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Idiomatic. A Jewellery Conversation Between France and Germany

Exhibition  /  MunichJewelleryWeek2019  /  13 Mar 2019  -  17 Mar 2019
 
Published: 01.03.2019
Idiomatic. A Jewellery Conversation Between France and Germany.
Object - 78,8 % by Katharina Dettar, 2016. Material: steatite, flipbook. Size: 25 x 25 cm. Photo by Guillem Trius.
Necklace - Memory objects: in between before and after jaw bones surgery - 
seowon by Marine Dominiczak, 2015. Material: casting, laiton.Size: 30 x 5 x 2 cm. Photo by Marine Dominiczak.

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Intro
A piece of jewellery – close link between art and the body – makes a powerful means of expression. Can jewellery, as a unique form of language reflecting common intimate and societal issues, present different characteristics depending on which country it originates from? Can two countries as geographically close as France and Germany develop a creative vocabulary of their own, an idiomatic-related glossary?