Amani Bou Dargham, selected for TALENTE 2015

Amani Bou Dargham (Alchimia) is selected for Talente with her series “WHAT REMAINS?”

[Talente-Award presentation 2015 : 14 March 2015  16:30, Halle B1 Main stage of IHM (Internationalen Handwerksmesse Munich)]

« “what remains?” is a reflection about the self we create and we communicate to others. »

“We face the deepest emotions that are hidden away,
they slip through our hands and through our head.
They present themselves as a truth.

A truth that the eyes did not want to see nor the mind to think of.

A truth that reveals all the hidden remains and presents them as a reminder of your essence.

You are a carrier.

You are the carried.

You construct the link in between.”

Amani Bou Dargham – serie “WHAT REMAINS?”

Amani Bou Dargham

Amani Bou Dargham – serie “WHAT REMAINS ?”

The steel hooks that are forged around my body are the carrier of an ‘ephemeral’ object.

They are shaped around it and exist only because of it.
However the hooks are ever lasting while the source disappears.
One will remain with an empty steel rod to carry as a reminder of what was inside it.

Amani Bou Dargham: brooch, iron, paper 

Amani Bou Dargham – wood rings (Alchimia 2012-13, 2nd year)

selected for TALENTE 2015 : Koen Jacobs

Koen Jacobs (selected for Talente) with his series “DESTROYED BEAUTY”

[Talente-Award presentation 2015 : 14 March 2015  16:30, Halle B1 Main stage of IHM (Internationalen Handwerksmesse Munich)]

Exploring the relationship between two worlds : the upper and underworld.

“For me these worlds are not necessarily black and white, good and bad or life and death.
It can also be the reverse, with the upper world being hell and the underworld heaven.”

Koen Jacobs was student at Alchimia in 2013, now is at Gerrit Rietveld Academy. During Alchimia Graduation work 2013, « Koen Jacobs, dutch and the only boy in class had moved to Alchimia from the very technical and traditional school of Schonhooven. His work is a sign of his transformation as a maker and he has shown great  courage and has challenged his assumptions without holding back throughout the year. »

“During the creative process I was experimenting how to express this relationship through two materials, ebony wood and resin and how to let them become one. I found the answer in the circle of creation and destruction”

Koen Jacobs – afbeelding-2 – ‘Blue Reborn nr.5 Brooch, 2013
8 x 5 x 4 cm, made from: Ebony Wood, resin, silver, steel.
(mythological relationship between the upper and underworld with the tree as a symbolic connection)

Koen Jacobs – afbeelding-2  – ‘Blue Reborn nr.5 Brooch, 2013 8 x 5 x 4 cm, made from: Ebony Wood, resin, silver, steel. BACK

Koen Jacobs 2013 – Blue Life Brooch, 2013 – 10 x 6 x 4 cm, made from: Ebony Wood, resin, silver, steel.

Koen Jacobs – ‘Big Blue Pendant’, 2013
60 x 10 x 7 cm, made from: Ebony Wood, resin, silver, black rope.
(mythological relationship between the upper and underworld with the tree as a symbolic connection)

Koen Jacobs 2013 – Destroyed Beauty – Pendant, 60 x 10 x 7 cm – Ebony wood, resin, silver, black robe

Koen Jacobs   – ‘Downfall’, 2013 – 44 x 12 x 10 cm, made from: Ebony Wood, resin, zinc-plated steel.
(mythological relationship between the upper and underworld with the tree as a symbolic connection)

selected for SCHMUCK 2015 : Yuki Sumiya

Yuki Sumiya (selected for Schmuck) with her “GARDEN ” series

Yuki Sumiya was student at Alchimia. Experimenting with the ideal relationship between man and nature.

« The ordinary and the extraordinary, existence and disappearance, permanence and transience, inside and outside, stillness and flow, visible and invisible…
My central theme is duality: focusing on the co-existence of two concepts, and then looking at the relationship between the two. Through my jewellery, I tyr to make the invisible visible. »

« I see this, in the synthesis of the natural and man-made in a beautiful garden,
where the gardeners have thinned out the cedar trees,
erected fences incorporating the original trees,
and also sown lawns interspersed with concrete surfaces,
the perfect balance that can be achieved between nature and human intervention moves me.
I want to ask, “How can we, man and nature, co-exist?””

