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20th
July - 30th Sept 2007
'Wood
You?'
Exciting
new showcase of thirteen internationally
renowned jewellery artists working in wood.
Bangle
in pear wood, gold leaf, shell
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Marie
Uhlirova
Marie Uhlirova creates her jewellery as if they were
tiny sculptures to be looked at from different angles. The monumental
and generous conception within their small dimensions does not, however,
make them unwearable and every little detail on a massive bracelet
or a clasp of a necklace is carefully thought out.
Like many other Czech artists, Marie Uhlirova attended the Secondary
School of Arts and Crafts in Bmo, which was a cradle of artistic activities
and developments and began to make jewellery. Her initial experiments
with plastic were short-lived and she soon turned to natural materials
- wood and leather - and to natural topics drawing on exotic fauna.
A wavy body of a snake or a hefty figu¬re of an elephant were
just a primary form to be executed in a stylised manner in a piece
of wood which became an integral part of a bracelet, ring or belt.
In the collection to be shown at ‘Wood You?’ the mysterious
gloss of mother-of-pearl in continuous stretches or dense mosaic-like
arrangements on a wooden background gives the otherwise very sober
shapes of necklaces, bracelets, hair acces¬sories and buckles
a special touch. Gilded edges or hollows render this jewellery a post-modern
cha¬racter, while conjuring the spirit of ancient Egypt and other
old cultures at the same time.
Marie Uhlirova’s jewellery does not reflect
momentary fashion and its fast transformations, but rather her attitude
to life and inner soul.
(Alena Krizova)
Biographical details
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Artists
taking part in 'Wood You?' are:
Stephanie Jendis, Germany; Mette
Jensen, Denmark; Marianne
Schliwinski, Germany; Katy
Hackney, UK; Ulrich
Reithofer, Austria; Julia Harrison, USA;
Yu-Chun Chen, Taiwan; Ramon
Puig Cuyas, Spain; Grace
Girvan, UK; Terhi Tolvanen,
Finland; Beppe Kessler,
Holland; Marie
Uhlirova, Czech Republic;
Marielle Ledoux, Uruguay. |
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