IAEA

June 19, 2015, 9:33 pm

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IAEA is a collaboration project between Studio IKKAI and Michal Avraham. The project focuses on installations and accessories. Animation is used to visualise movement and the distinctiveness of the serial accessories.

Michal Avraham is an Israeli material designer. Studio IKKAI is specialised on art-direction & communicational design. IAEA is based in Amsterdam.

Project #1 Series of ten necklaces
The first line of products is a series of ten necklaces that form a sequence. The jewellery is a result of an experimental process which creates one-off random patterns, inspired by natural wild eggs, in a small industrial production.
Photography: Daan Paans / IAEA


Project #2 Series of ten digitally printed scarves
In Project #2 IAEA has designed a series of digitally printed scarves with a narrative function. The ten scarves appear identical in the physical realm, but they transform into a moving sequence when shown virtually.
With this series, IAEA explores identity and all its components. Symbols and objects are assembled to question gender and identity. IAEA has developed an installation in which the scarves are presented as flags. This installation shows the juxtaposition between the flag as a tool for communicating identity, and the scarf as an accessory used merely to enhance beauty.
Photography: Iztok Klancar / IAEA


10 digitally printed silk scarves, with on each scarf a slightly different print. When shown in a stop motion animation, the scarves form a sequence.


10 digitally printed silk scarves, with on each scarf a slightly different print. Shown in an installation.
Installation: AAANNN

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Adam Grinovich Zine #1

September 11, 2015, 4:41 am

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CRAFT AND BLING BLING - 'FAKE' II

October 12, 2015, 8:44 pm

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Depot Basel & Current Obsession & NOMAN
for DUTCH DESIGN WEEK 2015

Saturday, 17th - Sunday, 25th October
Nieuwe Emmasingel 28, Eindhoven, Netherlands
DEPOT BASEL, place for contemporary design (CH) and CURRENT OBSESSION, contemporary jewellery platform and magazine (NL), present their second collaborative curatorial effort Craft & Bling Bling ‘Fake’. The exhibition was first displayed during Art Basel’14 and featured in the #3 Fake Issue of the Current Obsession Magazine.

Twelve jewellery makers were commissioned to create work reflecting on the subject of ‘Fake’ from standpoints of jewellery history, their own practices, contemporary art and society.
For Dutch Design Week’15, the concept is reinterpreted by the multi-disciplinary studio NOMAN (NL) in a short film. NOMAN places the jewellery outside the gallery context, out on the streets and construction sites. Various backgrounds and geometric grids add a graphic quality to the image. The setting opposes the presentation strategy of a gigantic velvet jewellery box, chosen for the first exhibition at Depot Basel. Yet, the work remains precious and seductive.

Jewellery Makers: Philip Eberle, Adam Grinovich, Sophie Hanagarth, Jing He, Kevin Hughes, Rainer Kaasik-Aaslav, Florian Milker, Edgar Mosa, Barbara Schrobenhauser, Julia Walter, Florian Weichsberger, Mallory Weston.

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n-o-m-a-n.com

Tokyo Monster

October 21, 2015, 4:55 am

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Harajuku kawaii fashion has attracted worldwide attention for its outrageous style rooted in 90s Tokyo and Harajuku youth street fashion. With Tokyo Monster, Asami Kiyokawa applies her personal touch to these street snaps to express the hearts and minds of the aimless youth.

Why do teenagers in every generation ornament themselves with clothing?

It’s as if they clad themselves in outfits to express their innermost darkness and thoughts, a personalised monster that wanders the city.

FRUiTS is a Tokyo street snap magazine from the 90s that featured teenagers in outrageous outfits. It had a profound influence on contemporary street culture and fashion.


世界のすべてを消し去りたい
I want to wipe the world clean


私達は少女（永遠）
We are little girls (forever)


朝から横断歩道を往復してる
Stalking the crosswalk from first light


あなたの心臓まで見透かしたい
I want to see inside your heart


頭ん中がほんとの世界
The real world is the one in my head


宇宙でひとりぼっちs
Alone in the universe


本当は理解できないs
I just don’t get it


俺だけが大丈夫
Only I’m OK


クラスではいじめられっこ
Popular with bullies


暗闇の中で生きたい
Let me live in darkness

Makiko Akiyama for Current Obsession
Translation by David Kracker

#4 SUPERNATURAL ISSUE

October 23, 2015, 3:42 am

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#4 Supernatural Issue / 2015 / attempts to connect the mystical notions of shamanism and magic to the creative process itself. While the concept of the artist as shaman was elaborated by artists in the mid-20th century, we were curious to find out how it’s reflected in today’s world. Essentially, it’s about creating one’s own narrative, mythology and belief system, while daring to challenge the conventions of art and design.

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Featuring:
* The Kingdom Of Gems / What we see in jewels and what jewels see in us by Makiko Akiyama
*Article by Mariah Tuttle / interviews with Misha Kahn, Lauren Kalman, Lisa Walker
* Statement piece - a conversation with Eamonn Harnett
* Currently Obsessed with / Cobra Gypsies by Raphael Treza
* Interview / Warwick Freeman
* Material / Brynjar Sigurðarson
* Statement piece / Wilderness Survival by Anna Bak
* Photoshoot / jewellery by Elvira Golombosi, photography by Imke Lighart
* The Way of the Future / Christophe Coppens
* Travel / Los Angeles
* Photoshoot / Johan Rosenmunthe

Copenhagen Goldsmits' Guild The City Of Jewellery

November 1, 2015, 5:09 am

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Copenhagen Goldsmits' Guild
The City of Jewellery

Current Obsession had the great pleasure of being invited by the Copenhagen Goldsmiths' Guild in Copenhagen for the event The City of Jewellery. Secretariat of the Goldsmiths' Guild and jewellery artist, Marie-Louise Kristensen, made a 4-day schedule for us to bike around Copenhagen together with Annette Dam. We had a peak in some studio's, the award ceremony of the Skt. Loye Exhibition and gave a lecture during the seminar The Bigger Picture. From 2 October - 7 November 38 events invite you to explore The City of Jewellery.

