newsletter  #  291 01.07.2015

FORUM Article / Artists, Behind the Scenes, Making, Debates Report of the Legnica Jewellery Festival Silver 2015 Gallery of Art in Legnica 19Jun2015 The silvery weekend saw the openings of 24 exhibitions, supported by the accompanying events, amongst which it is worth to mention a session of popular science, entitled Boundaries of The Global Art.   Interview / Artists, Behind the Scenes Interview with Nanna Melland Klimt02 20Jun2015 I believe to expect something is a devil in your life. It is not important. What is important is to work hard, even if you do not know why or how or when. / Nanna Melland Article / Artists, Behind the Scenes, Making Akiko Shinzato. Central Saint Martins. New Graduates 2015 BA (Hons) Jewellery Design Central Saint Martins 20Jun2015 Since facial features are the most important for first impressions, my collection is a series of jewellery for the face. / Akiko Shinzato Interview Interview with Marina Stanimirovic Klimt02 22Jun2015 I take a lot of time walking in the city, observing around me and taking analog photography that complete and feeds my work. / Marina Stanimirovic Article / Artists, Behind the Scenes, Making Darja Popolitova. Estonian Academy of Arts. New Graduates 2015 Estonian Academy of Arts 21Jun2015 My jewellery collection symbolizes the rhythm of duality in two separate series. The series “Fazis” represents the development of androgyny and the feelings of two parts yearning to be whole. The full merging occurred in the series “Metanoia” where the result of androgyny is to find the lost halves of a whole. / Darja Popolitova   Interview / Artists, History Gijs Bakker - The Straw is the Symbol of Our Age Karolina Vrankova 21Jun2015 World renowned designer Gijs Bakker talks to Czech writer Karolína Vrankova about his view on conceptual jewellery, roads to success and the future of design in this interview for TRIPLE PARADE 2015.   Article / Artists, Behind the Scenes, Making Joani Groenewald. Stellenbosch University. New Graduates 2015 Universiteit Stellenbosch University 23Jun2015 In this research project Joani Groenewald studies memory, specifically the unstable and fragmented nature of memory. She revisits a specific childhood memory and recreates it visually through the creation of jewellery pieces and objects. The memory is from 1990, she is four years old.   Blog post / Behind the Scenes Golden Prototypes at Klimt02 Gallery 26Jun2015 Evening of June 10th we opened the exhibition Blank at Klimt02 Gallery presenting a series of new pieces by Catalan artist Marc Monzó.   Article / Artists Sophie Beer. Le Arti Orafe. New Graduates 2015 Le Arti Orafe 26Jun2015 Silver remains a classic in jewellery design. In my collection it represents the meaning of an office as a workspace and the structured professional interaction. The title of silver – 925 (read nine two five) – gives the collection the title which corresponds to working from nine (o’clock) to five (o’clock), which used to be a classic day in an office.   EVENTS · Current Events · Upcoming Events · Current Deadlines   Fundraising JUNK - Rubbish to Gold: kickstarter campaign 16Jun2015 - 15Jul2015 Birmingham City University Birmingham, United Kingdom DEADLINE: 15/07/2015 The countdown begins now! Take a look at JUNK: rubbish to gold's new Campaign and see how you can participate.   Exhibition White horse in a green meadow 22Jun2015 - 04Sep2015 Putti Art Gallery Rïga, Latvia The gallery presents the summer exhibition White horse in a green meadow, different Latvian and international contemporary jewellery artists participate on it.   Exhibition SleepLess: Trier University of Applied Sciences Graduation Show 2015 23Jun2015 - 22Aug2015 Villa Bengel Idar Oberstein, Germany The Trier University of Applied Sciences , Department Gemstone and Jewellery in Idar-Oberstein presents pieces of selected graduation works which were developed during the last three years.   