Maria Hees
Jeweller
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Published: 26.01.2021
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Maria Hees is not an industrial designer, not a free artist, not a craftswoman in the tradition of her craft, not an ambitious businessperson. Maria Hees regularly exhibits in shows at home and abroad. Her work has been included in the collections of various museums: including Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Museum Arnhem, Coda Museum in Apeldoorn, Design Museum in Den Bosch, Kunstmuseum in The Hague, Museum für Kunsthandwerk in Frankfurt, Israel Museum in Jerusalem, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Museum of Fine Arts Montreal, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Museum of Arts and Design New York, Metropolitan Museum New York, Cooper Hewitt Museum New York and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.Statement
Maria Hees is committed to the development of her own ideas about the nature of jewellery, objects, and bags; she examines the applicability of materials, often applying materials in entirely novel ways. She does acknowledge any of the restrictions so often imposed on the manufacture of products by tradition or other standards; on the contrary, she fights them in an attempt to create new solutions. She shapes her own freedom and, in doing so, the freedom of those who use her objects. She can do this by working on a small scale, making almost everything herself, and doing only what she thinks is worthwhile. It is in her work that her true being manifests itself...I am always looking for new techniques and materials, both for my jewelry and for my bags and objects. For my porcelain jewelry, I use a new material that has been developed together with the EKWC (European Ceramic Work Center): porcelain that foams in the oven. Always the result is a surprise. I made the iron jewelry together with a blacksmith in Mali, Africa, and also in Mali, I made jewelry from parchment. The silicone chains are shaped by hand. I try to make them look like a sketch. I made the glass jewelry together with a master glassblower from the Czech Republic.
I use different materials for my bags such as fish leather from the Nile perch of Lake Victoria, naturally tanned leather, and neoprene. My last two series were designed and made by me: bags from leather, and vases from ceramic and porcelain. At the moment, I am developing techniques to work with porcelain and stoneware in two colors, similar to the Japanese Raku and Nerikomi methods.
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