Trophies //
In the Reign of Coyote
#9
Artists: Cameron Andersen, Jane Dodd, Aliyah Gold, Steven Gordon Holman, Akihiro Ikeyama, Lore Langendries, Märta Mattsson, Kerianne Quick, Anna Talbot, Tanel Veenre, Mallory Weston
Location: Deutsches Jagd - und Fischereimuseum
Neuhauser Strasse 2, Munich
11.03.2015 – 16.03.2015
Reception 12.03.2015 18:00 - 20:00
Wed 9:30 - 15:30, Thu 9:30 - 21:00, Fri-Mon 9:30 - 17:00
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Location / DEUTSCHES JAGD- UND FISCHEREIMUSEUM
Deutsches Jagd- und Fischereimuseum is a museum exhibiting objects connected with the history of hunting and fishing in Germany or other territories which were or are part of it. Located in the pedestrian zone of the city center of Munich, Bavaria, it is a rare institution worldwide.[1] The building has been a church (Augustinerkirche) which was part of a large Augustinian monastery between the 13th century and 1803. The museum has a display area of approximately 3,000 square meters (32,000 sq. ft.).
Around 1900, with hunting being at its height of popularity, people asked for a hunting museum. In 1934, the museum was finally established. During World War II, most of the objects were saved in Schloßgut Ast near Landshut, Bavaria. All other objects were lost because of looting. After the war, there was a big discussion about the further structure of the Reichsjagdmuseum. In 1958, the year of the 800th anniversary of the founding of the city, the decision in favor of the Augustinerkirche was taken. The "Deutsches Jagdmuseum" was re-opened on Hubertustag, 3 November 1966.
In 1982, fishing was added as a field of interest. At the same time, the museum was renamed "Deutsches Jagd- und Fischereimuseum". The museum exhibits about 500 wild stuffed animals, including an Irish Elk, a Cave bear and several endemic Fresh water fish. The collection include fishing tackle, hunting weapons (esp. 15th to 19th century), and large sledges presenting a time span of several centuries. Furthermore, several so-called Wolpertinger creatures, Bavarian fictional animals, are on display.
*Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsches_Jagd-_und_Fischereimuseum
Concept / TROPHIES // IN THE REIGN OF COYOTE
The hunt is a ritual; through gathering, searching, and collecting we create amulets, myths, and trophies. The works of these jewelers are rooted in these traditions; they look to nature and translate what they see.
To hunt is to gather, to search, to collect. Through hunting, making, the weaving of stories, we are able to resist modernity’s denial of belief, and to keep our ties with the natural world. There is a primal, universal longing for myth, for an understanding of the immeasurable power of
nature, and an allure in conquering, transforming, becoming. The hunt is a ritual, a way to insert ourselves into an ages-old cycle. In hunting we take on the role of maker, turning one thing into another. In making we are shamans, translating worlds, perspectives, identity.
These jewelers distinguish themselves through their sensitive treatment of nature. Their work utilizes the material language of the trophy through the use of animal imagery and materials. The transformations they wrought, and the stories they weave, set them apart from other makers and unify them through aesthetic and conceptual application. In the Reign of Coyote references a collection of stories about the earth’s becoming, fables of animal and human relationships. The work of these artists looks back to a time when we, as humans, turned directly to nature for guidance, sustenance, and support.
For more information please contact trophiesschmuck@gmail.com
Event on Facebook: www.facebook.com/events/1407311132903160
Show your support for the exhibition catalogue on kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/2070353870/trophies-in-the-reign-of-coyote
ARTIST INFO
Cameron Andersen
Andersen's work is an intersection of art and technology. He uses software and digital fabrication for the production of art jewelry and metal craft. He builds custom digital tools that output a large range of designs based on parameters and interactions. Andersen grew up in Kansas, USA, and is an avid hunter and fisherman. His work for Trophies was inspired by metal engravings from his family’s gun collection. He received his BFA in Design: Concentration Metalsmithing and Jewelry from Kansas University in 2009 and his MFA in Metal from SUNY New Paltz in 2013.
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Jane Dodd
Dodd was born in Dunedin, New Zealand. Dodd studied Jewellery at Unitec School of Design in Auckland, graduating with Diploma in 1994. She was part of Workshop 6, a shared jewellery studio in Auckland for 15 years before returning to her home town where she now lives and works. Dodd works in metal, wood, bone, shell and makes pieces that investigate storytelling and narrative. She is particularly interested in exploring a dialogue between nature and culture.![]()
Aliyah Gold
Gold is a jeweler, and as such feels it is important to engage the history of jewelry. Animal imagery and animal-based materials have been used in jewelry dating back to the first civilizations. Gold challenges herself to create jewelry that contains the essence of an animal rather than merely a representation. Gold received her BFA in Crafts: Jewelry Concentration from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA in 2006 and her MFA in Metal from SUNY New Paltz in 2010.![]()
Steven Gordon Holman
Holman was born in Leamington, Utah. A child of farmers and hunters, he grew up in the West Desert where he developed a close relationship to the natural world. His work is invested in material and myth, both cultural and personal. Through the building of these myth he creates artifacts and amulets of The Tribe, a moniker that includes individuals who are active in the field of contemporary hunting and gathering. Holman received BA’s in Visual Arts and Architectural Studies from Brown University in 2011 and his MFA from SUNY New Paltz in Metal in 2014.
