Ausgezeichnet! Schmuck, kunst für helden / Most excellent! Jewellery, art for heroes. If your browser cannot display our flipping books, please use this link Link to the PDF version.
Questions regarding the modern culture of distinction, current images of heroes, and with this associated forms in labelling exceptional personalities are the focus of the current documentation surrounding an international exhibition project. A top-class board of trustees selected eye-catching, often surprising approaches of renowned artists and students – jewellery, objects and other forms of decoration for real or fictional heroes – that impressively exemplify the diversity of artistic reflection and its sociopolitical relevance. The statements presented are complemented by essays from renowned authors, reflecting historical, social and cultural contexts. ausgezeichnet! Most excellent! Jury: Dr Christianne Weber-Stöber, Deutsches Goldschmiedehaus Hanau (DE), Dr Gorch Pieken, Militärhistorisches Museum der Bundeswehr, Dresden (DE), Prof.
Contemporary jewellery in context. A handshake blueprint. If your browser cannot display our flipping books, please use this link Link to the PDF version.
In five complementary contributions, recognised authors draw a fascinating and complex picture of contemporary jewellery in the twenty-first century. Through a rich palette of themes, works, reports and concepts from current art practices, they illuminate the conditions and interconnections of education, making, presentation, marketing and networking in design and art using the example of the New Zealand Handshake project. This book will enrich and bring pleasure to all who are interested in the visual arts in their broadest sense!
Handshake is a unique mentoring programme in the art world, in which established artists spread their knowledge to less experienced protégés. David Bielander. Twenty years 2016-1996. The Swiss artist David Bielander (b. 1968) is one of the most significant proponents of contemporary art jewellery in the world.
With him, nothing is what it seems: corrugated cardboard is actually silver or gold, Wiener sausages are a chair in a coffee house, shapely lips are made of rubber. This ambiguity distinguishes his work as much as his exceptional knowledge of materials and artisanal skill. Doris Betz. Schmuck und zeichnung / Jewellery and drawing. Ebbe Weiss-Weingart. 70 jahre Schmuck/ 70 years of jewellery. Ebbe Weiss-Weingart (b. 1923) is one of the pioneers of international studio jewellery.
For over seventy years she has enriched the contemporary jewellery scene with her diverse works. Her inception in the 1950s and 1960s with structured surfaces and galvanised sculptured pieces will never be forgotten. Alongside figurative motifs – here, in particular, portrayals of humans and animals – she also created pieces with an ironic and quirky touch. In her last phase of creativity, which began in the 1990s, she had a penchant for working with jewellery made from Chinese jade reliefs. Around 200 illustrations of jewellery objects and previously unpublished photographic material document the award-winning work of Ebbe Weiss- Weingart and expand on her hitherto unknown accomplishments. Evert Nijland. Jewellery. If your browser cannot display our flipping books, please use this link Link to the PDF version.
Evert Nijland (b. 1971) is one of the leading jewellery artists of his generation. Trained in the Conceptual Art and Minimalism of the 1990s at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, he developed a flamboyant and exuberant style, which drew on (art-)historical resources yet is thoroughly anchored in the present. A typical characteristic of Nijland is working with a variety of artisans. It enables him to integrate such diverse materials as porcelain, wood, textile or steel into his works.
Helga Zahn. Schmuck. Unikat und serie / Jewelry. One-off and series. If your browser cannot display our flipping books, please use this link Link to the PDF version.
Helga Zahn (1936–1985) was one of the leading jewellery artists in Britain during the 1960s and 1970s. The autodidact, who was raised in Schwarzenbach an der Saale, had a preference for silver and natural materials such as pebbles. Her one-off jewellery is formed from the clarity of simple geometric forms, the lightness and simplicity of the combinations and a reduced colour palette. With novel systematic thinking, in the mid 1960s she revolutionised the studio jewellery movement that was forming across the globe. With around a hundred jewellery objects, this current comprehensive review invites you on a journey of rediscovery and reappraisal of this exceptional artist. With an essay by Petra Hölscher.
Joaquim Capdevila. La nova joia a Barcelona. If your browser cannot display our flipping books, please use this link Link to the PDF version.
Joaquim Capdevila (b. 1944) is a master of the art of goldsmithing, whose understanding of how to meld traditional handcraft with contemporary jewellery avant-garde is second to none. At the same time, his roots, which lie in painting, are unmistakable, yet Capdevila does not just paint metal; his one-off jewellery pieces are rather the materialisation of a creative process in which metal and colour combine to become a completely new entity. The Barcelona-based jewellery artist has created a unique oeuvre in some fifty years, which is now being presented in a 175-piece-strong review for the very first time. In addition, Pilar Vélez explores Capdevila’s artistic development and his role as a pioneer and major proponent of ‘New Jewellery’ in Europe.
Linda MacNeil. Jewels of glass. If your browser cannot display our flipping books, please use this link Link to the PDF version.
Linda MacNeil: Jewels of Glass is the first in-depth monograph to explore the development of leading American jeweler Linda MacNeil’s jewellery and her contribution to late twentieth- and twenty-first-century jewellery. The American Craft Council designated this book as one of the Noteworthy Craft Books in 2017! MacNeil has inserted her voice into contemporary American jewellery as an innovator transforming glass into proxies for precious gemstones. Liv Blavarp. Jewellery. Structures in wood. If your browser cannot display our flipping books, please use this link Link to the PDF version.
Maple, birch, walnut, lemonwood and palisander are just a few of the woods from which Liv Blåvarp (b. 1956) creates exceptional one-off jewellery pieces. The rigidity or softness of the wood plays just as much of an important role in the selection process as its structure or texture. The works are comprised of numerous single elements, which fuse together to become sculptural volumes – tactile creations that come alive when touched. Yet at the same time Blåvarp’s expressive and colourful pieces remain flexible and wearable.
Nsaio6. New jewellery from Idar-Oberstein. Open space mind maps. Positions in contemporary jewellery. If your browser cannot display our flipping books, please use this link Link to the PDF version.
Open Space – Mind Maps pursues the current development in art jewellery that is positioned far from the merely decorative in the aesthetic and artistic discourse of our era. Thirty international artists present their works in this publication, which is arranged thematically by the buzzwords inhabiting current trends, such as the nomadic aspect and the tendency towards narrative imagery to provocation that infringes on boundaries and to the poetic imagination in jewellery.
All these facets as open-ended chapters illustrate the iconographic focus of each of these protagonists from across the world. With essays by Inger Wästberg, Philip Warkander and a foreword by Berndt Arell. Tone Vigeland. Jewelry, objects, sculpture. If your browser cannot display our flipping books, please use this link Link to the PDF version.
Tone Vigeland speaks about her work on German television. Scandinavian studio jewellery is simply unimaginable without Tone Vigeland (b. 1938) and her work. Her distinctive objects flatter the human body, captivate through their dimensions and volume, and yet are assembled from a variety of the tiniest hand-crafted components: tubes of silver wire, precisely cut plates, spheres and eyelets, all in small scale, are invisibly interconnected, and Vigeland’s use of heavily oxidised, almost iron-black silver and steel is a typical feature. The result: art on the human body – highly aesthetic, perfectly executed and always wearable. With essays by André Gali and Petra Hölscher.