Exhibition catalog for Samples of Moments, by Li Yi
The Closer Gallery, Beijing presented its summer show of 2020, Samples of Moments, by Chinese artist Li Yi from September 6–13, 2020.
2020
One World | 40 Artists Respond to Covid-19
Gallery Loupe presents One World: 40 Artists Respond to Covid-19, an online exhibition of pendants inspired by the Covid-19 pandemic. Throughout history, jewelry has often served as touchstones for health and well-being, charms for good luck, or symbols of faith in a better future. The novel coronavirus, with its fearsome implications and daily inconveniences, has …
Earrings of the Naga, in English
The young Naga woman in the photo wears glass earrings that have a diameter of 55 mm. The earrings connect by a strand of cotton threads that is placed over the head.
Oorbellen bij de Naga, in Dutch
Among the Naga, shell, rock crystal, glass, and nowadays even Perspex are used for making jewelry.
Catalog for Danish Jewellery Box
The Danish Arts Foundation’s main mission is to support Danish artists and ensure that citizens from all over the country can experience high quality art. With the Danish Jewellery Box exhibition, the foundation wants both to showcase both the significance and development of contemporary Danish jewelry art and pay tribute to the German Danish Cultural …
Werke und Tage/Works and Days
Werke und Tage/Works and Days, at the Staatliche Antikensammlungen, contrasts contemporary Danish jewelry from the Danish Arts Foundation’s collection with ancient works of art from the Munich collections, linking together past and present and attesting to how the universal practice of adorning oneself has characterized humankind through every era. The Jewellery Collection of the Danish …
Source: night and daybreak
An exhibition review, by Reet Varblane, of Bulldog, featuring jewelry by Kadri Mälk. “After having visited the exhibition of Kadri Mälk, the title and short foreword of the book of Clarissa Pinkola Estés ‘Women Who Run with the Wolves’ started to haunt me: ‘We are all filled with a longing for the wild. There are few …
Dagger djinn and wolf
An exhibition review, by Heie Marie Treier, of Bulldog, featuring the work of Kadri Mälk. Originally published in The Estonian art quarterly KUNST.EE 2020, No. 4, pp. 74–76., translated here into English. “If anyone can be considered a mystic in Estonian art, it is Kadri Mälk. The almost sculptural jewellery exhibited at the exhibition “Bulldog” at the …
HUNT: and Mälk
A book review, by Urmas Lüüs, of Hunt:, by Kadri Mälk. Originally published in Estonia but reproduced here in English. “With subconscious systematic approach, Kadri has created her own school. When travelling around the globe, one can hear the stories about deep dark soul of Estonian jewelry. Soul-dark depth. Darkness of the depth of a soul. People even …
Buldog
The Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design’s brochure for Kadri Mälk’s exhibition Bulldog. In English and Estonian. So, pick up your pens. Get ready to concentrate. The general plan to reveal—Bulldog. Bulldogs are solitary sociable creatures. They are fine as companions and exhibition participants alike. The bulldog’s ancestors were guard- and fighting dogs in Assyria, …
The Very Human Production Process Of Mopa-Mopa and Pasto Varnish
In Colombia, there’s an indigenous process with a complex cycle of production that creates sheets of flexible resin derived from a small tree without harming the tree in the process. Because the complicated process is so laborious, it isn’t possible to mechanize it for mass production. Therefore, the people involved are integral to the process. …
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Hermann Jünger: 50 Jahre V-Schmuck
No other material has undergone such a transformation in recent centuries in the visual and applied arts as plastic. As early as the 15th to the 18th century, attempts were made to produce materials artificially, that would imitate and even surpass natural artistic materials in their perfection. Social developments in the 19th century rapidly promoted …