Category: Jewellery and Blacksmithing

21 Grams, 2018 Hangzhou Contemporary International Jewelry and Metal Art Triennial

Under the title 21 grams Ruudt Peters has organized a jewelry exhibition where a large number of artists where asked to make a jewel with the weight and content of the soul 21 grams, to develop specifically for this exhibition. There will be an equal number of western and eastern artists invited to take part at the exhibition.The installation of the art works is an important part of the concept. The works of the 21 grams jewelry will be present on scales to verify whether an artist has succeeded to the weight of the soul 21 grams to meet.

Artist list
Paul Adie, Manami Aoki, Peter Bauhuis, David Bielander, Rudolf Bott, Helen Britton, Beatrice Brovia, Bifei Cao, Carla Castiajo, Guozhen Chen, Shuming Chen, Nicolas Cheng, Xiang Cheng, Florian Chumeng, Shachar Cohen, Erinn Cox, Aaron Patrick Decker, Peter Deckers, Patrícia Domingues, Yanli Duan, Iris Eichenberg, Nedda El Asmar, Benedikt Fischer, Shaoxiong Fu, Sara Gackowska, Jie Gao, Maya Gao, Shan Gao, Wei Gao, Yun Ge, Zhiwei Gong, Niki Grandics, Adam Grinovich, Xin Guo, Rupai Han, Sophie Hangarth, Ann-Kathrin Hartel, Jing He, Nils Hint, Simone Hompel ten, Meiing Hsu, Jun Hu, Shifa Hu, David Huycke, Meiri Ishida, Koen Jacobs, Xuezhi Ji, Chengyu Jiang, Xueling Jin, Junwon Jung, Lauren Kalman, Jiro Kamata, Yeonmi Kang, Heejoo Kim, Young-I Kim, Panjapol Kulpapangkorn, Seulgi Kwon, Heng Lee, Seulki Lee, Helena Lehtinen, Linlin Lei, Danqing Li, Shanshan Li, Tianqing Li, Yinliang Li, Yiping Li, Yunxuan Li, Zifeng Li, Xiao Liang, Enying Lin, Xiao Liu, Urmas Lüüs, Suska Mackert, Lilian Mattuschka, Jasmin Matzakow, Mei Meng, Carla Movia, Eija Mustonen, Kadri Mälk, Chequita Nahar, Xianou Ni, Evert Nijland, Zijun Ning, Ted Noten, Lumy Nouguez, Pavel Opocensky, Seth Papac, Liling Peng, Yiwen Peng, Ruudt Peters, Annika Pettersson, Karen Pontoppidan, Suzanne Pugh, Haiming Ren, Estela Saez, Nina Sajet, Juliane Schölß, Sondra Sherman, Jun Shi, Robert Smit, Nadja Soloviev, Deganit Stern Schocken, Zhongge Sui, Jie Sun, Jieyi Sun, Xiangxiang Sun, Yiping Sun, Tore Svensson, Anneleen Swillen, Fumiki Taguchi, Edu Tarin, Terhi Tolvanen, Vivi Touloumidi, Fabrizio Tridenti, Yiumsiri Vantanapindu, Frank Verkade, Kezhen Wang, Qi Wang, Qiong Wang, Taidi Wang, Xiaojia Wang, Xiaoxin Wang, Zhenghong Wang, Chumeng Weng, Mian Wu, Renjie Wu, Jun Xie, Binglei Xu, Chenqian Xu, Jiaying Xu, Jing Xu, Congcong Yan, Zhao Yang, Xiaoyou Ying, Tala Yuan, Shuang Yue, Christoph Zellweger, Xihan Zhai, Chenzhi Zhang, Fan Zhang, Kun Zhang, Yi Zhang, Yunting Zhang, Zaozao Zhang, Zhaodan Zhang, Zhi Zhang, Yanmin Zhao, Yi Zhao, Hanqi Zheng, Hengfeng Zhou, Mingming Zhou, Ruoxue Zhou, Zhuohan Zhou, Aiyu Zhu, Yijie Zhu, Weiyang Zhuo

This year’s Hangzhou International Jewelry and Metal Art Triennial invited 155 exhibitors who are famous educators, artists and scholars from 25 countries and regions to participate in the One Belt, One Road guidelines and policy, focusing on the China Academy of Art. About 50 well-known institutions in Asia, Europe, and the Americas form a high-level jewelry and metalworking academic feast worldwide. This exhibition has attracted the enthusiastic participation of many domestic and foreign contemporary jewelry and metal artists. It also pays special attention to the incubation of young artists and has become a mature communication platform for the contemporary jewelry art circle. This exhibition also conducts academic discussions with experts from around the world to expand the academic, artistic, technical and aesthetic aspects to promote the development of jewelry and metal art.

