On the 19th of August I visited the annual graduate show at Marzee. This year they showed work of 107 students from around the world. As always this exhibition is very impressing to visit, only for the amount of pieces. But also because these graduates are the next generation of jewellery designers. Every year they give away the Marzee Graduate Prize to some of the designers. This kind of award gives some recently graduates a first opportunity to present their work in a gallery hereby creating a great start for these new designers careers. Therefor this kind of exhibition is a great initiative by Marzee! This years winners are: Shahrzad Motallebi (Koninklijke Academie, Antwerp, Belgium) Sarah Schuschkleb ( Burg Giebichenstein, Halle, Germany) Mia Copicova (Hochschule Trier, Ida- Oberstein, Germany) Jing Yang (Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich, Germany) Manami Aoki (Hiko Mizuno College og Jewelry, Tokio, Japan) Jihyun Kim (Kookmin University, Seoul, South-Korea) Congratulations to all of them!! One of my favorite graduation projects pieces where those made by Jussi Järvinen from the Saimaa University of Aplied Sciences, Imatra, Finland. In his collection 'Horny', he did research about masculinity and jewellery. I love the idea of using Horns as a symbol for masculinity. Male animals are the ones with horns and are most of the time 'dressed' with colorful feathers or manes for example. But with humans there is often a stereotypical image with men wearing jewellery. I think people (especially designers), should wear more jewellery. This is why I like the idea of breaking this barrier. You can still visit the exhibition until the 15th of Oktober 2017. When there, it is also very spectacular to see the permanent collection of the gallery and look in al the shelves! Can't wait for next years graduation expo! Galerie Marzee Lage Markt 3 6511 VK Nijmegen The Netherlands Website: www.marzee.nl/galerie/start/ Facebook: www.facebook.com/marzee.modernartjewelry Facebook event: www.facebook.com/events/199592037236973/
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On the 22nd of June I went to Antwerp to visit the graduation show of the Master students in jewellery design at the Royal Academy Of Arts. This year the graduating students where: Yijun Liu (CN), Shahrzad Motallebi (IR) and Dabin Lee (KR). Yijun Liu used for her collection 'Ori-Ti' different folding techniques with titanium to create very light jewellery that seem simple by design, but are in fact very intricate. Shahrzad Motallebi took inspiration from Iranian architecture. She created her own patterns in 3D drawing software and by connecting these patterns she could create a variety of jewellery for the 'A Fraction Of Abundance' collection. All her pieces are very light and flexible by the way they are connected. I really loved the work by Dabin Lee named 'Down The Rabbit Hole'. Her work is about animal testing in the cosmetic industry. She used the rabbit as a symbol for the abuse these animals have to endure to create products for our beauty. She used tufting (type of textile weaving) as her technique to create the pieces but in stead of using a typical material like wool she used metal wire in a lot of different colours. The beautiful and almost happy colours create a big contrast with the fact that they represent the injuries the animals get from all the testing. You can visit this expo at Salima Thakker in Antwerp until 27th of june. 23-27/06/2017 Salima Thakker Kloosterstraat 2, Antwerp, Belgium Facebook Royal Academy: www.facebook.com On the 28th of June a big Master expo (Antwerp Masters 2017) will start in Antwerp with al the work of the graduating students from all the different master educations including the work of these three students. 28/06-09/07/2017 Rodestraat 12, Antwerp, Belgium Website: www.antwerpmasters.be On Friday 23rd of June I visited the graduation show of all the masters from different art educations from Hasselt and Genk, Belgium. The three jewellery students from the PXL-MAD University are Jonas Neo Fabri, Jasmijn Coenen and Kristy Bujanic. Jonas Neo Fabri created an installation where he questions the value of making. He used features of cheap products to create his project 'Saint Quatorze Parody'. Jasmijn Coenen (who's collection I explained in the previous post) created her own dreamworld 'Iridescent Elysium': a colourful world with a bit of (good) kitch, inspired on the romanticism of the 18th Century with a modern twist. Kisrty Bujanic used her family background as her inspiration. Her family is originally from Croatia and she used her memories from that time in her work. She used the bathroom as a starting point because it's a very important space in someones house and provides in the needs of the whole family. Every year the graduating students can win a few awards and I'm happy to tell you that Kristy Bujanic won the C-Mine Award Genk 2017! Congratulations Kristy!! This graduation expo ended on the 25th of June, but... The jewellery students will have their own annual graduation show starting next weekend at: Multiple Maastrichterstraat 64-66, Hasselt, Belgium Date and time: TBC |
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