EXCHANGE-BIJOU 2 – Burcu SULEK in a deep deep BLUE

Burcu SULEK

I discovered her and her work some « JOYA »s ago ….. in 2013, exhibited with the members of MADEN school …. LOVE at first sight for her BLUE jewels …. and impressed by this … SOLAR person !

And this impression of « SOLAR » remains, when you go for searching information to her website ! First thing, I go to the page « about », and there, usually, very complex, philosophical, psychological, aesthetic explanations … With Burcu Sulek ?
EVIDENCE, SIMPLICITY, and a BIG, CLEAR, SOLAR SMILE, with these words :
« I am taking great pleasure in creating what I love. « 
Directly, a SMASH, a SPLASH, a WAOUW of simplicity, happiness, beauty !!! For me, mixed with the souvenir of these BLUE jewels, in one word, MEDITERRANEAN !!
Then, you go to the page « works » … and there, the same splash of evidence, with the different titles :  « caves of HOPE », « HOLES of EMPTINESS »,  « EMPTINESS », « JUST »,  « BLOOMING HAPPINESS » and  « REBORN » (with no dates, nowhere, so, no way!,  you can’t « psycho-analyse » these titles …. …) So you search, as we say in french « on cherche la petite bête » (translated by « being nit-picky », « nitpicking »), « emptiness » ??? ha ha ….. some sadness ? some bad period ? and no, even there, in these « holes » or in this « emptiness » the sun arrives with its light and clarity : « Sometimes you find absolute fullness in sole emptiness », or « In this world of trickery, emptiness is what your soul wants… » …… Holes can be there, emptiness too, but they are just the « dark face » necessary to make the « bright face » exist ….
And this sentence « We all have hopes, plant yours in the caves » is SO full of HOPE !!! so simple, so gentle, so EVIDENT  !!

And then ? Well, It made me feel so safe, so fine ….. that just no need of jewels !!! 

So give us just a SPLASH of PLEASURE with my first love of BLUE !

 Burcu Sulek - EMPTINESS  « In this world of trickery, emptiness is what  your soul wants…  » BROOCH  Bronze, Sponge ~ 3x4cm

 Burcu Sulek  « I cannot have enough of this blue » (me too !!!)  Detail from new unique piece of Emptiness Collection… silver necklace cobalt blue/yves klein blue

Burcu Sulek 2015 emptiness  collection silver necklace sponge kobalt blue

Burcu Sulek - « Just dived into marvelous mediterranean sea and opened the season! This unique brooch especially has the beautiful blues and greens of mediterranean…   » -  emptiness collection – sponge silver blue green brooch

Burcu Sulek - Reborn brooch in Yves Klein blue …    reborn collection silver sponge cobalt blue/yves klein blue brooch  recycled jewelry

 Burcu Sulek Mammatus Earrings in cobalt blue and white fresh water pearl… New collection ‘Mammatus’ gets it’s name from the beautiful formation of mammatus clouds, the nature is again the biggest inspiration…

 

 

Burcu Sülek graduated from the Department of Industrial Engineering at Istanbul Technical University. After working for several international brands for 13 years, Sülek created her own jewelry collection under the name of « Çağdaş Takı. » Her works have been exhibited in various galleries in Turkey and Europe. Sülek continues her work in Istanbul. (TurkishCulture)

 

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EXCHANGE-BIJOU 2 – Hakan AKTUG – « The Unpredictable Form/Foam » collection

Hakan Aktuğ

Discovered at AUTOR 2016 – From linear to « bubbly » line …

He graduated from the Jewelry and Jewelry Design Programme at İstanbul Aydın University with first-class honours in 2008.
After graduation he was accepted into the School of Jewelry Technology And Design at Mersin University, where graduated with second-class honours in 2012.
In 2010, while studying, he worked with some of the most well-known contemporary jewelry designers in Istanbul and started his career in contemporary jewelry.

Happy to be selected to AUTOR 2016 Contemporary Jewelry Fair!
AUTOR 2016 will bring together the Fantastic worlds of 70 artists including Hakan Aktuğ.
« The Unpredictable Form/Foam » collection will be exhibited on AUTOR 2016 in Bucharest.

Hakan Aktug / H A K A N A K T U Ğ  j e w e l r y. – At Autor 2016   Photo Credits: Ionut Dobre

Hakan Haktug  – previous « linear » collections  

Après plusieurs séries de bijoux plutôt « linéaires », jolis à tendance classique, tout d’un coup « pouff » ! c’est la MOUSSE !! succès durant le salon AUTOR 2016 avec une nouvelle collection incorporant le travail de la « mousse » (foam) : « The Unpredictable Form/Foam«  collection

Hakan Haktug  – The Unpredictable Form/Foam Necklace – foam, silver, paint, thread 

 Hakan Haktug  – « Unpredictable Form/Foam » Necklace, 2016 foam, silver, paint, thread

Hakan Aktug – « Unpredictable form, Foam’ necklace – Foam, oxidised silver, paint

 

Hakan Aktuğ « Unpredictable form, Foam brooch »-  Foam, silver, paint.