 Yuki Sumiya – Garden Brooch oxidized silver sponge wire

In the ‘Garden’ series, I’m principally experimenting with the ideal relationship between man and nature. When I see this, for example in the synthesis of the natural and man-made in a beautiful garden, where the gardeners have thinned out the cedar trees, erected fences incorporating the original trees, and also sown lawns interspersed with concrete surfaces, the perfect balance that can be achieved between nature and human intervention moves me. I want to ask, “How can we, man and nature, co-exist?”
In the ‘Garden’ series, both the materials, silver and synthetic sponge, come originally from under the earth, since synthetic sponge is made from oil. When I use green sponge in my work, I use it to symbolize nature, but actually it is a man-made copy of nature.
This complex aspect of the combination of natural metal with synthetic sponge also raises the question of where the value lies in the piece.Yuki Sumiya – “GARDEN ” Brooch -oxidized silver, sponge

 

Yuki Sumiya – “GARDEN ” series

Yuki Sumiya:  « garden » brooch oxidized silver, sponge

Yuki Sumiya – Garden Brooch oxidized silver sponge wire

Yuki Sumiya – Garden Brooch – 18K gold plated silver sponge

Yuki Sumiya - Blue pool / Brooch -  18K gold plated silver iron acrylic sponge

 

COUP de COEUR : Selen OZUS errors & more

Selen Özus jewelry …. a serie of « errors », a serie of little characters -between irony & tenderness- between drawing & jewel, that make you -me- smile, that touch your heart …..

 ​Selen Özus was born in Istanbul, Turkey in 1983. She got her BFA in Ceramic and Glass Design in Mimar Sinan Fine Art University, and completed a three year Jewellery Program in Alchimia Contemporary Jewellery School, Florence, Italy. She took classes from Peter Bauhuis, Manfred Bischoff and Ruudt Peters during her education in Alchimia. Selen Özus, attended various exhibitions in Europe and Istanbul, is living in Istanbul now and working as an instructor at Maden Contemporary ​Jewellery Studio which is founded by herself with her colleague Burcu Büyükünal.

« I am gliding on an emotional air and trying to understand my feelings such as anger, love, and sorrow. I am also inspired by human body and the conditions it is involved like simple daily life and intricate relationships to other people.
My works are my memories. They are little sculptures that carry poetic and ironic stories. I share my memories with people when my pieces are worn. Then every piece starts having new memories. This is why I make jewelry.
I usually convey my expreriences through my illustrations first. It works like a therapy for me. I develop my jewelry by carrying my illustrations to the materials I like, especially silver, iron, and porcelain. I use silver like a canvas, pure and white, I fire and texture it to express a drawing quality. I also enjoy joining the darkness and heaviness of the iron with the fragile but robust nature of porcelain.
When I am working I dive into a wonderful world full of surprises. I feel safe in the loneliness of my creative process and express my feelings as outloud as possible.« 

Selen Ozus - « Error 107″ necklace – porcelain , glaze , cotton , silk 2011

Selen Ozus – « error » necklace – porcelain, silk 2011

Selen Ozus -   NECKLACE « Friends » serie 2013

Selen Ozus Jewelry – « as » necklace porcelain, iron, silk thread – 2011

Selen Ozus – « error » brooch – porcelain, iron 2011

Selen Ozus – « deep inside » Necklace – Iron, silver,silk, cold enamel 2013

Selen Ozus Jewelry | « lover » brooch – silver 2009

selected for SCHMUCK 2015 : Carla Movia

Carla Movia is actually student at Alchimia. Here is her project for her BFA in 2014 (on artjewelryforum ) – She was choosen for the Marzee Graduation Show  2014 - so the « Route for Success » is here ! 

Selected for SCHMUCK 2015 with her series “APERTO”,  In process of transformation.

