Heide Vanderieck, Max Gielis, Siegfried De Buck, Jorge Navarette Manilla, Romy Smits, Helena Schepens, Karola Torkos, Teresa F Faris, Daniel Von Weinberger, Daan De decker, Willy Van De Velde, Sayaka Yamamoto, Aline Vandeplas, Masaya Hashimoto, Laure Stroo, Ana Cardim, Beate Eismann, Jasmin Matzakow, Mia Maljojoki, Janine Arnold, Marion Vidal, Marieke Pauwels, Andrea Auer, Silvia Walz, Marianne Anselin, Tatiana Warenichova, Silke Fleischer, Zhao Li
past 02-09 Zhao Li
finding Neverland
- graduate work jewellery 2010
material: plastic, textile, silver
past 12-06 till 12-08 Mia Maljojoki
fireworks
I freeze moments. Fireworks take many forms to produce.
They primary effects come from noise, light, color, smoke
and floating materials. My work is formed by motion, mood,
and play between intention and result. I cast, wash, bite,
scratch, throw, scrub, break, and pour. This can last a few
minutes or can be done in layers taking many months. Can’t
emotion be solid?
past 29-05 till 26-06 Ana Cardim
not for sale
In a time when "I think therefore I exist" seems to have been replace by "I have therefore I exist", all seems to be for sale, and all seems to be monetarily valued on the “stock market of perversion” generated and managed by the existing capitalist system. This system doesn’t give due importance to the needs of the individual because the individual itself is compelled to integrate that very same materialist system to ensure his survival on the stage of useless looks, leading to suffering and sense of desperation when they cannot be achieved. The “empire of matter” is predominant, but it does not truly value the Human Being is its authenticity.
The “Human-Being” can and should predominate over the “human-Having”. It’s important for me to empathize that there are “immaterial things” that cannot be traded has products, like trust, friendship, love, memories, dreams, joy, innocence, hope, etc. They are values whose true essence ban any kind of financial valuing, but that manifest themselves as values that permit the satisfactory and genuine richness of the Human Being.
The work "Not For Sale" is born out of the analysis on the clash between the economic crisis that can now be felt globally and the growing crisis of values that accompanies it. The pieces are presented as pins (silver and gold) over photography.
past 28-05 Willy Van De Velde
What after the apocalypse?
Presenting considerable smaller scale jewellery pieces, like rings and bracelets. All reflecting his characteristic ‘futuristic’ and colourful style, using recuperated materials like plexiglass and aluminium. Jewellery and wearable objects distinguish in fact only one section of the universe of self-made multimedia artist Van de Velde, in which lightcreations and soundscapes are evenly present. A universe contemplating on technology and computers and their present-day omnipresence. Thus, his creations could be seen as ‘conversation pieces’, stimulating reflection and external dialogues. Evelien Bracke
past 20-03 till 2-04 Books & Jewels
The bachelorstudents of Sint Lucas Antwerpen made an instalation based on the books that were significant for the design and construction of a jewel or object and that formed the startingpoint to give meaning and content to these works.
De spiraal van het weten, the Chameleon body, het Grote Klederdrachtenboek, the Oral History of Modern Architecture, Art and the Feminist Revolution, Kunstformen der Natur, Sentimental Jewellery, .... books - books - books that document and inspire us.
In short, books as a source of inspiration, to stimulate the ability to think, books that serve to (re)searche new things, but that function just as well as literal support of a work of art.
