Wear / Aware – New Asian Jewellery
Exhibition
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01 Aug 2013
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08 Sep 2013
Published: 11.08.2013
MANO Contemporary Jewellery & Object
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MANO has invited 8 young artists from Taiwan, Thailand, South Korea, Japan, and China to get a taste of new Asian jewellery. To see how the Oriental artists are using jewellery as media to visualize concept, to tell personal story, to place question about daily life and aesthetics, or to reflect on one’s cultural background.
Artist list
Alice Bo-Wen Chang, Ara Kuo, Heejoo Kim, Jeehyun Chung, Mariko Sumioka, Noon Passama, Shu-Lin Wu, Xiao Liu
Looking beyond the horizon, where the sun rises slowly from the East. The new energy is ramping up and launching out.
In the past 20 years, the new generation of young creatives from Asia has set foot in other continents like Europe, America, or Australia to learn more about contemporary jewellery, the conceptual way of making jewellery originated in the relatively “West” land. Carrying different cultural background with them, these young Asian creatives reposition themselves and find themselves again throughout the process.
For “WEAR /AWARE” exhibition, MANO has invited 8 young artists from Taiwan, Thailand, South Korea, Japan, and China to get a taste of new Asian jewellery. To see how the Oriental artists are using jewellery as media to visualize concept, to tell personal story, to place question about daily life and aesthetics, or to reflect on one’s cultural background.
From Taiwan, there is Ara Kuo who uses traditional calligraphy brushes to give new interpretation of home. Shu-Lin Wu’s “Mon Coeur” series uses the fire endurable quality of ceramics to connect the heart and soul. Alice Bo-Wen Chang explores the relationship between body, space and object(s) through her kinetic and structural body sculptures. From Thai artist Noon Passama, basic buttons gets thousand faces being imagined as people who appear in different ways. South Korean artist Heejoo Kim creates the fifth season with her unique use of materials. Jeehyun Chung investigates material composition and transforms simple fishing line into marvel. From Japan, Mariko Sumioka’s work pays tribute to Japanese traditional architecture and the respect for natural surroundings. Last but not least, Chinese artist Xiao Liu adopts grains and dust as material of his work to reveal the spiritual capacity of human being.
Point to the horizon and point back to ourselves. This is who we are, where we came from, and where we are going. “WEAR / AWARE” have strung together these oriental pearls awaiting you to discover. And the string of connection is the oriental implicit delicacy and beauty.
In the past 20 years, the new generation of young creatives from Asia has set foot in other continents like Europe, America, or Australia to learn more about contemporary jewellery, the conceptual way of making jewellery originated in the relatively “West” land. Carrying different cultural background with them, these young Asian creatives reposition themselves and find themselves again throughout the process.
For “WEAR /AWARE” exhibition, MANO has invited 8 young artists from Taiwan, Thailand, South Korea, Japan, and China to get a taste of new Asian jewellery. To see how the Oriental artists are using jewellery as media to visualize concept, to tell personal story, to place question about daily life and aesthetics, or to reflect on one’s cultural background.
From Taiwan, there is Ara Kuo who uses traditional calligraphy brushes to give new interpretation of home. Shu-Lin Wu’s “Mon Coeur” series uses the fire endurable quality of ceramics to connect the heart and soul. Alice Bo-Wen Chang explores the relationship between body, space and object(s) through her kinetic and structural body sculptures. From Thai artist Noon Passama, basic buttons gets thousand faces being imagined as people who appear in different ways. South Korean artist Heejoo Kim creates the fifth season with her unique use of materials. Jeehyun Chung investigates material composition and transforms simple fishing line into marvel. From Japan, Mariko Sumioka’s work pays tribute to Japanese traditional architecture and the respect for natural surroundings. Last but not least, Chinese artist Xiao Liu adopts grains and dust as material of his work to reveal the spiritual capacity of human being.
Point to the horizon and point back to ourselves. This is who we are, where we came from, and where we are going. “WEAR / AWARE” have strung together these oriental pearls awaiting you to discover. And the string of connection is the oriental implicit delicacy and beauty.
Ring: Luminous Windows series, 2011
Silver, gold
5.4 x 5.4 x 5.4 cm
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Ring: Untitled, 2013
Gold, enamel
2.1 x 2.7 x 5 cm
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Brooch: R&I 1, 2013
Mixed media
8 x 8 x 6 cm
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Brooch: Wabi sabi, 2012
Mixed media
7.2 x 4.2 x 1 cm
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Brooch: Mon Coeur#6, 2013
Mixed media
9.5 x 4.5 x 3.2 cm; 9.5 x 3.6 x 3.2 cm
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Brooch: The Rice Stone 151310012, 2013
Mixed media
3.4 x 4 x 4 cm
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MANO Contemporary Jewellery & Object
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