EXCHANGE-BIJOU 1 – Viktoria MUNZKER – matières …. PREMIERES

Viktoria MUNZKER

« Everything is possible, nothing is true!
Far below the horizon, in the darkness of the ocean it lives unobserved by humans. Where the light goes out and ceases to exist, romp creatures of unknown »

New works from the Crystal Odyssey Collection. Delicate forms and vibrant, kaleidoscopic colors tempt our senses and create bold statement pieces.

A glimpse on details, which are the MAIN materials ……

Viktoria Münzker Schmucksachen    juillet 2016   Crystal Odyssey – detail

Viktoria Munzker -  2016 – Crystal Odyssey – necklace

Viktoria Münzker Ferus  – Necklace: Admiral, 2016 – Operculum, bronze, glas, granules – 10 x 7 x 2 cm – Photo by: Viktoria Münzker Ferus DETAILS

Viktoria Münzker Schmucksachen- Violetta Necklace

Viktoria Münzker Schmucksachen

VIKTORIA MUNZKER – Hyacinthina  – Crystal Odyssey – Halskette  Operculum, Bronze, Silber, Glasstein, Granulat  2016

Viktoria Münzker Ferus - Brooch: Ambrosia Nera, 2016 -  Driftwood, amber, silver, granules

 Viktoria Münzker Schmucksachen - brooch « Hermits Lair » – details

 

« To give birth to something new, something old must die. » (Viktoria Munzker) …..

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EXPO ‘Saturation Point’ – Gallery Loupe, Montclair (NJ), (USA) – 17 Sept.- 8 Oct. 2016

SATURATION POINT / Naama Bergman

Artist Reception/ opening reception :  Saturday Sept. 17, 6-8 pm

 

 Gallery Loupe is proud to present Saturation Point, the first solo exhibition by Israeli artist Naama Bergman ; the show will feature her most recent works. Through inventive, impeccably fabricated jewelry and vessels, Bergman exploits the idea of change: emergence, growth, decay, and the tension that accrues between cultural heritage, physical matter, and fleeting time. By combining contradictory materials such as steel and rust within classic formats like urns and pods, she questions the essence of creation, potential, and transformation; she provokes a confrontation between preservation and decomposition, while at the same time positing questions about the hegemony, function, and mutability of mediums and forms. Bergman makes protean objects that tell a continuing tale about the very nature of existence.

Tradition and nostalgia play major roles in Bergman’s aesthetic. As a Sabra of east European heritage, she regards her work as tropes for the dichotomy between familial roots and present day reality. In her latest works, Bergman allows salt to grow slowly upon vessels, pendants, and brooches made from iron mesh. The openwork armatures are hard but delicately crafted, while the salt – a natural preservative – both helps to maintain the rigid support but also breaks it down. Although constantly altering, these pristine objects and jewels are simultaneously frozen in time. Other works will be presented that possess similar existential and cultural references, although they are made from very different substances, such as jewelry wet-molded into shape from animal intestines that have been treated in a salt solution – meant to be viewed as reminders of their former natural life.

