Catarina Silva
Jeweller
Published: 27.04.2017
gmail.comPendant: Decorations décoratives, 2017
Copper, paint, string
10 x 6 cm
front and back
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Pendant: Decorations décoratives, 2017
Copper, paint, string
10 x 6 cm
front and back
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Pendant: Decorations décoratives, 2017
Copper, paint, string
10 x 6 cm
front and back
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Pendant: Decorations décoratives, 2017
Copper, paint, string
10 x 6 cm
front and back
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Pendant: Decorations décoratives, 2017
Copper, paint, string
10 x 6 cm
front and back
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Pendant: Decorations décoratives, 2017
Copper, paint, string
10 x 6 cm
front and back
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Pendant: Decorations décoratives, 2017
Copper, paint, string
10 x 6 cm
front and back
© By the author. Read Klimt02.net Copyright.
Pendant: Decorations décoratives, 2017
Copper, paint, string
10 x 6 cm
front and back
© By the author. Read Klimt02.net Copyright.
Pendant: Decorations décoratives, 2017
Copper, paint, string
10 x 6 cm
front and back
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Pendant: Decorations décoratives, 2017
Copper, paint, string
10 x 6 cm
front and back
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Pendant: Decorations décoratives, 2017
Copper, paint, string
10 x 6 cm
front and back
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Pendant: Decorations décoratives, 2017
Copper, paint, string
10 x 6 cm
front and back
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Brooch: Untitled, 2017
Valchromat, cashew lacquer, silver, stainless steel.
19 x 9 x 0.8 cm
Photo by: Catarina Silva
From series: Rocks&Clouds
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Brooch: Untitled, 2017
Valchromat, cashew lacquer, pigment, silver, stainless steel.
16 x 7 x 0.8 cm
Photo by: Catarina Silva
From series: Rocks&Clouds
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Brooch: Untitled, 2017
Valchromat, cashew lacquer, oxidized silver and stainless steel.
19.5 x 7.5 x 0.8 cm
Photo by: Catarina Silva
From series: Rocks&Clouds
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Brooch: Untitled, 2017
Valchromat, cashew lacquer, brass, silver, stainless steel.
18 x 8.5 x 1.5 cm
Photo by: Catarina Silva
From series: Rocks&Clouds
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Pin: Untitled, 2017
Valchromat, cashew lacquer, silver.
8 x 4 x 0.8 cm
Photo by: Catarina Silva
From series: Rocks&Clouds
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Brooch: Untitled, 2017
Valchromat, cashew lacquer, plastic, silver, stainless steel.
16 x 7 x 1.5 cm
Photo by: Catarina Silva
From series: Rocks&Clouds
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Pendant: Untitled, 2017
Valchromat, cashew lacquer, spray paint, silver, string.
14 x 11 x 0.8 cm
Photo by: Catarina Silva
From series: Rocks&Clouds
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Brooch: Untitled, 2016
Valchromat, cashew lacquer, spray paint, silver and stainless steel.
19 x 8 x 0.8 cm
Photo by: Catarina Silva
From series: Rocks&Clouds
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Brooch: Speaking flowers, 2015
Camelia wood, paint, silver and stainless steel
3 x 8.5 x 3 cm
Photo by: Pedro Sequeira
Part of: Tereza Seabra Collection
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Necklace: Speacking flowers, 2015
Cedar wood, paint and oxidized silver
47.5 x 5 x 2.5 cm
Photo by: Pedro Sequeira
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Brooch: Speaking flowers, 2015
Boxwood, reconstrusted turquoise, paint, silver and stainless steel
13.5 x 1.8 x 2.5 cm
Photo by: Pedro Sequeira
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Necklace: Speaking flowers, 2015
Poplar wood, paint, gold 19ct
18 x 2.5 cm
Photo by: Pedro Sequeira
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Brooch: Speaking flowers, 2015
Rosewood, paint, oxidized silver and stainless steel
5 x 16 x 3 cm
Photo by: Pedro Sequeira
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Pin: Speaking flowers, 2015
Cedar wood, sucupira wood, paint and oxidized silver
14 x 8 x 2.5 cm
Photo by: Pedro Sequeira
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Ring: Speaking flowers, 2015
Purple wood, paint and oxidized silver
4 x 1.5 x 3.5 cm
Photo by: Pedro Sequeira
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Pin: Speaking flowers, 2015
Cedar wood, paint and oxidized silver
6 x 2.8 x 2.5 cm
Photo by: Pedro Sequeira
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Pendant: Still life with a cassowary, 2014
Silver, pearls, shell and hemp cord
12 x 42 cm
Photo by: Pedro Sequeira
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Pendant: Still life with a giraffe, 2014
Silver, corals, shell and hemp cord
11 x 42 cm
Photo by: Pedro Sequeira
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Pendant: Still life with a bird, 2014
Silver, pearls, shell and hemp cord
7 x 42 cm
Photo by: Pedro Sequeira
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Pendant: Still life with a rotten apple, 2014
Silver, pearls, shell and hemp cord
9 x 42 cm
Photo by: Pedro Sequeira
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Brooch: Oh la vache!, 2012
Found object, fluorite, paint, gold leaf, emerald, diamond, oxidized silver and stainless steel
6 x 3 x 2.5 cm
Photo by: Catarina Silva
Part of: Tereza Seabra Collection
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Brooch: Ranjit Singh, 2012
Found objects, gold leaf, gold 19ct, diamonds and zirconium
4 x 1.5 x 2 cm
Photo by: Catarina Silva
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Necklace: Golden pony aka David, 2012
Found object, oil painting, zirconiums, turquoise and silver
6 x 35 cm
Photo by: Catarina Silva
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I was born in Lisbon and studied jewellery at Ar.Co (Centro de arte e comunicação visual) between 2000 and 2005. I have worked at Galeria Reverso and since 2013 in Galeria Tereza Seabra. Currently I am a teacher as well as the head of the Jewellery Department in the school where I graduated.
Statement
New series are based on the Rocks&Clouds dichotomy as a metaphorical motif, symbol of weight and lightness, allied to the mental and manual process of plastic creation, I started with this idea the current series that I now develop. In this group, instead of the usual more instinctive and lyrical approach, I choose for a more mental and organizational approach in which the creative intuition operates on a structure of methodical and structuralist basis. The objects make use of the ancestral technique of the Japanese lacquer on a heterodox semi synthetic support, the valchromat, through new color combinations, graphic compositions and minimalist solutions.Down the Rabbit Hole is a group of pieces that develops and establishes a clear relationship with previous work in so far that it explores the same plastic and technical procedures though widening and reinventing its use in search of a recurrent humoristic aspect that is based on the universe of the fantastic and the unheard.
The surrealistic assemblage that results in the intertwine between forms that allude the naturalistic in counterpoint with apparently mechanical and artificial elements seeks to establish an effect that in spite of being inspired in the historical tradition of still life it still aims to reinvent it’s appearance, it’s shape and its content and meaning.
The premise of constructing portable and usable Jewellery with a strong reference to the ornamental defined the issues related to the making and the definition of scale. Executed through materials contrasting both in texture and touch as well as in it’s appearance they somehow awake ambiguity in there sensorial perception and simultaneously in the comprehension of the figurative imagery.
I intent to demonstrate the significance of Jewellery as a discipline with an enriching artistic practice decisive in the definition and construction of culture in contemporary existence.
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