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Goldfingers Gallery
Klosterstræde 18, 1157 Copenhagen
www.goldfingers.dk

Goldfingers Gallery is a space for international contemporary jewellery founded by Janne Krogh and Karl Ejnar Nybo. On regular basis GOLDFINGERS arrange solo- and group exhibitions with some of the most renowned jewellery artists from Denmark and abroad.


Annette Dam - When Complexity Moved In
Jewellery artist and the most recent Skt.Loye prizewinner presents her new works. In this solo show, the artist visualises and materialises reflections around the feeling that life rarely goes as planned.




Gallery MONTAN
Bredgade 10, Copenhagen
www.montan.dk

The only gallery in Denmark specialising in modern Danish silverware. The gallery cooperates with a dozen of Denmark’s leading silversmiths on a permanent basis, and in addition to hollowware they also have wide range of Danish jewellery on display, designed during the last 50 years by names such as Ole Bent Petersen, Hans Hansen and Bent Knudsen.

Lasse Montan & Claus Andersen, Directors of MONTAN


Carsten Fromm, Silversmith

Yuki Ferdinansen, Silversmith

Presentations at the Danish Arts Foundation


Helen Clara Hemsley


Castello Hansen


Design Museum Denmark Exhibition MINDCRAFT 15



Superobjekt Gallery
Constructions, deconstructions and reconstructions
Experimental jewellery by Helle Bjerrum


Helle Bjerrum

Skt.Loye Award Ceremony
The Skt.Loye exhibition shows the work of 15 exhibitors, former award-winners and the developments from the founding of Copenhagen Goldsmiths' Guild in 1429 until today. The three nominees of this year were Christine Bukkehave, James Stoklund and Pernille Mouritzen.


Skt.Loye Award Winner of 2015, Christine Bukkehave



Christine Bukkehave


The Crown Princess of Denmark Mary together with Diana Holstein, Master of Copenhagen Goldsmiths' Guildd


Skt.Loye Award Nominee, James Stoklund


Kim Buck


Flemming Bo Hansen


Annette Dam


The Copenhagen Goldsmiths' Guild Brooch


Rundetaarn, a 17th-century tower used partly as exhibition space

Bærbart Gallery
Nybrogade 26, Copenhagen
www.baerbart.dk

During the month of The City of Jewellery, Bærbart is showing the exhibition Ring & Box, 18 jewellers where given the task to create a piece of jewellery with a box.




The Most Secret Gallery
The space, on the Radhusstraede 10, is run by Kim Buck, together with the artists' work, he is showing the work of Peter Bauhuis and Josephine Winther.

Peter Bauhuis

Josephine Winther

Kim Buck



BUCK studio
New works by Kaori Juzu & Per Suntum in the studio/shop of Kim Buck.


Kaori Juzu

Per Suntum


Workspace Kim Buck

Mette Saabye
Objects of Desire, the exhibition illuminates the jewellery's basic premises, function, value and beauty.




York + Smith
The Closer, this exhibition is a composition of four young artists' work from recent years. The tittle 'The Closer' is about both the way in in which we experience the work and the exhibition space, which because of its role as a workshop and its size - is an intimate and poetic space.

Ninna York & Josefine Rønsholt Smith


Josefine Rønsholt Smith

Matthew Lambert

Ninna York

Therese Mørch-Jørgensen



Jørgen Carlo Larsen's Kunstpavillion
Minorities, Who are? We are! Are you?
Third year students at The Institute of Precious Metals worked with their own angles on the theme 'Minorities'. Among others, life in the shadows, a meeting between ethnicity and Scandinavia, crisis-stricken men and minority as a choice.




Seminar The Bigger Picture at the Design Museum
An academic seminar, which puts Danish and international jewellery making into perspective. Presentations by Jorunn Veiteberg, Karen Pontoppidan, Kim Buck, Annette Dam and Current Obsession. The images taken during the Seminar are by photographer Dorte Krogh

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November 15, 2015, 10:52 pm

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December 3, 2015, 11:19 pm

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Experience Ooga Booga The #4 issue's Supernatural theme revives on December 19th 2015

We are pleased to invite you to Experience Ooga Booga. CURRENT OBSESSION just launched The #4 Supernatural Issue and this theme will be explored on the 19th of December in Amsterdam’s STUDIO 47. Invited artists will practice, discuss and perform what they preach, bringing you the ultimate Ooga Booga Experience.

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CURRENT OBSESSION’s #4 Supernatural Issue attempts to connect the mystical notions of shamanism and magic to the creative process itself. While the concept of the artist as shaman was elaborated by artists in the mid-20th century, we were curious to find out how it’s reflected in today’s world. Essentially, it’s about creating one’s own narrative, mythology and belief system, while daring to challenge the conventions of art and design.

Starting from the CURRENT OBSESSION magazine as a format, and inspired by its characteristics and possibilities, the theme of the Supernatural will now be explored through the Ooga Booga Experience. We will focus on in-depth perception of artists' work brought together in a dynamic programme consisting of diverse contemporary views on the subject Supernatural and its implementation in artistic practice.

