Anton Cepka

Bio

Anton Cepka (1936-2022) is a representative of Slovak jewellery design and graduated from Secondary Schools of Arts & Crafts, Bratislava and the Academy of Arts & Crafts in Prague. In 1990, the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava is where Cepka established the metal & jewellery studio. That year, he became a co-founding member and the chairman of the Association of Jewellery Designers AURA. He worked as an associate professor at the Academy for 6 years. Anton Cepka was among the earliest makers of contemporary author jewelry.
 

Statement

I have always employed my special artistic language, geometric construction, which is a never-ending inspiration for me. I have always worked in silver. I believe that silver is a material I know very intimately and I have learnt to work with it. By working with silver, I demonstrate my respect for it. It is the material that can return what I put into it. My jewellery and objects bear all the signs of today. At the same time they express the reflection of today’s over-engineered world.