Through the 21g exhibition, we will present the most avant-garde metal art creations at home and abroad from a professional perspective, and promote the development of the overall discipline of jewelry and metal art. Through exhibitions, to understand the different areas of jewelry and metal art in the international and domestic, to explore the development of jewelry and metal art in the era of new technology, to reflect on how artists should face and eliminate the boundaries between art and crafts. At the same time, through the academic research of international art creation, combined with art history, modern and post-modern art theory, sociology and anthropology, the interdisciplinary discussion on the rhythm of art jewelry and other related issues.

Exhibition Theme: “21 grams”
With the intention to prove the existence of the human soul scientifically MacDougall introduced in 1907 a medical experiment by six patients roads during their dying process. The beds were positioned on an industrial scale so that the weight of the patient before, during, and could be held in the holes after death. The patients lost directly or minutes to hours after death 21 grams weight. This minimal research shows that the soul has a substantial weight. The concept of 21 grams has a mysterious imagination that is attractive to artists. The weight of 21 grams is both imaginative and literally for jewellery makers a challenge.

This triennial is scheduled to travel to European countries in 2019.
– 2018.11.07-2018.12.10 (China)
– 2019.03.11-2019.04.20 (Germany)
– 2019.05-2019.06 (Poland)
– 2019.07-2019.08 (Belgium)
– 2019.10-2019.11 (Netherlands)

/https://klimt02.net/events/exhibitions/21-grams-china-academy-art/

More:

https://klimt02.net/forum/articles/why-do-you-wear-jewelry-triennial-ping-zou

Erinn M. Cox_John Carl Cox 1919-1992_forty-one cast sterling silver baby teeth of artist`s late grandfather, sterling silver, rhodium plating, 21 grams_2018

Nils Hint_brooch_Elephant_leather, blood, sweat, oil, dirt, stainless steel_2018

Urmas Lüüs_Filled Emptiness_bone, iron chloride, sodium silicate, water, video documentation_ 2018_Photo by Valdek Laur and Urmas Lüüs

Jiro Kamata, 1978, born in Hirosaki, Japan.
Artist that lives and works in Munich, studied at The Academy of Fine Arts Munich, with Prof.Otto Künzli and has works at the following collections: Hiko-Mizuno Collection, Tokyo. Marzee Collection, Nijmegen. Alice and Louis Koch Ring Collection, Basel. Helen Drutt Collection, Philadelphia.

The work of Jiro Kamata is fascinating because of it’s perfect surface, highlevel goldsmithing and also because of it’s affinity to fashion. It is young and powerful and in the same moment very delicate and poetic. Jiro Kamata likes to play with traditional moments and transform them into our contemporary view on things. / Klimt02.net /

Jiro Kamata was inivited to give masterclass “Mirror, mirror on the wall…” for jewellery students on November 12-16, 2018.

More:
http://www.jirokamata.com/
https://klimt02.net/jewellers/jiro-kamata

One of the central questions for social design is how to account for the social value achieved through research approach.

Often social design is mistakenly conflated with related areas such as design for social innovation and social entrepreneurship. What they all have in common is the involvement of citizens – in processes aiming towards social change or equality. Social design shares some similarities with these approaches, yet there are important differences. In his talk, Thomas Markussen will highlight these differences showing how social design processes may actually foster social change.

In addition, he will present an ongoing 3-year project of the University of Southern Denmark – “Social Games against Crime”. In this project, design researchers have developed an innovative board game to be played by children and their incarcerated fathers in Danish maximum-security prisons. The board game has been designed in close collaboration with children, inmates and prison staff. It provides a platform for understanding and communication, helping adolescents to cope better with problems they experience due to parental incarceration.