Contributing artists
Michal Avraham and Borch Socher, Anna Bak, Brynjar Sigurðarson, Echo + Seashell, Jasper Griepink and Janneke Raaphorst, Pieter Paul Pothoven, Vann Kwok, Octave Vandeweghe


Octave Vandeweghe, currently enrolled as an artist in residence in Trier University of Applied Sciences, Department for Gemstones and Jewellery, Idar-Oberstein, will present A Brilliant Cut in which he explores the link between the natural and faceted shapes of (gem)stones. During the talk he will share the insight into his artistic practice and making process.



Brynjar Sigurðarson’s work is linked to storytelling and narratives, which are deeply rooted in Icelandic culture. At Ooga Booga Things That Happened, a book about Brynjar’s work, accompanied by a vinyl in which he recorded and composed (auto)biographic stories he has collected throughout his journeys.



Taking chocolate as a raw material out of its context, Michal Avraham and Borch Socher are experimenting with its shape, colour and texture by creating a series of edible rocks, a unique experience that starts with shape and results in taste. During Ooga Booga the Chocolate Rocks will be sliced and handed out, revealing their surprising filling.



Anna Bak has a special focus on survivalism as an alternative mode in the production of our life. Survivalism describes the fear of an imminent collapse of civilisation as well as the romantic fantasy of escaping the modern, urban society’s ambivalence. Wilderness Survival – A Guide to the Aesthetics of Survivalism is a project about the survival of real or speculative dangers, which considers practical and philosophical understandings of the survivalist lifestyle.



Multimedia artist Pieter Paul Pothoven has a special interest in the Middle East. In his work he explores the role of specific elements of this turbulent region in western (visual) culture and contemporary media. During the event Pieter Paul will give a talk on his artistic practice.



Artist, writer and performer Jasper Griepink explores utopian old-age and new-age thinkers, medical practitioners, spiritualists, philosophers and the co-habitants of (sub)cultures and alternative communities across the world. During Ooga Booga he will conduct a Bondage Wedding Ceremony; an alternative and gentle wedding ceremony in which the bodies of a couple, a group or an individual are fully bonded and tied together. In collaboration with costume designer Janneke Raaphorst, Jasper will be making this year’s CURRENT OBSESSION’s Piece by Piece, a ‘wedding jewel’ based on the ribbons that are used in his Bondage Wedding ceremonies.



Performance duo Echo + Seashell (Henna Hyvärinen and Susan Kooi plus an IPod) will close the event. Prepare yourself for a mix of electronic synth combined with apathetic singing lyrics and internet-aesthetic consisting of a bizarre mishmash of odds and ends, cat videos and seafood.

Echo + Seashell will be adorned with jewellery pieces by Vann Kwok. (Out of) flux is a project that addresses the relationship between what occurs naturally and what is technically produced - Chance vs. Choice / Control vs. Chaos. The collection illustrates how the placement of a piece of jewellery both on and off the body affects posture and gesture in relation to one's surrounding space.



Initiated by Current Obsession. Curated in collaboration with Anneleen Swillen.

Experience Ooga Booga will take place on Saturday 19th of December from 13 pm till 10 pm at STUDIO 47, Amsterdam. STUDIO 47 is an initiative by Céline Manz, Temporary Open Studio

In collaboration with Larisse Mac Donald, Inspiragency PR

The publications by Anna Bak and Brynjar Sigurðarson are available at Onomatopee

The 2015 year programme is made possible by the generous support of Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie

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February 3, 2016, 9:02 pm

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Shelf life #4


Location:
Türkenstraße 36, Munich

20.02.2016 – 01.03.2016
Opening event 26.02 17.00 - 20.00
Mon-Fri 10.00 - 19.00, Sat 10.00-18.00, Sun 11:00-19:00
25.02.2016: Presentation by Lin Cheung and Naomi Filmer, 16.00 - 17.00
27.02.2016: Exhibitors Tour, 11.00-12.00


Akiko Shinzato, Wearing Makeup-clown (Photo by Barney McCann)

Artists:
Elena Bonanomi, Caroline Broadhead, Season Cheng, Lin Cheung, Hau-Wen Chien, Olivia Cosh Hall, Lucie Davis, Naomi Filmer, Melanie Georgacopoulos, Rosie Greener, Emily Grimble, Katy Hackney, Lily Harte, Stacey Huang, Jieun Kim, Giles Last, Fan Sze Fiona Li, Holly Mathewson, Marlene McKibbin, Maria Militsi, Akiko Shinzato, Ella Stern, Esna Su, Yuxi Sun, Florance Tebbutt, Anna Tuhus, Juliette van der Kerchove, Misha Venter, Max Warren, Silvia Weidenbach, Scott Wilson, Jennifer Wong and Scarlett Zhang

Misha Venter, Tits Up

Shelf Life shows work by 33 makers, staff and students of Central Saint Martins, BA Jewellery Design course. Showing for the first time at Vitsoe in Munich, this is the second project where staff and students display work as equals in a celebration of the diverse and lively approach to contemporary jewellery and objects. Within the breadth of possibilities, the common thread of the course is using materials and objects imaginatively and expressively in response to observations, emotions and situations.


Yuxi Sun, The Diary of a Couchsurfing Host: 62 Pendants, 62 Stories

The concept of Shelf Life is apt for this exhibition, in that it is located within the shelves of the Vitsœ showroom. Using the relationship between the shelf space and the jewellery placed on it reflects on issues of temporality and endurance.