Naama Bergman -  Salt Necklace 02. 2015. Salt, Iron Wire, Thread

Naama Bergman -  Salt Necklace 02. 2015. Salt, Iron Wire, Thread – details

Naama Bergman - Salt Brooch 09. 2016. Salt, Iron Wire 

Naama Bergman -   Salt Brooch 06. 2016. Salt, Iron Wire

Naama Bergman -   Salt Brooch 04. 2016. Salt, Plastic Mesh

Naama Bergman -  Salt Necklace 06. 2016. Iron, Salt, Thread 

Naama Bergman - Salt Necklace 03. 2015. Salt, Iron Wire, Hemp thread – detail

Naama Bergman was born and raised in Tel Aviv. She holds a BFA from the Department of Jewelry and Fashion, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem.   Currently living in Munich, she is pursuing graduate studies in jewelry at the prestigious Academie der Bildenden Künste, with Karen Pontoppidan, having also studied there with Otto Künzli. Bergman is the recipient of several awards, including a 2015 and 2016 Study Scholarship for Foreign Graduates in the Fields of Fine Art, Film, and Design/Visual Communication and Film from DAAD, a German foundation, which supports emerging artists; a 2008 and 2009 scholarship for metal design from the Israel Cultural Foundation in America; the Eithan Ron Prize, an award for excellence in jewelry design, and Irit Strauss Prize, a scholarship for excellence in history and theory, from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem. She has been included in exhibitions around Israel and in New York, the Netherlands, Germany, Tokyo, London, and Paris.

 

 Gallery Loupe
50 Church Street
NJ 07042 – Montclair/ New Jersey
United States
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EXPO ‘TRASCENDIERON’ – Mutuo Centro de Arte, Barcelona (ES) – 8-10 Oct. 2015

TRASCENDIERON A SOLO SHOW BY MARÍA IGNACIA WALKER

at Mutuo Centro de Arte

 OPENING ON OCTOBER 8, 2015 FROM 8.30 pm TO 11 pm

Alchimia is proud to present Trascendieron, a solo exhibition by Chilean graduating jewellery artist Maria Ignacia Walker opening at the independent cultural centre Mutuo in Barcelona on October 8, 2015. This is the first in a series of solo exhibitions realized by the graduating students of Alchimia’s MFA program 2014/2015, each happening in a diffezrent city, from Prague to Antwerp, between October 2015 and April 2016

MFA JEWELLERY AND BODY ORNAMENTS
Alchimia contemporary jewellery School
2013 – 2015
« mi proyecto de graduación del Master en Bellas Artes »
Materials: Porcelain / Horsehair / Resin / Gold thread / Gold
Porcelana / Cabellos de caballo / Resina / Hilo de oro / Oro

“Mis joyas son el resultado de un dialogo con mi propio cuerpo”

María Ignacia Walker, joyera contemporánea nacida en Chile, con un background en dirección de arte publicitaria.
Actualmente reside en Florencia, luego de haber realizado un Magíster en joyería contemporánea y ornamentación del cuerpo en Alchimia School of Contemporary Jewellery.
Su trabajo nace a partir de la investigación de rituales propios traducidos en amuletos y objetos conceptuales que expresan su esencia y se conectan con su cuerpo mediante performances

Maria Ignacia Walker Trascendieron 7 – 2015 Necklace-object, 8 x 59 cm, porcelain, horse hair and gold thread Photo by Marcos Bucco, courtesy of the artist

A simple fact of life that María Ignacia Walker obsesses over: The shedding of hair.
The obsession – losing them, collecting them, ordering them, measuring them and archiving them. The desire – to preserve these losses – It gives rise to “transcendieron”.
The discourse is not about beauty and it is not about sensuality, not even about cultural symbols that hair carries.
How much hair do you lose constantly, everyday?
How many pieces grow out of your body and die every moment?
“The transcendents” are a homage to the moments when you lose your hair.
Captured and immortalized in the fragility of the porcelain, they give perpetuity and freeze all their expressions in the moment of their detachment from the body.
With a threading method, the artist uses horsehair as connectors. They show the lightness, energy and freedom, while demonstrating the real, natural movement of the hair.
Together with the act of keeping and protecting the hair in a porcelain form, they are given another life that keeps them present through their absence.