Thomas Markussen is Associate Professor and Co-Founder of the Social Design Research Unit at the University of Southern Denmark. In his work, Markussen focuses on how design can be used as a political and critical aesthetic practice, notably in the fields of social design, design activism and design fiction. His publications include journal articles such as “The disruptive aesthetics of design activism: enacting design between art and politics” (Design Issues); “Disentangling the ‘social’ in social design’s engagement with the public realm” (CoDesign); and “The politics of design activism – from impure politics to parapolitics” appearing in Routledge’s forthcoming book Design and Dissent.

Thomas Markussen visits EKA by the invitation of the Faculty of Design and the Doctoral School. He conducts here a series of seminars and talks on the topic of design research.

The co-exhibition of two young jewellery artists – Hanna-Maria Vanaküla and Hansel Tai– will be opened in Hop Gallery at 6pm on Friday, September 28^th, 2018.

Hanna-Maria (1987) is an Estonian jewellery artist and optometrist. She is currently finishing her MA studies in the department of jewellery and blacksmithing at the Estonian Academy of Arts.

Hansel (1994) is a Chinese artist and designer currently residing in Estonia. He has obtained BA degree at Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing in 2016.

Hanna-Maria was awarded the Young Estonian Jewellery Grant 2017 and Hansel was nominated as the finalist to Amberif Design Award competition in 2018.

Jewellery artist Tanel Veenre comments on the current exhibition:

„Is Hansel’s and Hanna’s world flat or round?

These worlds are both flat and round. Once you feel that you have reached the edge from where there is nothing else to do than fall – aaaah! – into the galactic abyss. Yet, then you will see the strength and tension of the core, the navel is nicely in its place, everything seems to be whirling around its axis. There is POP at the intersection of Hansa’s and Hanna’s navels – the desire to disburden one’s heart with cleansed imagery.

Hansel’s navel is in its extreme cultivation. In his work, naturalness has been shadowed by body cult, deformation, subcultural signs and high gloss metal. At the same time, instead of the artist’s hand the rolled traces of eruptions tell us about physical laws and the rolling mill. However, complicated constructions and nipple rings have pulled the image again back to the (sub)cultural space. Hansel is rationally irrational – the natural tones he has used have been tuned to the most estranging futuristic bitter green. When to think about it, nature has actually other colours than mellow green – for instance, some beetles are wearing strikingly super metallic green shells. So the Hansel’s Prince Albert is simultaneously a fairy-tale prince and a genital exhibitionist.

Hanna’s navel is in focus. While having moved towards simplicity and precision, she has reached the minimal compositions made of eyeglasses’ lens. Even if engraving and especially polishing acrylic glass is the test of outmost patience, the result of the artist’s work is digitally light. Cool consideration replaces the strains of being human. Steel wire rope as a guillotine unifying roundness. Scarce and strikingly precise. The words are unnecessary.

Since 1998, the Tallinn Print Triennial has been accompanied by young artists’ exhibitions. Spheres is the youth exhibition of the 17th Tallinn Print Triennial. Its aim is to study the contemporary human condition through the conceptual metaphor of a sphere. Philosopher and cultural theorist Peter Sloterdijk claims that spheres are hybrid and symbolic realities created by humans from whatever is ready to hand. They are spaces of coexistence that enable humans to exist as humans. All human life proceeds within membranes that provide meaning and immunity.

There are three types of spheres. Bubbles are microspheres and the smallest units of social existence. They are constituted by dyadic relationships between two entities. Globes are all-encompassing macrospheres that seek to unite all individual differences. Foam is the fragile and layered aggregate of vertically and horizontally contiguous bubbles that are characterized by co-fragility—if one bubble bursts, it affects all its neighbors.

The youth exhibition will take place in two parts. The second part will open at the Corridor Club of Kultuurikatel on the 31^st of May at 6 PM and will remain open until the 16^th of July. Participating artists— Valentin Alizer, Ann Pajuväli, Mark Antonius Puhkan, Irma Isabella Raabe, Kadi Reintamm, Elina Saat, Kristina Mirjam Villand and S3+A1 (Delija Thakur, Helga Aliis Saarlen, Elise Roos ja Patrik Olejňák). The exhibition is curated by Eve Kask and Oliver Laas. The exhibition designer is Delija Thakur, graphic designer is Kerli Virk.