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Akihiro Ikeyama
Ikeyama’s work is strongly rooted in natural systems. The structure of the natural system and its creatures charmed him long ago. He is interested in food chains, the cycles of life and death. The deer antler holds special symbolism for him, because it is regrown each year – over and over again in a new strengthened form. He believes in this symbolism, and in the natural energy held within the material. Ikeyama graduated from the Hiko Mizuno Jewelry College in Tokyo, Japan in 2008, and the Academy of Fine Arts Munich in 2013.
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Lore Langendries
Langendries is a maker in the field of contemporary jewellery and objects based in Hasselt, Belgium. In 2010 she received her Master’s degree in Arts form the MAD (Media, Arts, and Design)-Faculty in Hasselt. Her research interests include the interaction between craft and industry, between unique and serial with a particular focus on (re)production, digital technology, tactility, the behaviour of materials and the subjective role of the maker. In her recent series, Hunacturing, Langendries is questioning the nature of reproduction via a combination of natural materials, mechanical treatment and the human touch.
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Märta Mattsson
Mattsson sees beauty in things that other people find strange or are even repulsed by. She becomes fascinated when there is something you do not want to see and by the feeling you get when you do not want to look at something, yet you still do. Her jewellery deals with the tension that lies between attraction and repulsion. She takes seemingly inappropriate materials, making ordinary and familiar objects seem extraordinary and unfamiliar. In a world where not many new and exotic breeds are discovered she uses dead creatures in her pieces to evoke wonder. The creatures are transformed and reborn; given a new life as objects of astonishment. Mattsson received her BA in Jewelry Art from HDK-School of Design and Crafts in Gothenburg in 2008 and her MA, GSMJ Department, from the Royal College of Art in 2010.
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Kerianne Quick
Quick is currently Visiting Assistant Professor at SUNY New Paltz. In Fall 2015, she will join the faculty of San Diego State University as of Assistant Professor of Jewelry and Metalwork. She received her BA in Applied Design, Metal from SDSU in 2002 and her MFA: Jewelry and Metal from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2011. She mixes traditional and digital making with ethnographic and sociological research to consider source, geography and material specificity, and is interested in craft and materiality as cultural phenomenon. In her recent work she studies human-software relations: Facial recognition software has heightened our awareness of the fuzzy border between public and private, image ownership, and new forms of camouflage. Using buckskin, I create a reverse camouflage - a dazzle camo that does not conceal the wearer/prey but confuses the viewer/hunter by physically pixelating reality, making the target's speed, distance and heading difficult to calculate.![]()
Anna Talbot
Talbot’s jewellery is inspired by fairy tales, nursery rhymes, songs and stories. Wolves, deer, trees, forests and Little Red Riding Hood are all central elements in her universe, and they don’t necessarily stick to their traditional roles. She wants to tell a story through characters, colours and materials, and she wants people to keep inventing new tales inspired by her jewellery. She work in layers to build up a three dimensional piece. Some of her pieces are quite large, but the materials she uses still mean that they are light enough to be worn. The size makes you aware of wearing the pieces at all times, they demand both space and attention. Her jewellery can be hung on a wall or worn on a body. The piece becomes a picture you can carry with you. Talbot received her BA in Silversmithing, Jewellery, and the Allied Crafts from London Metropolitan University in the UK and her MA in Metal Art and Jewellery from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts in Norway.