Hilde De decker
Schmuck 2010 at Munich Mobile Exhibition
Willy Van de Velde & Silke Fleischer
We kindly invite you to the Mobile Exhibition during Schmuck 2010 parked at Frauenstr. 36 Munich
“It is how the familiar and the unknown touch each other that makes things interesting.” (Bruce Nauman)
After the success of last year’s striking ‘camionette presentation’ at Schmuck 2009, artist Willy Van de Velde will continue and broaden the concept during Schmuck 2010. Presenting this time considerable smaller scale jewellery pieces, like rings and bracelets. All reflecting his characteristic ‘futuristic’ and colourful style, using recuperated materials like plexiglass and aluminium. Jewellery and wearable objects distinguish in fact only one section of the universe of self-made multimedia artist Van de Velde, in which lightcreations and soundscapes are evenly present. A universe contemplating on technology and computers and their present-day omnipresence. Thus, his creations could be seen as ‘conversation pieces’, stimulating reflection and external dialogues. Evelien Bracke
"A lot of it would be called nothing - a thing or an object or any word you want to give it." (Eva Hesse)
The most recent series of jewellery artist Silke Fleischer embraces the everyday object as a precious thing. In ‘Pickups’ and ‘Fittings’ she focuses and zooms in on our relation with mass-produced objects, usually lacking our attention, but intrinsically sharing a hidden and purposeful design. A lot of these ‘things’ do not even have a name, exemplary for their daily ‘invisibility’. By picking them up and de-contextualizing them, Fleischer is redefining these ‘objects’ to ‘things’ (referring to Martin Heidegger on ‘things’: a thing is an object we appropriate and link closely to our personal life). What she creates is above all a ‘rendez-vous’, a fortuitous encounter with a thing that was plucked from its habitual context and promoted to another status. Evelien Bracke
A workshop for the MA students by Jivan Astfalck & Nedda El-Asmahr
The table is a very wonderful place within the home. It is here where we come together and share. The table is a landscape, a platform to present and entice, a site of ritual. However there are rules, manners are to be observed, there is etiquette in how we should behave at the table -this is true for every culture. It is our playground for this week.
‘TableManners’ is a creative research project of 8 MA students from the jewellery department, Birmingham Institute of Art and Design + 6 MA students from the jewellery department, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Artesis University College of Antwerp.
Past 30-01-10 Laure Stroo
pop en spel
- graduate work jewellery 2009
Past 04-12 till 02-01 Danielo Von (Vino Del Monte) Weinberger
etalage project 09
ph Liliane Lacasse.
Past 26-09-09 erste schmuckkantine works in enamel
"Erste Schmuckkantine, working in enamel", a project that started in the summer of 2008, presents twelve artists and a variety of enamel jewellery. These impressive results, including the catalogue, are attributed to the commitment of the four-person-team Schmuckkantine, its organisation and will to bring together jewellery soloists. The neologism "Schmuckkantine-Jewelry Canteen“ releases a number of justified associations:
A group of people coming together in one place, will be supplied with exchanges and separate, refreshed and energised. In this specific case Karoline Peisker, Jasmin Matzakow, Claudia Küster and Mareen Alburg Duncker (graduates and students from the Hochschule fur Kunst und Design, Burg Giebichenstein in Halle, Germany) invited the other artists to a ten-day jewelry workshop. The choice for the venue fell upon the Erfurter Künstlerwerkstätten. Contributing factors for this choice were the excellent working conditions; there are two ovens, the necessary goldsmith tables and generous working space.
After 2 exhibitions in Germany, the results from the enamel workshop moved to Antwerp.
Past 22-08-09 Garbage Pin Project concept / curator Anna Cardim
Ph Ruudt Peters
Garbage Pin is a device jewel born from a distinctly urban concept of appropriation and reinterpretation of a daily use object: the rubbish bin.
Being of a kind of urban furnishing that exists in big numbers in the cosmopolitan set-up, the waste bin belongs with no doubt to the collective imagery, present in the day to day of any citizen as a reflection of a culture linked to an accelerated and increasing consumption like is ours.
Garbage Pin Project started in January 2008 as a virtual process through the communication established, mainly by email, with the 90 artists that have participated.
The proposal consisted in suggesting to them to use the jewel during five days and to select, create or recreate, the contents kept in five plastic bags according to the perspective and reflections generated from the project: 'worth VS waste' in the current urban society.
The team was constituted with international character: Portugal, Spain, Italy, United Kingdom, Sweden, Germany, Belgium, Luxemburg, Austria, Yugoslavia, Rumania, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Singapore, U.S.A and Japan.
