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A message to wear: Jewellery cares!
Text by Loukia Richards. Photo credit: Christoph Ziegler Visit the international group show WERT/voll at Umweltbundesamt Dessau: 11 September – 15 October 2019! Concept, curation and show design by ZLR Betriebsimperium (Christoph Ziegler + Loukia Richards). The show is a cooperation project between Umweltbundesamt Dessau and Grassi Museum Leipzig; it is exclusively funded by Umweltbundesamt. …
Jewellery as a second chance
Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, 13 September 2019 on the group show WERT/voll now running at Umweltbundesamt Dessau.
WERT/voll opening at Umweltbundsamt Dessau
at 18.00 (6.00 p.m. Central European Time) 11 September 2019.
PREVIOUSLY UNDERGROUND
Text and work: Zeyun Chen, China. What is value? This is a question that Zeyun is fascinated by and which forms the core of her Masters project. At first glance, you might not recognise the material she has used to create her objects. Could it be wood? Bone? Or is it a precious material such …
Confusion should follow admiration
Text and work: Unk Kraus, Germany. My jewelry should confuse only at second glance.Admiration may belong to the first sight. Unk Kraus was born in Munich in 1949. He practiced veterinary medicine till 1985. He works as a goldsmith and independent artist (painting, sculpture, jewellery) since 1986. He lives and works in Oberkienberg, Germany. LINK: …
3D printing the intricacies of nature
Text and work: Yael Friedman, Israel. In this collection I connect nature and jewelry, real and fictional, creating a series of works with the theme ‘flora and fauna’ in mind. Designing the pieces in 3D software, I use an assemblage of parts, which characterize different species, as a representation of nature. Each series reflect on …
Man made New_Nature mirrors life and threatens planet earth
Just one more… (recycled love letter)
Text and work: Lital Mendel, Israel. Collection name: Just one more… Repetitive patterns have always fascinated me. The methodical recurrence of a single element, as a building block for a bigger structure, has a powerful effect which grows the more the unit is used. Every piece of jewelry is made of hundreds of units. At …
Nature, death and the life stream
Text and work: Yiping Li, China. It is said that the custom of planting a cypress by the tomb began with the Qin Dynasty.During the Han Dynasty the cypress became part of the funeral concept in China. Death makes man’s body parallel to the earth; his head and foot turn toward the source and the …
WERT/voll_Jewellery+Ecology 