Marc Monzó

Wall

Melanie Isverding

Cavea 31

Metalsmith Exhibition in Print

New England on view in Metalsmith Exhibition in Print: Animal Instincts

Daniel Kruger at Sienna Patti Gallery

Over the past weekend my wife and I attended Daniel Kruger's exhibition and lecture at Sienna Patti Gallery. It was great to see Daniel and hear about the process behind his work. Daniel spoke of his upbringing in South Africa, his fondness of color and the methods used to construct his jewelry.

Märta Mattsson and Tanel Veenre at Platina Gallery

Platina Gallery

Installing A Fickle Sonance at Klimt02 Gallery

 Klimt02 Gallery

The Fake Issue

Current Obsession 

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

New Work and Solo Exhibition with Klimt02

A Fickle Sonance

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

Jewels on the Border: The Frontera Exhibition | Art Jewelry Forum

José Wolffer reviews La Frontera on Art Jewelry Forum

Sooyeon Kim

Congratulations to Sooyeon Kim, winner of Art Jewelry Forum's emerging artist award.

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.

La Frontera at Velvet Da Vinci

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.

Form Emphasis for Metalsmiths

Form Emphasis for Metalsmiths, Heikki Seppä, The Kent State University Press

Heikki Seppä made a major contribution to the jewelry and metalsmithing fields when he wrote the book Form Emphasis for Metalsmiths. Seppä discusses the aspects of forming beginning with diagrams and specific vocabulary then moves into methods used in construction. Seppä touches upon many different methods including soldering, raising and seaming. But the real meat and potatoes of Form Emphasis for Metalsmiths is in Seppä's analysis of shell forming including anticlastic sinking.

The Penland School of Crafts Book of Jewelry Making, John Coyne ed., Evon Streetman photography 

Heikki shell forming whilst sporting plaid trousers. 

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