Un simple hecho cotidiano que obsesiona a María Ignacia Walker: El desprendimiento del cabello.
Perderlos, recopilarlos, ordenarlos, medirlos y archivarlos. El deseo de preservar estas pérdidas da origen a “Trascendieron”.
Un discurso que no es sobre belleza, tampoco de sensualidad y menos de los símbolos o conceptos culturales que existen a partir del cabello.
¿Cuántos cabellos se desprenden constantemente?
¿Cuántas veces al día se desprenden partes del cuerpo?
“Trascendieron” es un homenaje a la muerte de los cabellos, los que son plasmados e inmortalizados a través de la frágil porcelana, que les otorga perpetuidad y congela las expresiones de cada uno de ellos al momento de su adiós.
A modo de hilo, la artista usa los cabellos de caballo como conectores. Ellos entregan libertad, ligereza y energía, características propias de los movimientos naturales del cabello.
Junto al acto de preservar los cabellos en estas formas de porcelana, se hace presente su vida en la ausencia de la misma.  - Text: Josefina Monsalve

Maria Ignacia Walker Trascendieron 1 – 2015 Necklace-object, 28 x 45 cm, porcelain, horse hair and resin Photo by Marcos Bucco, courtesy of the artist

Maria Ignacia Walker Trascendieron 13 – 2015 Brooch, 7 x 8 cm, porcelain, horse hair and gold Photo by Marcos Bucco, courtesy of the artist

Maria Ignacia Walker – Trascendieron –   2015

Maria Ignacia Walker Trascendieron 14 2015 Brooch, 11 x 13 cm, porcelain, horse hair and gold Photo by Marcos Bucco, courtesy of the artist

Maria Ignacia Walker – 2015 – TRASCENDIERON – Materials: Porcelain / Horsehair / Resin / Gold thread / Gold Porcelana / Cabellos de caballo / Resina / Hilo de oro / Oro

Maria Ignacia Walker – 2015 – TRASCENDIERON – Materials: Porcelain / Horsehair / Resin / Gold thread / Gold

Maria Ignacia Walker – 2015 – TRASCENDIERON – Materials: Porcelain / Horsehair / Resin / Gold thread / Gold

Maria Ignacia Walker - 2015 – TRASCENDIERON – work in process …

 

 

 

Mutuo Centro de Arte
c/Julià Portet, nº5,
08002 BARCELONA
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EXPO ‘Agnes Larsson Remains’ – Ornamentum Gallery, New York (USA) – 8 Aout-7 Sept. 2015

Agnes Larsson  Remains

Agnes Larsson, hair jewelry

« Remains – Agnes Larsson 2015 -
Skin, – the container of our body, a carrier of life, holder of light, a surface with a depth. It is faded, solid and transparent. It is hardened,  petrified and reshaped. As a construction it is strong but at the same time fragile. It has been transformed and time has left its mark.
Hair, - A remnant, a trace of life. Bleached, almost white. On its own very brittle, together it is strong with movement and vitality. 
Aluminum, –  often seen as light, polished and cold, yet it has been shaped with a surface soft like skin- tactile and warm, changing…ageing. Grey like stone.
Remains marks Agnes Larsson’s second solo exhibition with Ornamentum.  Larsson was born 1980 in Stockholm, Sweden.  Awarded the AJF Emerging Artist Award for her previous body of work created of carbon in 2010, she earned her MFA in silversmithing and jewellery at Konstfack, Stockholm, under professors Ruudt Peters, Helena Lehtinen and Karen Pontoppidan. « 

 Agnes Larsson, necklace, hair jewelry – Remains 7, 2015, necklace, calf skin, aluminum, horse hair, iron, 15.5 x 8.5 x 1.5 inches

 Agnes Larsson, necklace, hair jewelry (back)

Agnes Larsson, necklace, hair jewelry – Remains 9, 2015, necklace, calf skin, aluminum, horse hair, 16 x 9 x 1.25 inches

 Agnes Larsson, necklace, hair jewelry – Remains 3, 2015, necklace, calf skin, aluminum, horse hair, iron, 24 x 13.5 x .75 inches

 Agnes Larsson

 
506 1/2 Warren St.
Hudson – New York
United States
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EXPO ‘Beauty of the Beast: Jewellery & Taxidermy’ – Museum Arnhem (NL) – 24 Janv.-10 Mai 2015

Beauty of the Beast: Jewellery and Taxidermy -  Museum Arnhem, Netherlands

The museum presents the work of more than 15 international designers and artists for the exhibition, Beauty of the Beast.  The displayed works explore the connection between taxidermy, jewellery and visual arts.

