Wunderrūma July 17–November 1, 2015 Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand Three different Wunderrūma shows in three different locations with three different outcomes: Peter Deckers unpacks the first two quite different Wunderrūma exhibitions, one at Galerie Handwerk in Germany and one at The Dowse Art Museum in New Zealand, and ponders its third iteration in Auckland, […]
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Exhibition view, Ted Noten: Non Zone, 2015, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, photo: Liesbeth den Besten Ted Noten: Non Zone June 13–October 18, 2015 Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, the Netherlands Two years ago, Ted Noten had his Framed exhibition at the Stedelijk museum’s-Hertogenbosch in Den Bosch, the Netherlands. When organizing this show,
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Ground: A Retrospective Exhibition of Ruudt Peters May 22–July 31, 2015 Massachusetts College of Art and Design, President’s Gallery, Boston, USA Born in 1950 in in the Netherlands, Ruudt Peters is lauded as a prominent and provocative figure in the contemporary jewelry world. He tends to translate big ideas into beautifully crafted jewelry and, through
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Each year the annual SNAG Conference is paired with exhibitions inside local institutions and is the host to a few exhibitions of its own. This year, SNAG supported a call for entries that was not limited to works alone. The Adorned Spaces event featured a juried selection of 20 unique exhibitions inside the conference hotel
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Love & Loss: Fashion and Mortality March 13–June 7, 2015 Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Austria The exhibition Love & Loss took place at the Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, in Upper Austria. The curator Ursula Guttmann puts her focus on the “new realism” in fashion emerging in the 90s and influencing the scene until today. While in the
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Exhibition view, Body Jewels, 2015, TextielMuseum, Tilburg, The Netherlands, photo: Michel Zoeter Body Jewels March 29, 2014–March 15, 2015 TextielMuseum, Tilburg, The Netherlands Body Jewels The most direct “body” adornments must be tattoos and piercings. However, one layer up and away from the skin and you are looking at textiles that envelop us from birth
Anew Negotiation: Thai Contemporary Wearable Art March 27–April 25, 2015 Bilk Gallery, Canberra, Australia Exhibition set-up, Anew Negotiation: Thai Contemporary Wearable Art, 2015, Helen Aitken-Kuhnen (gallery director) in discussion with Taweesak Molsawat and Bow Wasinondh, Bilk Gallery, Canberra, Australia, photo: Mio Kuhnen Curated by Bow Wasinondh, it is the first outing by Thai contemporary jewelers in Australia.
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Bent, Cast & Forged: The Jewelry of Harry Bertoia March 24–November 29, 2015 Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA For those interested in the history of 20th-century design, the name Harry Bertoia should be a familiar one. Bertoia’s humble beginnings as a 15-year-old Italian immigrant were soon eclipsed by his ambitious and prodigious work
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Symmetry Is the Work of the Devil March 19–April 16, 2015 Anna Miles Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand Anna Miles Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand, photo: Lucy Boermans Progressing from the gentle arrow beckoning me away from the cacophony of Upper Queen Street to the hidden entrance of 10/30 and the Anna Miles Gallery, I am quietly
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Damian Skinner and Finn McCahon-Jones, Fingers: Jewellery for Aotearoa New Zealand—40 Years of Fingers Jewellery Gallery. Auckland: David Bateman, 2014. ISBN:978-1-86953-862-0 Fingers: Jewellery for Aotearoa New Zealand is an informative book that leaves you craving for more: This is a rich subject that can hardly be covered fully within 150 pages. On the one hand,
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Museo del Gioiello Palladian Basilica, Piazza dei Signori, Vicenza, Italy I had a wish. I wanted to be among the first visitors at the Museum of Jewellery in Vicenza. Last year, on December 24, I purchased the ticket. It was number 3. Symbolically prophetic, I thought, while hiding in my hand the precious memento. The
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Lin Cheung, Tomfoolery: Objects & Jewellery. London: Tomfoolery Publishing UK, 2014. ISBN: 978-0-9572988-0-4 For those not well versed in the artful linguistic gymnastics of London’s East End, tomfoolery is Cockney rhyming slang for jewellery. It is also defined in the dictionary as foolish behavior, utter nonsense, rubbish, and it is in the space between these