Hakan Aktuğ « Unpredictable form, Foam brooch »-  Foam, silver, paint – worn

 

 H A K A N A K T U Ğ Jewelry  The Unpredictable Form/Foam – Foam Yellow Brooch, 2016 foam, silver, paint

 

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EXCHANGE-BIJOU 1 – Snem Yildirim – coup de coeur

Il n’y a pas si longtemps, en préparant ma visite à JOYA Barcelona 2016, je vous présentais mon COUP de COEUR pour les bijoux de Snem Yildirim (DECOUVERTE/COUP de COEUR : Snem Yildirim) …. Que dire de plus, sinon qu’après « vérification » sur place le coup de coeur persiste !!!

« I create by taking inspiration from the cultural texture and geography in which I live. The diversities and the contrasts of this geography are the colours of my universe and works. I experience materials and production techniques by blending contrasts such as east and west, local and global, traditional and modern, geometric and organic… » (JOYA 2016)

 Snem Yildirim whitebrooch from Kanavice 2 series at JOYA 2016 - Kanavice 2 Series , In the Same Way, Brooch, 2016
powder coated brass, re-cycled plastic (nylon wire), nickel silver

« Snem Yildirim & Didem Yildirim sont deux soeurs, originaires de Turquie et créatrices du Studio Zigzag, installé à Istanbul et à Ankara depuis 2013.
Leur particularité ? Tester les matériaux et créer des ponts entre art contemporain et bijouterie, entre tradition et modernité. » (« lenvers-du-decor« )
Studio Zigzag is an Istanbul based contemporary jewelry studio, founded by Snem Yıldırım & Didem Yıldırım in 2013.

 Snem Yildirim brooches from Kanavice 2 series at JOYA 2016 –  » Three in One », Brooches, 2016
oxidized brass, powder coat, nylon

 

« Which materials do you often use ? Why ? How do you choose raw materials ?
Everywhere have the potential to be a material library and as if we live in a megastore of the materials. To question the precious and non-precious concepts in the jewelry field makes us to experience wide range of materials. So we are working with the materials ranging from cotton to stone.  But nowaday I use often re-cycled plastic for Kanavice Series. The materials can not be thought apart from the idea for us. Sometimes the idea makes us to select the materials and sometimes the materials give us the idea. » (interview at EuropeanLife Magazine oct. 2016)

 

« What are your projects ?
I want to combine my art projects with jewelry and nowadays I am working on 2 series: Mein lieber Diktator and 1 Euro Shop. I am questioning authority, obedience, implicit violence and pressure for Mein lieber Diktator Series. And I am questioning precious and non-precious concepts for 1 Euro shop Series. » (Studio Zigzag interview on « lenvers-du-decor » – juill. 2016)

Snem Yildirim  / studio zigzag work in progress… working for Mein lieber Diktator Series / Self Portrait – Self Censorship, Brooch

 studio zigzag / snem yildirim - Work in Progress / No-precious Series  – brooches

 

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DECOUVERTE/COUP de COEUR : Snem Yildirim

Snem Yildirim have been selected for Joya Barcelona 2016 ….. and it’s a refreshing BLUE « coup de coeur »

« Snem Yildirim & Didem Yildirim sont deux soeurs, originaires de Turquie et créatrices du Studio Zigzag, installé à Istanbul et à Ankara depuis 2013.
Leur particularité ? Tester les matériaux et créer des ponts entre art contemporain et bijouterie, entre tradition et modernité. » (Studio Zigzag interview on lenvers-du-decor)

Studio Zigzag is an Istanbul based contemporary jewelry studio, founded by Snem Yıldırım & Didem Yıldırım in 2013.
« For us, it was a step to go out of the frame of modern times’ enforced life, to flee to the dream world … Once we started to discover the materials, materials recreated us with the designs formed by our dreams. »
« We essentially take inspiration from cultural texture and the geography we live in. We experience the materials and production techniques by blending the contrasts such as the east and the west, the local and the global, the traditional and the modern, the geometric and the organic. »

Born in Ankara, Turkey, in 1984.
She graduated from Gazi University, Department of Architecture, and in 2011 she started to study Architectural Design Master Program at Istanbul Bilgi University.
By Inout Project she produced several projects within the scope of city and public space.
She continued Leather Footwear and Accessories Design Program at Istanbul Moda Academy in partnership with the University of the Arts London.
In 2013 she set up her contemporary jewelry studio “Studio Zigzag” with her sister.
Currently, she works at her studio and is a member of Yaygara Contemporary Art Initiative.

