monash.edu

28/02/2013

Schmuck 2013 – TALENTE 2013 – competition/awards

Talente 2013 Competition Munich Germany jewelry award

Klimt02: Talente 2013 Competition Munich Germany jewelry award

Young artist working in the applied arts and technology will have the opportunity to show their work in the international competition TALENTE 2013 in Munich, Germany, during the International Trade Fair for the Skilled Trades from 6th – 12th March 2013.
In an area of 600 m², the works will be shown to a wide audience, with an international jury selecting the winners of the TALENTE prize. An illustrated catalogue will be published.
The aim of TALENTE is to promote young people with a particular manual talent and to show an interested audience the enormous potential which lies in the new generation in crafts and trades. The works will be the outcome of formal or technical considerations and experiments, showing something new and exceptional.
Participants are chosen from any section of crafts and technology. They will have made the artefact by their own hands. Age limit is set at 33 in the domains of crafts, and at 35 in the domain of technology.

 

Selected artist for Schmuck/Jewellery :

Anna Ameling, Germany – Penka Arabova, Bulgaria/Germany – Andrea Coderch, Spain –  Adela Fejtkova, Czek Republic – Alexander Friedrich, Germany – Emi Fukuda, Japan/Germany – Tatjana Giorgadse, Georgian Republic/Germany – Eva Girbes, Spain – Jennifer Gray, Great Britian – Anna-Karin Haag, Sweden – Levan Jishkariani, Georgian Republic/Germany – Lydia Jones, /Great Britain – Sunyoung Kim, South Korea – Yong Joo Kim, South Korea/USA – Panjapol Kulpapangkorn, Thailand –  Yujin Lee, South Korea – Weronika Marek, Poland/Norway – Florian Milker, Germany – Marta Roca Solé, Spain – Yeseul Seo, South Korea – Hedvig Glomsrød Sommerfeldt, Norway – Shih-Dea Tseng, Taiwan – Nelly Van Oost, France – Laurence Verdier, France – Yan Zhang, China

Lydia Jones Necklace: Bottle Lids Porcelain, plastic lids, linen thread, slip casting (talente 2013)Lydia Jones Necklace: Bottle Lids Porcelain, plastic lids, linen thread, slip casting

Yan Zhang, CN (talente 2013)Yan Zhang, CN

Andrea Coderch (from Alchimia) brooches -(Talente 2013)Andrea Coderch (from Alchimia) brooches « Querida Yun » Gold, silver, Japanese fabric, cotton 3 x 3 x 1 cm each

Weronika Marek -  My work will be part of Talente exhibition 2013 (6th-12th of March) in Munich,Weronika Marek

Penka Arabova  Brooch: Haven  Agate, silver, poxipol, drilled, cut, soldered, glued  8 x 11 x 3 cm       (Talente 2013)Penka Arabova  Brooch: Haven  Agate, silver, poxipol, drilled, cut, soldered, glued  8 x 11 x 3 cm
Yong Joo Kim  Bracelets: In light of Space  Hook and loop fasteners, thread (talente 2013)Yong Joo Kim  Bracelets: In light of Space  Hook and loop fasteners, thread
Nelly van OostNelly van Oost

03/10/2012

EXPO ‘Yong Joo Kim @ Simple Matter(s)’ – Simple Matter(s), Prague (Czech Republic) – 1-7 Oct. 2012 –

Yong Joo Kim at Simple Matter(s)

The labo Matério at Design Block  (Prague, Czech Republic)  01-Oct-2012 – 07-Oct-2012

After the recent success at Maison et Objet in Paris, the exhibition “SIMPLE MATTER(S)”, The labo Matério will be once again showcasing a selection from Yong Joo Kim’s 2012 body of work, « In light of Space » at an exhibition under the theme « Simple matter(s) », which will be presented at the 14th edition of DESIGNBLOK in Prague, Czech Republic during Prague Design and Fashion week (Oct 1-7, 2012).
SIMPLE MATTER(S) is curated by Elodie Ternaux from matériO Laboratory and dedicated to the pureness of simple materials and to the importance of simplicity in contemporary design. Regrouping a selection of materials, technologies, and designs that question our ability to come back to fundamental values. How to, in a complex world, combine sophistication and disarming simplicity?