« The commemoration of a secret that only through a rite can be revealed. Lighting up a candle in order to discover the unknown, celebrating the wait more than the final result. Then, it’s only through the act of wearing that the jewel gains its complete freedom. »

Carla Movia, protetto 2 (before melting), 2014, necklace, iron, fine silver, wax, candle wick, photo: Federico Cavicchioli

Carla Movia, protetto 2, 2014, necklace, iron, fine silver, wax, candle wick, photo: Federico Cavicchioli

Carla Movia, protetto 5 (before melting), 2014, necklace, iron, fine silver, wax, candle wick, photo: Federico Cavicchioli

Carla Movia, protetto 5, 2014, necklace, iron, fine silver, wax, candle wick, photo: Federico Cavicchioli

Carla Movia, protetto 5 detail, 2014, necklace, iron, fine silver, wax, candle wick, photo: Federico Cavicchioli

Carla Movia, protetto 1, 2014, necklace, iron, fine silver, wax, candle wick, photo: Federico Cavicchioli
what remains when all is melted ….

Carla Movia‘s jewels at JOYA 2014

Carla Movia at JOYA 2014

Carla Movia at Marzee graduation show 2014

SIERAAD 2014 – International Jewellery Art Fair – Amsterdam (NL) – 6-9 Nov. 2014

SIERAAD  6-9 nov 2014 – Amsterdam

List of participants 2014

 

THE 13TH EDITION OF SIERAAD ART FAIR (SAF) WILL BE THE MOST INTERNATIONAL ONE YET. SAF IS THE ONLY PLATFORM IN THE NETHERLANDS WHERE PROFESSIONAL CONTEMPORARY JEWELLERY DESIGNERS FROM HOME AND ABROAD SELL THEIR WORK DIRECTLY AND IN PERSON. TO ADD LUSTRE TO THIS EDITION OF SAF THERE WILL BE SOME SPECIAL EVENTS AND STRIKING PRESENTATIONS.

La liste des participants commence somptueusement !!! : « Erato Kouloubi, ALCHIMIA Jewellery school in Florence, Alina Carp, Andrea Coderch Valor ……. Catalina Brenes, Catalina Gibert,  …. Wu Ching-Chih, David Choi ……….. Dora Haralambaki, Edith Bellod, ……… Gabrielle Desmarais, George Giannoutsos, etc etc etc pour ne citer que mes préférés ……… la Royal Academy of Fine Arts d’Anvers … (voir la liste (lien ci-dessus)

ceramic jewellery Dora Haralambaki - at stand 84

George Giannoutsos at stand 1

Erato Kouloubi  -  Deconstructing the Faith Ring / Sterling Silver  at stand 1

Niki Stylianou –  » Vessels and Matter II: Metaphors on Courtship, Intimacy and Domesticy » Necklace – Hand cut rubber, silk thread, watercolor – at stand 1

Maria Tsimpiskaki, Corruption collection, brooch, 2014  at stand 1

SO, stand 1 is a « GREEK » stand, with : Maria Tsimpiskaki - Niki Stylianou –  Erato Kouloubi   & George Giannoutsos

Catalina Gibert - Serra_2014 Necklace – at stand 41B

Andrea Coderch Valor - 2011. Silver, wood (bois de violet), silk.  – at stand 41A

Liisa Hashimoto (HINGE Dept.) -  5set Red Seed Ring – at stand 48

Cecile Bertrand – broche « GUN » – at stand 74
stand 74 avec la « dream team » : Cécile Bertrand, Sylvie Jousset & Isabelle Carpentier

Sylvie Jousset -  « catch me cactus » bracelet – Argent, maillechort, vrais cactus & plantes grasses - at stand 74

Nevin Arig – brooch simple5 – at stand 71

Gabrielle Desmarais at stand 75,
sharing with Isabelle Busnel, Edith Bellod and  Eun Mi Kwon

AND

they made a collective necklace !