Snem Yildirim - Charm Series / Polaris Brooch, 2016 – one frame – several patterned and colored circles – many combinations!

Snem Yildirim - eni işler yolda!!! Kanavice 2 Series / necklace oxidized silver, nylon, wood, paint, cotton

Snem Yildirim –   Kanavice 2 Series / necklace oxidized silver, nylon, wood, paint, cotton

Snem Yildirim -   Kanavice 2 Series / Three in One , Brooch

Snem Yildirim -     Kanavice 2 Series / Three of You , ring – Photo Snem Yildirim

Snem Yildirim  -  Kanavice 2 / Brooch oxidized silver, nylon, gold plated bras

Snem Yildirim  -  (c) Studio Zigzag

Snem YildirimCharm Series / Polaris Interactive Brooch

Snem Yildirim  -  (c) Studio Zigzag

and because a little of yellow doesn’t hurt ….

Snem Yildirim – Kanavice series -  silver, nylon 

Snem Yildirim -  Kanavice Brooch

 

 

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EXPO ‘Side by Side’ – ECNP Gallery, Istanbul (Turkey) – 3-26 Mars 2016

Side by Side by Burcu Büyükünal and Selen Özus

Side by Side is an amalgam of two solo but parallel shows by Burcu and Selen, who have been sharing a mutual dream since 2007 and finally Maden Contemporary Jewellery Studio since 2011. Side by Side, the result of a long working process, emerges as a response to the passion and the need to create. In that regard, it is the fruit of not only a spatial cooperation but is also a meeting of the hearts. After Hasbelkader, the first show Burcu and Selen put on “together” in 2012, this second exhibition.

 

 

Let It…,  Burcu Büyükünal
Let it exist, let it cease, let it come, let it go, let it stay, let it appear, let it conceal, let it decay, let it split, let them gather, let it unite, let it be remembered, let it be forgotten, let it out, let it in, let it get lost, let it be found, let it become ugly, let it turn beautiful…
Let it… is a work that began to appear in my mind when I lost myself in the details of Abel Mort sculpture by Emile Feugère des Fort in Musée d’Orsay. It emerges from these details and changes its direction under the influence of the natural and obligatory course of life. It is fiction but it is real.
 Biography:
Having graduated from Industrial Design Department of Istanbul Technical University in 2003, Burcu Büyükünal started to work at Ela Cindoruk and Nazan Pak’s jewellery studio. After receiving Fulbright Award she got her MFA in Metal at SUNY at New Paltz in 2009. She confounded Maden Contemporary Jewelry Studio in 2011 with Selen Özus. Currently, she teaches classes at Maden, İTÜ and Plato Higher College of Education.
  Artist Statement:
« Among my works, there are designed products along with functional and nonfunctional, artistic and arbitrary pieces that I cannot classify. Contemporary jewellery, which is my main field, comes and goes between these two related disciplines, stands closer to one of them time to time. I sometimes focus on a technique, a material or a visual data around me and create links among them while revealing my own point of view. I crave to ask uncommon questions and find alternative answers to them. Even though I enjoy sticking to my habits in the process of creation, I find theme shifts nourishing and exciting. I believe creating and making is a childlike addiction. That’s why my studio is my living room. »

Burcu Büyükünal Ring: Let It…, 2016 400 karat silver 2 x 3 x 3 cm Photo by: Umut Töre

Burcu Büyükünal Wall piece: Let It…, 2016 400 karat silver, plaster, painted mdf 27 x 4 x 35 cm Photo by: Umut Töre  Detail view

Let it… – Burcu Büyükünal

 

The Closest, Selen Özus
My autoportrait works entitled “The closest” are the products of an interpretive process of visualizing myself which resulted in conflicts and clashes.The period started with shut-eye drawings: My white on white faces only to reveal themselves with a closer look, are chosen to define myself. Porcelaine works emerged as the variable reflections of transparent and delicate materials gone with the flow.
 Selen Özus Biography:
Selen Özus was born in 1983 in Istanbul, where she continues to live and work. She got her BFA in Ceramic and Glass Design in Mimar Sinan Fine Art University, followed by a three year Jewellery Program in Alchimia Contemporary Jewellery School in Florence where she took classes from Peter Bauhuis, Manfred Bischoff and Ruudt Peters.  Her work has been exhibited locally and internationally. She teaches at the Maden Contemporary Jewellery Studio, she co-founded with Burcu Büyükünal.
  Artist Statement:
« It all starts with the valuable beauties and ugliness’ that surround us: People, being human, lights, spaces, relations, memories, nature and details.The sensations created by everybody and everything awaken a desire to produce.In fact, all shapens up while paying gently attention to the details. From then on my sole aim is to retreat to my secured world and to concretize what I see with my feelings… to reflect the combination of brain and heart. While producing, drawings become objects, objects become art jewellery. Once my strong feelings balanced, the rest passes to the piece. »