Adam Grinovich, Adrean Bloomard, Alessia Semeraro, Alexandra Lisboa, Ana Yael, Ann Mechiels, Anna Fornari, Antonia Alampi, Antonio Contador, Antonio Ortega, Antony Millard, Brigitte Haubenhofer Salicites, Carla Cruz, Carles Codina, Carmen Amador, Carolyn Mueller, Cecilia Richard, Chiara Zenzani, Christina Miller, Claude Schmitz, Coco Dunmire, Cristina Filipe, Dan Graur, Dana Sperry, Diego Bisso, Diego de Leon, Donald Friedlich, Doris Maninger, Dulce Ferraz, Edgar Medina, Elisa Pellicani, Elizabeth Shypertt, Estela Sàez Vilanova, Fabrizio Tridenti, Francisca Benitez, Francisco Queirós, Giovanni Sicuro, Inês Botelho, Isa Duarte Ribeiro, Isabel Worm, Ivo Moreira, James Thurman, Joana Brabo, João Louro, Jordi Mitjà, Jose Belenguer, Judy McCaig, Karl Fritsch, Katja Prins, Leo Castaldi, Liliana Alves, Lourdes Carmelo, Mª Ana Ricon Peres, Macarena Rakos, Marcel.lí Antúnez Roca, Mari Ishikawa, Maria Brossa, Maria Lobo, Maria Piedad Garcia, Maria Rosa Franzin, Marlene Dias, Marta Miguel, Miguel Gullander, Mikiko Minewaki, Natalya Pinchuk, Nicolas Estrada, Nicole Lehmann, Òscar Doll, Paula Madeira Rodrigues, Peter Hoogeboom, Peter Skubic, Ramon Puig Cuyas, Raquel Gómez, Renato Bisso Mojko, Rita Marcangelo, Roberta Bernabei, Rogério Nuno Costa, Rui Fragoso, Ruudt Peters, Shanti Baba, Silke Fleischer, Silvia Walz, Susie Ganch, Taisei Watanabe, Ted Noten, Teresa F. Faris, Teresa Milheiro, Tereza Seabra, Verónica Metello, Virginia Macarulla.
Past 23-05-09 Masaya Hashimoto
Hair salon Boeuf
One day last year, I cut my hair, which I had grown out to quite a length. I tied the hair in a bunch and brought it back with me, placing it on a shelf in my workspace next to the other materials which I work with. I felt that as time passed, the connection between myself and that hair was gradually growing weaker, and at the same time the hair was becoming a part of the outside world and developing an independent presence of its own. The faint feeling of atmosphere around the hair, which I had never noticed before cutting it from my body, and the sensations I felt when it was placed in front of me, eventually became a desire to create. In repeated tests, I tried directing this feeling towards the variety of other materials in my workspace. I encountered among these materials a water buffalo horn. As the water buffalo horn is a transformation of the skin's keratin, in its basic nature it is in fact very similar to the hair we have on our heads. This encounter with the water buffalo horn inspired me to produce a variety of pieces, and also led me to create this personal exhibition.
Past 25-04-09 Aline Vandeplas
Gold-Up
Ph: Joke Leuridan, Stefanie Geerts.
“The flâneur, as is well known, makes ‘studies’. (…) His eyes open, his ear ready, searching for something entirely different from what the crowd gathers to see. A word dropped by chance will reveal to him one of those character traits that cannot be invented and that must be drawn directly from life. (…)”
(…) For many years, Aline Vandeplas has been collecting references to the words ‘gold’ and ‘jewel’: objects like de gouden gids, jonagold, boule d’or, goldhorn, tazza d’orro, as well as an inventory of hundreds of images, snapshots, taken after dislodging these terms from the density of urban life. Fascinated by these objects and names, referring all to golden jewels in many different ways, she adopts, transforms and remodels them into new jewellery creations. Everywhere she goes, she takes her camera with her, like an extension of herself. Like the ultimate Baudelairian flâneur, observing her surroundings with remarkable care. Every personal discovery becomes a micro link in her universe, slowly reshaping. In her vast collection and Eldorado , she revalues daily objects, a process she refers to as ‘Gold-uppen’. (…)
Evelien Bracke
Past 21-03-09 2000 mm of insomnia
a workshop by Christoph Zellweger
the students of the jewellery departement Sint Lucas Antwerp show the results of a 3 days workshop.
