LEGNICA Festival SILVER 2015 – EXPO ‘Elisabetta Dupré: JEWELLERY’ – Legnica Cultural Centre, Legnica (PL) – 28 Avril-7 Juin 2015

Elisabetta Dupré: JEWELLERY

Italian artist, graduate of the Jewellery School « Interno 7″ in Roma and the « Atelier Aura » in Munich. Laureate of the Gallery of Art in Legnica Award in 23rd Legnica International Jewellery Competition CLASSIC.

at   Legnica Cultural Centre, Knights Academy, Chojnowska 2

Inauguration 16th May 16h30

« The works of Elisabetta Duprè evoke a rhythm comparable to the changing of seasons, day and night, a beating heart, a piece of music. Dozens, even hundreds of tiny pieces of silver and gold, small cubes, cups, flat bars, occur in a sequence, as if they were marking time, almost suggesting the ticking of a clock or the swinging of a metronome.Her work is essentially based on minute detail. Surfaces are carefully treated to acquire the desired texture and colour. The pieces are perfect in their imperfection and apparent randomness becomes fundamental. Their manual techniques are very clear and ooze from every pore: irregular edges, round shaped elements that are not quite round and squares that are not perfectly square.
Duprè has a passion for metal and has established an intimate relationship with it over time. She has a profound knowledge of the secrets of silver and gold and avails herself of traditional bench techniques to make her pieces. The tools you would find in her workshop are those traditionally  used by goldsmiths over centuries, employed with great expertise, to make jewellery that is, on the other hand, anything other than classic.
Her works have never been overly explicit, although they seem to follow certain themes at times. This comes through very clearly in the pieces under the title « Persiana », in which the window blind is barely hinted, but at the same time we are given enough elements to perceive the artist’s intention. 
Her latest works have seen the introduction of movement, through the creation of mobile structures formed by many minute pieces of silver, left a milky white or blackened, held together by tiny rings, as if they were sewn. Again we see elements that are repeated, but as opposed to the past when they were two-dimensional, now they grow to form mobile volumes that follow the body’s movement. They are soft structures that plunge into the surrounding space. Hence, just like in a dance where the harmony of movement is the result of unity between two or more people moving together, likewise in these works, harmony arises from the perfect union between object and body.
An innate sense of simplicity comes through and derives, perhaps, from Duprè’s Germanic origins. Chromatically sober, linear forms, of great communicative power.  Her works speak an elementary, rigorous language, reflecting her way of being.« 
Rita Marcangelo, Alternatives Gallery

 Elisabetta Dupré – detail

Elisabetta Dupré – détail

Elisabetta Dupré – detail

Elisabetta Dupré

Elisabetta Dupre

 

 

Legnickie Centrum Kultury, ul. Chojnowska 2, (Akademia Rycerska) //
Legnica Cultural Centre, Knights Academy, Chojnowska 2
Legnica – PL

 

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EXPO ‘SUR o no SUR’ – Galeria Ring, Legnica (PL) – 15 Mai- 2015

La exposición colectiva « Sur o no Sur » formará parte de la programación de Silver Festival 2015 en Legnica, Polonia. / The collective exhibition « Sur o no Sur » will be part of Silver Festival 2015 in Legnica, Poland  Thanks Monika Szpatowicz and team for this opportunity! – At  Galeria Ring

 Opening 15th may 18h

Legnica Jewellery Festival SILVER
« Sur O No Sur«   is a project carried out jointly by Eva Burton and Mercedes Rodrigo and brings together the work of fourteen Argentinian artists:  Ana Weisz — Cecilia Hecker — Eva Burton — Elisa Gulminelli — Gabriela Cohn — Gastón Rois — Iacov Azubel — Jorge Castañón — Lucia Mishquila Brichta — Maria Carelli — Mercedes Castro Corbat — Patricia Rodriguez — Rodrigo Acosta and Sabina Tiemroth, who -according to the artist Guigui Kohon- « show many souths full of landscapes; corners that outline thoughts and places with blurred boundaries, connecting stories and hemispheres from a feeling hard to define…« 
It was presented for the first time in October 2014 during The Jewellery Week in Barcelona, at Siesta Gallery who´s director is Mercedes Rodrigo. It was also presented in Galería Silvestre in Tarragona, Spain.