Selen Özus Brooch: The Closest, 2016 Porcelain, 18K gold Photo by: Umut Töre

Selen Özus Wall piece: The Closest, 2016 Porcelain 17 x 8 x 6 cm Photo by: Umut Töre

Let it… – Burcu Büyükünal

 

 

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EXPO ‘Maden’den’ – Manzara Istanbul (TR) – 18 Fevr.-3 Mars 2016

Maden’den  at Manzara Istanbul

Exhibition containing original works of five participants who made career change by switching to contemporary jewellery through joining the Conceptual Course at Maden Contemporary Jewellery Studio between 2012-2015, presented at Manzara in Istanbul.

 

Artist list  Feyzal Baykut — Gözde Erdoğan — Burcu Sülek — Aisegul Telli — Julia Vollmann

These works were created on different themes by using daringly and freely different materials and techniques. Being products of the very first students of the Conceptual Course, the works of these passionate and productive people represent the fruits of process of finding themselves and their own way of creating.

Aisegul Telli  Necklace: Blue Reef, 2014 Brass, epoxy resin, pigments, glass 10 x 14.5 cm

Julia Vollmann Necklace: Hidden Worlds, 2015 Porcelain, sterling silver, steel 13 x 4 cm

Gozde Erdogan Necklace: Undernearth, 2016 Sterling silver 21 cm

Burcu Sulek Necklace: Emptiness, 2015 Oxidized silver; hand shaped pigment painted and hardened synthetic sponge 20 x 29 x 4 cm

 Feyzal Baykut

 

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Decouverte : Aişegül Telli got the BLUES

Aişegül Telli, from Istanbul, is actually at MADEN school of jewellery in Istanbul.

(Burcu Büyükünal & Selen Ozus are the cofounders and teachers of Maden Contemporary Jewelry Studio in Istanbul.)

« my first collection inspired by underwater world , corals and anemons (my first dive was in Maldives, cant get over that beauty !). I use mostly brass, epoxy, pigments, micro glass spheres »

Aişegül Telli – Gold Plated Brass Brooch in Blue Ombre , 2014

Aişegül Telli -   Blue Ombre necklace , 2014

Aişegül Telli – Brass coral ring in blue, 2014

Aisegul Telli Gold plated Brass Ring, Blue Ombre ,  2014

Aişegül Telli - Unique piece with amethyst, 2014 – detail

and because all corals are not only blue ….

Aişegül Telli -  Pink Brooch Detail  , 2014

Aişegül Telli -   ring 2014

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

COUP de COEUR : Selen OZUS bodies & portraits

Selen Özus  jewelry …. like little sculptures, like drawings to wear …. importance of the body represented

 ​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: pregnant / brooch – silver, 2009

Selen Ozus : « will » / brooch – silver, 2009

Selen Ozus: « in Firenze » / brooch – silver, iron, 2009

Selen Ozus Jewelry   « day in + day out » – brooch – silver, silk fabric – 2008

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

Selen Ozus Jewelry – « thoughtful »  Brooch – Silver 2009

Selen Ozus « close » brooch silver 2009

Selen Ozus Jewelry – « lover » brooch – silver 2009

EXPO ‘Tanel Veenre: Naturesque’ – SODA, Istanbul (Turkey) – 7 Dec. 2013 – 22 Fevr. 2014

Tanel Veenre: Naturesque

SODA is pleased to announce ‘’Naturesque’’, the first exhibition of internationally renowned contemporary Jewellery artist Tanel Veenre in Istanbul – Turkey.
Tanel Veenre’s solo exhibition  »Naturesque » gets its inspiration from  »Nature » itself. Combining organic stones and materials with precious stones as in the brooches; sea shell with rock crystal on top, seahorse with jet and amethyst, he creates a surreal world. The artist’s truly unusual works can be seen until February 22, 2014 at SODA in Istanbul.

(Globus Gruciger 2012 – Object Shell, rock crystal, camel bone, artificial resin, gilded silver, cosmic dust)

Tanel Veenre - Nature Arisen I – 2013 Brooch Seahorse, jet, amethyst, silver – 7 x 7 x 3 cm

Tanel Veenre - Nature Arisen II 2013 Brooch Wood, beetle, smoky quartz, silver 8 x 11 x 3 cm

 

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