When handling essentials like warmth, laughter, love and blood and connecting it to 2000 mm of insomnia,
a beautiful transfusion is made.
results day 3
2000 mm of insomnia
Lore Vermerckt, Eva Van Leuven, Elsebie Ceulemans, Jill Ryckaert, Laurien Cauwenbergh, Eline Fransen, Shana Teugels, Biek Delva
Past 28-02-09 Sayaka Yamamoto
Penna
materials: latex sheets, foils and treads
"When I was little I lived in the countryside, very close to the world of insects. I always enjoyed watching their many different shapes, colors and behavior – sometimes they made me scared and sometimes fascinated me. After I moved away from my parents’ house to the big city, I was seeing less insects and I almost started forgetting the great times I spent with them.
In Little Wonders I evoke the same feeling as I had in my childhood and express those feelings in four different ways"
A series of brooches inspired by insects' wings. It explores the qualities and possibilities of using 'fake'/'imitation' materials instead of real insect parts.
Sayaka Yamamoto was born in 1984 in Japan. After graduating from the Hiko Mizuno Jewelry Collage in Tokyo in 2005, Sayaka has moved to the Netherlands where she studied at the Design Academy Eindhoven and graduated in 2008. Sayaka's work is characterized by a good feeling of color and materiality, often combined with a unique sense of humor.
Past 13-12-08 Willy Van De Velde
ph soundsystem / rode ridder
Past 04-06-08 Daan De decker
(W)under construction(S)
The very typical architecture of Flanders has often inspired Daan. As a motorbike fanatic he criss-crosses the region and on his way sketches water towers, lighthouses and other forms of architectural industrial heritage. Receptacles that form a habitat to live in or a vehicle that transport goods intrigue him. As a result he can make a pin that resembles a submarine and simultaneously criticizes the Belgian makeshift outhouses. It’s almost history, but you were able to build a concrete bunker around your house - as long as you found it appealing yourself. No governmental interference. Weather-beaten hoardings, crooked annexes, home-made verandas, and other dodgy, ramshackle house extensions: they crop up in Daan’s brooches, rings, pendants for women as well as men. The result is alternatively comical, critical and nostalgic. And beautiful, indeed Daan creates emphatically jewels, not objects or wearable opinions.
Past 08-04-08 Graf Danielo von (Vino del Monte) Weinberger
Collection bijoux d'art: ZITA VON ZITZEWITZE
After fifty-seven years in this life, I write the will and testament of my youth. Children, thirty years old. Vivre c’est vivre si on savait mourir, et on appelle ca mourir si la vie se retire. Devenir l’ombre de ton ombre, et aimer c’est mourir un peu. Mon cher Jacques. Yesterday never existed, every second g’d creates everything over and over again. The difference between an era that experienced me and the era that I experience. And to be drunk with life, as a writer has to be, in short, simply drunk, otherwise he cannot write. With the vodka in my body. Because it is so difficult to be honest with the virgin white paper. To say what has to be said. Even when you step on toes, and you write with warm fresh blood. To let your fear go free for the things you never dared to say. About the b…stards who think that they are artists, but they have not the slightest idea what the endless long white hallway has to say. They do not dare to intrude in the unknown nothingness, with the almost certainty of no return. Landed in a land of colors, a life that only you can live in pure loneliness, because nobody will understand your quest for pure happiness. Only I know when the truth supersedes the lie because deep in my veins I am a Jew and also an artist. I let the clowns masturbate, death comes so quickly… I am happy with my destiny knowing that I am a professional amateur and I want to carry it high as a compliment. Slowly the candle of the fourth Reich burns out. They murder the pale old pals and the transparent unborn ones, in the name of democracy and welfare state. good, go on. Who needs you? Art is dead, long live life. The song of my youngest son, singing on the bicycle, the bicyclist is not lonely. Bye bicycle, bicyclist on the bicycle, bye bicycle with a hat on, bye bicycle. he sang the brabanconne till the last day. That is how they squeezed it in his head. We do not mention names. Gossip destroys three people, the gossiper, the one who listens and the one being talked about. Anonymous. Unleashed in the sixties and seventies, the fear of