Maria Carelli

Lucia Mishquila Brichta

 

Waking up after a sleepless night, looking at the pictures of the pieces showed at the  exhibition, reading books randomly and remembering… Everything reappears along with a passage of Marcelo Mathey, the writer. He says that when he finds a beautiful  place he fixes his gaze there to distinguish the small parts of it, or when looking at a house he tries to observe the people who live there. This is an almost accurate brief of the exhibition held at Galería Siesta in Barcelona that brings us Argentine Jewelry closer in the framework of the Barcelona Jewelry Week.
Those artists showing their “souths” full of landscapes, spots outlining thoughts, inhabited places whose boundariesfade away while connecting stories and hemispheres of a feeling that can´t be catalogued.
Guigi Kohon, Buenos Aires, September 2014

Eva Burton

Jorge Castañon

Gabriela Cohn

Mercedes Castro Corbat

Cecilia Hecker« Lo que es arriba es abajo »

Gaston Rois

Rodrigo Acosta

 

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LEGNICA Jewellery Festival SILVER 2015 – ‘BOUNDARIES’ competition

24th LEGNICA INTERNATIONAL JEWELLERY COMPETITION BOUNDARIES
The competition and – being its result – exhibition is the main event of the Festival.  Artists` task is to submit works on a given topic – a different one every year – characterised by an original creative idea and representing a high artistic and technical level. Preferred are concept, value and meaning of creative expression. Submitted works are qualified to the exhibition and awarded by the international jury.

 

results during opening ceremony  on 16th May 2015

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Galeria Sztuki W Legnicy  :

We know artists qualified to the exhibition of the 24th International Jewellery Competition BOUNDARIES !

On the 9th-10th April jury session of the 24th Legnica International Jewellery Competition BOUNDARIES took place.

Jury constist of: Sławomir Fijałkowski (Poland), Suska Mackert (Germany), Ruudt Peters (The Netherlands), Zuzanna Skalska (Poland/The Netherlands), Gisbert Stach (Germany) and Christoph Zellweger (Switzerland), judged 605 works submitted by 337 artists from 42 countries and qualified to the exhibition 45 artists and chose awarded.

The list of artists qualified for the exhibition is available here -

 

Names of awarded will be anounced during the opening ceremony which takes place on the 16th May 2015.
More information on: http://www.silver.legnica.pl/en/

 
 

Artists qualified to 24th International Jewellery Competition BOUNDARIES:
1.     Bogumiła i Andrzej Adamscy – Polska / Poland
2.     Jorge Aparicio -  Spain
3.     ASOL – Solveiga Krivičiene & Alfredas Krivičius -  Lithuania
4.     Alexander Blank -  Germany
5.     Mireia Calaf  -  Spain
6.     Yu-Fang Chi -  Taiwan
7.     Bartosz Maria Chmielewski – Polska / Poland
8.     Eun Mi Chun -  South Korea/Germany
9.     Matthias Dyer -  Germany
10.   Ewa Effenberg – Polska / Poland
11.   Bernhard Elsässer – Germany
12.   Maria Fijałkowska – Polska / Poland
13.   Sara Gackowska – Polska / Poland
14.   Diana Gladkaja -  Lithuania
15.   Mariusz Gliwiński – Polska / Poland
16.   Gabriele Hinze -  Germany
17.   Taehee In -  South Korea/Germany
18.   Paula Jimenez Yera -  Spain
19.   Yang Jing -  Germany (winner of Talente 2015)
20.   Christina Karababa -  Greece/Germany
21.   Minna Karhu -  Finland
22.   Lauryna Kiskyte -  Lithuania
23.   Tove Knuts -  Sweden
24.   Katja Köditz -  Germany
25.   Akiko Kurihara – Japan/Italy
26.   Tithi Kutchamuch -  Thailand
27.   Magdalena Maślerz – Polska / Poland
28.   Jan Piotr Materek – Polska / Poland
29.   Esther Ortiz-Villajos González -  Spain
30.   Michalina Owczarek – Polska / Poland
31.   Dieuwke Raats -  The Netherlands
32.   Hiawatha Seiffert – Germany
33.   Marta Serafin-Sochańska – Polska / Poland
34.   Maria Solorzano -  Mexico/Argentina
35.   Tomasz Stajszczak – Polska / Poland
36.   Dimitar Stankov -  Bulgaria/Belgium
37.   Ludmila Šikolová -  Czech Republic
38.   Robertas Veikša -  Lithuania
39.   Barbara von Taeuffenbach -  Germany
40.   Jarosław Westermark – Polska / Poland
41.   Dorota Wietrzyk – Polska / Poland
42.   Anna Wojdan – Polska / Poland
43.   Annamaria Zanella -  Italy
44.   Katarzyna Zięba – Polska / Poland
45.   Zane Žukovska -  Latvia/Lithuania