 Yong Joo Kim at Simple Matter(s)    Artists: Yong Joo Kim  Place: The labo Matério at Design Block  (Prague, Czech Republic)  01-Oct-2012 - 07-Oct-2012    website: www.materio.com  website: www.designblok.cz  mail: info@materio.com

 

Yong Joo Kim Bracelets: In Light of Space: Overlapped and Raised by Four (Left)/ In Light of Space: Overlapped and Raised by Six (Right) 2012 Black Hook-and-loop fastener, ThreadYong Joo Kim  Bracelets: In Light of Space – 2012  Black Hook-and-loop fastener, Thread -  Overlapped and Raised by Four (Left)/ Overlapped and Raised by Six (Right)

 

 

Ethics of Wearable Art (예술장신구의 윤리) 

 

Designblok :  Prague Design and Fashion Week – 1.—7. 10. 2012
www.materio.com
www.designblok.cz
mail: info@materio.com

23/07/2011

Yong Joo Kim : Reconfiguring the Ordinary

Classé dans : COUP DE COEUR,RISD (US),Yong JOO KIM (S.KR) — bijoucontemporain @ 21:13

Yong Joo Kim

upcoming exhibition :
*Reconfiguring the Ordinary II (Nov 22- Dec 1, 2011 )
Hangaram Design Museum of Seoul Arts center, Seoul, Korea

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« Why I do what I do

After reading the past two posts on competition and plastic surgery, some people asked me how those subjects relate to my work. So today, I wanted to share more of the story behind my work.
I was born and raised in Seoul, the metropolitan capital of Korea, teeming with a population of over ten million. While Seoul is a beautiful city on the surface, what lies beneath is the seldom talked about presence of the cutthroat competition that permeates the culture.
Immersed in competition, I was taught that recognition was the ultimate goal. My peers believed that scoring high on exams, and entering high-ranked universities were the only ways to gain recognition. For my female colleagues and I, competition didn’t end in academics. While I was too afraid of going under the knife, ten of my friends eventually went on to receive plastic surgery. They believed firmly that beauty affords greater probability of getting a good job or finding a successful husband: both effective ways to gain recognition.
A similar desire to achieve beauty was the goal of my undergraduate artwork. I started each project with a clear vision of what each piece should look like. I then judged and valued my work based on how closely my production matched the design. I spent a long time filing, sanding, and polishing precious metals. I did not enjoy this process, but I felt that it was a small price to pay to achieve the beauty that I so desired.
All this changed when I moved to Providence for graduate work. Living in a different city came as a shock. I was completely alone, and it was hard to meet people. The culture shock, the language barrier, and the workload all made it very difficult for me to feel at home.
I then realized that without the cultural restrictions of home, I am able to explore my environments more freely. I didn’t know what the social norm was so I wasn’t pressured by it. With nobody to stare at, and nobody to be stared by, I started to dress down. Day by day, I felt the longing for beauty start to dissolve. In its place was now a new desire: a desire to explore the new environment, to understand, internalize, and to empathize.
Through this process of exploration, I realized that the world is full of unnoticed objects. I found such overlooked objects beautiful. As I began to recognize their full potential, I was compelled to collect them.
I became interested in taking these mundane objects and evolving them into something new. Instead of my usual repertoire of precious metals, my choice of materials now came from the corners of our everyday lives. By assembling, grouping, clustering, and piling these small and simple elements, I learned that beauty could emerge from an unexpected source.
As the wearer approaches my work, I hope their perspective shifts and the sudden and unexpected realizations spark wonder, discovery, tension, joy, and play.  This approach challenges the traditional and cultural notions of value in jewelry, which focuses on expensive metals and stones that emphasize the wealth of the wearer. I am looking forward to  introducing unconventional use of familiar artifacts into a world full of conventions. » (july 2011)

283360_240702722625643_155240861171830_932980_4457566_n dans RISD (US)
Yong Joo Kim- Reconfiguring the Ordinary: Rounded, Aligned and Twisted #1, neckpiece  – Velcro, thread

 

« Think of beans, straws, pins, nails, velcro, snaps, cable ties, and electric caps. These objects are not normally considered beautiful or valuable. I explore the value of such mundane objects, and discover their hidden beauty through a process of reconfiguration. Think of the velcro: a long strip of rough, bland, and industrial object, seen on shoes, bags, watches, and at the grocery store. As I pay close attention to it and its system of organization in my environment, I find new ways of looking, new ways of decomposing and composing them, and new ways of creating a relationship between it and our body. My work introduces unconventional use of familiar artifacts into a world full of conventions.

