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.

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Artist, Nanna Melland was part of the main Schmuck 2013 exhibition with her work, Swarm, the very first piece ever in Schmuck's history to be showcased OUTSIDE the plexi-glass case. This is a huge accomplishment, really, and after chatting briefly with the artist about how it came to be, it sounds like it was an up hill battle. If you've read previous posts of mine you should know that I tend to loathe work that is restricted behind display cases, and so let's hope Nanna's victory set a new precedent for future Schmuck exhibitions, acknowledging that some work deserves a little breathing room and a chance to really connect with its viewers like it's destined to.

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Azahara Santoro, Alchimia exchange student from Valencia has installed her private garden in our window.

about 200 plastic cups, kilometers of fishing wire and a week of work brought spring into school

the cups are filled with colors, plants, objects and personal memories; a world to discover

at night strange shadows are growing on the wall

at daytime a must stop for all the children on their way to school, our most critical judges

an invitation to lie down and observe the world above,

Thank you Azahara,

if you want to know more about Azahara: azahara-santoro.blogspot.com

This year’s course is called New Roots
assistant Estela Saez

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.

Information and registration: Ruudt Peters, Berenstraat 17, 1016 GG Amsterdam, Netherlands info@ruudtpeters.nl
Phone Ruudt Peters: +31-(0)20-6 25 74 75 mobile: +31-(0)6- 50 293 293
For more information about Ruudt Peters see: www.ruudtpeters.nl

Internationale Sommerakademie für Bildende Kunst Salzburg 2012, Klasse Lin Cheung, Alte Saline Hallein, Foto: Ruth Ehrmann

Internationale Sommerakademie für Bildende Kunst Salzburg 2012, Klasse Lin Cheung, Alte Saline Hallein, Foto: Ruth Ehrmann

Now some photos I did myself, attending the expanded painting class in 2011
the entrance of the Alte Saline, an island on the river Salzach

some photos of the surroundings, you can see I love my country!

incredible rivers with crystal clear water, I was lucky and had fantastic weather

the astonishing studio spaces

computers and wifi, all is available

discussion rooms, outside recreation

music

salt

and then Alcatraz the smallest gallery in the world

an exhibition in alcatraz

and some more publicity

In this regard we want to introduce a very special institution

The International Summer Academy in Salzburg, Austria

The Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, founded in 1953 by Oskar Kokoschka as the “School of Seeing”, in Hohensalzburg Fortress, is the oldest of its kind in Europe.
The Summer Academy has always remained faithful to two principles: the internationalism of the teaching artists and students, and the opportunity for professionals, art students and amateur artists to participate in courses together. Kokoschka regarded his “School of Seeing” as a counterpart to traditional, national art academies. His concept allowed no dividing line between artistic craftsmanship and humanistic, intellectual education.
for complete information: www.summeracademy.at

The academy is a wonderful place to experience, the locations especially Hallein have incredible spaces to work in and we want to point out the courses we think could be most interesting for jewellery makers.

Above all the course with Lucy Sarneel:
her assistant will be Martina Muhlfellner (Alchimia alumni and long year teaching assistant)

the course title is

Treasures of imagination
  three weeks from: 22.07.2013 – 10.08.2013
Medium/Media: Jewellery design, experimental material research
Location: Alte Saline Hallein the workshop space for jewellery is amazing and enormous and gives possibilities for installations – presentations with all kinds of media and also the possibility of dialogue with the other classes run at the same time.

This course emphasises the specific role that jewellery plays in our mass-oriented, efficient and high-tech world and the individual value it represents to us. Attention will be paid to each student’s personal perception of jewellery, but also to the diversity in the history and tradition of jewellery.
With personal guidance, students will develop “their own cosmos” through research, sketching and writing, in order to inspire and encourage their personal working process. The course is a playground for discovering new ways of applying techniques and material according to the individual imagination of the student, rather than a course about particular jewellery techniques. The students are encouraged to reflect on their work individually as well as collectively. Making, reflecting and communicating are keywords in the working method. This results in a challenging and open approach to jewellery. Jewellery-related discussions and guest lectures are initiated to increase students’ awareness of the meaning of jewellery. In the final week the participants are expected to present their work to the public in an inventive way.
The course aims to reveal and encourage each student’s “treasures of imagination”, as well as their drive and expressiveness in the field of jewellery.

Lucy Sarneel, born in Maastricht (NL) in 1961, lives and works in Amsterdam as jewellery artist and teacher at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, department of jewellery. She studied basic jewellery techniques at the Stadsacademie Maastricht and continued her study at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, where she graduated in 1989. Her work is internationally recognised in private and museum collections.
Lucy Sarneel’s work refers to culture and time. Her work provides a counterweight to the high-tech, efficient and mass-oriented world in which cultures are disappearing as a result of commercialisation and globalisation. The visual language of her jewellery is associative, often sculptural, and encourages the free experience of thoughts and feelings.

