Inhorgenta.

On February 25 we visited the Inhorgenta in Munich. There was snow…and blue skies!

Inhorgenta is a very big fair, we go directly to hall C2 were the designers have their stands. But we first looked at one special highlight at INHORGENTA  which was one of the world’s most beautiful and most valuable coral exhibitions. In this special display, the Italian Liverino family of jewellers presented unique specimens from all continents and pieces that are 500 years and older!

A few pictures from the coral exhibition:

We always meet many familiar faces, and lots of new interesting designers.

SCHMUCK 2013 in Munchen (2)

Schmuck is getting bigger every year. That’s great, as more and more artists from all over the world are participating in one way or the other. So there is more and more need for central coordination, putting all venues and scheduals into one comprehensive map. Although there were more maps out there than ever before: all in all it regretfully did not amount to a more efficiënt routing. For so many years, München benefits from Schmuck. By now, you would think the tourist office and citypromotiondesk recognize Schmuck as a great opportunity and take the reigns in putting out the one and only really good Schmuck-guide…?!

We had a lot of deja-vus at Schmuck. Every year, we see more participants at Schmuck who were at Sieraad first. That tells us two things for sure: Schmuck is an important international platform to show your work to the world and Sieraad is a not-to-be-missed international event if you want to sell your work to the world.

Matadero, Walka Studio, Claudia Betancourt, Ricardo Nano Pulgar cafe Clara Matadero.

Perp Walk, Babette Boucher, Nicola Scholz.

We sincerely hope you did not miss ‘Perp Talk’, the exhibition at the Welserstrasse with jewellery from Babette Boucher and Nicola Scholz. A wall covered with hundreds of cut out grinning goose-eggs. A huge snake necklace made of pieces of pine cone. Fossil shark-teeth embedded in fine crochet and, to top it of: a snake-necklace made of thousands little round scales of parchment. Brilliantly executed: pieces that keep popping up in our minds.

Lahti Schmuck, Artists: Sara Borgegård Älgå, Kim Buck, Gemma Draper, Iris Eichenberg, Jantje Fleischhut, Javier Moreno Frias, Gésine Hackenberg, Hanneke van Hage, Hanna Hedman, Jeannette Jansen, Agnes Larsson, Mia Maljojoki, Amandine Meunier, Eija Mustonen, Gitte Nygaard, Seth Papac, Ruudt Peters, Tiina Rajakallio, Constanze Schreiber, Nelli Tanner, Ketli Tiitsar,Terhi Tolvanen, Tarja Tuupanen, Tanel Veenre, Francis Willemstijn, Annika Åkerfelt.

Bezalel Academy of Arts & Design Jerusalem. http://www.bezalel.ac.il/en/academics/bachelor_degree/jewelry/#.UUBSQ1vxTSE

TO TIE OR NOT TO TIE,  Royal Academy of Antwerp.

N°10 Preziosen, Caro Weiss, Christiane Köhne, Claudia Lassner.

FH Dusseldorf op de beurs met o.a.Ariane Ernst &  Maryvonne Wellen een van de winnaars van New Nomads.

texts and pictures Isabella van den Bos & Astrid Berens

Sieraden uit de Boelen collectie op de TEFAF.

SCHMUCK 2013 in Munchen (1)

Moe maar voldaan zijn wij, weer op kantoor. Na 3 dagen Schmuck in München, gedurende Schmuck zijn er behalve de beurs/ wedstrijd SCHMUCK ook nog zo’n 40 tentoonstellingen door heel München heen te bezoeken. Als alle jaren is het absoluut niet mogelijk om alle tentoonstellingen te bezoeken. Dus proberen wij van te voren zo’n 25 tentoonstellingen uit te zoeken die we zeker willen gaan zien. En wij kunnen u vertellen dat is ieder jaar weer een uitdaging, er is geen enkele kaart of overzicht welke voldoet, dat is erg jammer, zo gaat er ieder jaar weer te veel tijd met het zoeken verloren. We hebben veel mooie dingen gezien en helaas zijn er zeker 4 tentoonstellingen waar gewoon de tijd niet meer voor hadden. In 2014 toch maar een dag extra…

Er volgt een impressie van foto’s van de eerste 8 exposities.

The Lunatic Swing, Attai Chen, Carina Chitsaz-Shoshtary, Sungho Cho, Laura Deakin, Melanie Isverding, Emma Price.

Schlegelschmuck, Sofia Björkman, Sophie Hanagarth, Karin Johannson, Benedikt Fischer.

Plateaus Jewellery, Barbora Dzuráková, Patricia Correia Domingues, Katharina Dettar, Edu Tarin.

 Irony Forest, Akihiro Ikeyama, Junwon Jung, Mari Iwamoto.

All Aboard! Nicole Beck, Despo Sophocleous, Mirei Takeuchi.

