Craft & Bling Bling - Fake Exhibition featured on Mocoloco

Mocoloco

Craft & Bling Bling - Fake

Vernissage                                                                                                Magazine launch + Apéro

Thursday 05.06.,                                                                                        Monday 16.06.,

7–10 PM                                                                                                    5–10 PM

Depot Basel and Current Obsession, contemporary jewellery magazine, present a collaborative curatorial effort in the context of Depot Basel’s ongoing exhibition series ‘CRAFT &...’. For CRAFT & BLING BLING – FAKE they commissioned work by twelve 

jewellery makers reflecting on the subject of FAKE from standpoints of jewellery history, their own work mediums or contemporary art and society. Work by Manfred Nisslmüller, Suska Mackert, Johanna Dahm and Cloe Floirat accompany the exhibition. The exhibition becomes a feature in the #3 FAKE issue of the Current Obsession magazine accompanied by Thomas Albdorf‘s photographs. 

JEWELLERY MAKERS  

Adam Grinovich, Barbara Schrobenhauser, Edgar Mosa, Florian Milker, 

Florian Weichsberger, He Jing, Julia Walter, Kevin Hughes, Mallory 

Weston, Philipp Eberle, Rainer Kaasik-Aaslav, Sophie Hanagarth 

We are not a fair, nor a festival. 

Not a museum, a showroom or a gallery. 

We are a temporary place for contemporary design, 

only with the best intentions. 

www.depotbasel.ch

www.current-obsession.com

DEPOT BASEL

VOLTASTRASSE 43

4056 BASEL

SWITZERLAND

Opening times during Art Basel

17 – 22 June

11 – 6 PM

General opening times

Friday, Saturday,  2 PM – 7 PM

Sunday 2 PM – 6 PM

The art of the business card

Ruudt Peters (Fronts of two cards)

(Back)

Louis Mueller

Well conceived and designed business cards become more than just contact information. They become keepsakes and souvenirs. Unlike the digital material we have become accustomed to receiving, business cards are tangible and that carries great impact.

Circuits Bijoux

Circuits Bijoux

Platina

Platina sits on a busy Stockholm street. Owner Sophia Björkman has done a good job setting it out from the crowd. Entering the gallery jewelry is displayed in small white cubes placed along the walls at differing heights. The cubes' size and enclosed sides help to create an intimate setting between viewer and object. On the first floor one can find the jewelry of artists Adam Grinovich, Karin Johansson and Lisa Walker to name a few. The basement floor is reserved for exhibitions. Currently on view is Sophia's own work. In the first room of the basement, Sophia has carefully suspended elements of white oxford shirts, sleeves and collars are reconstructed into pendants. In the second room is a large grouping of brooches, bones or bone like structures encased in stocking material.

Along with jewelry there is also a nice selection of books. I purchased Alla, a catalog of brooches made by 29 different artists and their reaction to a political change in Swedish parliament.

The Book

Otto Künzli The Book, ed. Florian Hufnagl, Arnoldsche Art Publishers

I have good friends. One good friend just sent me Otto Künzli's The Book.

Otto Künzli, an icon in the jewelry field, has had a fantastic career which continues today. Featured in the book are many of Künzli's most well known pieces: Gold Makes You Blind, Oh Say!, Ring For Two. There are also pieces and images I had never seen before.

Especially noteworthy is the interview between Künzli and Walter Grasskamp. The interview is broken into sections piece by piece. Grasskamp and Künzli discuss each piece through its conception, process, and reception.

RISDJM.com

Friends Mariah Tuttle and Kamal Nassif created risdjm.com, a website showcasing the Rhode Island School of Design's jewelry and metalsmithing department. The site includes a directory of past and present students and news/events. 

La Frontera

Philip Guston

Looking at the works of Guston, I find the artist breaking down objects and things into the simple yet still definable. There is also present grouping and combining, almost massing. Yet for me, the strongest element of Guston's work is in his imagination. Guston has the ability to create wild and interesting scenes, a giant head without nose and mouth, or a KKK figure painting a KKK figure. Where does he get this imagery? I also want to mention how much I just like the guy. Guston had such a great demeanor. Listening to him talk with cigarette in hand, Guston seemed down to earth, approachable.

 

A Scot In Sweden

Crowd 2013-13 by David Taylor

Me and Blinky

New Work

New additions to Series 4

Alexander Blank

Alexander Blank at Ornamentum Gallery, opening reception April 20 6-8pm

Märta Mattsson lecture

Märta Mattsson lecture, April 9th at 5pm, RISD Fleet Library Room 228 

Helter Skelter

The Legacy of Bas Jan Ader

Bas Jan Ader at his MFA final show, 1967

Bas Jan Ader Please don't leave me, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

I first became aware of Bas Jan Ader through his work "I'm too sad to tell you." My interest only grew after reading of his final project "In search of the miraculous," Bas Jan Ader attempted to single-handedly sail across the Atlantic (from the U.S. to Europe). What makes that feat even more audacious, Ban Jan Ader's boat was only 12 feet long and without motor. Bas Jan Ader never made it to Europe, his boat was recovered but the artist was missing at sea. 

Bas Jan Ader left behind a strong body of work. In addition to "I'm too sad to tell you" he made a several videos of himself falling. Falling off the roof of his house in Los Angeles, falling out of a tree into a small canal, falling on a saw horse, all filmed in 16mm black and white the works have a eerie disturbing quality.     

Also known as Blinky Palermo

Object with Spirit Level by Blinky Palermo

More than 20 years later, still a great piece

Otto Kunzli, Oh Say!

From The Coolest Corner

From The Coolest Corner publication, edited by Widar Halén, Arnoldsche Art Publishers

Good friend and artist Märta Mattsson has written an article for Art Jewelry Forum sharing her experience at the exhibition/symposium From The Coolest Corner. Starting in Olso, Norway the exhibition, which shows the varied works of Nordic jewelers, will then travel to Copenhagen, Denmark.

A Classic

Jewelry of Our Time by Helen W. Drutt English and Peter Dormer, Rizzoli International Publications, Inc. 

Jewelry of Our Time by Helen Drutt and Peter Dormer is a classic. I found the book during my undergraduate career and became fascinated with the diversity of artists and work. The book focuses on artists who pioneered the field of fine art jewelry after WWII. Gijs Bakker, Peter Chang, Ken Cory and Bernard Schobinger are some of the many artists featured in the book.