Designed by Nature
Exhibition
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04 Oct 2018
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06 Oct 2018
Published: 23.10.2018
Zilver Museum Schoonhoven
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- Marcel Teheux

For centuries, nature has been a source to artists and crafts people. A source of inspiration, both in form and material. So, too, for gold and silversmiths. Nature, in its endless variety, captured – sometimes literally- in gold and silver. Frozen, as it were, in time and space, in a capsule of precious metal. What if we were to return these animals, flowers and plants to nature? Touched by humans, enshrined in a glossy material, immobile. What would such an unexpected return of these frozen creatures–so powerful a contrast with the breathing, ever shifting environment that gave birth to them – look like?
Artist list
Maja Badnjevic, Rose Blokhuis, Martha Castaneda, Maja Houtman, Zita Jansen, Bas Janssen, Karen Klein, Ronald Kuijer, Marike Reinhard, Jacqueline Rodenburg, Anneke Schollaard, Kevin Timmermans, Karin Wichers, Monique de Broekert, Liv-Maritt Prins van Wijngaarden, Hans van der Leen
With the exhibition Design by Nature the Zilvermuseum has literally invited nature to its doorstep. Grouped in the theme areas earth, air and water, a habitat of nature-inspired silver art meets its organic counterpart in the most surprising of ways. Design by Nature features prized objects from the Rijksmuseum, Koninklijke Verzamelingen and the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, as well as never-before exhibited special silver objects from private collections.
Utrechtse Schatten is an informal group of gold- and silversmiths living and working in Utrecht, they provide the Silver Museum in Schoonhoven a choice of contemporary jewellery inspired by Nature. This group already organised six exhibitions in the old and the new Botanical Gardens of Utrecht.
Utrechtse Schatten is an informal group of gold- and silversmiths living and working in Utrecht, they provide the Silver Museum in Schoonhoven a choice of contemporary jewellery inspired by Nature. This group already organised six exhibitions in the old and the new Botanical Gardens of Utrecht.
Object: Champignon du Monde, 2018
Contemporary silver filigree, copper leaves, lost wax insects.
21 x 17 x 9 cm
Photo by: A10design Albertine Dijkema
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Brooch: Witch Circle, 2018
Fairtrade silver en 18 kt gold.
6 x 6 x 1 cm
Photo by: Boris Schmidtfotografie
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Pendant: Safe, 2018
Silver, 14 kt gold.
2 x 2 x 5 cm
Photo by: A10design Albertine Dijkema
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Brooch: Seedbombs IV, 2018
Silver filigree, lost wax birds.
6.9 x 4.7 x 2.7 cm
Photo by: A10design Albertine Dijkema
Brooch and pendant.
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Zilver Museum Schoonhoven
- Mail:
- info
zilvermuseum.nl
- Phone:
- +31 182 38 56 12
- Management:
- Marcel Teheux
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