But as stated before the Academy could give the possibility to jewellers to work in other media and especially in different size which can be on the one hand liberating. We are used to work in small-scale and the change of scale can bring be very inspiring, as also the work in other media and the encounter and dialogue with artists from different fields.

Schälling | Enderle
Stone quarry intervention
 04.08.2013 – 31.08.2013
Medium/Media: Stone sculpture, drawing, photography
Location: Kiefer Steinbruch Fürstenbrunn

This location inside the stone quarry is a complete life experience. Students work and sleep all together with the teachers in a house inside the stone quarry and far from anything in the middle of a mountain – you can work at all times because there is nothing else around, it is a kind of complete spiritual retreat.
From Saturday evening 3 August, simple dormitory accommodation is available for € 7.– per night in the quarry grounds.

The course includes three-dimensional or multi-layered approach to the matter of stone and to the quarry itself. Questions will be: WHY here, HOW and for WHOM.

The unusual locality – working on-site in the surroundings of active and disused quarries – offers ideal conditions for intervention and research into minor and major connections between actions and transformation, as for example the interaction of construction and destruction. This exploration will be undertaken both individually and jointly through schematic or actual on-site interventions. The point is to recognise the multiple overlapping of levels of time and action, and to make these manifest in one’s own work.

Traditional stone sculpture is one possibility, but other methods and media, as well as theoretical study, are encouraged and supported. The course also offers instruction in the development of techniques for working with the properties of the stone itself without handling it directly.

Artists Doris Schälling and Jörg Enderle see sculpture as an explorative process. Their individual works and their joint projects since 1989 focus on stone as material and the stone quarry as a place of enquiry. In order to get closer to the origin and the aesthetic of the stone, the motto for the sculptures, photographs, paper works and videos is “thinking from within the stone”.

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Shaina Anand / Ashok Sukumaran
Rough guide to the media arts
22.07.2013 – 10.08.2013
Open to all.

Medium/Media: media art
Location: Alte Saline Hallein

Shaina Anand and Ashok Sukumaran with their collective CAMP where one of the most interesting works at this year’s dokumenta and the course is in Hallein.
On my point of view Hallein is the best location for courses – big space, small town – not a spiritual retreat but a beautiful landscape and just 30km from Salzburg – by bike (beautiful cycle roads along the river) or bus just half an hour to reach the city Salzburg.

This course, part history, part practical, will explore big questions raised by media art – a term usually used to describe software art or electronic practices. However, we expand this definition to all distributive media: radio, television, CCTV, electricity, the internet and other “networks”. These media are particularly promising in that they continue to challenge and change what art can be. The class will look back at moments of such promise, of utopian potentials in technology, where artists tinkered, hacked, intervened and assembled art that could powerfully imagine and realise ambitious, “real world” projects.
We will also take a practical look at the properties of certain media, such as radio, television, video, internet, that suggest what kind of art can be made with them.

The focus will be on process, reception, sensuality, and the role of technology. Interested participants should see themselves as artists who work outside of studios.
Shaina Anand is a filmmaker and artist, and a co-initiator of CAMP and Pad.ma.
Ashok Sukumaran’s interests are in archaeologies of media, and in what haunts or underlies network forms and material distributions.

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Leya Mira Brander
From etching to pop-up book
22.07.2013 – 10.08.2013
Medium/Media: Metal engraving, etching and paper sculpture
Location: Festung Hohensalzburg

This course is right in the middle of Salzburg, on the top of the hill inside the medieval castle. fantastic location on the one hand on the other in the busy city full of tourists and also much more expensive regarding food and accomodation than Hallein. But the course could be of much interest.
The aim of this course is to gain a thorough knowledge of various techniques of printing on paper, and then to process these prints into three-dimensional objects.
The course will be divided into three stages. First, the participant will be invited to think about three different images: a portrait, a landscape and an object. These images can be created during the course or they can come from your personal archive. They will be etched each in a different copper plate and we will make a small edition of them.
Then we will use some of the prints from the edition for the construction of a pop-up book, trying to mix the portrait, the landscape and the object.
Finally, the participants will choose one of the images to learn how to transform a plane image into a paper sculpture.
The main objective of the course is to think about the infinite possibilities of relation between the images and the different ways of cutting prints to construct a solid work of art.

Leya Mira Brander was born in 1976 in São Paulo, Brasil, where she also lives. She has worked with metal engraving since she was 17. Today, she has a collection of approximately 1000 copper plates. What interests her most about working with prints is the possibility of creating something completely new with each print.  Brander never makes an edition. All the prints she has ever done are unique, because she is in search of endless possibilities to relate the images she has recorded. Recently, she has also been interested in researching a possible combination of engraving and sculpture, and how paper is a material that can make this possible.

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Tania Bruguera
Arte útil (useful art)
 12.08.2013 – 31.08.2013
Medium/Media: Workshop, social practice
Location: Alte Saline Hallein
Tania Bruguera is an extremely interesting artist and person who could give a completely new point of view on many important issues concerning also our field.

