3 DWICH by Junwon Jung, Mari Iwamoto and Zhipeng Wang
Published: 15.04.2024
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We invited three outstanding artists for the upcoming exhibition, Junwon Jung from South Korea, Mari Iwamoto from Japan, and Zhipeng Wang from China, who all graduated from Akademie der Bildenden Künste München (Academy of Fine Arts, Munich), majored in Jewelry Design. Although nurtured under the same academic atmosphere, their observations, thinking, and creative methods for jewelry are completely different.
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Artist list
Mari Iwamoto, Junwon Jung, Zhipeng Wang
To date, I haven’t been acquainted with Junwon and Mari in person yet, but I had the honor of appreciating their works during my student years, which left a deep impression on me. The solid metalworking craft present in Junwon’s design is absolutely amazing. Perhaps because of his very profound understanding of metals and metal craftsmanship, he chose to explore the field of jewelry by purely focusing on “jewelry” itself. For the natural thinking of dividing jewelry types based on their functionality, Junwon found a new perspective to “decipher” the division of jewelry – that is, in a context that breaks free from conventional cognition, using simple materials to maximize creativity between limited scales. How sharp and thought-provoking this idea is!
Mari’s creative style is highly recognizable. In many of her early works, she used “tomato seeds” as a material of expression, forming a special mechanism similar to “skin” with fine particles arranged in an orderly manner on the surface of objects. In this way, she “reconstructed” one material into a completely different appearance, presenting an illusion of being a different creature. With exquisite aesthetic rhetoric, her works emit a mysterious aura even if simply standing still. This time, Mari will bring along a new collection of rings, which is visually refreshed with bright colors and free styling. She claimed that the structure of these rings fluctuates between the two-dimensional and three-dimensional spaces. While watching these giant rings, I seemed to be taken into a microscopic world – the details are magnified layer by layer, with each tiny part covered with finer patterns and particles. Mari had been tirelessly shaping and reshaping the fictional “skin” of these rings, making them more and more delicate as the craft delves deeper.
Zhipeng is the youngest of the three. Taking his study journey from China to Munich as a new starting point, his artistic exploration direction has been closely associated with the relationship between materials and cultural identity. For Chinese artists in Europe, this is a topic that has always existed and received wide attention. He chose to use the most important foods and drinks in daily life like bread, coffee and tea as the elements for his creation. These elements are not only indispensable daily necessities but also showcase distinct cultural differences. In China, the emergence of brick tea in history was to facilitate the storage and transportation of tea. It is an important high-value product in the embryonic stage of China's commercial civilization and also the most important trade merchandise on the Silk Road. In a sense, brick tea itself means traveling, exchanging, and harvesting. The special feature of Zhipeng's “Tea Brick” series is that the pressed tea leaves are embedded with silver textures, which come from the travel records in his smartphone APP. From one country to another, or from one cultural background to another, these silver routes record his journey of traveling as well as his experience of learning, creation, and growth.
The name of the upcoming exhibition is 三DWICH. Under the surface of Western cuisine, the sandwich is composed of three or more different layers of ingredients. When you bite it down, remember to savor the taste it brings to you.
/ Xiao Liang
Opening: 2024.04.20 at 15.00 h.
Visiting hours：13:00 - 18:00 h.
Mari’s creative style is highly recognizable. In many of her early works, she used “tomato seeds” as a material of expression, forming a special mechanism similar to “skin” with fine particles arranged in an orderly manner on the surface of objects. In this way, she “reconstructed” one material into a completely different appearance, presenting an illusion of being a different creature. With exquisite aesthetic rhetoric, her works emit a mysterious aura even if simply standing still. This time, Mari will bring along a new collection of rings, which is visually refreshed with bright colors and free styling. She claimed that the structure of these rings fluctuates between the two-dimensional and three-dimensional spaces. While watching these giant rings, I seemed to be taken into a microscopic world – the details are magnified layer by layer, with each tiny part covered with finer patterns and particles. Mari had been tirelessly shaping and reshaping the fictional “skin” of these rings, making them more and more delicate as the craft delves deeper.
Zhipeng is the youngest of the three. Taking his study journey from China to Munich as a new starting point, his artistic exploration direction has been closely associated with the relationship between materials and cultural identity. For Chinese artists in Europe, this is a topic that has always existed and received wide attention. He chose to use the most important foods and drinks in daily life like bread, coffee and tea as the elements for his creation. These elements are not only indispensable daily necessities but also showcase distinct cultural differences. In China, the emergence of brick tea in history was to facilitate the storage and transportation of tea. It is an important high-value product in the embryonic stage of China's commercial civilization and also the most important trade merchandise on the Silk Road. In a sense, brick tea itself means traveling, exchanging, and harvesting. The special feature of Zhipeng's “Tea Brick” series is that the pressed tea leaves are embedded with silver textures, which come from the travel records in his smartphone APP. From one country to another, or from one cultural background to another, these silver routes record his journey of traveling as well as his experience of learning, creation, and growth.
The name of the upcoming exhibition is 三DWICH. Under the surface of Western cuisine, the sandwich is composed of three or more different layers of ingredients. When you bite it down, remember to savor the taste it brings to you.
/ Xiao Liang
Opening: 2024.04.20 at 15.00 h.
Visiting hours：13:00 - 18:00 h.
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