Reviews

Passé Recomposé

To Recover—13 Artists/13 Versions/13 Jewels KLIMT02 Gallery, Barcelona, Spain October 7–November 7, 2015 In 1956, Glenn Gould totally broke the classical music panorama with an astonishing, energetic, passionate execution of Bach’s Goldberg Variations: A new language and a new approach to Bach were definitively on the stage.[1] From that moment, the sound changed, and that […]

Passé Recomposé Read More »

Grabbed By the Fingers

Karl Fritsch, various rings from the Hi series, 2015, gold, silver, niello, diamonds, rubies, sapphires, cubic zirconia, dimensions variable, photo courtesy of Salon 94, New York Karl Fritsch: A Retrospective October 26–December 18, 2015 Salon 94, New York, New York, USA How can such small objects be so arresting? How can they express such timely

Grabbed By the Fingers Read More »

First steps towards a Schmuck of the South

Exhibition view, Melt, Future Remains, Pennie Jagiello, 2015, Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne, photo: Nadja Soloviev Radiant Pavilion – Melbourne Contemporary Jewellery and Object Trail September 1-6, 2015 Melbourne, Australia A new jewelry festival has arrived with great expectations and significant challenges. How can a “Schmuck of the South” emerge from the shadow of the more established

First steps towards a Schmuck of the South Read More »

En Construcción II

Objects made during Lisa Walker’s workshop, En Construccion II symposium, 2015, Cultural Center Valparaíso, photo: Lilian Peromarta The world of objects is also a place for desire. The way we relate to different materials, and corporeal realities, as well as the social, cultural, and emotional relationships that we experience as we use different objects or

En Construcción II Read More »

After the Fire

Exhibition view, õhuLoss/Castle in the Air, 2015, Evald Okase Muuseum, Haapsalu, Estonia, photo: Villu Plink Evald Okase Muuseum, Haapsalu, Estonia, photo: Villu Plink õhuLoss/Castle in the Air (Piret Hirv, Kristiina Laurits, Kadri Mälk, Eve Margus-Villems, Villu Plink, and Tanel Veenre) August 12–September 6, 2015 Evald Okase Muuseum, Haapsalu, Estonia This summer, the Estonian jewelers belonging

After the Fire Read More »

Gray Street Workshop, Adelaide

Catherine Truman, In Preparation for Seeing: Cell Culture Glove, 2015, white cotton glove, glass, steel forceps, Coplin jar, light pad, Tasmanian oak and acrylic display case, dimensions variable, photo: Grant Hancock Jess Dare, Catherine Truman, and Sue Lorraine, The Theatre of Detail July 10–25, 2015 Airspace Projects Gallery, Sydney, Australia Thirtieth birthdays are always important.

Gray Street Workshop, Adelaide Read More »

Baroque Pleasures

Tanel Veenre, Handful. Stuttgart: Arnoldsche Art Publishers, 2015. ISBN: 978-3-89790-436-1 Book cover: Handful, Stuttgart: Arnoldsche Art Publishers, 2015, photo: Benjamin Lignel. It must be brave for an artist to author a book about their work. Writing seems ancillary to the core occupation of producing work. The act might appear self-congratulatory, unfair on the reader who cannot access, touch, much

Baroque Pleasures Read More »

Merchants in the Temple

Exhibition view, Bianca Lopez and the Jewelry Art and Design of Manhattan, 2015, Oratorio di San Rocco, Padua, photo: Alessandra Zabbeo Bianca Lopez and the Jewelry Art and Design of Manhattan March 26–April 26, 2015 Oratorio di San Rocco, Padua, Italy Who says that tradition and novelty can’t stay together? This exhibit could somehow be

Merchants in the Temple Read More »

Do You Read Me, HAL?

Jana Brevick, Atomic Exfiltrator: Ship Seven, 2015, mixed media sculptural installation, dimensions variable, courtesy of Bellevue Arts Museum, photo: Melissa Jimison Jana Brevick: This Infinity Fits in My Hand April 17–August 16, 2015 Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, Washington, USA PuzzleGuts (1999) sits high atop a white pedestal, jointed silver limbs splayed comically akimbo. Cartoonish and

Do You Read Me, HAL? Read More »

Scroll to Top