Current Obsession Magazine #1

Magazine

Published: 15.02.2013

: Eindhoven
NETHERLANDS

Editor:: Marina Elenskaya, Sarah Mesritz

Edited by:: Sarah Mesritz and Marina Elenskaya

Edited at:: Eindhoven

Technical data:: 80 pages, full colour images, text in English, 1000 copies, 24 x 33 cm

ISBN / ISSN:: 2214-1839

Price:: from 14.90 €

Numbers:: 2

Order:: Current Obsession

Spread of the Piece by Piece Rubric. We introduce the first item of the Current Obsession limited edition jewellery. Amsterdam-based designer Noon Passama designed beautiful hard resin bangles in four metallic shades. They will be sold together with our magazine at a special price.

1st issue of Current Obsession Magazine was presented during the Schmuck week in Munich 6-12 March 2013. The theme of our first issue is The Archetypes - an investigation into the core of jewellery, an attempt to explore where the boundaries of the field lie and whether there are any boundaries!

Current Obsession - is a new printed magazine about jewellery and its relation to different fields of art — performance, illustration, photography, etc. Apart from jewellery artists and critics, we feature material researchers, fashion designers, collagists and many more. Our goal is to create a different dimension for jewellery in printed environment. We tell inspiring stories about people and places, touching upon subjects like value, language and presentation.

Our motto is "JEWELLERY IS WHAT YOU MAKE OF IT "

The theme of our first issue is The Archetypes - an investigation into the core of jewellery, an attempt to explore where the boundaries of the field lie and whether there are any boundaries!

Selected features Current Obsession Magazine #1
_ Schmuck 2013 Munich, Germany
_ Travel: ‘Twilight Nation’, Tallinn, Estonia
_ ‘Greed’, Text by Liesbeth den Besten
_ Editorial photo shoots with jewellery by various designers
_ etc

Featured designers:
Marjan van Aubel, NL/UK | Chen Chen & Kai Williams, US | Lin Cheung, UK | Karl Fritsch, DE/NZ | Manon van Kouswijk, NL/AU | Noon Passama, TH/NL | Tanel Veenre, EE...

Greed - text by Liesbeth den Besten on collecting

The Perfect Bead - investigation into the story of one bead; reflecting on trade,
value and early trendsetting process

Images of the chevron beads from different time periods and cultures

Travel - Current Obsession goes to Tallinn, Estonia to find out why
a certain kind of jewellery is made in a certain kind of place

Travel - one of the spreads of the section. Featuring Tanel Veenre, Kadri Malk,
Piret Hirv, Kristiina Laurits and many more!

The Pearl Game - an editorial photo shoot by Severafrahm, featuring pearl jewellery
by different artists

The Pearl Game

The Way of the Future - section about new aesthetics,
vision and takes on making things. Featuring Chen&Williams

The Way of the Future

Currently Obsessed with: SCHMUCK - main feature of this issue with interviews and new work
by Karl Fritsch, Alexander Blank, Kinga Zobel and Manon van Kouswijk