police, the smell of adventures, of the things you could do and the things you could not do. The silly and sad research into ourselves, until the deepest pits in our souls, dancing until dawn, crawling slowly towards one or another frietbarack. Brigitte mad after dying every night from pleasure and ten abortions. Nicole, my first drug overdose dead friend somewhere in the cold grey city of antwerp in an empty dump, seventeen years young, dark long hair. The swinging sixties, childish amusement. The seventies wow that was too much, the crisis, we danced on top of the ruins of the society. The eighties, stop! Slowly the light dawns. The idiots jump on the ship, the ship of fools. If this is art, we too can do it. After twenty years the story is over. Everybody knows that they have nothing to say, their jokes are nothing more than jokes. Here comes the new century. miss m plays with kabala, poor girl. At Colette in the rue saint honore you can buy a red ribbon to bind around your wrist, for ninety euros. Flowers bloom, it is February, it is humid, and cold. There is nothing new under the sun. Here is a new generation that never has been before. We the dinosaurs of the last century, are going to sleep in the ice. paddling a little bit with the computer and mp3. A new code of conduct is waiting to make its entrance. Time is now! a second ago did not exist. The music goes on, the waltz whirls and dances a mille temps. Pauvre jacques, pour un peu de tendresse. You called man tender. You where not afraid and that made you unique, a real artist. And then there is the existence of g’d. You can not talk about that, that is not done. But in fact it is everything and it is the only real thing, the rest is nothing. To lose yourself and then become the cosmos itself, even though it seems illogical. Like the forefathers to become a chariot without a will of your own. The highest ideal. No more pain caused by desire that never will be fulfilled . Only the light feeling of being one with “ the all”, by making a tool for g’d out of the material. a dwelling for him. Harmony on earth.
Daniel Weinberger
"Graf Danielo von (vino del monte) Weinberger' s joyful playful and most colorful, dazzling and exuberant necklaces are a combination of super-serious art and frivolous female fun fashion. He doesn' t mind a little bit of confusion, walking on the thin rope between beauty and ugliness. almost nothing is safe from his creativity: plastic manga dolls, pure gold, dried potato peels, silver, goat fur, chicken feathers, silk, mink, lemons, bread, bananas, diamonds, lemons, scoubidous, seashells, horsetail hair, porcelain pipes, paper, parchment, rubber, ostrich feathers, baroque sweet water pearls, exotic glass beads, Peruvian ceramic beads, plastic flowers from the sixties, Lego' s, antique doll heads, pieces of rust iron found in the Antwerp harbor, newspaper pictures, cow bones, of tree branches from London' s hide park, seeds from Thailand , felt, old jewels, turkey sausages, hundred of plastic flies, pieces of red meat, a dead chicken, soft tulle, cotton rope, copper bells from India , deer antlers, tiger nails, snake skin, or thrown away toys from his children. Nothing is safe from him, when he wants to express his deepest feelings. He uses kitsch, makes it into camp. Lowbrow, highbrow, intellect and emotions, mixed by his always moving hands until the magic shines through in his unique creations. He makes something from something. recycling in an over productive disposable society. The fine pieces of art are created and are exposed to the world, until they find their place on the buyer' s body where they can freely move and live. A personal jewel for the one chosen man or that special woman who falls deeply in love with it and madly desires it..."
Ben moshe
Past 13-03-08 Teresa F Faris
a collaboration with a bird
silver 925, carved wood
I see artwork as a tool that elevates everyday thought to an exploratory level. The objects that I make are intended to help the viewer to either recall a memory/feeling or begin a new dialogue.
My fascination with individualism/connectedness, impermanence and the human struggle of trying to measure and preserve time initiated vast research of antique time measurement devices, Victorian mourning jewelry, and obscure utilitarian and ritual objects. I call upon these images as well as personal memory in my work.
Working through the ideas of fragility, memory, and connectedness lead me to think about the link that we have to all living things and the complexities and absurdity of the ideas of superiority.
