Andrea Wagner
Published: 01.07.2021
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Bio
Andrea Wagner is a contemporary jeweller living and practicing in Amsterdam. Wagner graduated in 1997 with a degree in jewellery studies, under the instruction of Ruudt Peters, from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy. As an active member of the contemporary jewellery community, Wagner has recieved national and international recognition as a maker and curator. Her work is featured internationally in exhibitions and private as well as public collections including: MAD Museum of Art & Design New York, Museums of Fine Arts in Houston, Boston, and Montreal, Françoise van den Bosch Collection and the Netherlands Textile Museum. In 2007 and 2008, Wagner curated and organized the touring exhibition, "Golden Clogs, Dutch Mountains", across seven venues in the US and Canada, and she was also the co-curator for "Walking the Gray Area" in Mexico City, 2010.Statement
I am intrigued with human nature, the ways in which we communicate and interact socially, and how we deal with and manage the fabric of our lives. Interwoven with errors, flaws, or awkwardness in human behavior this thematic pool never fails to draw me in and form the underlying common denominator of inspiration to my different bodies of work.Materiality as a visual aide in communicating a concept is where much of my passion lies. Experimenting with materials leads me to intriguing tactile surface structures and material combinations.
"The Architect Who Faced His Jardin Intérieur” and “...And The Architect Is Still Facing His Jardin Intérieur” Series
(Jardin intérieur, French: inner garden - private landscape of our mind)
Snapshots of a not yet existing reality in which architecture and nature are fused in complete symbiosic existence in a not yet existing reality. Or views of an inner garden or private landscape of the mind - a playful metaphor of facing up to one's secret dreams, yearnings, and ideas, weaving them into reality.
The idea of home and travels - both past and future - leave a fingerprint of influence in Wagner's jewelry pieces which in turn lends the work an additional resemblance of layered impressions of an extended travel log.
An additional playful metaphor on an internal level is the comparison of an inner garden or private landscape of the mind to mean facing up to one's secret dreams, yearnings, and ideas, plucking them from their usual mental lonely and forgotten seclusion and weaving them into reality. Why not wholeheartedly embrace a dream that at first seems unrealistic!
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