Ralph Bakker
Jeweller
Published: 05.09.2020
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Ralph Bakker is Dutch contemporary jewellery designer who was born on July 13, 1958. Bakker lives and works in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. He attended the Dutch Intermediate Technical School in Schoonhoven, the Netherlands from 1986 to 1991 before enrolling at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam from 1991 to 1994. In between Bakker worked under the supervision of Peggy Bannenberg. Bakker has had numerous solo exhibitions in the Netherlands, Spain and Switzerland. He also participated in many group exhibitions throughout Europe and the United States. Ralph Bakker’s work is featured in several renowned public and private collections, including the Newark Museum of Art, the Koch Collection in Switzerland and the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.Statement
My work needs to be worn and whoever is wearing the piece in turn gives meaning to the work. Jewelry becomes an intricate part of one’s own intimate mythology. How then, can they still be mine?I want to seduce with my jewelry, my work is seduction; and when the seduction is achieved, the seduced can never be without the object of desire. The greatest compliment.
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