To shelve means to put something aside, to discard, to remove from everyday use. In contrast, we use shelves to display, as a way to draw attention to and highlight things of importance. What do we keep on our shelves? How long do we keep them there? How does the shelf life affect the thing produced? What is life like to live on the shelf? What is life beyond the shelf? Are just some of the questions we can ask.

Some of the work displayed has been made in response to projects, some self-motivated, and some in response to the idea of shelves.

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Ella Stern, Icon Kim

Esna Su, The Burden

Fan Sze Fiona Li, Attachement 2

Maria Militsi, Forks (photo by Philip Sayer)

Max Warren, Schlump

Silvia Weidenbach, Granny Chips Reloaded

Lily Harte, Tin

Melanie Georgacopolis, Untitled

#28 Hatara Project, Time Perception VOL.2

February 7, 2016, 8:54 pm

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Hatara Project, Time Perception VOL.2 #28

'Come', Helmi Lindblom 2015, brooches, mixed media, picture Ninni Vidgren

Location:
Galerie Vernon
Blütenstraße 1, Munich

24.02.2016 - 27.02.2016
Opening 24.02 19:00-22:00
Thu, Fri 11:00-19:00, Sat 12:00-17:00

Artists:
Christine Jalio, Helmi Lindblom, Melina Lindroos, Annea Lounatvuori, Wiebke Pandikow, Ginta Zabarovska

Having debuted at the Munich Jewellery Week for the first time last spring, Annea Lounatvuori and Christine Jalio return to Munich this year, this time with more international backup from Helmi Lindblom (Finland), Melina Lindroos (Finland), Wiebke Pandikow (Germany/Finland) and Ginta Zabarovska (Latvia). The six jewellery artists will revisit Hatara Project’s theme of last year, Time Perception, with a wide array of pieces in different styles and materials.


Past, Loss, Future 7', Christine Jalio 2015, brooch, Silk Clay and silver

Christine Jalio’s ‘Loss’ collection is a continuum of her earlier ‘Past, Loss, Future’ collection which tells the story of aging and loneliness. In this collection she has especially been concentrating on personal loss, sadness, and the feeling of emptiness: on what an individual goes through emotionally when losing someone beloved. She is still using Silk Clay as her main material, but has also been experimenting with other materials in this project.

Helmi Lindblom is fascinated by the beauty of oddity. Her series ‘Come’ is made to awaken the child within us, to recreate the feeling of childlike curiosity and excitement. It is inspired by a plant that consists of two cacti crafted together by man and includes brooches and necklaces that invite you to come and step closer, maybe even touch.


'Hiding Places', Melina Lindroos 2015, brooches, mixed media

In her current project ‘Hiding places’ Melina Lindroos looks into the feeling of safety and examines what it represents to her. The tender series of brooches invites the viewer to peek inside and hold them. They are made through a slow meditative process in a comforting space.


PONY 'A4M6' ring with a screw thread, silver 925 and PONY bracelet, horse hair and various materials, Annea Lounatvuori 2015, picture Janne Lounatvuori

Annea Lounatvuori’s pieces are an extension of her work from last year. In Time Perception Vol.II she delves deeper into her passion of working with horse hair. Textures and surfaces determine her approach to the visual composition.

Necklace from the 'Tropaeolum'-series, Wiebke Pandikow 2015, recycled plastic bags and wood

Wiebke Pandikow’s jewellery is made from plastic bags: what was living organisms thousands of years ago, became oil, then became plastic, now returns to forms that resemble living plants once more.


'Home', Ginta Zabarovska 2014, necklace, silver plated brass, wood, plexiglas, aluminium

Ginta Zabarovska is a jeweller from Latvia currently working in Strasbourg. The more time she spends in Strasbourg, the more the feelings and affiliations of place become an inspiration for her work. Working in a combination of all kinds of materials, Ginta’s theme for this exhibition is home.

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#27 Residences Paris München

February 9, 2016, 6:15 am

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Résidences Paris München #27


Location:
Institut français Munich
Kaulbachstraße 13, Munich

Opening 24.02 18:30
24.02.2016 – 27.02.2016
Thu, Fri, Sat 11:00-19:00

Artists:
Stella Bierrenbach, Brune Boyer, Larissa Cluzet, Julie Decubber, Ambroise Degenève, Anne Lopez, Aude Medori, Camille Moncomble, Nathalie Perret, Galatée Pestre, Céline Sylvestre, Laurence Verdier


First opening at the gallery, october2015, photo : Céline Sylvestre

The purpose of the show is to literally move Résidences and its living environment from the center of Paris to the "salon bleu" of the French Institute in München. Résidences is a workshop-gallery that opened its doors during the summer of 2014 in Paris, France. The brainchild of Aude Medori, jewellery artist, it unites several artists around the promotion of contemporary jewellery. The concept is based on the place being shared by the resident artists, and articulates its programme of jewellery, art and fashion.

Each jewellery artist commits to the project for at least six months, taking turns managing the gallery and offering visitors an opportunity to meet the creators.
Sharing their passion with the public, the artists try to increase and strengthen the perception of jewellery in Paris.

So far, twelve jewellery artists have been involved: Stella Bierrenbach, Brune Boyer, Larissa Cluzet, Julie Decubber, Ambroise Degenève, Anne Lopez, Aude Medori, Camille Moncomble, Nathalie Perret, Galatée Pestre, Céline Sylvestre and Laurence Verdier. Their work speaks to a great diversity at both the formal and abstract level: going from narrative jewellery and rarities to minimalist pieces or installations.