Bucks ‘N Barter, Katrin Spranger, Nicolas Cheng, Friederike Daumiller, Beatrice Brovia, Hilde De Decker, Richard Elenbaas, Tzu-Ling Lee, Prang Lerttaweewit, Kajsa Lindberg.

One thing really stood out at ‘Bucks & Barter-show’ at the Schillerstrasse: the eatable hanging sculpture, made out of distorted necklaces. Made with honey, it focusses on the importance of bees and our dependency on these insects. As bees are rapidly diminishing and threatening food production the world-over, this sculpture confronts us with the way we neglect nature. Literally by eating and thus destroying this artwork, we take in its meaning and message. A feast for your eyes and food for thought!

ConSpiración, EASD València y Escola Massana.

Gardens of Earth Bety Majernikova & friends.

texts and pictures Isabella van den Bos & Astrid Berens

Edelmetaal jan/feb. 2013 over New Nomads

New Nomads in MMKA is verlengd

Verlengd t/m 24 maart! 

De tweejaarlijkse internationale ontwerpwedstrijd New Traditional Jewelleryheeft iedere editie een nieuw thema. Dit jaar was dat New Nomads. Hedendaagse sieradenmakers nemen de traditionele sieraden van bijvoorbeeld nomaden, pelgrims, ontdekkingsreizigers, wereldreizigers, vluchtelingen of kolonisten als uitgangspunt voor nieuwe ontwerpen. Uit meer dan 300 inzendingen selecteerde de vakjury vijf winnaars. Hedendaagse ontwikkelingen zoals globalisering en digitalisering zijn terug te vinden in veel van de ontwerpen. Persoonlijke verhalen, familiegeschiedenissen en lokale tradities dienen vaak als inspiratiebron.

Winnaars
De tentoonstelling bestaat uit 37 sieraden uit meer dan 14 landen waaronder, Israel, Mexico, China, Nieuw-Zeeland en Nederland.
Er zijn vijf winnende ontwerpen te zien van Sang Hee Park (Korea), Hester Popma – van de Kolk (Nederland),  Patricia Dominques (Portugal), Maryvonne Wellen (Nederland/Duitsland) en Juliane Kessler. De sieraden van de winnaars vallen op ‘omdat het eerlijke, directe, krachtige, basale vormen zijn; stuk voor stuk heldere statements’, aldus de jury.

http://www.mmkarnhem.nl/NL/agenda/tentoonstellingen/new-nomads-new-traditional-jewellery-editie-2012

Mike Kelley

We don’t want you to miss anything interesting regarding contemporary jewelry. To that effect, we publish all relevant coming exhibitions in the catalogue-magazine accompanying SIERAAD Art fair. These ones weren’t included. As we came upon them; we like to share them with you!

Jewellery-lovers who haven’t been to the newly reopened Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum should go. We hand you 2 justifications: the beautiful display of SM’s own collection of modern and contemporary jewelry and the retrospective of American artist Mike Kelley. Kelley’s (who unexpectedly took his own life in january last year) main themes, identity and sexuality are presented in about every way Kelly mastered. The nearly 200 works are brilliant, offending, confrontational but always food for thought. As is his series Memory Ware, featuring worn jewellery and buttons. 

Kelley on Memory Ware: “This project is about various considerations of memory. The ‘paintings’ (but more precisely mosaics) are a reference to a Canadian folk art-form called ‘memory ware’. Memory ware is a common object, such as a bottle or ashtray that has been decorated with attractive, inexpensive things. The paintings share a non-compositional overall approach in their materials like buttons, beads, shells and pieces of costume jewelry. These materials are often “keepsakes”, things that are understood as instigators of fond memories. The works in this exhibition do not have a similar sentimental intent; rather, my interests lie more in the themes of re-examination and re-fuse than in nostalgia.”

Mike Kelly at the Stedelijk Museum can be seen till April.

http://www.stedelijk.nl/26572/tentoonstelling-mike-kelley (NL)

http://www.stedelijk.nl/en  (UK)

Text: Isabella van den Bos

mooi artikel in de Wegener titels door Cintha Rood.

Mooi artikel in Edelmetaal december 2012.

Mooi artikel van Ellen de Vries in de Edelmetaal van december 2012, over de afgelopen SIERAAD Art Fair.  Dank Ellen!

Avro’s Kunstuur

Vanaf a.s. zaterdag de 8ste december, worden de 3 afleveringen van SIERAAD herhaald.

de 8ste december:   Mirjam Jakubowski & Rene Vlasblom  + Inge Rens.
de 15e december:    Judith Bloedjes & Eline van der Laag (MOYA).
de 22ste december:  Els Cuvelier & Gem Kingdom

http://cultuurgids.avro.nl/front/indexkunstuur.html