Mireia Calaf - « cutting obsessions » (tallant obsessions). Brooch 2014

LEGNICA Jewellery Festival SILVER 2015 – 28 Avril–7 Juin 2015

 The Legnica Jewellery Festival SILVER 2015

 PROGRAM

Legnica Jewellery Festival SILVER: 28th April – 7th June 2015
Culmination – openings of the exhibitions: 15th – 16th May 2015

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Legnica Jewellery Festival SILVER is the biggest and the most significant in Poland jewellery event, organized from over 30 years by the Gallery of Art in Legnica. Every year in its framework is presented over a dozen individual and group exhibitions of Polish and foreign artists and a number of accompanying events, like: theoretical seminar, authors lectures, jewellery and fashion shows, jewellery competitions and workshops, concerts and a variety of artistic actions and happenings taking place outside in the city space.

24th LEGNICA INTERNATIONAL JEWELLERY COMPETITION  « BOUNDARIES »
The competition and – being its result – exhibition is the main event of the Festival.  Artists` task is to submit works on a given topic – a different one every year – characterised by an original creative idea and representing a high artistic and technical level. Preferred are concept, value and meaning of creative expression. Submitted works are qualified to the exhibition and awarded by the international jury.

list of participants

results during opening ceremony  on 16th May 2015

see WINNERS here !!

 

SILVER SCHOOLS
Inaugurated in 2001 a cycle of exhibition presents the leading European art academies and high schools specialising in contemporary jewellery and design. Over 40 schools from Germany, Czech Republic, Italy, Spain, Great Britain, Finland, Belgium, Slovakia, Sweden, Estonia and Poland have been presented so far. In 2015 the exhibition will be showcasing works of professors, graduates and students from

Germany (Hochschule Wismar, Faculty of Design) and Lithuania (Vilnius Academy of Arts, Telšiai Faculty of Arts).

Schools Lithuania – bild litwa Kornelija Gerikaite

 

ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Recurring presentation of well-known Polish and foreign jewellery artists.

* Special guest: Ruudt Peters: DUSZA - distinguished Dutch artist, driving force, organizer and lecturer, i.a.: co-founder of the Ekster Gallery in Leeuwarden, professor of many academies in Europe and USA, juror of many prestigious jewellery competitions, author of tens solo exhibitions around the world.

Ruudt Peters

* Eunmi Chun: JEWELLERY – Korean artist, graduate of the Sookmyung University and Kookmin University in Seoul, as well as the Jewellery Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. Laureate of the prestigious Herbert Hoffmann Award in Munich (2008).

Eunmi Chun

* Elisabetta Dupré: JEWELLERY - Italian artist, graduate of the Jewellery School « Interno 7″ in Roma and the « Atelier Aura » in Munich. Laureate of the Gallery of Art in Legnica Award in 23rd Legnica International Jewellery Competition CLASSIC.

Elisabetta Dupré

* Andi Gut: ON AND ON AND ON – exhibition of well-known Swiss artist, currently professor at the Pforzheim University, who invited to collaboration and presentation his professor Rüdiger Lorenzen and his students: Frieda Dörfer, Katrin Feulner (Germany). The exhibition presents three generations of artists.