Isabelle Busnel sharing a stand with Mia Kwon, Gabrielle Desmarais and Edith Bellod and this is our collective necklace

 Eun Mi Kwon (Mia Kwon jewellery) – spring on skin #07 – 2014 – porcelaine  at stand 75

Isabelle Busnel - neckpiece – at stand 75

Edith Bellod – at stand 75

Wu ching-chih- at stand 18

Judith Bloedjes – ring precious triplet 2014 – porcelaine

 

Catalina Brenes  at stand 64

Alina Carp – brooch – at stand 25Lauren Markley -at stand 44

Raewyn Walsh Vessel pendant, 2012 NZ, silver, epoxy, silk thread

Eily O’Connell-  at stand 31

Han-Chieh Chuang – red brick brooch serie – silver, copper, enamel, steel wire – at stand 38

Silvia Beccaria - gorgiera Splendor – 2011 -  at stand 100

Jeehyun Chung

Karolina Bik -  ‘graphium’ ring – peridot, argent oxydé

Linda Ezerman - Necklace with a story

Linda Ezerman - new work ! – Sea Seed Brooches – Balsawood, pigment(powder), laquer and stamen -
SIERAAD 2014 at stand 53

Jillian Moore – at stand 33

Maria Diana, bracciale perle, 2013  (porcelain, stoneware, gold) – at stand 67

Mariko Sumioka

Merav O. Roth Jewelry

Yung Huei, Chao (Taiwan). « Windows Series ». Nickel silver Bracelets (2010) 

stand of Royal Academy of Fine Arts d’Anvers, with Vincent Verstrepen, Elitsa Macheva, Annika Wirken, Elya Tettelin, Josefine Mass, Mara Gabriela Grigoriu :

Annika Wirken

  Vincent Vestrepen

Josefine Mass

stand of Alchimia Contemporary Jewellery School, (stand 101), with :
Daria Borovkova (Russia), Amani Boudargham (Lebanon), Francesco Coda (Italy), Elena Gil (Costa Rica), Sana Khalil (Lebanon),  Daniela Malev (Germany), Lilian Mattuschka (Austria), Carla Movia (Italy), Federica Sala (Italy), Maria Ignacia Walker (Cile)

Federica Sala neckpiece

María Ignacia Walker

 

Westergasfabriek Amsterdam

Klonneplein 1,

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NO, it’s NOT the year of the « vuvuzela » ………..

but the  MARÍA IGNACIA WALKER new collection « NELTUME Mapudungun: go to freedom » and presented at the ALCHIMIA graduation show 2014 « TOUCH »

« This is a ceremony of liberation, a ritual, the action of bringing out the dead part of my body through a long and unique scream. My jewellery-tools are the symbols that represent this act, to amplify my sound, and thus releasing the energies of my body with the language of my voice loud and clear. They liberate my emotions from within me. The shapes used in my collection are inspired by the instruments in the Mapuches and Andinos rituals, made in horn, shell, textile and ceramic.« 

MARÍA IGNACIA WALKER -  NELTUME Mapudungun: go to freedom

MARÍA IGNACIA WALKER -  NELTUME Mapudungun: go to freedom

Maria Ignacia Walker – Alchimia (Firenze) 2014

Maria Ignacia Walker

Alchimia (Firenze) at « TOUCH » Graduation show 2014 : calling you to come in, the work of María Ignacia Walker

Maria Ignacia Walker

Maria Ignacia Walker

Alchimia Graduation show 2014 – « TOUCH » – Florence (Italy) – 19-26 Juin 2014

Alchimia Graduation show 2014

Alchimia Contemporary Jewellery School proudly presents Touch, Graduation Show 2014.

Official Opening with cocktail and DJ set Thursday, June 19, 6pm.

The exhibition will remain open until Thursday, June 26, from 6 pm to 9 pm.

An art jewellery exhibition that is the culmination of this year’s graduate students.

For this occasion, twelve students have based their development on personal experiences. Individual matters discuss universal subjects; in correlation to the body as a form of function and space. As a result, each body of work materializes these personalities. Hands spoke in replacement of words. While unspoken, the act of making became the way of realization. Touch is an invitation to feel. The students will be present during the whole duration of the show to talk about their work.