This exhibition gathers these jewellers and their pieces, their furniture, and their French accents all here together in Munich.

www.galerieresidences.com

Résidences, interior of the gallery, photo : Matthieu Gauchet


Stella Bierrenbach


Brune Boyer


Larissa Cluzet


Julie Decubber


Aude Medori


Camille Moncomble


Galatée Pestre


Ambroise Degenève


Anne Lopez


Céline Sylvestre


Laurence Verdier


Nathalie Perret

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February 10, 2016, 4:35 am

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Unsichtbar #58

"Blinde können das nicht lesen" (blind people can not read this) Stainless-steel, lacquer, rockkristall. On rockkristall is very flat engraved the words of the title. Photo by Petra Zimmermann.

Location:
Galerie Isabella Hund
Frauenplatz 13, Munich
26.02.2016 – 18.03.2016, Tue-Fri 11:00-14:00,15:00-19:00, Sat 11:00-16:00/18:00

Artist:
Peter Skubic

The title of the exhibition at Galerie Isabella Hund is "unsichtbar" (invisible) and most of the pieces are made with highly shiny surfaces, such as mirrors, which are the same as invisible to Peter Skubic. He plays with words in his work like“Nothing”, "NIX DAHINTER" (nothing behind there) and "WENIGER ALS NICHTS" (less then nothing).

"LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS IN THE WORLD. In the beginning there was the "BIG BANG;" that was also the theme for the students in Marc Monzo’s summer workshop at the Academy in Salzburg.
After nearly 14 billion years I started to make jewelry with my own ideas. At this time I was 34 years old. But what are my own ideas? I had to develop this.
What came next during this time when I was young? EROTICISM! To start jewellery with erotic forms - phalluses, vaginas, boobs - in very abstract manners, was the result. I was not trained to make jewellery, so I had to find out how to make these and others forms in my own way. I become an inventor.

The next theme after some years was TENSION. It was a reflection of my life at this time. It was a time full of problems, and I worked them out with my creations. And it became a better time. Bigger dimensions were now possible and I worked with jewellery and sculptures in the same way. My material was not just gold and silver but iron and stainless-steel.

Around the year 2000 or a little earlier, I found out that had a great fascination for MIRRORS. First: mirrors are invisible; second, mirrors turn the world. Reflection looks like reality but it is not exist. And I learned a lot about what reflection means and how I can use it. In this time I also created painted pedestals for invisible jewllery that did not exist. Very funny!

Then, in times between making things I curated some big exhibitions and a symposium in cooperation with the Austrian steel-corporation, as well as many solo-exhibitions all over the world.
My pieces are in more then thirty-eight museum collections, and are printed in books and catalogues. I was also teaching, giving workshops and so on.
And I like to cook.

Making things, jewellery and sculpture, and making the drawings before, are wonderful things in my life and also a way to communicate with people."
Peter Skubic, 28th January 2016



"Nix dahinter" (nothing behind) stainless-steel 83 x 68 mm there is nothing behind the steel-plate, different as in the first piece. Photo by Petra Zimmermann.


stainless-steel, silver 75 x 54 mm influenced by pill-container. I had to eat a lot of pills last year. Photo by Petra Zimmermann.


stainless-steel, silver 75 x 54 mm influenced by pill-container. I had to eat a lot of pills last year. Photo by Petra Zimmermann.

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February 12, 2016, 11:58 pm

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Where Does the Parallel World Exist? #3


Location:
KUNST UND HANDWERK - Bayerischer Kunstgewerbeverein in Munich
Pacellistraße 6-8 Munich
www.bayerischer-kunstgewerbeverein.de

19. February - 02. April 2016
Mon-Sat 10:00-18:00

Opening 18.02 18:30-20:30
Book presentation 26.02 17:00-18:00
Meet the artist 28.02 14:00-15:00

Artist:
Mari Ishikawa : Jewellery & Photography



"Parallel World" - Where Does the Parallel World Exist?
The Japanese jewellery artist Mari Ishikawa delves into this question in her work.

The jewellery of Ishikawa is mysterious and transports us to another world.
She uses plants as symbols of the constant renewal of life and transforms them from the ephemeral into the permanent.
Mari Ishikawa uses silver casts from nature as a basis for her jewellery. With this technique, she is able to emulate the textures of lichens, leaves, flowers and a combination of other materials which have their own history, she creates a new and completely different world: the parallel world.
When viewing her moonlight or black and white photographs of nature, one can see a poetic connection to her jewellery. Their images stir up stories and memories, requiring us to take pause and consider our natural environment.



The exhibition includes jewellery and photographs from the artist spanning the period from 1999 to today. This work clearly shows that beauty surrounds us in the seemingly banal. It invites us to accept the invitation to look more closely during our next walk outdoors, because only then will we become aware of the natural beauty and richness of our environment.
For a brief moment, Mari Ishikawa interrupts the flow of transience; a precious object is created that has been wrenched from the cycle of life and death to stand for itself and for the moment.

Mari Ishikawa lives and works in Munich.
www.mari-ishikawa.de

Book:
Mari Ishikawa
Jewellery & Photography
Where Does the Parallel World Exist?

