It was the day after the opening of the Galerie Marzee graduation show, during the symposium where graduates were invited to present their work. A young Chinese jeweler asked one of the girls in the room to come and sit on a chair in front of him. He, standing behind her, took a golden chain […]
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Reprinted with permission from Kelly H L’Ecuyer et al, Jewelry by Artists: In the Studio, 1940-2000 (Boston: MFA Publications, 2010).
The Daphne Farago Collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Read More »
How does a piece of jewelry graduate from your personal wardrobe to an institutional collection? I have embarked on this journey several times in the past, but the rules have changed and the museum acquisition process is more formal now. Recently, I began the process again with three pieces of art jewelry, each acquired in
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Boris De Beijer, Blue Captain, Storm Face Amulet, 2011 Boris De Beijer, Pink Fighter, 2011 De Beijer’s work is not intrinsically inspired by anything specific, but driven by mystical and romantic urges. “I find myself wanting to create stories and seeing symbolism in a wide range of (contemporary) events and objects. I build a sort of
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This essay was first delivered as a talk at SOFA NY in May 2011. The Museum of Art and Design’s exhibition, Crafting Modernism: Midcentury Art and Design (opening in October 2011) features over 20 jewelers. Some are well known, such as Alexander Calder, while others have been resurrected from obscurity and brought forward for re-evaluation.
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Ethnographic Collection, Pforzheim Jewellery Museum, Photo Brigida Gonzalez Modern Collection, Pforzheim Jewellery Museum, Photo Brigida Gonzalez Modern Collection, Pforzheim Jewellery Museum, Photo Brigida Gonzalez I’m most taken by the potential of precious materials, most struck by how truly debased manufacturing jewelry is in its use of traditional jewelry materials. These objects from the last 500
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Ruudt Peters, Corpus, Galerie Rob Koudijs The large charcoal grey shapes lay camouflaged against the draped black fabric – their nebulous contours and flat surfaces absorbing the light around them. From afar you struggle to assign something recognizable to the indeterminate shapes. Some appear as stark Rorschach tests – perfectly mirrored inkblots, others as corresponding
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Mia Maljojoki at Galerie Rob Koudijs Amsterdam. Photos: Mirei Takeuchi Making new work should never deteriorate to repeating succesful tricks, a danger all the greater when a style is very outspoken, recognisable and has gained recognition. So it is always a great relief that an artist doesn’t get stuck in an specific approach. For her
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Dutch jeweler Peter Hoogeboom presented by Galerie RA, a cornerstone of contemporary jewelry in Amsterdam. Sieraarden is a play on words – sieraad being the Dutch word for a piece of jewelry, and aarde meaning earth. Hoogeboom is engaged in an exploration of the earth, from what is beneath the surface to the fruit the
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Rebecca Annand reports for AJF: Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Enter New York’s Metropolitan Museum through the Great Hall. Pass by the entrances to Greek and Roman Sculpture and Egyptian Galleries to a narrow side escalator. Go up to the second floor along the balcony, through Buddhist sculptures and past cases
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What is it about the Westin Hotel in Seattle that I find so offensive? Is it the tasteless and blandness of the décor or the airlessness of the space that bugs me? During Flux, the 2011 Society of American Goldsmiths (SNAG) conference, the place was crawling with metalsmiths of all stripes, but they were placed
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