Im FoCus by Jiro Kamata
Exhibition
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08 Jul 2023
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19 Aug 2023
Published: 30.07.2023
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Jiro Kamata is one of the most important and innovative jewelry designers of our time. His works are characterized by beguiling and vivid color reflections, the likes of which cannot be seen anywhere else in the world.
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Jiro Kamata
Jiro Kamata's work is always inspired by his travels and experiences. He loves to discover new materials, play with them, experiment, put them in a new context and give them a completely new function and meaning.
Glass has been an integral part of his work for a long time. Optical lenses such as old camera lenses, sunglass lenses, dichroic mirrors, - all small technical marvels with their highly precise cuts and coatings - have inspired him since he was an excellent city goldsmith in Hanau. Jiro Kamata loves working with gold and silver, but conventional jewelry materials are often only carriers for everyday materials in his works, which are given a very unique and new value in his idiosyncratic pieces.
He was highliy inspired by a visit to the Pantheon in rome for his Oculus series. Magical sunlight flooded the interior of the temple hall through an opening in the center of the perfectly hemispherical ceiling. He was determined to capture this glow and radiance and reproduce it in his jewelry using lens shapes that were specially designed for the first time. In the search for the best possible material for the new lenses, sapphire glass fulfilled all his wishes. Sapphire glass is as hard as the gemstone sapphire (Mohs hardness scale 9) and - like diamond - is one of the clearest materials of all. A camera lens company in Germany now grinds sapphire glass lenses for Jiro Kamata exactly to his designs: "The OCULUS series consists of sapphire glass lenses and silver or 18K gold. The back of the lenses are coated with PVD or 24K gold. The coating and the hemispherical shape of the lens creates a small eye in the center of the lens, the OCULUS. This work has to do with my life theme of light and reflection, but also with the macrocosm and the microcosm on the finger."
The jewelry pieces by Jiro Kamata catch the light, reflecting a different color again and again depending on the viewing angle, flirting shamelessly with the counterpart and playing tag as colored shadows on the wall. So who needs precious stones with this sparkle and shine?
/Bruna Hauert
Opening hours:
Wednesday to Friday 12-14h and 15-18.30
Saturday 11-17h
Glass has been an integral part of his work for a long time. Optical lenses such as old camera lenses, sunglass lenses, dichroic mirrors, - all small technical marvels with their highly precise cuts and coatings - have inspired him since he was an excellent city goldsmith in Hanau. Jiro Kamata loves working with gold and silver, but conventional jewelry materials are often only carriers for everyday materials in his works, which are given a very unique and new value in his idiosyncratic pieces.
He was highliy inspired by a visit to the Pantheon in rome for his Oculus series. Magical sunlight flooded the interior of the temple hall through an opening in the center of the perfectly hemispherical ceiling. He was determined to capture this glow and radiance and reproduce it in his jewelry using lens shapes that were specially designed for the first time. In the search for the best possible material for the new lenses, sapphire glass fulfilled all his wishes. Sapphire glass is as hard as the gemstone sapphire (Mohs hardness scale 9) and - like diamond - is one of the clearest materials of all. A camera lens company in Germany now grinds sapphire glass lenses for Jiro Kamata exactly to his designs: "The OCULUS series consists of sapphire glass lenses and silver or 18K gold. The back of the lenses are coated with PVD or 24K gold. The coating and the hemispherical shape of the lens creates a small eye in the center of the lens, the OCULUS. This work has to do with my life theme of light and reflection, but also with the macrocosm and the microcosm on the finger."
The jewelry pieces by Jiro Kamata catch the light, reflecting a different color again and again depending on the viewing angle, flirting shamelessly with the counterpart and playing tag as colored shadows on the wall. So who needs precious stones with this sparkle and shine?
/Bruna Hauert
Opening hours:
Wednesday to Friday 12-14h and 15-18.30
Saturday 11-17h
Friends of Carlotta
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- Mail:
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- Phone:
- +41 44 261 87 07
- Management:
- Bruna Hauert
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