In reaction to this research I have begun and ongoing series titled: A Collaboration with a Bird. These pieces are constructed of metal and wood objects that have been carved by a bird.
Teresa F Faris
Past 13-03-08 Elie Hirsch
Lea, Dora, Olga, Adama
Dora, goldplated brass
... his jewellery collection fits into his grandfathers watchmakers case: bracelets and rings, reproducing the same arched or twisted circles. These tiny examples of the things he also likes to make on an almost monumental scale. Elie Hirsch draws out sculptures designed in a single line, round or incomplete. There are generous spiral plumes, twisted circles, shapes that flourish in corollas and others that wind round themselves like the symbol for infinity, and wide ribbons of metal that seem to have rolled up. The hammer has beaten them into shapen but you would think they have been gently folded by hand, with the memory of the skin and its sensuality still lingering.
Past 07-02-08 Karola Torkos
Changeables
Foldable bracelet / neckpiece: Garland Stainless steel/14ct gold; stainless steel; yellow or black gold-plated silver ø 6 to 6,6 cm
Creating variable / changeable pieces is still the major focus of my jewellery work. To change the appearance of jewellery offers a facet of interaction or play between wearer and reaches beyond simple display on the body. The wearer decides on the look of the piece and explores the sometimes endless variations of one necklace. Giving the wearer the possibility to change the look of a jewellery piece is in some way handling over the last step in the design proces. This is a challenge for both the designer and the wearer and it leads to a very personal relationship to design or art.
Karola Torkos
Past 04 / 05-12-07 silvester
silver pouring
Lead pouring is an old practice (Austrian costum) using molten lead. A small amount of lead is melted in a tablespoon (by holding a flame under the spoon) and then poured into a bowl. The resulting patterns interpreted to predict the coming year.
Past 08-11-07 Jorge Manilla
Ese hombre
The most recent work of Jorge Manilla shows more than ever the colourful and religious traces of his homecountry Mexico. His creations are a thought-out and consistent continuation of his previous work, where religion, myths and spirituality constantly determine the character of his jewel-objects.
A couple of 17th century Christ’ statues were the starting point for a further investigation of symbolism and material. As a symbiosis of a Catholic and an Indian faith, the Mexican figure of Christ can be distinguished by the extreme representation of his suffering. Cuts, bruises, gaping wounds and a lot of blood characterize these figures. This kind of representation incorporates an authentic Indian way of thinking where its religious rites, like human sacrifices, come into prominence. From this point of view the figure of Christ was seen as an equal, who portrayed the sacrificed.
Next to the specific focus on these characteristic wounds, the artist also goes deeply into the materials used to make the original Christ’ statues. Anmate-paper (from tree-bark) and different woudpastes represent the authentic Indian culture. These materials were also used to make the statues portable.
You can say that the Mexicans adopted Christ. They adore him, carry him with them and see themselves as him. They transform in some kind of ‘city Christs’ who carry a lot of grief around. The suffering and surviving in a city full of contrasts, where battles are fought every day just to survive, well in those battles faith is essential and the figures of Christ give something to hold on to.
The colourful and freakish looking amulets of Jorge Manilla form confronting juwel-objects that attract and reject but above all fascinate. As fragments of an extreme realistic figure of Christ, they can be worn as a protection, but also as an intriguing and enigmatic object.
Evelien Bracke
Past 04-10-07 Helena Schepens
Sound Imagination / Klankverbeelding
"... the work is built up from geometric shapes, creating plain, architectural designs. I am interested in the process of developing new forms trough repetition of one identical unit, which enables me to obtain very lively and varying compositions. The exhibition shows the work I made inspired on the theme of music: taking a piece of music or a musical aspect as my starting point, I challenge myself to develop visual equivalents from the abstract character of the music and express these in my work."
Helena Schepens
Past 06-09-07 Romy Smits
wooky looks Vitrine 07 // Flanders Fashion Institute
Ph Zeff
“Wooky is an organic shape which symbolizes Romys inner child. Guided by intuition, this shape has been repeated and transformed to graphic and sculptural designs. Romy is fascinated by the endless variations wich can be made out of one shape…”
Past 16-11-2006 Jorge Navarette Manilla
consciente in consciente
“He understood that modelling the incoherent and vertiginous matter of which dreams are composed was the most difficult task that a man could undertake, even though he should penetrate all the enigmas of a superior and inferior order (…)” Jorge Luis Borges, The Circular Ruins.
