überstein

Book / Artists

Published: 09.07.2009

Text by:: Leonor Hipólito

Edited by:: Leonor Hipólito

Edited at:: Lisbon

Edited on:: 2009

Technical data:: 104 pages, hardback, 25 full color images, text in English, 18.5 x 14 cm

ISBN / ISSN:: 978-989-20-1549-1

Out of print

Inner pages

(...) the result of a two-month gemstone cutting residency in the University of Applied Sciences-Trier, in Germany, during which Leonor Hipólito worked stones in an unconventional way. As a result of that experimental period jewelry pieces and texts as fragmented thoughts, poems and quotes, came together to form the work now compiled in the book.

überstein
Are series resulting from a residency in the German city Idar-Oberstein, working in the jewelry and gemstone lab from the University of Applied Sciences-Trier, during the summer 2008. This group of works traces the portrait of the very particular experience.

Jewels and texts by Leonor Hipólito
Photography and graphic design by Arne Kaiser
Edition of 1000