Verena Sieber-Fuchs is a master at crocheting her daily life. She is a furious collector of everything around her, from medicine blisters to orange paper, stamps, beads, newspaper cuttings, garlic and onion peelings, etc. Everything is ritually and carefully stored to talk about pleasures, sorrows or politics. It’s a game with all kinds of materials […]
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Over the past few years, jewelry artist and art historian Charlotte Vanhoubroeck investigated the lost sentimental jewelry of Louise-Marie d’Orléans, first queen of Belgium (1812–1850), with the support of the Research Foundation Flanders. These jewelry pieces were worn to preserve memories, and thus once enclosed fragments of Louise’s intimate world. Based on (art) historical research
The endless mysteries of love, desire and memory make up “Once Upon a Time,” the latest solo exhibition of Catarina Silva. She started by collecting, for a few years, the colored wrappings of chocolates and the next step was to use them in her works. From the ideas already explored by the artist – fantasy,
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Louis Thompson & Sophie Thomas | Marianne Anselin | Ambroise Degenève | Marine Dominiczak | Fabiana Gadano | Karen Gay | Bérénice Noël | Karin Roy Andersson | Agathe Saint Girons | Annie Sibert | Aisegul Telli | Claire Wolfstirn
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Best known in international jewelry and metalsmithing circles, Iris Eichenberg has made an enormous contribution as an artist and educator. Addressing significant current issues such as identity, gender politics, and Heimat—a German word denoting the personal happiness and fulfillment found upon reaching a safe haven—the show Iris Eichenberg: Where Words Fail is particularly timely. Eichenberg
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An exhibition brochure. As a collector and wearer, Susan Grant Lewin selects pieces for her collection that resonate with her intellect, aesthetic, and keen sense of identity. In this regard, jewelry takes on a performative role, acting as both an intimate treasured possession and a public expression of the wearer’s— and the maker’s—thoughts and feelings.
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Craftspace invited Rebekah Frank to explore queerness in relation to the expansive field of metalworking and metalsmithing. Explore the scope of the project at https://craftspace.co.uk/queer-metals/.
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The catalog for the exhibition held June 4–July 2, 2022. “I am particularly fond of photographs,” says the artist. “Sometimes they are old and show bygone places or people of times past, but quite often I use photos I took myself of trunks, flowers, lonesome lanes, or landscapes. These pictures turn into pieces of jewelry.
Bettina Speckner: Navegar é Preciso (Sailing Is Necessary), at Galeria Tereza Seabra Read More »
The Closer Gallery, Beijing presented its summer show of 2020, Samples of Moments, by Chinese artist Li Yi from September 6–13, 2020.
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The collection comes from a collector couple who have accumulated passionately for over 40 years, surrounding themselves with modern art, design and with selected crafts in all aspects of life. Everything is beautiful, not as a dictate, but as a way of life and bringing inspiration to the everyday. The auction title is not only
The Closer Gallery, in Beijing, presented its first spring show of 2022, ‘O’FLOW, by Hong Kong artist Jun Jin Wu from 16th April to 04th May. Most exhibits tailor-made for the show seems static, but with the physical interactions—wearing, playing, and even performing, the dynamic effects are unexpectedly triggered due to the deep concern from
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