“Arte útil” (useful art) aims to transform some aspects of society through the implementation of art, transcending symbolic representation or metaphor and proposing with their activity some solutions for deficits in reality. Most “useful art” is structured as a long-term project, and the way it operates is dictated by the practical impact of its strategies. “Useful art” practices try to address the levels of disparities of engagement between informed audiences and the general public, as well as the historical gap between the language used in what is considered avantgarde and the language of urgent politics, science and other disciplines.

Bruguera created the Useful Art Association in January 2011 to provide a platform to meet, exchange ideas, and share strategies on how to deal with the issues of implementing the merging of art into society. Similarly to this association, in her course Tania Bruguera will work with the students in an open manner, through discussions, printed texts, action groups and public events, examining what it means to create “useful art”.

Tania Bruguera is one of the leading political and performance artists of her generation. Bruguera’s work researches ways in which art can be applied to everyday political life, creating a public forum to debate ideas shown in their contradictory state and focusing on the transformation of the passive condition of “viewer” into an active one of “citizenry.” Bruguera uses the terms “Arte de conducta” (conduct/behaviour art), “Arte útil” (useful art) and “Political-timing specific” to define her practice. Bruguera’s long-term projects have been intensive interventions on the institutional structure of memory, education and politics.

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Olga Chernysheva
Artist’s territory
 12.08.2013 – 31.08.2013
Medium/Media: mixed media
Location: Festung Hohensalzburg

The topic of the course is “Artist’s Territory”. It will deal not with style, but rather with occupying some invented or discovered territory. In the current art scene, a work of art cannot be apprehended at first glance, since every work is an integral part of an “artistic landscape”. The important thing is the extent to which that landscape is detailed and convincing. Literary comparisons might include invented or constructed places such as Dostoevsky’s St. Petersburg, or Kafka’s fictional but still recognisable city.
Participants will work on their own artistic landscape. This may be entirely fictional, or it may contain details taken from reality. It will have a number of different, interconnected themes. Every new tonality, every new nuance will be intelligible and come alive only in the context of the existing body of work. The smallest change, however trivial or coincidental, may completely alter the whole perception and interpretation.
As a starting-point, we might take sketches made in the town, or perhaps visual comments on some spaceoriented text. Our media may be drawing, painting, sculpture, video, photography, or even poetry or ready-made. In any case, intuition will drive us towards our subject, with empathy as our guiding principle and our primary resource.

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Christoph Draeger
Simsalaboom! Before you learn to fly, learn how to fall
 12.08.2013 – 31.08.2013
Medium/Media: Collage, assemblage, installation
Location: Alte Saline Hallein

The end of the world, predicted for 21.12.2012, is already history, but we have known since Nostradamus that “after the Apocalypse” is before the Apocalypse. Like terminal storage depots for nuclear waste, constantly debated situations that will never come to pass have explosive potential. What can be saved and recycled from the post-apocalyptic (informational) waste? What lies behind the phenomena, behind the flickering screens, behind the decadent projection surfaces of all-encompassing consumerism?
The “age of collage” (Summer Academy 2012) persists, expanding into the third dimension. We will move our laboratory to the Alte Saline Hallein, where the rooms allow for expansion. In this course, the situational character of the sculpture explores the potential that lies in everyday objects when their meaning is altered by placing them in a different context. How can one combine existing materials into collages, assemblages, sculptures or installations so as to create new contentual relationships? The focus is not on the object (or the image) itself, but on what is created with it. Thus context becomes the determining factor.
Situations are created, absurd spaces constructed, Installations set up and then discarded. Possible fields of association: the construction of destruction (and vice versa), the hysterical object, political agitation, humour and subversion, asceticism and ecstasy.

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Robert Kuśmirowski
Everyone has the same chance
 22.07.2013 – 10.08.2013
Medium/Media: mixed media
Location: Alte Saline Hallein

In this course, the participants will study theoretical and practical questions involved in sculpture. At the beginning, Kuśmirowski will clarify various matters in relation to his own work, such as how different materials interact, and how he deals with institutional restrictions, including safety and fire regulations.
In the ensuing, practical phase, each student will be allotted a workplace with the same materials. This strict specification of place and material is balanced by freedom in the choice of subject. The challenge for students is to develop an individual theme, against the background of their own knowledge and experience, using the given materials. Kuśmirowski will be on hand for advice, which will be geared to students’ individual needs and previous knowledge. The final week brings a surprising shift which will allow participants to discover new perspectives and terrains, always in relation to their earlier work and to that of the other participants.
The aim of the course is for students to work out new perspectives and possibilities in sculpture, to learn detachment from their own works and to experiment with the temporal limitation of a work. They should discover how something new can emerge from working with given material and situation.
The concluding days will allow room for discussion, and for deciding how to mount a good group exhibition for the Open Day.