144 pp., 17 x 25 cm, 156 colour illus.
Hardcover. English.
€ 29.80 [D] / US$ 50 / £ 25
ISBN 978-3-89790-462-0
February 2016
www.arnoldsche.com

#3 CURRENT OBSESSION PAPER

February 15, 2016, 1:43 am

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#3 CURRENT OBSESSION PAPER
In February 2016 Current Obsession will release the third edition of Current Obsession Paper. Inside you'll find complete Munich Jewellery Week guide with a large city map + previews and images of each featured event, Must-See List, Studio Visits, interviews and photoshoots.
INSIDE THE #3 CURRENT OBSESSION PAPER:
• Studio Visits with Schmuck’16 selectees
• Must-See List of MJW exhibitions selected by Karin Roy Andersson, Linnéa Eriksson, Paul Derrez, Jiro Kamata, Anneleen Swillen, Tanel Veenre, Jorunn Veiteberg and editors of Current Obsession
• Photoshoot by Elza Jo with Talente’16 selectees
• Interviews with Peter Skubic and Dr. Petra Hölscher
• #5 Current Obsession Magazine theme announcement + open call
• and more!
*Expected delivery is February 20th in The Netherlands and February 23rd in the rest of Europe. If you live outside Europe, we recommend purchasing the CO PAPER directly in Munich. It will be sold from February 23rd at the Lost Weekend München, Schellingstraße 3 and from February 24th at The Pinakothek der Moderne and Internationale Handwerksmesse (at the stand of Chrome Yellow Books).
Cover image by Elza Jo

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#52 David Clarke & Bettina Speckner

February 15, 2016, 4:32 am

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David Clarke & Bettina Speckner #52


Location:
Galerie Christian Pixis
Kurfürstenstraße 7

Opening 25.2.2016 17:00-21:00
25.2.2016 – 18.3.2016
Fri-Sat 10:00-20:00, Sun 10:00-18:00

Artists:
David Clarke & Bettina Speckner

David Clarke and Bettina Speckner manipulate and redirect our understanding of the everyday object but they do so in very different ways. The juxtaposition of these two bodies of work together is a rare and fresh way to contemplate and dissect the world around us. With a bow to history, craftsmanship and the formal aspects of the object, both artists make common still lifes and landscapes uncommon. In a two-person exhibition, David Clarke and Bettina Speckner, present a select group of new work at Galerie Christian Pixis.


David Clarke
The original object and material has been removed and replaced, its primary function has been corrupted. In consciously removing the original I’ve created space for new thinking and interpretation, which is intentionally not of the practical but is of the emotional. With casting pewter and at times mixing in lead a quiet and intimate way of making began. Through this process I am over time waiting for a skin to develop, a void to form and for movement to literally cease.

These new objects have a direct relationship to the domestic environment, as all of the originals were highly functional, well-used objects from my mother’s house. In developing a ‘second skin’ through casting I have created a neutral surface on which audiences can project their own poignant narratives.



Bettina Speckner
It can be considered a radical move for an artist in the contemporary digital age to turn to a nineteenth century photographic technique to produce images; it is also a major evolution in Speckner’s process and approach to be able to direct the tintype imagery itself.



The artist’s newly acquired production technique is a romantic journey in and of itself. She travels into the Bavarian forest with a handmade camera obscura and a jerry-rigged portable darkroom to find her favorite stack of wood. She collects flowers on her way to the studio for her still life compositions, to complement her deliberate arrangements of otherwise ordinary objects—a glass, a set of keys, a laptop computer.

“A silent, melancholic, still result, but a thrill to see it appear,” The image is developed in the same location that it was taken, every step of the photographic process sharing the same continuous sweep of time, echoing the same single, still moment.
Sienna Patti

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#60 American Gothic

February 16, 2016, 5:26 am

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American Gothic #60

Location:
super+CENTERCOURT Gallery
Adalbertstraße 44, Munich

Opening 25.02 18:00-21:00
25.02 - 16.03
Thu-Sun 11:00-17:00
extra open days 05.03.2016 – 12.03.2016 14:00-18:00 or by appointment



Artists:
Leslie D. Boyd, Emily Cobb, Aaron Patrick Decker, Steven Gordon Holman, Zachery Lechtenberg, and Mallory Weston

American Gothic is a show of works by a new generation of young American artists, designers, and jewelers. Seeded in metalsmithing tradition, each artist uses materials in a way that is decisively their own, reflecting their own take on contemporary culture. While looking forward, this show is firmly grounded in the now. It is a coming-out party, a sweet 16, a presentation of new Americana. Featuring works by Leslie D. Boyd, Emily Cobb, Aaron Patrick Decker, Steven Gordon Holman, Zachery Lechtenberg, and Mallory Weston.

Leslie D. Boyd was born and raised in Philadelphia, PA. She received a BFA in Jewelry + Metals and Art History from Pratt Institute, and an MFA in Jewelry + Metals from the Rhode Island School of Design.
Ms. Boyd’s work addresses gender, feminism, and cultural appropriation. She produces new art works in her Philadelphia, Pennsylvania studio and teaches Jewelry and Metalsmithing at Towson University in Maryland.

www.lesliedboyd.com


Leslie D. Boyd, Perky, Steel, wood, foam, pantyhose. Photographs: Scott Alario

Emily Cobb
Born in 1987 just outside of Philadelphia, Emily Cobb grew up in the suburbs of Pennsylvania. She received both her B.F.A. and M.F.A. in Metals/Jewelry/CAD-­CAM from Tyler School of Art.
Emily's narrative jewelry often contains animals as central parts of the imagery, and she uses juxtaposition, metamorphosis, and abstraction of representational forms to inspire imagination. Her studio is currently located in Philadelphia where she is also a part-time jeweler and college instructor in the city.