Graphic designer, blogger and enterpreneur Helene Vetik:

Self presentation in internet.
10 years on the field – evolution of the field and myself.

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Open lecture series in the Faculty of Design

Sofia Hallik “Born-Digitals”
26.01.-14.02.2017

HOP gallery
Tallinn
Hobusepea 2

You are kindly invited to Sofia Hallik’s solo exhibition “Born-Digitals” in HOP gallery.

Sofia Hallik (1991) is a jewellery artist and PhD student at the Estonian Academy of Arts (since 2015). In her doctoral thesis “Theomorphic Jewellery Essence by Means of Virtuality and Autonomy” (supervisors prof. Kadri Mälk and Dr. Jaak Tomberg) Sofia focuses on a search of divine form through innovative materials and technologies. What interests her the most is the way суberspace and digital technology influence jewellery.

Sofia’s solo exhibition “Born-Digitals” deals with the influence of cyberspace and the use of digital technology in the manipulation of work of art. There is a dematerialization and virtualization of an artwork in general happening in the aftermath of the Digital Revolution, which affects among other things, an art form that is highly physical form of art, namely jewellery. The aim of Sofia’s work is represented in the shameless and conscious adaptation of the conflicting concepts of handwork and machine work. Exactly at the junction of these two concepts there arises something truly attractive that is actually a taste of our reality.

In her new series of works, Sofia creates a dreamlike installation in both real and virtual rooms. Represented jewellery in particular serves as Sofia’s radical approach, allowing the artist to express the idea of Perfection of Virtual.

Sofia has graduated from Estonian Academy of Arts with a Master’s degree with cum laude in 2015. Sofia has had three solo exhibitions, the last one took place at HOP gallery in summer 2015; In 2015 Sofia was awarded the Foundation Noor Ehe / Young Estonian Jewellery grant. Her work has been exhibited at international exhibitions, the latter and the most important are “European Prize for Applied Arts 2015” in Belgium, Mons; “Marzee International Graduate Show 2015” in the Netherlands; “ESTONISHING!” exhibition at Thomas Cohn gallery as a part of Munich Jewellery Week 2016 and in Brazil, São Paulo.

We would like to thank: Kadri Mälk, Jaak Tomberg, Maria Valdma, Raiko Suits, Viktorija Domarkaite, Andres Hallik, Margarita Teeääre, EAA Jewellery and Blacksmithing department.

The exhibition was made possible with the support of the Cultural Endowment of Estonia.

HOP gallery exhibitions are supported by the Estonian Ministry of Culture and the Cultural Endowment of Estonia.

This year during the “Melting point” fair in Valencia on April 22-24 th Estonian Academy of Arts is presenting its curated exhibition “CATHEXIS”,which will take place in the entrance of Escuela superior de Arte y Diseño de Valencia.

The exhibition is presenting jewellery and blacksmithing department students’ works created during recent years of studies and projects carried out in academy. The exhibited pieces are conceptual side of jewelry reflecting the spirit and character of the department. Works vary in their size and material – aluminium, charcoal, mammoth bone, intestine. Exhibition curators: Maria Garcia Castillejo, Federica Cogliandro, Viktorija Domarkaite, Katrin Kosenkranius, Hannes Tõnuri.

Exhibition participants : Maria Garcia Castillejo, Federica Cogliandro, Miikael Danieljants, Viktorija Domarkaite, Sofia Hallik, Elis Ilves, Rainer Kaasik-Aaslav, Annika Kedelauk, Kairin Koovit, Katrin Kosenkranius, Triin Kukk, Helen Kristi Loo, Liina Lõõbas, Eilve Manglus, Merlin Meremaa, Indrek Mesi, Erle Nemvalts, Hans-Otto Ojaste, Anneli Oppar, Darja Popolitova, Hannes Tõnuri, Hanna-Maria Vanaküla, Agnes Veski, Edgar Volkov.