“The creations express a different and deeper reality in another language. Primarily derived from the Mexican culture, the specific symbolism creates a language of images that hand a different form of perception to the Western spectator.”
“...Uit droomstof gesmeed, verschijnen juwelen als plastische constellaties van symbolen en metaforen; een persoonlijke microkosmos die veraf staat van de ‘kenbare’ werkelijkheid. Dromen verdichten zich tot beelden die een mythische of spirituele dimensie reveleren aan hen die de symboliek kunnen ontcijferen. De creaties spreken over een ‘andere’ en ‘diepere’ werkelijkheid, in een andere taal. Hoofdzakelijk afkomstig uit de Mexicaanse cultuur, creëert het specifieke symbolenveld een beeldtaal, die de Westerse toeschouwer een andere vorm van waarneming aanreikt…” “…Het syncretisme van de Indiaanse en de Katholieke godsdienst kent een vertaling in symbolisch geladen draagobjecten, zwanger aan betekenissen. Kleine gestileerde vogelsilhouetten in breekbaar wit porselein en stralenkransen van schitterend zilver, lijken nu eens kolibries (een belangrijke godin in de Azteekse cultuur), dan weer Maria-voorstellingen.” Evelien Bracke
Past 05-10-2006 inZILVER
Ph Siegfried De BuckDe Nomade en zijn vehikel
Max Gielis
Carolien Cuyvers
Koen Wygaerden
Siegfried De Buck
inZILVER pays a tribute to contemporary silver smithing design from Antwerp.
The exhibition emphasizes the continuance of Antwerp as a prominent centre of silver smithing design. Currently, there are two leading schools for Higher Art Education in Antwerp that offer a course in jewellery design and silver smithing: Sint Lucas Antwerp (Karel de Grote-Hogeschool Antwerp) and The Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Hogeschool Antwerp). Students at both institutes are asked to challenge limits and possibilities within the fields of jewellery design and silver smithing. The results of a critical, well-considered and revealing application of traditional silver smithing techniques, can be traced in the creations of a generation of young, promising and Antwerp-trained silver smiths.Carolien Cuyvers and Max Gielis are two young talents with an innovative and characteristic view on silver smithing. Both educated in Antwerp, they are now establishing their own workshop and vision. In a fascinating dialogue with the creations of these two rising talents, appears the work of two famous silver smiths/professors: Siegfried De Buck and Koen Wygaerden. ‘Tradition’ and ‘innovation’ occur as the central ideas in all these creations. inZILVER tries to offer a stimulus for the combination of contemporary design and knowledge of traditional techniques within the field of silver smithing. Moreover, it focuses on diverse and different types of ‘silverware’. The exhibition aims at developing a new understanding of contemporary silver smithing design; showing that it can offer far more variations in form and function than traditional ‘table silver’ alone…
Evelien Bracke
Past 07-09-2006 CHRISTOPHE COPPENS
"DREAM YOUR DREAM"
Vitrine 06 // Flanders Fashion Institute
Past 15-06-2006 Pelican Avenue
POWER PLACES is about individuals in search of meaning.
People have to function within their sociaiety. There is no space for doubts. Reality is based on facts.
An exit from the determined path seems impossible.
To escape from conformity and dispassion people search for a spiritual content, far from functionality and reason. Mysticism is resort that works as a substitute for passion, as a channel for individual emotions. Spiritual symbols function as a tangible devotion. They have a content for the one who decided to be involved to them. It is an individual decision.