Curated by: Doris Maniger, Lucia Massei, Ruudt Peters.

 

Students:  Melissa Arias — Daria Borovkova — Amani Bou Dargham – Francesco Coda — Elena Gil – Sana Khalil — Daniela Malev — Lilian Mattuschka — Carla Movia –  Federica Sala – Maria Ignacia Walker.

Maria Ignacia Walker broches en metal oxidado  

 Lilian Mattuschka - it was a tree – ring – grape wood, silk
if i was a tree i would be a grape, i choose the grape wood because of his adjectives, fragile, cave and jaded because of this attributes i chose to leave the wood as it is and, by nitting, i made a structure that holds it.

Sana Khalil - huge round aluminium neckpiece

Federica Sala -  pendant – cedar wood, cotton threads – naked wood serie -

Amani Bou Dargham: brooch, iron, paper

Daria Borovkova - (RU) – « Has Anyone Seen My Phone? »

Francesco Coda – necklace

Carla Movia Selfportrait necklace 2013 iron, rope Photo: Federico Cavicchioli

Elena Gil

Daniela Malev

 

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EXPO ‘Alchimia Alumni Collective (AAC). reNacimiento’ – Museo Nacional de Cerámica, Valencia (ES) – 8-11 Mai 2014 – Melting Point Valencia 2014

« Alchimia Alumni Collective (AAC). reNacimiento »   forma parte del recorrido de exposiciones de Melting Point 2014 del 8 al 11 de mayo.

Melting Point Valencia 2014

Inauguración: 8 mayo, 18.00 h
Fechas: 8 mayo/11 mayo

 Coordinadora: Andrea Coderch
reNacimiento, the Spanish word for Renaissance but also a literal translation for rebirth, shows the leitmotiv of the evolution of our work after school.
We reunite 2 years after graduating from Alchimia in 2012 and we collectively present this exhibition tour that will take us to the different cities that we each live in.
Furthermore, the birth of Aac.

with : Catalina Gibert Nadal — Izabella Petrut – Dinah Lee — Andrea Coderch Valor

Izabella Petrut ‘Blood on the ground’ necklace -  toys | copper | acrylic paint and pigment | varnish | silk thread

Dinah Lee – Bone Appétit Series, necklace No.10  – 14 k gold | sterling silver | cow bone | Persian blue diamond salt crystals |  pigment | resin

Catalina Gibert - ‘M.A.R.’ necklace – linen canvas | acrylic paint | water colours | gold

Andrea Coderch Valor - ‘You missed Sakura V’ brooch -  plásticocopper | japanese lacquer | olive wood | dried flower | plastic

 

Museo Nacional de Cerámica y Artes Suntuarias González Martí

- Sala L’Alcora -
Calle Poeta Querol 2
Martes a sábado de 10.00 a 14.00 h. y de 16.00 a 20.00 h.

Domingos de 10.00 a 14.00 h

EXPOs – Fabrika12, Valencia (ES) – 8-11 Mai 2014 – Melting Point Valencia 2014

EXHIBITIONS at the Fabrika12 during Melting Point Valencia 2014

for all exhibitions :  Vernissage / opening party : 9 mayo, 20.00 h

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* 8 mayo/11 mayo Alchimic Gardens
Alchimia School of Contemporary Jewellery. Firenze
Sala Taller

Francesco Coda

 

* 8-12 mayo Pulsar. Emmiting, Contracting, Evolving
Sala Vestíbulo
The artists will be present -
with : Barbara Schrobenhauser — Carla Mayerhofer — Junwon Jung — Kvetoslava Flora Sekanova — Mari Iwamoto

 

Carla Bauer

Junwon Jung

 

*8 mayo/11 mayo Viruthiers. Tempus Refugit
Sala Refugio
Rodrigo Acosta Arias –Ángela Bermúdez Polhmann — Elvira H. Mateu — Edu Tarín – Janire Román Díaz

 

Fabrika12
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