For full information and application: www.summeracademy.at

This year over 250 exhibits from 58 makers from 18 different countries will be on display at the Munich Craftfair better known as IHM Munchen in one of Europe’s biggest fairgrounds.
The fair itself is enormous and shows craft of any kind from sausages (very popular) to Cuckoo clocks.

So don’t be deluded when you will find out that what is interesting for us jewelers is just a part of Hall B1 but there you can see :
Schmuck 2013, Talente 2013, Exempla 2013 – Handwerk bewegt, Meister der Moderne 2013, Frame with Galerie Marzee, Platina, Ra, Format, Handshake, Chrome Yellow Books, Claudia Augusta Projekt
Almost 600 jewellery makers applied this year to exhibit their works at this famous special exhibition. SCHMUCK is a global competition and attracts artists, gallerists, collectors and students from all over the world.
This year the exhibits accepted for SCHMUCK were selected by Bernhard Schobinger of Richterswil in Switzerland. A trained goldsmith, Schobinger is one of today´s leading jewellery artists. His works are regarded as influential in determining new directions in style and he is an artist with a unique aesthetic sense who has broken new ground in avant-garde jewellery design. Not surprisingly, the works selected by him for SCHMUCK 2013, reflect this background. They include a number of exciting new artists, but also many familiar names.

Apart from the 58 participants from 18 countries one every year one designer is honoured in a retrospective called “Classic of the Modern”. This year it is the turn of New Zealand artist Warwick Freeman.

After the IHM, SCHMUCK will be setting off on tour. In 2013, it will be stopping off in the town of Legnica in Poland, where visitors may admire the pieces as part of the International Jewellery Competition in May 2013.

Talente 2013:

Young artist working in the applied arts and technology  show their work in the international competition TALENTE 2013.
The aim of TALENTE is to promote young people with a particular manual talent and to show an interested audience the enormous potential which lies in the new generation in crafts and trades. The works will be the outcome of formal or technical considerations and experiments, showing something new and exceptional.
The participants are chosen by an international jury from various fields of crafts and technology.
Age limit is set at 33 in the domains of crafts, and at 35 in the domain of technology.

This year three alumni of Alchimia were chosen for Schmuck and Talente:
Giulia Savino (Schmuck)
Andrea Coderch-Valor and Weronika Marek (Talente)

But of course just the fair would not be enough to attract so many people related to contemporary jewellery, there is an evergrowing program going on for the days of the fair, cramped with exhibition openings, talks, parties and even the launch of a new magazine “Current Obsession”.

Current Obsession – is a new printed magazine about jewellery and its relation to different fields of art — performance, illustration, photography, etc. Apart from jewellery artists and critics, the magazine features material researchers, fashion designers, collagists and many more. The goal is to create a different dimension for jewellery in printed environment,  tell inspiring stories about people and places, touching upon subjects like value, language and presentation.

The motto is “JEWELLERY IS WHAT YOU MAKE OF IT “

The theme of the first issue is The Archetypes – an investigation into the core of jewellery, an attempt to explore where the boundaries of the field lie and whether there are any boundaries!

Selected features Current Obsession Magazine #1
_ Schmuck 2013 Munich, Germany
_ Travel: ‘Twilight Nation’, Tallinn, Estonia
_ ‘Greed’, Text by Liesbeth den Besten
_ Editorial photo shoots with jewellery by various designers

Editors: Sarah Mesritz and Marina Elenskaya

„Let’s fall over – falling over / revolution desired“
(Austrian / German dialect) is the concept shared by nine jewelers.

Bowling as a principle of life? The ball is rolling, pins are falling, people are cheering. Finally, everything is newly aligned and starts again. What’s the relation to contemporary jewelry? Is it falling over, failing all over or a revolution? One bowling alley, nine answers.

Organized by Gabi Veit & Anja Eichler
7th – 9th march 2013
vernissage: thursday, 7th march, 11 h

opening: 11–17 h
Theresa Restaurant
Theresienstraße 29

Réka Lorincz and Flora Vági:Schmuck you!

Flora Vagi

We invite you to walk on the fine rope we stretched between two seemingly very different worlds of objects. Our escape from reality, nowadays society, into a fantasy world of colorful toys and plastic, imaginary flowers of a garden carved of wood…
Walk and when you get to the middle you will find that there is a peaceful balance and a light pulsation. Like breathing, smiling, sighing…it will all come natural.

Réka Lorincz

Opening on Thursday 7th March 2013 at 17 h
Visiting hours:
8.-16.March, 12-18 h
Galerie Biro Junior
Luisenstr. 66 / Ecke Schellingstr

Galerie Spektrum
Theresienstraße 46 D
will show
Mia Maljojoki
Life is juicy – How fragile is your day #4 2013

Porcelain, like skin, begins as a soft, moist, and pliable substance. It can easily be stretched, pushed, folded, scratched, torn, or re-­‐bonded to itself. When the desired series of actions has been applied, one dries it out and fires the leathery material at temperatures up to 1400c˚. Similar to the way time, experience, and emotion affect our bodies, this process, permanently changes the material composition leaving the porcelain hardened, durable, and stiff.