Exhibition Central Saint Martins BA Jewellery Design Degree Show 2015 24Jun2015 - 28Jun2015 Central Saint Martins, BA (Hons) Jewellery Design London, United Kingdom We warmly invite you to the 2015 degree show to see the collections and celebrate the work of this year’s graduates from BA Jewellery Design at Central Saint Martins.   Exhibition Glasgow School of Art Degree Show at New Designers 2015 24Jun2015 - 27Jun2015 Business Design Centre London, United Kingdom New Designers is the UK's most important graduate design exhibition, full of innovation and fresh thinking. It takes place over two weeks, with each part focusing on a different set of design disciplines and featuring its own Awards Programme.   Exhibition Peace Bullet by Nicola Evangelisti 25Jun2015 - 28Jun2015 ArtVilnius Vilnius, Lithuania Art Pod Presents "Peace Bullet" By Nicola Evangelisti at ArtVilnius'15. The piece is part of a "supernova art installation", that starts with a single form which is subsequently atomized into small fragments.   Exhibition The Cass Degree Show 2015 26Jun2015 - 04Jul2015 The CASS London, United Kingdom For a month students from The Cass will showcase their final projects demonstrating three years of hard work.   Exhibition Timbre by Simon Cottrell 27Jun2015 - 19Jul2015 Sienna Patti Lenox, United States I have no need to hurry or progress in leaps and bounds. Each piece is conceived primarily for an existence in collaborating with a wearer towards their communication of self. / Simon Cottrell   Exhibition Uncanny Pleasures by Märta Mattsson 30Jun2015 - 04Jul2015 WE WALKA Gallery Vitacura, Chile Märta Mattsson is attracted by things that other people find strange or are even repulsed by. Her jewellery deals with the tension that lies between attraction and repulsion. On this solo exhibition the artist presents dead creatures transformed into jewellery pieces.   Exhibition Dark to light to dark by Jiro Kamata 30Jun2015 - 01Sep2015 Gallery Funaki Melbourne, Australia Material selection is the starting point for me.  I have to fall in love with a material, and begin a relationship.  If that relationship works, the material shows me what I should do with it. / Jiro Kamata   Open call Call for applications: Talente Competition 2016 01Jul2015 - 01Oct2015 Handwerkskammer für München und Oberbayern Munich, Germany DEADLINE: 01/10/2015 Young artist working in the applied arts and technology will have the opportunity to show their work in the international competition TALENTE 2016 in Munich, Germany, during the International Trade Fair for the Skilled Trades from 24th February to 1st March 2016.   Exhibition Is that jewelry? 02Jul2015 - 05Jul2015 Atopos Athens, Greece An exhibition that wonders and asks about the many different aspects of contemporary jewelry.   Exhibition Fallen collections by Erin Keys 02Jul2015 - 02Aug2015 Gray Street Workshop Adelaide, Australia Using traditional jewellery making techniques her work captures a gestural energy that is suggestive of street ‘tags’. Abstracted from their origin these calligraphic forms become aesthetic artefacts of Keys’ urban landscape.   Exhibition Smashed investment on the wall by Ulo Florack 03Jul2015 - 31Aug2015 Galerie Katrin Eitner Berlin, Germany 36 pieces complex little worlds plenty of enigmas by Ulo Florack. This exhibition reveals Ulo Florack as a painter but also the relation with his work as a jewellery artist and object maker.   Exhibition Love and Technique by Lisa Walker and Karl Fritsch 05Jul2015 - 26Jul2015 Galerie Rosemarie Jäger Hochheim, Germany This is the 4th Exhibition of the series Couples in jewelry. At Rosi’s Lisa and Karl will be showing rings, necklaces, earrings, vessels, bracelets, and spoons. Sometimes they’ll be small and rough, or big and fine, some will be very colourful, others not at all.   Exhibition Blinding the Cyclops by Lisa & Scott Cylinder 08Jul2015 - 07Aug2015 Velvet da Vinci San Francisco, United States A new body of work by the duo, made by repurposing and altering parts from musical instruments, games, antiquated tools, and more.   Exhibition Panorama by Julie Blyfield 09Jul2015 - 25Jul2015 JamFactory Adelaide, Australia 53 jewellery pieces and small scale objects inspired by the Australian landscape.    