Malene Kastalje
Published: 02.06.2020
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New brooch When It Got Closer, No One Stopped, on show at the exhibition Beige in Copenhagen.
gmail.comBrooch: When It Got Closer, No One Stopped, 2020
Silicone, Neodymium Magnets, pigment; Titanium White, Raw Sienna, Burnt Sienna, Burnt Umber, Cadmium Yellow Deep (substitute), Quinacridone Violet and Phthalocyanine Blue.
17 x 20 x 5.5 cm
Photo by: Malene Kastalje
Maybe it had come with the wind, but it was on the way back that the first signs showed up. The surface got covered with a thin indeterminate layer; the cracks opened and allowed the heat to rise. A dry sensation was spreading, and the sweet smell that was creeping in was numbing. It recalled everything that had gone before.
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Neckpiece: The Swollen Part, 2018
Silicone, pigments, neodymium magnets.
18 x 7 x 27 cm
Photo by: Malene Kastalje
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Brooch: Untitled, 2018
Silicone, pigments, neodymium magnets.
6 x 11 x 7 cm
From series: The Swollen Part
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Brooch: Untitled, 2018
Silicone, pigments, neodymium magnets.
4 x 9 x 9 cm
From series: The Swollen Part
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Brooch: Untitled, 2018
Silicone, pigments, neodymium magnets.
6 x 10 x 8 cm
From series: The Swollen Part
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Brooch: Untitled, 2018
Silicone, pigments, niobium magnets.
6.5 x 9.4 x 7.3 cm
From series: The Swollen Part
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Brooch: The Swollen Part, 2017
Silicone, Pigments, Magnets
6.8 x 8.5 x 6.2 cm
From series: The Swollen Part
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Brooch: The Swollen Part, 2017
Silicone, pigment, magnets
6.4 x 8.4 x 6.7 cm
From series: The Swollen Part
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Brooch: The Swollen Part, 2017
Silicone, pigments, niobium magnets.
4.5 x 9.2 x 5.5 cm
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Brooch: The swollen part, 2016
Silicone, pigments, magnets.
5 x 8 x 7 cm
From series: The swollen part
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Brooch: The swollen part, 2016
Silicone, pigments, magnets.
5.7 x 8.2 x 6.5 cm
Part of: The swollen part
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Necklace: The swollen part, 2016
Silicone, pigments, magnets.
6 x 14 x 23 cm
From series: The swollen part
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Brooch: The swollen part, 2016
Silicone, pigments, magnets.
From series: The swollen part
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Brooch: The swollen part, 2016
Silicone, pigments, magnets.
5.7 x 7.8 x 6.8 cm
From series: The swollen part
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Necklace: The swollen part, 2016
Silicone, pigments, magnets.
5 x 14 x 27 cm
From series: The swollen part
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Brooch: The swollen part, 2016
Silicone, pigments, magnets.
4.4 x 7.5 x 5.4 cm
From series: The swollen part
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Ring: No one knew, when it would happen #4, 2015
Silicone Pigments.
7 x 6 x 10.2 cm
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Ring: No one knew, when it would happen #1, 2015
Silicone, pigments.
6 x 5.5 x 9.5 cm
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Ring: No one knew, when it would happen #3, 2015
Silicone, pigments
6.5 x 6.2 x 9.5 cm
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Ring: No one knew, when it would happen #5, 2015
Silicone, pigments.
7.3 x 6.3 x 11.3 cm
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Ring: No one knew, when it would happen #2, 2015
Silicone, pigments
6.7 x 5.8 x 7.3 cm
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Ring: No one knew, when it would happen #12, 2016
Silicone, pigments
6.3 x 9.4 x8.7 cm
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Ring: No one knew, when it would happen #13, 2016
Silicone, pigments
9 x 6.6 x 10.4 cm
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Ring: No one knew, when it would happen #9, 2015
Silicone, pigments.
8 x 6 x 8.4 cm
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Ring: No one knew, when it would happen #6, 2015
Silicone, pigments
7.8 x 6.2 x 8.5 cm
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Ring: No one knew, when it would happen #10, 2015
Silicone, pigment.
3 x 6.2 x 8.3 cm
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Ring: No one knew, when it would happen #7, 2015
Silicone, pigments
7 x 6.2 x 7.6 cm
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Ring: No one knew, when it would happen #8, 2015
Silicone, pigments.
7.4 x 5.8 x 9.4 cm
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Ring: They quietly moved in #1, 2014
Silicone, pigments, 24kt gold leaf.
4.9 x 4.1 x 5.9 cm
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Ring: They quietly moved in #2, 2014
Silicone, pigments.
6.2 x 3.4 x 5.9 cm
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Ring: They quietly moved in #3, 2014
Silicone, pigments.
5.1 x 4 x 6 cm
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Necklace: Once they broke through, it was left behind, 2013
Silicone, pigments
20 x 3 x 44 cm
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Ring: And there were only tiny sounds, 2011
Silicone, pigments, 925 silver.
8 x 4.5 x 4.5 cm each
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Malene Kastalje is a jewellery artist, based in Copenhagen, Denmark. She studied at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts - School of Design completing an MA in experimental furniture and sculpture. The artist is represented at The Danish State Arts Foundation, Trapholt Museum of Fine Art and has received several fundings. Malene is a sensible explorer investigating her surroundings, letting the materials absorb whatever she goes through.
Statement
Through transformative material experiments, I approach a seductive alienness. I move in a tactile tension between repulsive and attractive, where poisonous growths are reminders of unknown layers. I am intrigued by a sensuous rawness and a state of disintegration. Moments from my past and my present are collected to create pieces that contain different sensations and abstract stories.My pieces aim to communicate emotionally while reminding of something uncomfortable and imperfect, as well as triggering a feeling of preciousness. They are built up slowly, intuitively, sculpting and controlling the material, while in other parts of the process, letting the material take over and leaving space for a refined and subtle surprise.
Making wearable objects are for me a way of communicating and making contact on a nonverbal and sensuous level and it is my hope that my pieces will make a tactile spark of emotions that reach behind the surface of the people they come in contact with.
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