Mia Maljokoki, necklace

The resulting works are flexible synthetic bands with accents of bright colors contrasted by hardened
organic-­‐shaped porcelain intestines.

What is juicy will be fragile.

opening reception at Friday, 8th of March from 18.00 until 21.00h.

A catalogue with 16 pages & 13 colour pictures and a text from Mia Maljojoki is published on occasion of the exhibition.
Price: 4,50€

Hours during Schmuck fair:
8. March opening 18.00 – 21.00 h
9. March 11.00 – 14.00h
10. March 13.00 – 18.00h
March 13.00 – 18.00h

Silber-Sommer-Galerie 2013: „Zu Tisch“
Tableware – Contemporary positions

The table, as an image of community, has become an important place for communication, calm and togetherness. Special utensils are used at this “place”, which are at once tools and symbols. Through their presented works, the young designers question everyday gestures and make the rituals and habits around the table something we can see and experience. In this way they create innovative objects, which mirror the unique identity of their users.

Organized and curated by Alessandra Pizzini the The exhibit „Zu Tisch“ – „dinner is served“ will be accompanied on Sunday, March 10., 2013 by the
Business Forum
 „One-of- a-kind objects and mass products“

The desire for objects that express one’s own unique identity is increasingly felt in our society. Design and art objects have become important status symbols.
In four lectures we will ask ourselves how an object reaches its owner. What is the difference between a one-of-a-kind object and a mass-product? Which objects are suitable for mass-production and which objects live from their properties of uniqueness? How do possible collaborations form? These and many other themes will be discussed in the four lectures at the business forum.

Program:
Speakers
10:00 a.m. – Copyright lawyer, Markus Mainx, Meissner Bolte Partner GbR Nürnberg will illuminate various property rights from the perspective of a legal practitioner.
14:00 p.m. – Leo Caballero, Klimt02: Networking, Communication & Visibility or how to spread our work in the age of the Internet
16:00 p.m. – Professor Kilian Stauss, stauss grillmeier partnerschaft München, will speak about design and art as well as building cooperation
17:00 p.m. – Simone ten Hompel, London, Metropolitan University will hold a discussion with chosen participants of the exhibit.

I will try to pick out the most important events you should not miss.

Galerie Handwerk (craft gallery) will be guest in the German state Antique Collection
Opening 6.3., 7p.m.

New Jewelry for the Gods
with: Robert Baines, Peter Bauhuis,
Manfred Bischoff, Bettina Dittlmann, Georg Dobler, David Huycke, Daniel Kruger, Christa
Lühtje, Bruno Martinazzi, Francesco Pavan, Dorothea Prühl, Gerd Rothmann, Jacky Ryan,
Philip Sajet, Bernhard Schobinger, Hubertus von Skal, Tanel Veenre, Graziano Visintin.
Address:
Königsplatz 1, 80333 München, 7.3.-5.5., Tue-Sun 10-17, Wed 10-20
http://www.antike-am-koenigsplatz.mwn.de/antikensammlung

Three exhibitions in the Pinakothek de Moderne all absolutely to see:

Die Neue Sammlung – The International Design Museum Munich,
address: Barer Strasse 40,
Pinakothek der Moderne  80333 München.
Opening Friday  8.3., 7p.m.
Otto Künzli. The exhibition 9.3.-7.4., Wed-Sun 12-20. Sat 9.3. + Sun. 10.3. 10-18 Uhr.

Schaustelle. The Perfect Place to grow: Royal College of Art.
Wed-Sund 10-18

Interesting talk by Warwick Freeman
Schaustelle outdoor. Talk Sunday morning  11a.m.
Warwick Freeman: All about me

Maurer Zilioli-Contemporary Arts, Brescia,
Manfred Bischoff – Bruno Martinazzi,
from 10-7p.m.
kunstbüro reillplast,
Amalienstraße 21,

WittenbrinkFUENFHOEFE,
Positionen,
Theatinerstraße 14,
from 10-7p.m.

Te mato por que te quiero,
Jorge Manilla, Shari Pierce,
Morawitzkystraße 1,
Atelier Shari Pierce, from 10-7p.m.

Micheko Galerie, Was it a cat I saw?
Akiko Kurihara, Go Segawa,
Theresienstraße18, from 10-7p.m.

Theresa – Restaurant, Fallmamal-Umsturz erwünscht. Nine Jewelers
at the Bowling Alley.
Sungho Cho, Anja Eichler, Beate Eismann, Julia Heineccius,
Young-Hee Hong, Wolfgang Löffler, Barbara Schrobenhauser, Gabi Veit, Manuel Vilhena,
Theresienstraße 29,  7.-9.3., Friday-Saturday 11-5p.m.

