GALERIE SLAVIK
INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY
JEWELLERY ART
WEAR THE MAGIC POWER
Lucia Massei, Letizia Plankensteiner,
Isabell Schaupp, Salima Thakker
Exhibition period: 2 March to 3 April 2010
At Galerie Slavik spring is coming - in the midst of magic, enchanting and powerful visions. [more about the current exhibition...]
GALERIE SLAVIK
INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY
JEWELLERY ART
Since 20 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."
ANNELIES PLANTEYDT
BEAUTIFUL CITY
With a number of elementary parts I am still able to explore intrinsically different aspects in my work. In the course of time dimensions are unwinding. I have become more and more conscious of their tangibility: the necklaces have been conceived as a plane figure, they are being constructed three-dimensionally, they are being subjected to gravity when being worn, and they are moving in time. The underlying drawing or structure can always be restored, and then the movement can start again.
Annelies Planteijdt
December 2008
Annelies Planteydt
Collier "Rotes Zimmer"
Gold, Tantal, Titan und Farbe
Nr. 103626
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JOAQUIM CAPDEVILA
Joaquim Capdevila, a well-known artist represented by Galerie Slavik from its very beginnings, shows brooches with surprising combinations of materials - gold, silver, diamonds, enhanced with Japanese lacquer and acrylic - combine in a poetic series of variations on the motif of the arbor vitae.
The tree as a living being is subject to change, and the tree as a quiet observer of its environment.
Capdevila’s jewellery art takes its inspiration from within, from feelings and thoughts, as much as from the tangible reality of the outside world. In his works, a tree may present itself in abstract reduction, a composition of finely painted geometric forms, or as almost human, alive and amusing, looking onto the world through shining diamond eyes.
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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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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:
SCHMUCKKUNST IM WANDEL DER ZEIT
Gabriele Miller Lehsten, Miriam Hiller, Ramon Puig Cuyas, Georg Dobler
6.4. - 30.4.2010 |
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11.3.2010,
17 - 22h:
Schmucke Zauber Kraft
Galerienrundgang |
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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:
26.02.2010
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With enormous passion and energy Renate Slavik has been informing since 20 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.