By assembling, grouping, clustering, and piling, the simple elements become complex, and give rise to the unexpected. As the wearer approaches my work, their perspective shifts and sudden realizations spark wonder, discovery, tension, joy and play. My investigation of creation, innovation, and transformation questions the definition of value, and provides a never-ending field for invention  « 

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Yong Joo Kim-velcro necklace

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Yong Joo Kim

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Yong Joo Kim2010

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« This spring 2010 work is an extension of my previous body of work, Reconfiguring the Ordinary. After graduation, I was left with a limited set of tools and equipments at my home studio. Given the limitations, I focused on a single material, Velcro, which can be freely cut, attached, stacked, piled, rolled, bent and sewn together with my own bare hands or by using simple hand tools. With the material at hand, I began to explore a wide variety of possibilities in form. Given the physical properties afforded by Velcro, I was also able to experiment with the fabrication of unusually large pieces as well. » Yong Joo Kim

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Yong Joo Kim2010

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Yong Joo Kim2010

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Yong Joo Kim2010

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Yong Joo Kim2010

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Yong Joo KimRISD graduate show embraces the new austerity – 2009 – « The pieces in Yong Joo Kim’s « Reconfiguring the Ordinary » collection are made from an unlikely mix of Velcro, zip ties and dried beans. »

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Yong Joo Kim- 2008

 

12/01/2011

PREZIOSA YOUNG 2011 – 30 selected artists for the final

PREZIOSA YOUNG 2011 - 30 selected artists for the final dans Christiane KOEHNE (DE) 167881_10150124987219954_662939953_7934263_5107161_n

PREZIOSA YOUNG 2011

Since 2008 PY is the international competition/exhibition dedicated to young designers chosen for their individual research and the originality of their creations. This project was conceived and coordinated by Giò Carbone, Director of « Le Arti Orafe”, since 1985 Contemporary Jewellery School in Florence

For the 2011’s edition, the Art historian Dr. Maria Cristina Bergesio was called to give a critical contribution for the catalogue and to be responsible for the selection of the participants.
The first selection indicated the 30 finalists from among the 180 participants from all over the world
The international panel in charge of choosing the eight winner artists met in February 2011, during the fair inhorgenta, and was composed by:
*Dr. Petra Hölscher, senior curator at the Neue Sammlung, Monaco Munich, Germany;
*Dr. Wolfgang Lösche, Leiter der Abteilung Messen und Austellungen, Handwerkskultur, Formgebungsberatung, Akademie für Gestaltung, Galerie Handwerk, Munich, Germany;
*Dr. Barbara Schmidt, Director of the Bildungszentrum für Gestaltung in Munich, Germany;
*The artist Helen Britton, Australia;
*Dr. Maria Cristina Bergesio, art critic, Florence, Italy
The jury had chosen the 8 participants for the exhibition 2011, as follow
Dana Hakim, Israel/Italy
Sam Hamilton, Ireland
Hanna Hedman, Sweden
Lisa Juen, China
Heejoo Kim, South Korea
Seul-Gi Kwon, South Korea
Marie Pendariès, Spain
Elena Ruebel, Germany
A special prize (a  2.000 Euro’s voucher for one of the participants, as a contribution for the rental of a booth at Inhorgenta 2012) was awarded by the Exhibition Management of Inhorgenta Fair, partner of PREZIOSA project, to the Korean artist Heejoo Kim

I nomi dei 30 selezionati per la finale.
La giuria internazionale che si riunirà a Monaco di Baviera, durante Inhorgenta 2011, sceglierà gli 8 artisti che parteciperanno alla mostra PREZIOSA YOUNG 2011

The names of the 30 selected artists for the final.
The international jury will meet in Munich (Germany), during Inhorgenta 2011, and will select the 8 artists participating to PREZIOSA YOUNG 2011 exhibition.

Anna Osmer AndersenClaire BalogeChristiane KoehneDana Hakim — Elena RuebelFarrah Al-DujailiHanna HedmanHeejoo KimHyorim Lee — Jihyun LeeJimin KimKatharina MochKelly mcCallumLisa JuenMaria MamkaevaMaria SolorzanoMarie PendarièsMärta MattssonMisun WonNicolas ChengNicole BauerSabine LangSam HamiltonSaori KitaDanni Schwaag Oh SerinSeul-gi KwonShu-Lin Wu — Yi LiuYong Joo Kim.

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Christiane Koehne

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Claire Baloge

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Farrah Al-Dujaili

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Katharina Moch

Dana hakim
Dana Hakim

Lisa Juean - preziosa Young 2011Lisa Juen

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Maria Mamkaeva

Marie Pendariès - Preziosa Young 2011Marie Pendariès

165166_10150125541574954_662939953_7944827_6610915_n dans Jimin KIM (S.KR)
Märta Mattsson

168942_10150125541709954_662939953_7944831_2689987_n dans Katharina MOCH (DE)
Nicolas Cheng

165754_10150125541864954_662939953_7944834_6917622_n dans Kelly McCALLUM (UK)
Oh Serin

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Sabine Lang

SeulGi KwonSeulGi Kwon

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Yong Joo Kim

Heejoo Kim
Heejoo Kim
Sam Hamilton

Sam Hamilton

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