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Tanel Veenre
Born in Tallin, Estonia, in 1977, Veenre grew up in a family of artists and musicians. He studied at the Estonian Academy of Arts Jewelry and graduated in 2005 after having taken part in an exchange program with the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. Veenre's jewels take one on a journey that starts from the depths of the sea, continues on through coral reefs, past dancing sea horses and then on to the cultivation of silkworms. The voyage ends in a cosmic cloud. Veenre currently works as freelance artist, designer for his jewellery brand TVJ and a professor at the Estonian Academy of Arts. (Paola Aurucci for Vogue.it)![]()
Mallory Weston
Weston is an artist currently living and working in Philadelphia, USA. In addition to her studio practice, she teaches in the Craft + Material Studies Department at the University of the Arts. She works with a variety of medium including metal, fiber, concrete, and spray-paint creating bold, compelling, and interactive wearable art. Currently, she is exploring snake imagery, symbolism, and serpent dichotomies within her work. Weston received her BFA in Crafts: Jewelry and Metalsmithing from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA in 2009 and her MFA in Jewelry and Metalsmithing from RISD in 2013.![]()
Location / DEUTSCHES JAGD- UND FISCHEREIMUSEUM
Deutsches Jagd- und Fischereimuseum is a museum exhibiting objects connected with the history of hunting and fishing in Germany or other territories which were or are part of it. Located in the pedestrian zone of the city center of Munich, Bavaria, it is a rare institution worldwide.[1] The building has been a church (Augustinerkirche) which was part of a large Augustinian monastery between the 13th century and 1803. The museum has a display area of approximately 3,000 square meters (32,000 sq. ft.).
Around 1900, with hunting being at its height of popularity, people asked for a hunting museum. In 1934, the museum was finally established. During World War II, most of the objects were saved in Schloßgut Ast near Landshut, Bavaria. All other objects were lost because of looting. After the war, there was a big discussion about the further structure of the Reichsjagdmuseum. In 1958, the year of the 800th anniversary of the founding of the city, the decision in favor of the Augustinerkirche was taken. The "Deutsches Jagdmuseum" was re-opened on Hubertustag, 3 November 1966.
In 1982, fishing was added as a field of interest. At the same time, the museum was renamed "Deutsches Jagd- und Fischereimuseum". The museum exhibits about 500 wild stuffed animals, including an Irish Elk, a Cave bear and several endemic Fresh water fish. The collection include fishing tackle, hunting weapons (esp. 15th to 19th century), and large sledges presenting a time span of several centuries. Furthermore, several so-called Wolpertinger creatures, Bavarian fictional animals, are on display.
*Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsches_Jagd-_und_Fischereimuseum
Concept / TROPHIES // IN THE REIGN OF COYOTE
The hunt is a ritual; through gathering, searching, and collecting we create amulets, myths, and trophies. The works of these jewelers are rooted in these traditions; they look to nature and translate what they see.
To hunt is to gather, to search, to collect. Through hunting, making, the weaving of stories, we are able to resist modernity’s denial of belief, and to keep our ties with the natural world. There is a primal, universal longing for myth, for an understanding of the immeasurable power of
nature, and an allure in conquering, transforming, becoming. The hunt is a ritual, a way to insert ourselves into an ages-old cycle. In hunting we take on the role of maker, turning one thing into another. In making we are shamans, translating worlds, perspectives, identity.
These jewelers distinguish themselves through their sensitive treatment of nature. Their work utilizes the material language of the trophy through the use of animal imagery and materials. The transformations they wrought, and the stories they weave, set them apart from other makers and unify them through aesthetic and conceptual application. In the Reign of Coyote references a collection of stories about the earth’s becoming, fables of animal and human relationships. The work of these artists looks back to a time when we, as humans, turned directly to nature for guidance, sustenance, and support.
For more information please contact trophiesschmuck@gmail.com
Event on Facebook: www.facebook.com/events/1407311132903160
Show your support for the exhibition catalogue on kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/2070353870/trophies-in-the-reign-of-coyote
ARTIST INFO
Cameron Andersen
Andersen's work is an intersection of art and technology. He uses software and digital fabrication for the production of art jewelry and metal craft. He builds custom digital tools that output a large range of designs based on parameters and interactions. Andersen grew up in Kansas, USA, and is an avid hunter and fisherman. His work for Trophies was inspired by metal engravings from his family’s gun collection. He received his BFA in Design: Concentration Metalsmithing and Jewelry from Kansas University in 2009 and his MFA in Metal from SUNY New Paltz in 2013.
Jane Dodd
Dodd was born in Dunedin, New Zealand. Dodd studied Jewellery at Unitec School of Design in Auckland, graduating with Diploma in 1994. She was part of Workshop 6, a shared jewellery studio in Auckland for 15 years before returning to her home town where she now lives and works. Dodd works in metal, wood, bone, shell and makes pieces that investigate storytelling and narrative. She is particularly interested in exploring a dialogue between nature and culture.
Aliyah Gold
Gold is a jeweler, and as such feels it is important to engage the history of jewelry. Animal imagery and animal-based materials have been used in jewelry dating back to the first civilizations. Gold challenges herself to create jewelry that contains the essence of an animal rather than merely a representation. Gold received her BFA in Crafts: Jewelry Concentration from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA in 2006 and her MFA in Metal from SUNY New Paltz in 2010.