(Reid Peppard – Head Piece: Double Rat Headdress, 2008)

Artist list : Karley Feaver — Charlie Tuesday Gates — Kate Gilliland — Idiots — Benjamin Lignel — Märta Mattsson — Kelly McCallum — Kate MccGwire — Ted Noten — Reid Peppard — Iris Schieferstein — Simei Irene Snyman — Tinkebell — Cecilia Valentine — Emily Valentine — Tanel Veenre — Christel Verdaasdonk — Lisa Walker — Julia deVille — Niels van Eijk — Miriam van der Lubbe

From high-concept shops to cocktail bars: every style-conscious place these days displays a mounted fox or peacock in the window. Taxidermy, the mounting of dead animals, is hot. But what happens when you apply taxidermy to contemporary jewellery design? In the exhibition Beauty of the Beast Museum Arnhem presents the work of more than 15 international designers and artists who make a connection between taxidermy, jewellery and visual arts. The exhibition presents, on the one hand, wearable jewellery and fashion accessories such as necklaces, brooches, bags, hats, hair ornaments and shoes. But it also includes more sculptural and autonomous work.

Märta Mattsson Brooch: Crash!, 2011 Taxidermy bird, walnut wood, silver

Märta Mattsson Brooch: Palindrome, 2014 Cicada wings, resin, crushed sulphur, silver, glitter

Emily Valentine,Vijf broches, Deconstructed Budgie, 2010. Foto: John Lee

Benjamin Lignel Piece: Io ce l’ho d’oro (yeah…but mine’s gold), 2007 Fine gold 6,5 x 3,4 x 3,4 cm Beak extension for pigeon photo: Enrico Bartolucci, Paris  An experiment on the ambivalent use of accessories to either mock, or ape, the demeanour of our betters. .

Tanel Veenre. brooch: Forever Together, 2014 Seahorses, wood, gold leaf, silver Photo by Tanel Veenre

 Julia deVille Brooch: Bird Skull, 2004 Bird Skull, cubic zirconia, sterling silver 

Kelly McCallum brooch

 

Museum Arnhem
Utrechtseweg 87
6812 AA -  Arnhem
NETHERLANDS
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In a PINKY world ….. SUGAR baby land …. with Rosie Kimber

Rosie Kimber

« For my honours project titled ‘All that is Solid…’, I produced a body of work informed by the idea of Liminality. Using fragile sugar crystals, hazy pink silicone and resin casts of the crystals, alongside precious metal I explored material and their transitional stages when they are between one thing and another. To create the permanent elements in precious metal I used wire to echo the crystal forms, abstracting them to emphasise the negative space. I then hinged these together and allowed the sugar to cluster over the joins to change the final form. By relinquishing a certain amount of control of the design process the work ended up being the result of a sort of partnership between the sugar and myself. Using silicone and resin I cast these crystals to make permanent, almost perfect copies with contrasting tactile qualities, giving the wearer something to keep hold of as the original disintegrated »

 

Rosie Kimber -  Three Brooches – Sugar, Silicone, Resin

 Rosie Kimber -  Brooches – Sugar, Silicone, Resin – back view

« My work is informed by the mystical and unknowable aspects in the natural world and the associations we make with it. I am inspired by the fragility of sweet sugar crystal structures and the unpredictable manner in which they form. Growing sugar crystals necessitates giving over control of the design process to a material which grows unpredictably. For the wearer the crystals will change as the jewellery becomes embedded in their daily life and slowly disintegrates or chips away. From the fully formed sugar crystals I play with the sensory aspects of materials, casting multiple structures from the original.
My work stimulates the tactile senses by allowing the viewer to interact with many possibilities, all from the one original crystal structure. Using silicone and pigmented resins, I make almost perfect copies of the crystals that have contrasting tactile qualities yet appear visually similar. This allows the wearer to have something to keep hold of as the original disintegrates.«   (May 2014 – DJCAD Degree Show, Dundee)

Rosie Kimber -  Brooch – White Precious Metal, Druzy Agate, Resin, Pigment  – 2014

Rosie Kimber  Hinged Neckpiece – Brass, Sugar, Paint – Sugar crystals cluster over the hinges changing the final structure.

