Craft and Bling Bling - Fake
Exhibition
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05 Jun 2014
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06 Jul 2014
Published: 08.06.2014
Depot Basel Place for Contemporary Design
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Depot Basel and Current Obsession present a collaborative curatorial effort. They invited artists to interpret the subject from standpoints of jewellery history, their own work mediums or contemporary art and society.
Artist list
Adam Grinovich, Barbara Schrobenhauser, Edgar Mosa, Florian Milker, Florian Weichsberger, Jing He, Julia Walter, Kevin Hughes, Mallory Weston, Philipp Eberle, Rainer Kaasik-Aaslav, Sophie Hanagarth
“Brain research tells us that only twenty percent
of human beings have a sense of irony, which
means that eighty percent of the world takes
everything at face value.”
Douglas Coupland
Depot Basel, place for contemporary design and Current Obsession, contemporary jewellery magazine, present a collaborative curatorial effort in the context of Depot Basel’s ongoing exhibition series “CRAFT &”. CRAFT & SCENOGRAPHY (2012), CRAFT & DRAWING (2013)
For ‘CRAFT & BLING BLING – FAKE’ Depot Basel commissioned work by twelve jewellery makers reflecting on the subject of Fake. Together with Current Obsession they invited artists to interpret the subject from standpoints of jewellery history, their own work mediums or contemporary art and society.
Work by Manfred Nisslmüller, Suska Mackert, Johanna Dahm and Cloe Floirat accompany the exhibition. The entire collaboration becomes a feature in the #3 FAKE issue of the Current Obsession magazine.
of human beings have a sense of irony, which
means that eighty percent of the world takes
everything at face value.”
Douglas Coupland
Depot Basel, place for contemporary design and Current Obsession, contemporary jewellery magazine, present a collaborative curatorial effort in the context of Depot Basel’s ongoing exhibition series “CRAFT &”. CRAFT & SCENOGRAPHY (2012), CRAFT & DRAWING (2013)
For ‘CRAFT & BLING BLING – FAKE’ Depot Basel commissioned work by twelve jewellery makers reflecting on the subject of Fake. Together with Current Obsession they invited artists to interpret the subject from standpoints of jewellery history, their own work mediums or contemporary art and society.
Work by Manfred Nisslmüller, Suska Mackert, Johanna Dahm and Cloe Floirat accompany the exhibition. The entire collaboration becomes a feature in the #3 FAKE issue of the Current Obsession magazine.
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Mallory, Weston
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Kevin, Hughes
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Philip, Eberle
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Exhibition view, inside the jewellery box
Photo by Gregor Brändli
Photo by Gregor Brändli
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Exhibition view, outside the jewellery box
Photo by Gregor Brändli
Photo by Gregor Brändli
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Depot Basel Place for Contemporary Design
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