Steven Gordon Holman
Holman was born in Leamington, Utah. A child of farmers and hunters, he grew up in the West Desert where he developed a close relationship to the natural world. His work is invested in material and myth, both cultural and personal. Through the building of these myth he creates artifacts and amulets of The Tribe, a moniker that includes individuals who are active in the field of contemporary hunting and gathering. Holman received BA’s in Visual Arts and Architectural Studies from Brown University in 2011 and his MFA from SUNY New Paltz in Metal in 2014.
Akihiro Ikeyama
Ikeyama’s work is strongly rooted in natural systems. The structure of the natural system and its creatures charmed him long ago. He is interested in food chains, the cycles of life and death. The deer antler holds special symbolism for him, because it is regrown each year – over and over again in a new strengthened form. He believes in this symbolism, and in the natural energy held within the material. Ikeyama graduated from the Hiko Mizuno Jewelry College in Tokyo, Japan in 2008, and the Academy of Fine Arts Munich in 2013.
Lore Langendries
Langendries is a maker in the field of contemporary jewellery and objects based in Hasselt, Belgium. In 2010 she received her Master’s degree in Arts form the MAD (Media, Arts, and Design)-Faculty in Hasselt. Her research interests include the interaction between craft and industry, between unique and serial with a particular focus on (re)production, digital technology, tactility, the behaviour of materials and the subjective role of the maker. In her recent series, Hunacturing, Langendries is questioning the nature of reproduction via a combination of natural materials, mechanical treatment and the human touch.
Märta Mattsson
Mattsson sees beauty in things that other people find strange or are even repulsed by. She becomes fascinated when there is something you do not want to see and by the feeling you get when you do not want to look at something, yet you still do. Her jewellery deals with the tension that lies between attraction and repulsion. She takes seemingly inappropriate materials, making ordinary and familiar objects seem extraordinary and unfamiliar. In a world where not many new and exotic breeds are discovered she uses dead creatures in her pieces to evoke wonder. The creatures are transformed and reborn; given a new life as objects of astonishment. Mattsson received her BA in Jewelry Art from HDK-School of Design and Crafts in Gothenburg in 2008 and her MA, GSMJ Department, from the Royal College of Art in 2010.
Kerianne Quick
Quick is currently Visiting Assistant Professor at SUNY New Paltz. In Fall 2015, she will join the faculty of San Diego State University as of Assistant Professor of Jewelry and Metalwork. She received her BA in Applied Design, Metal from SDSU in 2002 and her MFA: Jewelry and Metal from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2011. She mixes traditional and digital making with ethnographic and sociological research to consider source, geography and material specificity, and is interested in craft and materiality as cultural phenomenon. In her recent work she studies human-software relations: Facial recognition software has heightened our awareness of the fuzzy border between public and private, image ownership, and new forms of camouflage. Using buckskin, I create a reverse camouflage - a dazzle camo that does not conceal the wearer/prey but confuses the viewer/hunter by physically pixelating reality, making the target's speed, distance and heading difficult to calculate.
Anna Talbot
Talbot’s jewellery is inspired by fairy tales, nursery rhymes, songs and stories. Wolves, deer, trees, forests and Little Red Riding Hood are all central elements in her universe, and they don’t necessarily stick to their traditional roles. She wants to tell a story through characters, colours and materials, and she wants people to keep inventing new tales inspired by her jewellery. She work in layers to build up a three dimensional piece. Some of her pieces are quite large, but the materials she uses still mean that they are light enough to be worn. The size makes you aware of wearing the pieces at all times, they demand both space and attention. Her jewellery can be hung on a wall or worn on a body. The piece becomes a picture you can carry with you. Talbot received her BA in Silversmithing, Jewellery, and the Allied Crafts from London Metropolitan University in the UK and her MA in Metal Art and Jewellery from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts in Norway.
Tanel Veenre
Born in Tallin, Estonia, in 1977, Veenre grew up in a family of artists and musicians. He studied at the Estonian Academy of Arts Jewelry and graduated in 2005 after having taken part in an exchange program with the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. Veenre's jewels take one on a journey that starts from the depths of the sea, continues on through coral reefs, past dancing sea horses and then on to the cultivation of silkworms. The voyage ends in a cosmic cloud. Veenre currently works as freelance artist, designer for his jewellery brand TVJ and a professor at the Estonian Academy of Arts. (Paola Aurucci for Vogue.it)
Mallory Weston
Weston is an artist currently living and working in Philadelphia, USA. In addition to her studio practice, she teaches in the Craft + Material Studies Department at the University of the Arts. She works with a variety of medium including metal, fiber, concrete, and spray-paint creating bold, compelling, and interactive wearable art. Currently, she is exploring snake imagery, symbolism, and serpent dichotomies within her work. Weston received her BFA in Crafts: Jewelry and Metalsmithing from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA in 2009 and her MFA in Jewelry and Metalsmithing from RISD in 2013.