Tamara Grüner
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Naturalness and artificiality are forming an intense bond in Tamara Grüner’s latest works. The game with these opposites is the central theme.
Organic shapes or naturally rolling movements made of bones or synthetic material are in a contrast with angular minerals or metals. The single elements are composed to an ensemble until the lines become indistinct. An intense artificiality is produced byrainbow-coloured surfaces, natural materials such as e.g. mother of pearl seem to be virtually unnatural.
Brilliant Memories
The pieces of jewellery of the series „Brilliant Memories“ focus on and deal with the past of the family of Bohemian costume jeweller Prade. Expelled from his country, Richard Prade had to leave Gablonz in 1946 and relocated in Schwäbisch-Gmünd with his family. There, in post-war Germany, his first pieces made out of leftover material came into being.
Only ten years after the liquidation of the Prade company in 1995, the still existing material was released. Hence, for “Brilliant Memories”, colourful glass stones, synthetics and pieces of tombac are taken from its past and put together to glistering shapes of art.
Their lush ornamentation can first and foremost be found on the metal parts, which are beingintegrated in their original form in the unique pieces of jewellery. The chromaticity softens their austerity and is enchanting the observer. Scrolls do not seem to be mere decoration, they rather are an essential part of each piece. Cutouts attract the viewer’s glance and invite the eye to dwell.
In this way new life is being breathed into the old materials. By combining porcelain and synthetics, a fascinating dialogue arises.
The “Brilliant Memories”-pieces move in a border zone of arts,craft and fashion. Their impressive past can only be sensed and is surely worth being discovered.
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