Andi Gut

* Anna Król: JEWELLERY - graduate of the Graphic Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź, jewellery designer at Deco Echo company. Participant of exhibitions in Poland and abroad, recently at the JOYA BARCELONA Contemporary Jewellery Fair 2014, where she was three times awarded.

 

* Mia Kwon: VIVID! - Korean artist, graduate of the Kookmin University in Seoul and the Potsdam University of Applied Sciences, studied also at the Burg Giebichenstein University in Halle (ceramic design). Participant of numerous exhibitions all around the world. Laureate of the Gallery of Art in Legnica Award at JOYA BARCELONA Contemporary Jewellery Fair (2014).

Mia Kwon

 

DEBUTS
Recurring presentation of the most promising Polish young artists, taking their first steps in the world of design and goldsmithing.
*Antonina Maria Łęcicka: Underwater city – student of the Faculty of Textile and Fashion Design of the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź, laureate of the Award of the Gallery of Art in Legnica at Strzemiński Competition.

Maria Łęcicka

* Karolina Szymanowska: Soul paradise - graduate of the Faculty of Painting and Sculpture and assistant at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław, participant of art exhibitions.

Karolina Szymanowska

 

25 for 25. JEWELLERY OF THE TIME OF FREEDOM
The exhibition is a symbolic summary of events and trends in the Polish goldsmithing in the last 25 years. Presents works of the 25 most accomplished Polish creators of artistic jewellery, who have contributed the most to the development of this art during that period.
Participants of the exhibition: Andrzej Bielak — Paulina Binek — Andrzej Boss — Agnieszka Bruzda — Jacek Byczewski — Bogumił Bytomski — Piotr Cieciura — Sławomir Fijałkowski — Marcin Gronkowski –  Joanna i Tadeusz Jaworscy — Paweł Kaczyński — Zofia i Witold Kozubscy — Cezary Łutowicz — Lucyna i Marek Nieniewscy — Jacek Ostrowski — Kamilla Rohn — Magdalena i Tomasz Stajszczak — Jan Suchodolski — Andrzej Szadkowski — Marcin Tymiński — Jarosław Westermark — Arkadiusz Wolski — Alicja i Jakub Wyganowscy — Marcin Zaremski — Hanna i Jacek Zdanowscy. 

 

25 YEARS OF STFZ
The exhibition prepared on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of activity of the Polish Goldsmithing Artists Association (STFZ). The exhibition presents both recent as well as older works from the exhibitions organised by the STFZ over the years.

 

POLISH GOLDSMITHS GROUPS
Collective exhibition of the Polish art groups working in the field of jewellery in the period 1945-2015. There will be presented: UFO, Muzeum, RE, G7, Au +, Dziewiątka, Punkt G, LIS², 4 Women.

Polish groups – UFO - J. A. Rochacki

 

SUR O NO SUR
Exhibition presenting works of the Argentinian jewellers: Ana Weisz, Cecilia Hecker, Eva Burton, Elisa Gulminelli, Gabriela Cohn, Gastón Rois, Iacov Azubel, Jorge Castañón, Lucía Mishquila Brichta, María Carelli, Mercedes Castro Corbat, Patricia Rodriguez, Sabina Tiemroth, Rodrigo Acosta Arias.

Maria Carelli

 

PREZIOSA YOUNG 2015
International project organized by Le Arti Orafe Jewellery School in Florence. Its aim is to present and popularise achievements of the young generation of goldsmiths  and designers. Laureates of PY 2015 are: Deok Sang Han, Jie Sun, Soyeon Lee, Tithi Kutchamuch, Daniela Hedman.

 

AMBER CHAMBER
International jewellery exhibition, curated by Heidemarie Herb, a German artist living in Italy. Exhibition showcases different approaches to amber in works by the well-known European artists, including ones who have been working in amber for many years and the ones who used this material for the first time for the purpose of this exhibition. The participating artists are: Elisabeth Defner, Christiane Förster, Heidemarie Herb, Herman Hermsen, Beate Klockmann, Helfried Kodré, Philip Sajet, Peter Skubic, Gisbert Stach, Petra Zimmermann.