Rosie Kimber  Brooch – Yellow Precious Metal, White Precious Metal, Keum-boo, Resin, Pigment.

Made with bursary from University of Dundee and Scottish Goldsmiths

Rosie Kimber – Earrings – Brass, White Precious Metal, Pink Opals, Paint Rosie Kimber - Earrings – gold plated white precious metal, resin, pigment – 2014

Rosie Kimber – Neckpiece – Brass, Steel, Sugar

Rosie Kimber - Sugar rings – Silver textile sugar 2-Silver Resin Pigment

Une journée à la mer …. avec Eliane AMALRIC

Eliane Amalric

Maison claire.
Au bord de la mer.
Bois flottés, tons gris et clairs.

Voilà, on pourrait parler d’un haiku. Tranquillité, douceur, paix, esthétique « naturelle », le chat Mimi approuve. Déjeuner, petits poissons, bulots, vin blanc. Soleil.Bien-être.

Et puis, montée « au nid » pour voir les bijoux. Même équilibre « déséquilibré », même paix, même douceur, entre le poli-doux des bois flottés et le reflet de perles, cachées, dans les gris-blancs. La mer lui donne, à Eliane, et elle le lui rend bien !

Eliane Amalric - sautoir bois flotté, perles eau douce champagne, pièce unique

Eliane Amalric -  collier plumes de paon, os poli par la mer, argent, sur acier

Bracelet  Eliane Amalric. Olive wood with diamonds

Eliane Amalric – collier bois flotté,  fils de lin, perles eau douce, argent, sur acier.

Eliane Amalric -  collier, racine, branche de corail, perle eau douce sur acier

Eliane Amalric -  collier, racine, corail, perle eau douce, sur acier

Eliane Amalric b.o. -  pour les fans de boucles d’ oreille : et toujours et encore asymétrie, contrastes, nature pour 2014 !  plumes, bois flotté, coquillage, lave, agate Botswana, perles eau douce, corail, fibres lin et ortie. Sur acier inoxydable (photo d’ un modèle précis sur demande)

Elle peut également vous transformer un bijou que vous ne portez plus …….

Eliane Amalric – transformations -  perles en pâte de verre (souvenir de voyage) remontées avec bois flotté

et perle de Tahiti

Eliane Amalric - transformations -  collier 2 rangs de très belles perles akoya de la cliente, remonté en deux collier personnalisés  1) bois flotté et caoutchouc sur acier (porté il garde la courbe: le dégradé est mis en valeur, le contraste  avec le bois brut fait ressortir la qualité parfaite des perles

Certains de ses bijoux sont actuellement en vente à la Galerie Toiles de Mer de

Sabine JeanGeorges

1 rue du four [face à la mairie]
11440 Peyriac-de-mer
06 09 84 65 41
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DECOUVERTE : Kristyna Spanihelova, selected for TALENTE 14

Quelques découvertes grâce à SCHMUCK 2014 et TALENTE ………..

Kristyna Spanihelova nous vient de Slovaquie, et fait partie des «sélectionnés» pour TALENTE 2014

Kristýna Španihelová  studied under the guidance of professor Karol Weisslechner at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in the atelier of Metal and Jewellery where she is now working on her doctorate. She took part in academic internship programmes in the jewellery atelier at the  Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague (CZ) and studied design at the Academy in Ljubljana (SLO). In her theoretical and visual work she deals with feminine nature in connection with materiality and alchemy. Her works not only received various prizes (design competition Rings in Water 2007, Slovak jewellery competition Slovenský šperk 2005,2006…) but are on display in her home country and abroad as well.

