Thursday June 20 at 5p.m. we expect you at the opening of the Alchimia Graduation Show 2013
Human
we are
say
HaNa Choi
Francesca Urciuoli
Lavinia Rossetti
Koen Jacobs
Enrica Prazzoli
Chiara Cavallo
Ioanna Natsikou
Lena Grabher
Anna Drexel
Yesterday the most important design fair in the world started and we are really proud that many teachers of Alchimia take part in it.
Lucia Massei, bracelet, suspended red
Lucia Massei is present with a personal exhibition at Galleria Antonella Villanova.
In the project Absentia-Essentia – Massei’s latest pieces of jewelry realized and displayed in a cross-dialogue with admired Italian painter Pizzi Cannella.
The jewels of Massei, made with gold, shibuichi, silver, iron and pigments, are evocative forms: the suggested but unsaid, the energy retained, the empty space as a contrast, the intermission of silence between musical notes or words, the suspension.
Massei’s work aims to capture the “in-between,” attempting to catch what separates and links strength and fragility, transience and eternity, past and future. Her jewels capture the transition from raw matter to unique and essential forms. Perceiving a particularly affinity with her poetry, Massei will involve the celebrated artist Piero Pizzi Cannella to conceive a silk wall tissue made by Antico Setificio Fiorentino, an Italian factory specializing in silk production. In 1780 the Grand Duke Leopoldo of Lorraine donated several looms to the factory, enabling the decoration of the most beautiful and prestigious homes and museums throughout Europe.
The silk tissue is decorated with a chandelier, creating an evocative subject that is frequently present in Pizzi Cannella works. It becomes a total interior environment, conceived to lend the exhibition the proper “suspended” scenography.
Further Alchimia teachers present at AntonellaVillanova are Peter Bauhuis, Daniela Boieri and Marzia Rossi plus Alchimia alumni Akiko Ban and Flora Vagi.
Gallery Ornamentum premieres “Qi” – the latest work of Dutch conceptual jeweler Ruudt Peters, artistic director of Alchimia.
Continuing a long search for various forms of alchemy, Peters found himself in China for three months, exploring the inner alchemy (Qi) of Eastern culture. The resulting exhibition is comprised of blind drawings on stone, either made into wearable pendants and brooches and layered with further drawings constructed of silver or as large stone decorative tablets. It also features porcelain figures, like the clay army of Emperor Jing Di cast from acupuncture model, abstracted with additions of materials such as glass and hair among others, based on his diary of experiences as a Westerner in a complex, foreign land. A catalogue with text by Fredric Baas of the Stedelijk Museum ’s-Hertogenbosch will accompany the exhibition.
it has been a very demanding schoolyear and ………………………………
Human
we are
What makes us human?
We analyse, we process, we try, we fail, we try again, we develop, we change direction, we fail, we gather our strength again, we start all over.
We look at things upside down gaining new perspectives.
This is how we grow.
Going through this cycle over an over makes us human.
This is how we create, how we create jewellery.
Using our experiences, thoughts, impressions, our life.
Anna Drexel
11 students are presenting their graduation work in an exciting installation in the Alchimia front gallery.
Lena Grabher
An installation to demonstrate their state of mind, their continuos research, their acceptance of failure
chiara cavallo
as a neccessary condition for growth,
their desire to grow, and their curiosity in the existant and the maybe……..
And of course there will be the final work of the second and the first year on show.
Three days of contemporary jewellery to explore in the stunning location of Alchimia school in Piazza Piattellina 3/r.
We expect you for the opening on June 20, from 5 to 10p.m.
Unfortunately only in Greek, but we try to explain.
This is the poster and invitation of a new exhibition curated and organized by Natasha Kandaraki and Emily Bantouna which took place in Athens in the beginning of June.
Inspired by a red thread, to lead the imagination of students, younger and older, to create artistic structures, the Art and Communication Workshop Bleuteleia and the Contemporary Jewellery Workshop Anamma have exhibited together.
This game of artistic relay race with the red thread began with the children of the Bleuteleia Workshop, who created drawings and gave them to the students of Anamma, who in turn created their own jewellery.
It is really exciting to see how children and adults can interact and create dialogues that exceed mere play and divertisment.
Alchimia in Legnica, Poland at the Silver festival. Revolt was the title of this years competition and the linking theme of various exhibitions in town and a seminar with interesting talks and presentations.
Alchimia was invited to present the exhibition “Hazardous Experiments”, developed and curated by Doris Maninger and Peter Bauhuis together with the second year class.
16 Alchimists arrived in Poland (all for the first time) in a beautiful city, wonderful people, wonderful weather and lots of jewellery
Ulrich Reithofer
Philip Sajet
Aneta Lis-Marcinkiewicz & Adriana Lisowska
Agnieszka Bruzda & Jan Suchodolski
Institute of Art and Design, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic
Alchimia Contemporary Jewellery School, Florence, Italy
Monika Miodek
Prince Charming & Palace of Hapiness
Bastard Collection
Schmuck 2013
Hardened Tears
Presentations 2012
Amberif Design Award 2013
Dorota Gulbierz
Au+ Pink Pig in Ink
Holownia
as you can see in the above list the quantity of guests and exhibitions was impressive
Here a glimpse of “Hazardous experiments”, we got a beautiful space and were really happy with the result and the interest of the public
all dressed up for the opening
lots of people came and were happy to be able to touch the experiments
The students were prepared to answer all the questions
explain their concepts, trials and results
What a relief to be able to touch and wonder about forms and materials, jewellery behind glass is so totally frustrating
they all liked it, something surprising and unusual
and at the end a great party!!!!!!
