Smitten Collective, existing of the two young jewellery designers Billie Van Nieuwenhuyzen and Juan Harnie, are invited by internationally renowned gallery Multiple in Hasselt, Belgium to curate their summer expo this year. This expo ‘Love Jewels’ is about love, sex, fertility, passion, fetish, nudity... These exciting subjects have been portrayed in the arts since the dawn of time. Although the depiction of sexuality has been done for ages, there’s still a taboo on, as well as a strong attraction towards it. Looking at images of sexuality brings up different, sometimes contrasting emotions such as shame, arousal, repulsion and confusion. The depiction of sexuality evolves together with the ever-changing societies and social structures. That’s why Smitten Collective, a contemporary jewellery platform, would like to show what’s current and living amongst our fellow jewellery artists and how they portray the subject of ‘sexuality’. The term ‘sexuality’ is broad and includes so many aspects; LGBTQ, gender, love, abuse, monogamy, obsession, lust, and so on… Participating artists >>> Denise Ebert, Georgina Trevino, Hansel Tai, Jussi Jarvinen, Lauren Kalman, Nelly Van Oost, Paula Zuker, Paula Bahadian, Rokxia, Simone Frabboni, Virginia Jakim, Verena Krems, Zane Skersiene. You can visit the expo until 01/09/2018. Facebook Smitten Collective Website Multiple
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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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