 

WE FROM JEDWABNE
The exhibition curated by Piotr Rybaczek from La Basílica Galería in Barcelona. Presenting works by 25 Polish artists inspired by the Anna Bikont`s book under the same title.

 

GDAŃSK BALTIC AMBER BIENNALE 2015
Exhibition concentrates on examples of avant-garde use of Baltic amber created by 24 well-known jewellery designers from 12 European countries, invited by curators: Wim Vandekerckhove, owner of the Villa De Bondt in Ghent and Sławomir Fijałkowski, a professor of the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk.

 

AMBERIF DESIGN AWARD 2015: Mimesis
International Competition for the Design of Jewellery with Amber, organized by the International Fair of Amber, Jewellery and Gemstones Amberif in Gdańsk, aiming to promote the creative thought and innovation solutions in the field of amber jewellery design.

(The winners of the 19th edition of the Amberif Design Award (2015) are already known: Marta Rżanek, Adriana Lisowska and Andrzej Cofta. This year the competition subject was « Mimesis » and the Jury assessed 135 works submitted by 112 artists from 18 countries.)

Amberif MAIN PRIZE 2015 Marta Rżanek

 

HOLOWNIA
Exhibition of a few hundred of works all over the world submitted to the 24th Legnica International Jewellery Competition BOUNDARIES, but not selected for the main exhibition. Its name is taken from the place, where it is held – a foyer (Polish « hol ») of the Old City Hall.

 

EWA EFFENBERG: RED ARROW
Exhibition of works of Polish artist graduate of the Wł. Strzemiński Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź, currently an associate professor at the Goldsmithing Forms Atelier led by Prof. Andrzej Boss in her alma mater. Laureate of awards and participant of more than 70 exhibitions in Poland and abroad.

 

MARTA HRYC : EXTRA-ORDINARINESS
Exhibition of artist, graduate of the Interdepartmental Environmental Doctoral Studies at the Department of Interior Architecture and Design of the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk. Participant of group exhibitions and laureate of awards and mentions (Legnica, Gdańsk, Florence). 

 

AU+ : PRIVATE APARTMENTS
Group exhibition of the conceptual works by young Polish artists (Marcin Bogusław, Bartosz Chmielewski, Filip Jackowski and Michał Wysocki), graduates of the Wł. Strzemiński Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Łódź. 

 

 

BOUNDARIES OF GLOBAL ART
Recurring science session, for 15 years accompanied the Festival, commenting the current status of art, contemporary jewellery and design. It`s an opportunity to reflect on the latest trends, methods and phenomenon in contemporary art in general, especially in the context of the competition topic (in 2015 – BOUNDARIES). The session involved artists and designers, historians and art critics, philosophers, culture experts, cultural anthropologists, sociologists and the wide audience.

 

BOUNDARIES
Exhibition presenting works qualified in national, photographic competition on the topic BOUNDARIES – a leitmotif of the Legnica Jewellery Festival SILVER.

 

SILVER CITY
Festival will be accompanied by the workshops, art actions and happenings promoting the event. Participating these actions will be creating in the public space works referring to the Legnica Festival in their subject or form. The outcomes will visualize the Festival’s motto: « In Legnica we breathe with silver. »

 

SILVER CONCERT
Traditionally the concert closes the first day of the culmination of the Festival.  This year Cracow Jazz Trio: Tolek Lisiecki, Wojciech Groborz and Jacek Mazur will perform.

 

SILVER SCREEN
Throughout the Festival, a cinema is open showing documentaries about personalities from the art and design field and the video films created by both professionals and amateurs especially for the festival’s use and inspired by its title –  will run the cycle of screening of artistic and documentaries movies dedicated to personalities of the design art, created by professionals and amateurs and inspired by the topic: BOUNDARIES.

EXPO ‘Amber Chamber’- The Ring Gallery, Legnica (Poland) – 28 Avril-7 Juin 2015

Amber Chamber

 The Ring Gallery, Legnica, Poland – curator : Heidemarie Herb

The opening of the travelling exhibition, which presents ten renown artists taking a fresh look on amber, coincides with the Legnica Jewellery Festival Silver.

