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20th
July - 30th Sept 2007
'Wood
You?'
Exciting
new showcase of thirteen internationally
renowned jewellery artists working in wood.
'Archipelago'
brooch in silver, paper, coral, wood, glass
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Ramon
Puig Cuyas
'Archipelagos'
The metaphor of Archipelagos suggest big spaces and geographies,
big sky and deep cosmos, speaking about oceans, voyages, orientation
and open horizons. Speaking about harmony between the cosmos and
nature. The
fragments of plastic, of glass, the pebbles founded in the beach
are a whisper of the memory, of the passed times, a fragment of
the unknown, that I won organize and reconstructing in a one new
reality, in one image of new metaphoric world, my poetic universe.
Each element of the composition must be placed in its exact relation
with all the other elements, like one vision of the cosmos. But
at the same time these constructions must be dynamic, expressing
their multiples possibilities. Coloured wood and metal construction
gives me the freedom of the spontaneous action, of spontaneous stroke.
With the same technical simplicity as the Polynesian chart, I like
to make my brooches like a symbolical chart. The act of creation
for me means journey, discovering. The creator, the artist, is also
an explorer, he knows where he comes from, but it is not possible
to know where his journey is going to take him. I start to work
without a previous project or plan, I draw and make schemes but
when I start constructing, I like improvising.Orientation again,
North, South, West, East…but with more attention, more accent
to the importance of the memory. This series of brooches, like also
charts, a compass, but are also reliquaries of memory. Like fragments
from a travel sketchbook. Speaking about nomadism.
'Corpus
architectae'
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Corpus architectae' is the pleasure of playing with levity. They
are like fragments of weightless cosmic architecture which, on being
worn (brought or carried), deposited on (top of) our body, subtly
modify the relationships and contrasts between the form of the body
and the space around it, projecting (casting, throwing) it beyond
its usual limits.
And there you have it.
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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