www.emily-cobb.com


Emily Cobb, Attacking Garden Snake, Nylon, acrylic, lacquer

Aaron Patrick Decker
A 1989 baby of an army dad and nursing mom, growing up on military bases moving every 2-5 years. Naive, violent children's toys of an injured soldier characterizes his work. Making drawings from a small locket kept book into objects to wear, a crayon picture of a torn metal tank with a spoon in mouth…. Aaron Patrick Decker studied with Iris Eichenberg, receiving his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2015.

www.aa214.com



Steven Gordon Holman was born in 1988 in Leamington, Utah. He received B.A.'s in Visual Art and Architectural Studies from Brown University and his M.F.A. from the SUNY New Paltz Metal program.
His work is a reflection on his rural upbringing, a collection of stories, myths, and iconographies both personal and cultural. He recently relocated back to rural Utah, where he is researching contemporary hunting culture.

www.stevengordonholman.com


Black Stag Neckpiece, Leather, paracord, roe deer antler, silver


Zachery Lechtenberg was born in Quincy, Illinois. He received BFA in concentration in metalsmithing from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and his M.F.A. from the East Carolina University Metal program.
He is influenced by consumer culture. He looks to the aesthetic of the clothing he wears and the designer toys he collects. As a creator and a collector he is constantly searching for objects that connect with him and connect with audiences in different ways.

www.zacherylechtenberg.com


Zachery Lectenberg, Tengu with Me, Copper, silver, steel, and enamel. Photograph: Tara Locklear


Zachery Lectenberg, Ball’o Skulls, Copper, silver, steel, and enamel. Photograph: Tara Locklear

Mallory Weston is an artist currently living and working in Philadelphia, PA. She received her BFA in Jewelry & Metalsmithing from the University of the Arts and an MFA in Jewelry + Metals from Rhode Island School of Design.
Her work explores symbols and their psychology, meanings, and evolution. In particular, she has a fascination with the dichotomies inherent in contemporary symbols, and exploring both their light and dark sides. In addition to her studio practice, she also serves as an adjunct professor at several Philadelphia area universities.

www.malloryweston.com

#56 Plug in!

February 17, 2016, 4:25 am

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Plug in! #56


Location:
Neureutherstraße 15, Munich

Opening 25.02 17:30-21:00
25.02.2016 - 28.02.2016
Fri 11:00–18:00, Sat 11:00–16:00, Sun 11:00–18:00

Artists:
Nicole Beck, Christine Graf, Nadine Kuffner

Plug in and connect yourself to three different approaches towards jewellery. Three personalities linked within one concept, one passion and one location. Every encounter touches, constructs realities and creates spontaneous patterns to then dissolve and deconstruct again. What touches you remains.

Nicole Beck

Nicole Beck, Auf und davon, pendant, 2015, copper, enamel, string


Nicole Beck, Brüder, pendant, 2015, copper, enamel, string


Nicole Beck, Immer, brooch, 2015, copper, enamel, silver

Christine Graf

Christine Graf, gelber Ring, brooch, copper mesh, enamel, 2015


Christine Graf, motion, brooch, copper mesh, enamel, 2012


Christine Graf, Xaver, brooch, copper mesh, enamel, 2014

Nadine Kuffner

Nadine Kuffner, bracelet, tin, 2016


Nadine Kuffner, bracelet, bronze, 2016


Nadine Kuffner, bracelet, bronze, 2016

#70 Unittled. Thomas Gentille. American Jewelry

February 18, 2016, 1:33 am

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Untitled. Thomas Gentille. American Jeweler #70


Location:
Pinakothek der Moderne
Barerstraße 40, Munich

Opening 26.02 19:00
27.02.2016 - 05.06.2016

Artist:
Thomas Gentille


Thomas Gentille, Armlet, 20th century. Acrylic, bone, nylon, bronze bolts. Photo: Eva Jünger

Born 1936 in Mansfield, Ohio, and a resident of New York since 1960, American Thomas Gentille is a leading studio jewelry artist not just in the United States but in the world as a whole. To mark his 80th birthday in 2016, Die Neue Sammlung decided to invite the co-founder of studio jewelry in America to stage the first comprehensive exhibition on his oeuvre. On display will be 180 items of jewelry, drawings and a film conceived and realized by the artist about the two most important cities in his life, namely New York and Munich.

He favors innovative plastics, solid aluminum and a wide variety of woods, not to mention papier-mâché, sawdust, silk threads, old glass spheres hand blown in Bohemia and air – over gold, silver and precious stones.
 Gentille is one of the first American studio jewelry artists to employ such non-precious materials so consistently – so from the end of the 1950s", calling into question the value of precious metals in how jewelry is designed and estimated. He only uses high-quality gold for the rear of the brooch. For Thomas Gentille the emphasis is always irrevocably on the piece itself, its artistic statement and its quality. Every item is a one-off, be it a brooch, necklace or bracelet, and a masterpiece of craftsmanship, unique in its affiliation with sculpture and architecture. For this reason, Gentille refuses to date his works, as this might make his older items possibly appear more valuable than younger ones.

His works with an eggshell overlay are famous. Using this mysterious method and even without employing the old Asian lacquer technique he produces a krakelée surface on his works. Gentille explains that it takes years of experimentation and practice with the technique until you finally grasp the “soul of the material”.


Pin, 20th century, Eggshell inlay (Emu). Photo: Eva Jünger


Thomas Gentille, Pin, 20th century, Eggshell- inlay. Photo: Eva Jünger

The exhibition is being produced in close collaboration with Gentille himself and will be located on the second floor of the Rotunda in Pinakothek der Moderne.
Pieces by Thomas Gentille can be found, among others, in New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, in Melbourne’s National Gallery of Victoria, in the Victoria & Albert Museum in London – and in Neue Sammlung in Munich.