Galerie Kullukcu, Bucks ‘N Barter,
Katrin Spranger, Nicolas Cheng,
Friederike Daumiller, Beatrice Brovia, Hilde De Decker, Richard Elenbaas, Tzu-Ling Lee,
Prang Lerttaweewit,
Schillerstraße 23, Thurs-Sat 11-5p.m.

F.X. Muschelkalk, Lusitania,
Estefânia r. de Almeida, Catarina Dias, Inês Nunes,
Pedro Sequeira,
Dreimühlenstraße 32,Thu-Sat 1p.m.-5p.m.

Fotostudio Adrian Greiter, To Tie or not to Tie,
Students of the Royal Academy of
Fine Arts Antwerp for Hermès,
Welserstraße 11,

Galerie GestalterBund, Made in Vienna,
Katie Gruber, Michelle Kraemer,
Viktoria Münzker, Katharina Schmid, Claudia Steiner, Eva Tesarik,
Holzstraße 22, Fri-Sat. 11-6p.m.

Galerie Biro Junior zu Guest at the Royals, Schmuck you!
Réka Lorincz, Flora Vági,
Luisenstraße 66, Fri-Sat 11-6p.m.

Kunstarkaden, The Lunatic Swing,
Attai Chen, Carina Chitsaz-Shoshtary,
Sungho Cho, Laura Deakin, Melanie Isverding, Emma Price,
Sparkassenstraße 3, Fri-Sat-Sun 1-5p.m.

Galerie ARTikel3, Kings of my Blues,
Alexander Blank,
Luisenstraße 68, Fri-Sun 11-5p.m. Sat 11-4p.m.

Antiquariat Dieter Zipprich, Vintage Violence,
Volker and Brigitte Atrops,
Zieblandstraße 2, Fri-Sat 11- 6p.m.

Galerie Biro, What I do for you,
Karl Fritsch,
Zieblandstraße 19, Fri-Sun 11-6p.m.

Weitblick/93/13,
Volker Atrops, Florian Buddeberg, Anna Eichlinger, Christiane
Förster, Irene Gonzalez, Dorothea Schippel, Gisbert Stach, Norman Weber,
Bergmannstraße 26, Fri-Sun 10-4p.m.

Galerie Wittenbrink, Otto Künzli FOR SALE,
Türkenstraße 16, Fri-Sat 10-6p.m.

Thats all for now of course there is much more and I will update on the events later on.

On one hand this can be a problem for makers, because of sending expenses and the fact that the pieces will not be available for some time even if you are not chosen for the exhibition and the catalogue.
BUT on the other hand this system has the great advantage that the jury can see, touch and judge the REAL PIECE which is something quite different from a photo.
(Most jury sessions are just with photographs)

So we really recommend participation !!!!!

As every year the choice of the theme is connecting with the cultural situation in the world and this years theme “Revolt” is particularly challenging for us as jewelry makers.

Revolt
It is better not to turn on the television today. We are being attacked by images of economic crises, stock market crashes, falling ratings, budget deficits, cost cutting programs and increasing unemployment from everywhere. As a reaction to the overwhelming impression of a lack of opportunities there are emerging movements such as “Occupy …”, helplessly protesting against banksters, corporations and governments. Doesn’t speaking in such circumstances about jewellery – the subject invariably associated with the demonstration of wealth and selfish hedonism – seem socially unacceptable and even ethically suspect? After all, the burning of ATMs and the broken glass of jeweller’s shops have become part of the frustration of all the Indignados.
But there is also another aspect of the design and use of jewellery – which – like no other product of the imagination – can be an effective message, manifesting the point of view of the user – a voice of protest, being anti-or pro-, attitudes of rebellion, rebellion and guerrilla warfare. Can a standard set of slogans written out on banners, T-shirts and slap tags be complemented with another more sophisticated message? Are jewellery designers able to demonstrate their own opinion and join the discussion concerning anaesthetic issues? Is the tradition of exclusive gold jewellery going to be our irreversible remorse? And will the chorus “Diamonds are a girl’s best friend” always sound as infantile as the recent testimony before the European Court of Justice in The Hague of the famous model Naomi Campbell, who at one time accepted an embarrassing gift from the dictator of Liberia, tried for war crimes, so evocatively reconstructed in the movie “Blood Diamond” with Leo DiCaprio as a ruthless mercenary?
Looking forward to your reply. Join the culture jamming!

