GALERIE SLAVIK
INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY
JEWELLERY ART
SUMMER FESTIVAL 2008
Brigitte Berndt, Iris Nieuwenburg, Lucia Massei
Margit Jäschke, Sabine Hauss, Gian Luca Bartellone
Hilde Leiss, Christiane Iken, Bettina Schelzig
Exhibition period: 17 June to 1 August 2008
Immerse yourself in our world of jewellery, where a symphony of colour and inspiration awaits you in the creations of our international jewellery artists.
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GALERIE SLAVIK
INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY
JEWELLERY ART
Since 18 years Galerie Slavik presents unique works of jewellery art of the highest technical and artistic order. The exhibits selected represent a cross-section of the state-of-the-art in international jewellery design. Besides pieces by long-established artists, the gallery sets great store by presenting the works of young, innovative talents.
Jacqueline Ryan on the sense and purpose of her jewellery art: "My pieces are made not just to be exhibited, but to be worn, because it is in the interaction between the wearer and the jewellery object that the latter is awakened to its function and comes alive."
While Ryan's works, which mirror both the artist's love of nature and her interest for the veneration of nature in ancient cultures, are light and playful, the brooches by Maria Rosa Franzin come across as an artistic gesture, a kind of "action painting" on metal. In "Counterpoints", his new series of brooches, the Catalan artist Joaquim Capdevila dynamically juxtaposes basic geometrical figures, bringing them to life with engravings and brush-painted colours.
The richness of expression of Tomas Hoke's light installations catches the viewer's eye. "Lighting art does more than just light up space, it aims to enlighten."
MICHAEL BECKER
LIGHT - COLOUR - SPACE
Becker finds his inspiration in the architecture and thinking of great architects like Palladio or Mies van der Rohe. First of all he always develops a paper model, which he then executes with great craftsmanship in precious gold and silver. With their clear geometric structures and reduced formal language his works display the elements of genius: depth, clarity, harmony and elegance.
Each piece is composed of some 1000 tiny triangular elements of different sizes and materials, blended by perfect precision work into pictorial designs redolent of mosaics.
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Sabine Hauss
Variable earring
Earrings that you can transform, that metamorphose, which change their very nature, if and whenever you fancy. A variable earring based on the assembly of interchangeable individual parts. The catch is hidden in the ball and the half-ball, both of which are jewels in their own right. Together they form the variable earrings of Sabine Hauss. You can choose between classical, elegant and soft playful shapes. A selection of gold, silver, pearls and gems. Japanese varnish with is radiant colours. Set your own limits on the possible variations, only one thing will remain constant; each combination of these variable earrings forms a harmonious whole which matches the wishes of whoever wears them.
Cornelie Holzach
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Jewellery Art
Annamaria Zanella, Salima Thakker
The Italian-born artist Annamaria Zanella - a major retrospective exhibition at the Nuernberger Museum is currently dedicated to her work - is seen as her generation’s key protagonist of the Padua School. She also studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice. Her highly expressive compositions blend plastic and pictorial qualities that bespeak her affinity with contemporary art: constructive arrangements made from a whole range of different materials, iron, steel, glass, acrylic, paper, aluminium and others, enlivened and refined by pigments of colour and gold. Zanella’s works proudly assert themselves as sculptures thrown into relief by their wearer.We encounter a completely different personality in the Belgian artist Salima Thakker. She works, cuts, forms, folds and bends her raw materials, forcing them into most extreme forms and always experimenting at the very limits of the materials she uses. Salima Thakker processes and reprocesses her materials till her pieces fit on the wearer’s finger, arm or neck like a second skin - as for example her bracelets composed of countless tiny tube-like elements which appear to flow around the wearer’s wrist, subtly redolent of animal hide..
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Next exhibition:
Internationale Schmuckkunst
Künstler der Galerie
02.09. - 13.09.2008
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May 2008:
The pictures of the exibition opening of Jacqueline Ryan and David Huycke on the 6th May 2008 are now online. [vernissages]
May 2008:
In the art journal "Parnass" Dr. Claudia Lehner-Jobst reports on Jacqueline Ryan and David Huycke exhibition. [press]
October 2007:
The pictures of the exibition opening Michael Becker on the 16th October 2007 are now online. [vernissages]
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The gallery offers the visitor not only an insight in new jewelllery worlds but also presents itself in its architectural design as an artistic Gesamtkunstwerk. Architectural guides like "Architecture in Vienna", published by Springer give insight in the representative character of the gallery.
Two brothers, the sculptor Tomas Hoke and the architect Edmund Hoke created the interior of the gallery in 1990. [more]
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Last Update: Tue, Oct 23, 2007 |
With enormous passion and energy Renate Slavik has been informing since fifteen years about the character of Jewellery Art, with committment to her artists and a vision infront of her she goes the hardest way - that of selling unique pieces of Jewellery Art.