Ubi Gallery is a creative platform in Beijing, where high quality pieces of contemporary jewellery and ceramics are on display.
Ubi means ‘where’, it refers to moving and arriving, it is about asking questions.
The gallery offers a platform to those great designers and artists who through their work keep us curious.
Ubi Gallery is founded in autumn 2012 by Machtelt Schelling and is situated in the historical area of Dashilar in Beijing, located south of the Forbidden City.
Besides organizing exhibitions, Ubi Gallery is also active in organizing non-for profit events, as lectures and workshops for the design community and art academies in China.
Ubi Gallery aims to be a platform where people from the field of contemporary jewellery find a space to meet, to get to know customers, a space where they are challenged to develop their work, a place where they are proud to show their results and open to meet a community to start a dialogue.
So with this task in mind Ubi is calling for entries to:
UBI Top Young 2013
Graduation Series for Contemporary Asian Jewellery
Applicants
• The exhibition is aimed specifically at graduates of contemporary jewellery, born and educated
in Asia and now (summer 2013) finishing their bachelor or master in contemporary jewellery in either
an academia in Asia or abroad
• The entry must consist of one of the current graduation pieces
• There is no application fee involved
Criteria
Due to the space we can only exhibit wearable jewellery. Submissions of installations or photography will not be accepted.
The selection for the Graduation exhibition will be based on the personal choice of the owner and curator of Ubi Gallery. A personal and creative language, skilled use of material, a worked through concept – all are taken into consideration while making the selection.
The selection for the Gold, Silver and Bronze award will be done by a jury of professionals from the field of contemporary jewellery from Asia.
Award
There will be a promotion exhibition for the top three winners at Ubi Gallery within a year after the Top
Young 2013 exhibition. For all 3 award winners the gallery will organize media events.
Dates
- Deadline for application by email is 15th June 13
- Decision of selection on images 30th June 13. Successful applicants will be contacted vie email
before June 30th and the list will be announced on the website of Ubi Gallery.
- Deadline of sending the objects to Beijing – before 1st Aug 13
- Opening exhibition 23rd Aug
- Award ceremony 24th Aug
- Seminar and Ubi Party 24-25 Aug
- Exhibition 23 Aug – 15 Sept 13
The application form is available on the website, to be downloaded and used. www.ubigallery.com/news
Ubi gallery is looking forward to submissions.
For further information, please contact topyoung@ubigallery.com
We are really happy that a platform like this has opened in China and we thank Machtelt Schelling for daring this adventure and wish her all the best possible !!!!!!!
NOW ROOTS is a workshop where we will discover and explore the identity of the maker. We will tune you on your personal roots. Guide you on the way to dig deeper into your own language.
When we operate from the depth of our roots we generate strength and energy that leads to your form language. It is essential for an artist to draw from this inner force. Together we will search for your personal roots. This means that you will get in contact with yourself, and learn to focus on your personal roots, freedom and drive. We will guide you to your basic experience, teach you to formulate your own positions, and support you in translating this into making art and fine art jewellery.
NOW ROOTS is about taking another space at our contemporary experience of making, a statement about how you can relate to your own inner force. Artists and students are stimulated to produce work around this idea. By doing so, it is important that not only rational reflection, but also the subconscious enters into the work process. Ultimately, fine art jewellery remains a frame of reference.
NOW ROOTS is built on step-by-step education in which the end product is not the most important goal. “The goal is the means and the means is the goal” (M. Gandhi).
The emphasis lies on personal guidance and development.
The participants are given the tools with which to continue the process on their own. By means of direct action people learn to make steps.
NOW ROOTS is about living together, cooking together, discuss, develop and make.
Dates: 12–18 August, 2013. 9.00-20.00 hrs total 60 hrs teaching
The course starts: Monday 12th August 2013, 10.00 hrs.
The course ends: Sunday 18th August 2013, after breakfast.
Departure: Sunday 18th August 2013, 10.00 hrs.
Place: Summer studio, Ravenstein.
Accommodations: 2 / 4 person rooms, St. Laurenshoeve, Ravenstein.
Price: Including accommodation, meals and insurance.
Inclusive 21 % VAT Tax: € 2100,–
Registration: Please mail to: info@ruudtpeters.nl
Max. Number of participants: 12
Language: English, German, Dutch,
Registration closes: July 12th , 2013
Participation: Registrations are processed in the order in which they arrive.
Deposit: Upon acceptance the participant will make a deposit of € 1100,-before 1st of April 2013
This sum confirms the participation and is not refundable.