- Sławomir Fijałkowski

Here the conditions of participation and don’t forget : There must be some silver in the piece

Conditions and terms of participation
1. The competition is open to all artists from Poland and abroad.
2. There are no restrictions as to the number of works submitted by a participant, provided that:
– the copyright is with the artist,
– the works are submitted under the artist’s name,
– all the works submitted by the artist can be contained within a case measuring 40 x 40 x 35 cm; by the Organizer’s earlier permission, the arrangements can be made to accept objects of dimensions exceeding those specified above.
3. The artist declaring his or her participation in the competition is obliged to:
– submit the objects, accompanied by a properly filled-in invoice and application form, sent or otherwise delivered (at the artist’s own expense) to the Gallery by the deadline of 29th March 2013 (the deadline concerns the actual arrival of the work, not the postmark).
– send the submitted works in an appropriate and secure packaging that will protect the objects from damage and can be re-used for returning them to the artist.
4. The packages will be opened by a commission.
5. The works not qualified for the exhibition will be returned by the end of August 2013 according to the instructions provided by the artist on the application form.
6. Since the aim of the exhibition is to be exposed in other cities, the selected works will remain under the Organizers disposal till July 2014, and then they will be sent back to the participants till the end of July 2014 together with documentation of the work`s presentation.
under the patronage of The Minister of Culture and National Heritage 22nd Legnica International Jewellery Competition in the framework of The Legnica Jewellery Festival Silver

The jury
1. The works will be assessed by the international jury.
2. The Jury will meet on 4 – 5 April 2013. The Organizers invited to the jury: Galit Gaon (Israel), Jiro Kamata (Japan/Germany), Hans Stofer (Switzerland/Great Britain) and from Poland: Aneta Lis-Marcinkiewicz and Sławomir Fijałkowski.
3. The artist’s interpretation of the theme of the competition and using silver will be the basic criterion for the Jury to qualify works for the exhibition and award prizes. The submitted works may be accompanied by a commentary (one sentence) which will be included in the catalogue.
4. The Jury’s decisions are final and cannot be challenged in the court of law.
5. The list of the classified persons will be published on the Gallery’s site: www.galeria.legnica.pl and Festival’s site www.silver.legnica. pl till 16th April 2013.

Awards and prizes in the competence of the Jury
I. Grand Prix 10.000 PLN (c.a 2440 euro)* + 1 kg of silver
II. 2nd Award 5.000 PLN (c.a 1220 euro)* + 1 kg of silver
III. Award of the Mayor of the City of Legnica 3.000 PLN (c.a 730 euro)* + 1 kg of silver
IV. Award of the Gallery of Art in Legnica solo exhibition with catalogue worth 1000 euro
V. The Organizers’ Special Award for creative courage, uncompromising attitude, innovation or sense of humour statuette “Silver Spur” + 1 kg of silver

Prizes beyond the competence of the Jury
INHORGENTA MUNICH Award free stand at INHORGENTA MUNICH in 2014 worth 2000 euro
The Joachim Sokólski Award established by the Polish Modern Art Foundation 1 kg of silver
Polish Jewellery Award free stand at Summer Trade Fair JUBINALE in Cracow in 2014
Polish Jewellery Award advertisement in Polish Jewellery in 2014
Award of Six Group statuette “SIX ounces”
Honorable mention of the Goldsmithing Artists` Association statuette and diploma
Honorable mention of the Director of the Gallery of Art in Legnica diploma
In this category the choice of the prize-winner is made by the founders of the award or upon their permission by the Jury.

There will be also a lot of interesting side-events this year in Legnica, the most important one is Schmuck 2013 but there will be others that might make it really worth while to go to Poland.

Details later on!!

Textile Techniques for Jewellery: Experimentation with Crochet and Interlacing
Teacher: Doris Maninger
Dates: 1/2/3 February, 31/1/2 May/June
Cost: 350€ + VAT Tax

for information on the teacher: dorismaninger.me

Doris Maninger, electrofromed silver, iron wire crochet

Introduction to free interlacing (technique developed in Alchimia), creation of 3D forms with interlaced wire, finishing techniques;
Introduction to crochet, basic stitches, working in three dimensions, free experimentation, inventing your own stitches, finishing techniques

free interlacing, bracelet in 925 silver wire

Pigments on Metal: Experimentation in Mixed Media
Teacher: Lucia Massei
Dates: 8/9/10 February,   28/29/30 June
cost: 350€ + VAT Tax

for information on the teacher: luciamassei.com

Lucia Massei, mixed media and flame gilding

Introduction to colours/pigments and demonstration of various colouring techniques on metal:
hot acrylics, pigments and their application, resins, (mixed media), chemical thinners and adhesives. rolling mill stamping, flame gilding.
Realization of one or more coloured jewels using silver/copper/brass
Tools and non-precious materials as well as handouts on the course are supplied by the school .

Nunome Zogane: Antique Japanese Inlay Technique
Teacher: Elisa Deval
Dates: 12/13/14 April, 19/20/21July
Cost: 380€+ VAT Tax

Elisa Deval, Iron Gold

Creation of the base texture on metal using Mekiri-Tagane
Execution of a silver (or gold) inlay on the metal sheet based on ones individual design.
Polishing of the metal sheet with sand paper and stone.
Introduction to the use of the Rokusho coloring technique.
The special toolkit provided can be bought after the course.