Kristýna Španihelová presents a collection of bone jewellery from the cycle Život [i.e. Life] ANIMA. In her series of jewellery Kristýna primarily deals with the growth and development of feminine nature and principle.

Anima combines in itself the deeper and rationally imperceptible mystery of life. Carl Gustav Jung dealt with the topic of Anima in his work « The Idea of Redemption in Alchemy » and the author drew her inspiration from his theories as well. Jewellery from the cycle Life ANIMA are made of bleached bones which complement the carved-out silver lace work, synthetic pearls, gold foil, pyrites, coral and beads.

 

Kristýna Španihelová, bleached bones, carved-out silver lace work, synthetic pearls

Kristýna Španihelová

Kristýna Španihelová

Kristýna Španihelová

Kristýna Španihelová collection ‘Anima’

Kristýna Španihelová

Kristyna Spanihelova – Collection: Life Anima (bone jewelry)

EXPO ‘SUGAR’ – Platina, Stockholm (Sweden) – 13 Fevr.- 8 Mars 2014

« SUGAR »

During the year Sofia Björkman and Yasar Aydin are working on a project Eating Art. This time we have invited Natalie Smith and Sarah Hurtigkarl to take a part in the project.
Friday 14th of February is Valentin’s Day and we wonder if Sugar is for the heart?

The project is funded by Konstnärsnämnden and is scheduled to last 2013-2014.
Jewellery Art’s strength, is that it can through human movement, be shown and used in both private and public contexts, intimately as spiritually. Being a performer jewellery artist means to operate in many different situations and it is in the exciting voids we experiment. Through interdisciplinary practice and experimental meals in combination with artistic work, we discuss current issues such as gender, ethnicity, class, ethics and the environment.

with : Natalie Smith — Sarah Hurtigkarl — Yasar Aydin – Sofia Björkman

Natalie Smith, ring « Rushing to Paradise », 2010 – Plastic, textiles, sugar -8x 9x 7.5 cm Detail

Natalie Smith - Ring  « Coral D », 2010 – Plastic, textiles, sugar -10.5x 7x 7.3 cm

 

Platina
Odengatan 68
11322 – Stockholm
Sweden
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RESPIRAR …… con Maria CARELLI

Maria Carelli - collection 2013 « Respirar » – escamas de pez, plata -
ça commence comme ça « Nací en Mar del Plata ………..«  et déjà l’imagination s’envole, tous les sens en éveil …
de la mer, elle a retenu la transparence, la blancheur de l’écume, et les poissons … pour leurs écailles, dont sont fait ces bijoux -

Jewelry done with fish scales !

 

Maria Carelli - « Respirar » 2013 – escamas de pez, plata

Maria Carelli – « Respirar » 2013 – escamas de pez, plata – detalle

Maria Carelli - « Respirar » 2013 – escamas de pez, plata María Carelli -  « Respirar » brazalete  – escamas de pez, plata 925, construccion 

María Carelli -  « Las manos y el alma del artesano » De Freud al taller de joyas

at workshop …

« Psicóloga de profesión, …….. estudié técnicas de joyería en la escuela de oficios municipal “Maestro Joyero Sergio Lukez” desde 2009 hasta 2011. En 2009 comencé de manera simultánea a estudiar con el maestro Jorge Castañón, y encontré en su taller “La Nave” un lugar para desarrollar mi creatividad, explorar nuevas técnicas y avanzar hacia una joyería de autor……
Actualmente me dedico con exclusividad a la joyería contemporánea.
Un trabajo que incluye el cuerpo como parte de la transformación o expresión de una idea en una pieza concreta. Las piezas están diseñadas y realizadas a mano por mí en mi taller con excepción de las líneas Calados en las que tercerizo parte del trabajo para producir piezas seriadas. »

Hace parte de los Joyeros Argentinos

 

Maria Carelli « marea » necklace – fish scales