This exhibition shows a number of different approaches to amber, running the gamut from artists working with amber for the first time, to those who have been working with it for an extended period. The contrasts in these works should help to update the traditional and still rather one-sided view of amber jewelry, showing new possibilities about this interesting material.

Artist list :  Elisabeth Defner — Christiane Förster — Heidemarie Herb — Herman Hermsen — Beate Klockmann — Helfried Kodré — Philip Sajet — Peter Skubic — Gisbert Stach — Petra Zimmermann

Helfried Kodré Brooch: Untitled, 2015 Amber, silver 6 x 9 cm Photo by: Helfried Kodré

Gisbert Stach Brooch: Golden Toast, 2013 Baltic amber, transparent silicon, steel 11×10.5×1.8 cm Photo by: Gisbert Stach

Christiane Förster Brooch: Untitled, 2015 Amber, mother-of-pearl, silver 5.7 x 5 x 0.7 cm Photo by: Christiane Förster

Heidemarie Herb Ring: Untitled, 2014 Baltic Amber, silver Photo by: Heidemarie Herb

Philip Sajet Ring: Untitled, 2014 Amber, white gold 3.5 x 1.8 x 1.1 cm Photo by: Beate Klockmann

Peter Skubic Brooch: Untitled, 2015 Amber, coral, stainless steel 9 x 8.5 x 2.7 cm Photo by: Petra Zimmermann

Petra Zimmermann Rings: Untitled, 2014/2015 Amber, polymethylmethacrylate, gold Photo by: Petra Zimmermann

 

Venues
28 Apr 2015 – 07 Jun 2015 Legnica Jewellery Festival SILVER 2015, The Ring Gallery, Legnica, PL
10 Jul 2015 – 23 Aug 2015 Galerie Orfèo, Luxembourg, LU
01 Oct 2015 – 31 Oct 2015 Velvet da Vinci, San Francisco, USA
05 Mar 2016 – 01 Apr 2016 Alternatives Gallery, Rome, IT
01 Jul 2016 – 31 Jul 2016 (AV 17) Gallery, Vilnius, LT
06 Oct 2016 – 16 Nov 2016 Galerie V&V, Vienna, AT

 

 

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Preziosa Young 2015 – and the winners are ……..

 PREZIOSA YOUNG 2015

…. and the winners are ….

After a difficult selection, we have the winners for PREZIOSA YOUNG 2015 :
Han Sang Deok, Republic of Korea;
Jie Sun, Republic of China;
Tithi Kutchamuch, Thailand;
Seoyeon Lee, Republic of Korea;
Daniela Hedman, Sweden

congratulations !!

PY2015 will be previewed at Inhorgenta 2015 (Munich – 20.02 – 23.02.2015), with the presentation of some works of each artist.
The full exhibition will then hosted at the “Legnica Silver Festival” (15-16 May 2015), in Poland, and then finally in Florence.

 

Seoyeon Lee

 

PREZIOSA is a cultural project designed and co-ordinated by “Le Arti Orafe”, since 1985 the most prestigious contemporary jewellery school in Italy.
The project, launched in 2005, has become one of the most important European events devoted to contemporary jewellery.
The conceptual quality, the presence of artists of international fame, the prestigious set-up, the elegant catalogues and the original formula that comprises the organisation of conferences with the artists taking part, make “Preziosa” an appointment that lovers of contemporary jewellery cannot afford to miss.
A country of exquisite jewellery traditions, Italy has no museum devoted to jewellery, and temporary exhibitions have always been rare.
The attention devoted by the communication media and the cultural institutions to initiatives devoted to this art form has – apart from a few shining exceptions – always been limited, while great interest has always been expressed by lovers of contemporary art.
Through the organisation of events such as PREZIOSA, the school wishes to help to fill a gap the discrepancy of which is more or less consciously acknowledged.
Since 2008, a «parallel» exibition for young artists is organized: PREZIOSA Young is already an international reference for new artists and goldsmiths

 

Han Sang Deok

 

Tithi Kutchamuch  

Jie Sun  Brooches: Face to Face, 2013 Wood, Silver, Steel, Chinese lacquer From Face to Face series

Daniela Hedman Necklace: Beach-series 2013 Copper, cherry wood, red birch, textile, thread 31 x 20 x 0,4 cm