It is easy to see the visual language that achieves a spiritual effect and that appeals to emotional needs for mysticism. Imitating those explicit compostition the Power Places allegories are invented without any references to existing contents and are therefor fully refillable by any human longings for something to be devoted to. Their emptiness is emphasized by their industrial appearance mass production makes an economic profit possible.Caroline Lerch
Past 27-04-2006 Silke Fleischer
Somewhere in between
Instalation
ARTE FACT / 10
Jewellery departement
Sint Lucas, KDG hogeschool Antwerp
The combination of jewellery, silversmithing and ceramics is characteristic of my work. The border is no longer clear or obvious. Objects such as the ring and the cup are insurmountably connected with the body. We can only see whether something is wearable or portable by juxtaposing it with the living, moving, tactile body.
Past 14-01-06 Heidewinne
‘imagination is the voice of daring’
Not only will you be touched by these pieces, in this collection you can get yourself a companion.
As Henry Miller said: 'imagination is the voice of daring', ...wouldn't it be nice to suddenly feel a soft flamingo sleeping around your neck?
Willy Van De Velde
ph soundsystem / rode ridder
Daan De decker
(W)under construction(S)
Graf Danielo von (Vino del Monte) Weinberger
Collection bijoux d'art: ZITA VON ZITZEWITZE
inZILVER
Ph Siegfried De BuckDe Nomade en zijn vehikel
Max Gielis
Carolien Cuyvers
Koen Wygaerden
Siegfried De Buck
inZILVER pays a tribute to contemporary silver smithing design from Antwerp.
The exhibition emphasizes the continuance of Antwerp as a prominent centre of silver smithing design. Currently, there are two leading schools for Higher Art Education in Antwerp that offer a course in jewellery design and silver smithing: Sint Lucas Antwerp (Karel de Grote-Hogeschool Antwerp) and The Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Hogeschool Antwerp). Students at both institutes are asked to challenge limits and possibilities within the fields of jewellery design and silver smithing. The results of a critical, well-considered and revealing application of traditional silver smithing techniques, can be traced in the creations of a generation of young, promising and Antwerp-trained silver smiths.Carolien Cuyvers and Max Gielis are two young talents with an innovative and characteristic view on silver smithing. Both educated in Antwerp, they are now establishing their own workshop and vision. In a fascinating dialogue with the creations of these two rising talents, appears the work of two famous silver smiths/professors: Siegfried De Buck and Koen Wygaerden. ‘Tradition’ and ‘innovation’ occur as the central ideas in all these creations. inZILVER tries to offer a stimulus for the combination of contemporary design and knowledge of traditional techniques within the field of silver smithing. Moreover, it focuses on diverse and different types of ‘silverware’. The exhibition aims at developing a new understanding of contemporary silver smithing design; showing that it can offer far more variations in form and function than traditional ‘table silver’ alone…
Evelien Bracke
CHRISTOPHE COPPENS
"DREAM YOUR DREAM"
Vitrine 06 // Flanders Fashion Institute
Pelican Avenue
POWER PLACES is about individuals in search of meaning.
People have to function within their sociaiety. There is no space for doubts. Reality is based on facts.
An exit from the determined path seems impossible.
To escape from conformity and dispassion people search for a spiritual content, far from functionality and reason. Mysticism is resort that works as a substitute for passion, as a channel for individual emotions. Spiritual symbols function as a tangible devotion. They have a content for the one who decided to be involved to them. It is an individual decision.
It is easy to see the visual language that achieves a spiritual effect and that appeals to emotional needs for mysticism. Imitating those explicit compostition the Power Places allegories are invented without any references to existing contents and are therefor fully refillable by any human longings for something to be devoted to. Their emptiness is emphasized by their industrial appearance mass production makes an economic profit possible.Caroline Lerch
Silke Fleischer
Somewhere in between
Instalation
ARTE FACT / 10
Jewellery departement
Sint Lucas, KDG hogeschool Antwerp
The combination of jewellery, silversmithing and ceramics is characteristic of my work. The border is no longer clear or obvious. Objects such as the ring and the cup are insurmountably connected with the body. We can only see whether something is wearable or portable by juxtaposing it with the living, moving, tactile body.
Heidewinne
‘imagination is the voice of daring’
Not only will you be touched by these pieces, in this collection you can get yourself a companion.
As Henry Miller said: 'imagination is the voice of daring', ...wouldn't it be nice to suddenly feel a soft flamingo sleeping around your neck?
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