Thanks to Arnoldsche Art Publishers, Stuttgart, Danner-Stiftung in Munich and the Maurice English Poetry Award handed over by Helen W. Drutt English and H. Peter Stern, USA.


Armlet, 20th century, Acrylic, nodized aluminum, bronze bolts. Photo: Eva Jünger


Pin, 20th century, Colorcone (plastic), steel. Die Neue Sammlung - The Design Museum. Permanent loan of the Danner Foundation, Munich, photo: A. Laurenzo

Arnoldsche Verlagsanstalt will be publishing a 210-page catalog on the life and work of the artist with a preface by Angelika Nollert, an essay by Andrea DiNoto and an interview with Thomas Gentille conducted by Bettina Dittelmann and Petra Hölscher.

www.pinakothek.de/pinakothek-der-moderne
www.die-neue-sammlung.de/aktuell/vorschau/untitled-thomas-gentille-american-jeweler/


Pin, 21st century, Air, plywood, maple, paint. Photo: Eva Jünger


Pin, 20th century, Cherry, maple. Photo: Eva Jünger


Bracelet, 20th century, silver. Photo: Eva Jünger


Thomas Gentille, late 1980s. Photo: Bill Philipps

#66 MAD talks

February 19, 2016, 9:08 pm

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MAD talks #66


Location:
Galerie Handwerk, Seminar room
Max-Joseph-Straße 4, Munich

26.02.2016, 10:00-13:00

Artists:
Bert Willems, David Huycke, Tine De Ruysser, Claudia Hoppe, Anneleen Swillen, Gésine Hackenberg

In the past 10 years, major steps have been taken in artistic research. In the School of Arts PXL-MAD Hasselt (B), as in many institutes, artistic research has become one of the most important focal points. In the lecture series ‘MAD-talks’ five researchers and tutors from the Department of Object & Jewellery will present their ideas and work.

The Department of Object & Jewellery at School of Arts PXL-MAD offers an artistic, academic English Master programme in Visual Arts (one year – 60 ECTS). The course revolves around experimentation and research, which thinking and doing are in a constant interaction. The ambiguous position that the field of object-making and jewellery takes within the world of the visual arts, crafts and design is seen as an inspiring starting point that is constantly questioned in order to develop a critical attitude towards our own discipline.

During the lecture series, this year's master students of Object & Jewellery of PXL-MAD will present their project 'MAD PiXeLs’ by involving the audience. Visitors of the annual event MJW 2016 will receive a brooch in pixel shape. In return, they are asked to ‘activate’ it in order to assist in sharpening a blurry vision. To conclude MAD-talks, we will offer some typical Belgian food and drinks.

Organization Object & Jewellery, University College PXL-MAD Hasselt (Belgium)
Contact: David Huycke david.huycke@pxl.be, +32 477 805 482
Seminar room Galerie Handwerk, Max-Joseph-Strasse 4, 80333 München, 10:00-13:00


Programme of the day:

10:00 – 10:10 Prof. Dr. Bert Willems
Introduction
MAD (-) research from Belgium

10:10 – 10:30 Prof. Dr. David Huycke
The Moment of Truth: Structural Granulation

10:30 – 11:00 Dr. Tine De Ruysser
‘Wearable Metal Origami' versus Money Jewellery: Two ways to approach research

11:00 – 11:30 Break

11:30 – 12:00 Claudia Hoppe
Serial authenticity – a contradiction?

12:00 – 12:30 Anneleen Swillen
Display & design

12:30- 13:00 Gésine Hackenberg
A personal investigation of how jewellery relates to everyday life

www.pxl-mad.be


David Huycke


Tine de Ruysser


Claudia Hoppe


Anneleen Swillen


Gésine Hackenberg

#32 The Meet

February 19, 2016, 9:09 pm

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The Meet #32

Location:
Villa Stuck
Prinzregentenstraße 60, Munich

25.02.2016 9:00-12:00

Artists:
Art Jewelry Forum, Current Obsession, Norwegian Crafts



The Meet is a symposium on collecting, publishing, exhibiting, and sex, hosted by Art Jewelry Forum, Norwegian Crafts, and Current Obsession.

FIRST, a selected panel of collectors will face big questions: Why do collectors pick one artist over another? How do curators select works for exhibitions, and how do museums decide to acquire them? Susan Cummins, David Bielander, Liesbeth den Besten, and Petra Hölscher will pick and choose from eight works of contemporary jewelry. In public.

THEN André Gali (Norwegian Crafts), Benjamin Lignel (Art Jewelry Forum), and Kellie Riggs (Current Obsession) will chat about what the hell “reporting on contemporary practice” is about, how (differently) we have done it so far, and what the future of that craft might be.

FINALLY, André will present his latest publication (the inspired Crafting Exhibitions, co-published with Arnoldsche), and Benjamin will reveal selected, provocative bits from On and Off, AJF’s latest collection of essays (sex will be mentioned in that last part, but very discreetly). Kellie will present Current Obsession’s latest issue of the magazine, #4 SUPERNATURAL, as well as their #3 PAPER Issue + Map, made exclusively for Munich Jewellery Week.

A nominal charge of 5 euros will be requested at the entrance, to cover coffee and pastries. Please come early for best seating; the room is small.

www.artjewelryforum.org

www.norwegiancrafts.no

www.villastuck.de