Exhibition
The PY exhibition will take place in conjunction with the international event PREZIOSA 2015, in Florence, in the prestigious Marino Marini Contemporary Museum of Art (Firenze). The organizers could also plan other exhibitions along the year: the selected artists are committed to deliver their work to all the scheduled events. Each of the selected winners must present 5 to 10 pieces for the exhibition. These pieces must be the same (or similar) to those submitted for the selection

 

 

PREZIOSA YOUNG 2015
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Legnica Jewellery Festival SILVER 2014 – 22 Avril-8 Juin 2014

Legnica Jewellery Festival  SILVER 2014  -  22th April – 8th June 2014

 The 23rd Legnica International Jewellery Competition

CLASSIC

Announcement of Winners: 17 of May

 

 

Artist qualified to 23rd International Jewellery Competition CLASSIC:

Brunella Alfinito -Italy  — Jordi Aparicio -Spain — Paula Bahadian -Brasil/Spain –  Lauren Ellen Braithwaite -Great Britain — Sigurd Bronger -Norway — Sungho Cho -South Korea –  Gabriela Cohn – Argentina/Spain — Trinidad Contreras -Spain — Marisa Marla Desii -Italy — Georg Dobler -Germany — Elisabetta Duprè -Italy — Susanne Elstner -Germany — Nicolas Estrada -Colombia –  Sara Gackowska –Poland — Stephanie Hensle -Germany — Herman Hermsen -Netherlands — Gabriele Hinze -Germany –  Piret Hirv -Estonia — Marta Hryc -Poland — Lijung Huang -Taiwan — Ferran Iglesias -Spain — Paweł Kaczyński –Poland — Annika Kedelauk -Estonia — Sooyeon Kim -South Korea — Sergiusz Kuchczyński -Poland — Aneta Lis-Marcinkiewicz -Poland — Peter Machata -Slovakia –  Judy McCaig -Great Britain — Rhona McCallum -Great Britain — Daniel Michel -Germany –  Ted Noten –Netherlands — Yasutaka Okamura -Japan — Joo Hyung Park -South Korea — Tabea Reulecke -Germany — Julia Reymann -Germany — Nina Schäfer -Germany — Nils Schmalenbach -Germany — Frederike Schürenkämper –Germany — Nicole Schuster -Germany — Pedro Sequeira -Portugal — Hye Jung Sin -South Korea — Gisbert Stach -Germany — Dimitar Stankov -Bulgaria — Andrzej Szadkowski -Poland — Yoko Takirai -Japan/Italy — Heike Walk -Germany — Karol Weisslechner -Slovakia — Jarosław Westermark -Poland

 Announcement of names of winners and awards ceremony will take place during the culmination of the Festival on the 17th May at 7.30 p.m. Welcome to Legnica!

 

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23rd Legnica International Jewellery Competition – Deadline : 30 Mars 2014

23rd Legnica International Jewellery Competition

Deadline March, 30th, 2014

CLASSIC

DESIGN?

The simplicity of reproduction of subsequent stylistic incarnations grows parallel with introducing of subsequent versions of 3D modelling software and rapid prototyping technologies.

ART?

Today, the race of the artistic radicalisms ends inevitably as a Youtube “freak of the week”.

HANDMADE?

The economic pressure of efficiency forced the traditional craftsmanship into the sphere of anthropological phenomena.

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but, it is not true that “everything has already happened”. Everything has happened many times and nevertheless the historical retrospection and the necessity of original reinterpretation of the classic canons of the art of goldsmithing still appear inspiring. Let’s try again then to discover the timeless.

