JOYA Barcelona Art Jewellery Fair 2016 Review

Undoubtedly, JOYA become a “must” place for all art jewellery connoisseurs, a "meeting point" and business platform between artists and galleries, private collectors and cultural elite, with a full schedule of events, exhibitions, conferences, and supported by important publications and mass media on and off line.
 
With the effort to innovate in every edition, this year JOYA created a link between the artists and art world with the exhibition “Les Confluences”, curate by the Italian Nichka Marobin that brought us into the world of Ramon Casas paintings combining them with art jewellery pieces from 10 recognized artists around the world
 
To close the event and celebrate Excellency in the art jewellery field, the big winner of this year was UK artist Liana Pattihis, winner of JOYA AWARD 2016.
 
Her latest collection is inspired by found images depicting flora and fauna. The images are chosen for their visual composition or specific aesthetic elements and are given a three dimensional ‘Chained Interpretation’, thus converting them into wearable pieces of jewellery. Unlike the making process used in preceding work, each enamel colour is fused and fired on the chain separately and the piece is constructed afterwards from the previously enamelled chain. This allows the piece to evolve with the various types of chain and colours mixing and intertwining, poetically responding to the images as if they were ‘still lives’ , translating them into an impressionistic pixelated relief of textured layers.
 

List of winners JOYA 2016:
 
Author Award 2016: Ignasi Cavallier
Alliages Legacy Award 2016: Isabel Busnell
International Prize Arte y Joya: Cédric Chevalley
Enjoiat: Professional, Karin Roy. Student, Xiaodai Huang
Alchimia Award: Begoña Morales (Massana School)
 

JOYA Barcelona 2016:

3,000 visitors in 3 days
40 countries
50 individual artists
20 artists represented in 3 collectives
19 students represented in 9 schools
22 artists represented in 4 galleries
20 artists selected for Enjoiat Award
1 Guest artist
70 Artists represented in 12 exhibitions OFF JOYA