Exhibition Between Nature and Artistry by Daniel Kruger 09Jul2015 - 27Sep2015 GfG Hanau, Germany Hardly any other jewelry artist has repeatedly found his way so freely and unencumbered to new pictorial worlds of a very personal nature as Daniel Kruger, professor at the famous Burg Giebichenstein college in Halle.    Exhibition Amber Chamber at Luxembourg 10Jul2015 - 23Aug2015 Orfèo Luxembourg, Luxembourg The Amber Chamber exhibition travels to Luxembourg to presents ten renown artists taking a fresh look on amber. The contrasts in these works should help to update the traditional and still rather one-sided view of amber jewelry, showing new possibilities about this interesting material.   Workshop Design Werkstatt Felix Urs Stüssi Summer Workshops 2015 12Jul2015 - 11Sep2015 Design Werkstatt Braunwald, Switzerland DEADLINE: 07/07/2015 Still few places to apply at the Art Clay Silver & the Argentium Silver workshops. Apply Now ! The different workshops for jeweller makers have become well known as a place of inspiration and communication.   Exhibition Junk: rubbish to gold 09Nov2015 - 27Nov2015 Birmingham City University Birmingham, United Kingdom JUNK: rubbish to gold, a co-creation and collaboration between Jivan Astfalck, Laura Bradshaw-Heap and Rachel Darbourne, is a participatory art project that explores the value of materials. The project counts with a performance, an exhibition and a silent auction. JEWELLERS · Jewellers On Show · Jewellers Coming Events   Jeweller Marina Stanimirovic London, United Kingdom New member of Klimt02. Fascinated by the importance of the link; the connection becomes a space to explore the balance between relationships, safety, isolation and detachment. Do these links highlight connections or distances? Is here a sense resiliency or a gloomy disregard? Of void or absence? Jeweller JiChang Chai Birmingham, United Kingdom The artist presents a new pendant, "Jungle Law".  A piece with a strong narrative and language, with a total and dramatic effect.   Jeweller Minna Markkanen Imatra, Finland New work from the finnish jeweller. Minna Markkanen continues her investigation with organic materials while extends her palette.   Jeweller Ariane Hartmann Hagen, Germany Within word from Ariane Hartmann: two news pieces were the german jeweller explores the calligram technique.   Jeweller Gigi Mariani Modena, Italy 9 pieces worked from the spontaneity and instinct to transfer everyday emotions into the jewellery in an impulsive way. Gigi endeavor to use the same sort of approach as is doing when painting.   GALLERIES · Galleries On Show · Galleries Coming Events   Gallery Galerie Noel Guyomarc'h Montreal, Canada Last days to visit Silence Please!, Works Without Words, Silent Jewellery Gallery Putti Art Gallery Rïga, Latvia Last days to visit Amber: The Baltic Jewel Gallery Klimt02 Gallery Barcelona, Spain Last days to visit Blank by Marc Monzó VIDEOS Video Nicola Evangelisti: Peace Bullet Mandala Artists, Exhibitions, Performances, Jewels The Italian artist Nicola Evangelisti is producing mandalas using small caliber silver, gold or lead bullets. When the mandalas are finished, they are ritually and publicly destroyed. Each one of these bullets fits perfectly inside an Art Pod Optico jewel box.   Video Is that jewelry? Behind the Scenes, Exhibitions, Performances How do you wear this ring? Is your brooch dangerous? Why is your necklace so large?   Video Glasgow School of Art. Silversmithing and Jewellery 2015 Artists, Behind the Scenes, Interviews, Making, Schools This year Jonathan Boyd, lecturer at the Glasgow School of Art, interviewed all out graduating students asking them about their ideas and processes so a wider audience could understand the narratives and themes that drive them. * A detailed and very good way to present the work carried on by the students during the academic year.   WHITEBOARD Whiteboard Competition 2015 Jewel Event - Earth Eugenia 23Jun2015

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