Sławomir Fijałkowski

Regulations (click here)

 Invoice (entry form) - click here 

EXPO ‘Philip Sajet: Beauty is the Most Important’ – Copper Museum, Knights Academy, Legnica (Poland) – 30 Avril-6 Juin 2013

Philip Sajet: Beauty is the Most Important 

 

Philip Sajet tries, through goldsmithery, to combine the incompatible in his pieces. Thus the sharp glass shard penetrates the round metal setting of the ring, a green stone butts up against the delicate pearl, a classically cut, precious stone is sawn through and put back together. This is not about the destruction or extraction of something fragile but about emphasising that the one is not possible without the other. Harmony, balance comes through the combination of the various elements. Shells, a fragile and delicate material, used by man as jewellery for thousands of years, are combined by Sajet into a stole which can be seen in the accompanying photograph magnificently adorning a naked body, to which it lends an unassailable aura, like armour. The intangible, elusive glitter of a cut stone is replaced with metallic constructions which mimic it and turn the gentle glimmers into thorns. In the earrings the facets are imitated, but only the edges and not the light which emanates from gemstones. Small stones in their natural state are found at the connections, brightening the cool, aloof construction. Tiny and raw, they breathe life into the piece.
Sajet’s jewellery has a unique, distinctive use of form but it is made to be worn and through wearing to change its impact, breaking free from its artist-creator and developing its own life. The wearer too will change on wearing the piece, as it connects to his or her personality and deliberately draws in the attention of a third party, the beholder. In this light it is hardly surprising that Sajet has produced predominantly rings, earrings and close fitting necklaces which adorn the hands and frame and highlight the face. These are the parts of the body which stand for the expressive side of the personality; our facial expressions and gestures communicate with others, emphasise our nature, the unsaid and the said.

Philip Sajet  Ring: Point 1986-2010  Rock crystal, silver, gold

Philip Sajet  Ring: Shard 2008  Red glass, niello on silver

Philip Sajet  Ring: A La Recherche du Joyau Perdu 6 -  2011  Enamel, silver, gold, rock crystal

Philip Sajet  Ring: Black Marquise 2011  Niello on silver, gold

 

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EXPO ‘Hardened Tears’ – Legnica Cultural Centre (PL) – 30 Avril–30 Juin 2013

Hardened Tears

Exhibition of amber designs by nineteen well-known European artists at the Legnica Cultural Centre

The curators of the exhibition are Wim Vandekerckhove, owner of the Villa De Bondt Gallery in Ghent (Belgium), and Sławomir Fijałkowski , professor of the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk.

Artists:  Sławomir Fijałkowski — Christiane Förster — Karl Fritsch — Sophie Hanagarth — Herman Hermsen – Daniel Kruger — Stefano Marchettti — Wilhelm Tasso Mattar — Pavel Opočenský — Annelies Planteijdt — Ramon Puig Cuyàs — Wolfgang Rahs — Ulrich Reithofer — Philip Sajet — Adolfas Šaulys — Gisbert Stach — Manuel Vilhena — Arek Wolski — Petra Zimmermann

Petra Zimmermann amber rings  – Baltic amber, polymethyl methacrylate, gold
« The natural fossilised tree resin is combined with a material of our times, polymethyl methacrylate, a synthetic polymer. I was surprised how many material properties they have in common. »

Sławomir Fijałkowski from Poland – « bloody Cherry » Pendant (Baltic amber, stainless steel).

Ramon Puig Cuyas – No 1462 subtle architectures. Brooch   “The thinking arrives almost always with action, arrive with dialogue, with materials and shapes”.

Sophie Hanagarth – Neptun eyes in Goldwasser. Necklace   (Baltic amber, iron).  “The piece of amber that was given to me looked like a cut of dried meat or becon”

Annelies Planteijdt – « Beautiful city in the middle of the stonewood »  Necklace  (Baltic amber, gold, pigments).  “You see resin turned to stone with prints of trees and rocks that were ever there. When wearing the piece everything comes together”

Manuel Vilhena Brooch (Baltic amber, gold, wood, string).  “I cut some tear-shaped forms from a raw piece of amber. The frozen moments of the past, captured in the amber are now placed in a dynamic and moving setting”.

Wolfgang Rahs « not in vain » Necklace (Baltic amber, brass, tin).  “I am just a wounded man. I hope my piece of work suits a woman, so that both of them get me into the flow again”.

 

 

Legnica Cultural Centre,

Knights Academy,

Chojnowska 2

Open:  Tue – Fri: 11.00 a.m. – 6.00 p.m., Sat: 10.00 a.m. – 2.00 p.m.