Sungho Cho, Pomok Sannggam technique

Molds and Casts: Professional Casts in Silicon Rubbers and Urethanes
Teacher: Doris Maninger
Date: 19/20/21 April
Cost: 380€ + VAT Tax

for information on the teacher: dorismaninger.me

sleeve cast in transparent plastic and cold enamel

To make effective and long lasting molds for the reproduction of objects in plastic, resin, ceramic, concrete and wax is the goal of this course. Experiments and trials will lead to a profound knowledge about the characteristics and qualities of the different materials and the myriad of possible application for jewellery and sculpture.
In three days we will explore the various aspects of molding and casting, from the preparation of the model, the choice of the right molding material, the options for release to the casting itself and its numerous variations.

Weronika Marek, ceramic and resin cast

Acrylic Glass: Methods for Application in Jewellery
Teacher: Marzia Rossi
Date: 26/ 27/ 28 April
Cost: 350€ + VAT Tax

for information on the teacher: marziarossi.it

Marzia Rossi, acrylic glass, silver, oil, stones

Introduction to the techniques of working with acrilyc glass:
sawing, mat polishing, shiny polishing, 
bending with heat, application of colour, joining with glue.
Realization of one or more jewels combining metal and acrilyc. 
This course is both for beginners 
and those who  have experience in jewelry making.

acrylic glass, colour, silk

Creating Jewellery in Resin: Free Experimentation with Cast Epoxy Resin
Teacher: Yoko Shimizu
Dates: 17/18/19 May, 5/6/7 July
Cost: 350€ + VAT Tax

for information on the teacher: yokoshimizu.it

Yoko Shimizu, resin, silver

In this course students will learn to work with epoxy resin and will be able to experience the multiple possibilities of this material. The focus of the course will be on the use of resin in combination with metal, the casting (silicon molds), the incorporation of diverse materials (paper, wood, colour, sand..) during the polimerization process,
the possibilities of surface effects and finishings

Shannon Carney, gold, resin

Painting with Enamels: Limoges Paintings on Jewellery
Teacher: Prof.Jamie Bennett
Date: 24/25/26 May
Cost: 400€ + VAT Tax

for information on the teacher visit: Sienna Gallery

With paint, pencil, and enamel, Jamie Bennett achieves uncommonly poetic effects using floral and patterned imagery, and he creates surface interest with a sensuous touch. In a career that now spans more than thirty years, Bennett has evolved into an internationally acclaimed artist and innovator in the world of contemporary jewelry and enamel.
This workshop will concentrate on painting processes using enamel overglazes.  Historically called Limoges enamel students will use both  traditional and non-conventional methods.  Means of setting and applying enamel with jewelry will be covered.

Jamie Bennet, three brooches

Japanese traditional copper alloys and coloring
Teacher. Prof Kimiake Kageyama
Date: 22/23/24/25/26 July
Cost: 700€ + VAT Tax

for information on the teacher visit: Galerie SO

Kimiaki Kageyama, shibuichi, iron

Kimiaki Kageyama one of the most important Japanese Master Goldsmiths will introduce Japanese copper alloys and their coloring. In Japan, coloring metals has been experimented since 4th~5th century.  Direct coloring began around the end of the Heian period (794-1185) but it is during the Muromachi period (1330-1568) that the development of various kinds of copper alloys suitable for coloring flourished.
The alloys will be produced in traditional way and students can select different alloys to develop their personal concepts. Special technical issues and tools will be introduced during  various stages of  the working process.   Special focus will be set on finishings, as polishing with particular charcoals and coloring.

Kimiaki Kageyama, iron, shibuichi

Anticlastic Metalsmithing with Argentium
Teacher: Ronda Coryell
Date: 22/23/24/25/26 July
Cost: 700€ + VAT Tax

for information on the teacher: rondacoryell.com

Ronda Coryell, samples

Anticlastic raising employs a specialized set of stakes and hammers to move a sheet of metal lightweight, yet strong, flexible structures. Combine the innovative raising technique of Anticlastic with Argentium, a revolutionary sterling alloy and the results are fantastic. The increased malleability of Argentium™ sterling makes it ideal for use in anticlastic forming. And the material’s ability to be fused without solder adds to its appeal. Master Goldsmith, Ronda Coryell, will provide expert demonstrations, followed by hands-on experience to making earrings, a cuff bracelet, and sophisticated metalsmithing forms. Students will work in Copper or have the opportunity to purchase Argentium from instructor.

Marriage Metals and Mixing Metal Techniques
Teacher: Daniela Boieri
Dates:10/11/12 May   5/6/7 July
Cost:350€ + VAT Tax

for information on the teacher: Klimt

Daniela Boieri, copper, silver

Introduction  and demostration of mixing metal . Experimentation of different kind of mixing using silver, copper and brass with and without soldering. Creation of one or more jewels using the results obtained.
Tools and materials are supplied by the school.

Hand Engraving
Teacher: Daniela Boieri
Dates: 8/9/10/11/12 July
Cost: 350€ + VAT  Tax

Daniela Boieri, silver, hand engraved

Introduction to engraving:  tool setting, hand engraving texture on metal, silky technique, grain technique, engraving  a chosen name or drawing using copper or brass.