New fresh fashion jewelry trends for summer

Etsy Buy Handmade SNoU

Entorno, revista del Colegio de Arquitectos de Puerto Rico, Editors picks for October 2009

Thank you Editor! for including SNoU among the editor´s pick of the magazine. It has been an honor to be featured in Entorno, a fantastic architectural magazine.

Click on the image for a zoomed view of the article.

Veda, the godess of beauty has no arms

This is the work of young illustrating artist Veda. They are truly beautiful. They have such a strong femininity, beauty and calmness.

"Veda dibuja desde que tiene memoria. Con el tiempo ha decidido llevar esta pasión al terreno profesional.Autodidacta, se ha especializado en el cuerpo femenino y las formas orgánicas con reminiscencias al Modernismo, el Ukiyo-e y el cómic.Nacida en Barcelona actualmente reside en Berlín."



"Veda draws ever since she can rememeber. With time she has decided to take her passion to a profeessional level. Self taught, she has specialized in the feminin body and organic forms with reminiscence of modernism, the Ukiyo-e and comics. Born in Barcelona, she currently resides in Berlin"


See more at Veda @ Carbon Made

´el nido´ is OPENING

´el nido´ OFICIAL Opening

Finally, after a lot of work, we have finished our NIDO
and we want to share it with you at our OPENING.
Everybody is invited to join us on Saturday 12. of December
to get together at our new "clubhouse". We will be exhibiting
beautiful pieces of contemporary jewelry (perfect for your christmas gifts!) ,
and there will be drinks and delicious finger food!
´el nido´is the shared workspace of

Jewelry designers:
SNOU and Anna Kaufmann

AND Headquarters of
Vive Berlín tours (Berlin Statdführungen)

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Richardstrasse 43
Berlin-neukölln
12 december 2009
18:00- 22:00

MAP: How to get there.
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Saludos!
Despues de muchas semanas de arduo trabajo,
"El Nido" está listo. Así le hemos nombrado a nuestro espacio
colectivo de trabajo en la Richardstrasse 43.
Queremos compartir la alegría de inagurar nuestro nido con ustedes.

la apertura de nuestro nido/taller/galeria/oficina
tendrá lugar este Sábado 12.12.09
de 18-22 horas.
Allá nos vemos!

Walking theGrey area

http://www.grayareasymposium.org/blog/


The Otro Diseno Foundation for Cultural Cooperation and Development, the agency Design Flux and Galeria La Refaccionaria, Mexico, are honored to present you our new joint project: Walking the Gray Area.

Walking the Gray Area is a collective exhibition curated by Valeria Siemelink and Andrea Wagner, that brings together 20 Latin American and 20 European jewellery makers and artists who ocationally work with jewellery as a medium, into a dialogue about jewellery, global mobility, contemporary identities and its personal and/or collective implications. The curators of Walking the Gray Area, have each selected 20 artists from their respective continents: Latin America and Europe. Each artist has a unique approach to jewellery: different perspectives of art and jewellery, differnt ideas, different interests, different materials and techniques, different countries. But all artists have one thing in common: like the curators themselves, they have experienced the phenomena of global mobility in one or another way: born in one place, lived, studied, worked in another one.

The artists have randomly paired: one Latin American artist has been coupled with one European artist. Each pair will start a dialogue, through a web blog that has been created for this purpose, in the ways they find interesting or relevant: they are able to exchange conversations, stories, pictures, images and even materials. The dialogue can be verbal, visual of both and will lead to the creation of one body ornament by artist.

We invite you to visit the blog, moderated by the Mexican art critic Jose Manuel Springer, which will walk you through the process of creating an exhibition from the scratch and allow you to interact with the artists and moderator.

The exhibition will be presented within the frame of the symposium Gray Area, Ist Encounter of Contemporary Jewellery between Latin America and Europe, to take place from April 12th to 16th in Mexico City. The opening date of the exhibition, at the fabulous Galeria La Refaccionaria, in Mexico City's historic Centre will be announced in the following months.

We hope that you will enjoy the experience and that you will walk along with us towards this amazing exhibition. Visit the Walking the Gray Area Blog at:


http://www.grayareasymposium.org/blog/

Otro Diseno Foundation for Cultural Cooperation and Development, la agencia Design Flux y Galeria La Refaccionaria, Mexico, tienen el placer de presentar su nuevo proyecto de cooperacion: Walking the Gray Area.

Walking the Gray Area es una exposicion colectiva, curada por Valeria Siemelink y Andrea Wagner, que pone en contacto a 20 artistas y joyeros latinoamericanos y 20 europeos para desarrollar un dialogo sobre joyeria, mobilidad global, indentidades contemporaneas y sus implicaciones tanto colectivas como personales. Cada una de las curadoras de la muestra han seleccionado 20 artistas de sus respectivos continentes: America Latina y Europa. Cada artista tiene un acercamiento muy particular con la joyeria: diferentes perspectivas, diferentes ideas, diferentes intereses, diferentes tecnicas y materiales, diferentes paises. Pero todos estos artistas tienen algo en comun: al igual que las curadoras mismas, todos han experimentado, de una u otra manera, el fenomeno creciente de la mobilidad global: nacidos en un lugar, viviendo, estudiando o trabajando en otro.

Los artistas han sido organizados en parejas creadas al azar: un artista latinoamericano ha sido emparejado con un europeo. Cada pareja iniciara un dialogo, a traves de un blog que ha sido creado con este proposito, de la manera que ellos decidan: a traves del intercambio de textos, imagenes, fotografias, videos e incluso materiales. El dialogo puede llevarse a cabo de manera verbal o visual y resultara en la creacion de un ornamento elaborado por cada uno de los 40 artistas participantes.

Estan coordialmente invitados a visitar este blog, moderado por el critico mexicano Jose Manuel Springer y acompanarnos en el proceso de creacion de una exhibicion e interactuar con los artistas y el moderador.

La exhibicion Walking the Gray Area sera presentada dentro del marco del simposio Area Gris, Ier encunetro de Joyeria Contemporanea entre America Latina y Europa, que se llavara a cabo del 12 al 16 de abril del 2010 en la Ciudad de Mexico. En los meses siguientes les informaremos la fecha exacta de la inauguracion, que tendra lugar en la Galeria La Refacciconaria, en el centro historico de la Ciudad de Mexico.


Esperamos que disfruten la experiencia y que nos acompanen durante el desarrollo the esta fascinante exhibicion. Son bienvenidos a visitar el Blog Walking the Gray Area en:


http://www.grayareasymposium.org/blog/

Zimmerhof jewelry Simposium

Zimmerhof Schmuck Symposium 2009.
From 11. to 14. July, 2009

Zimmerhof is a yearly Reunion of Jewelry makers from all around the world. Three days of wonderful conferences and exchange in a relaxed atmosphere.


This year´s Zimmerhof has "Full of Facets" as Theme. Here the information from the organizers (Herman Hermsen & Sofia Beilharz/ Phylicia Gilijamse/ Maryvonne Wellen):

—With the theme “Full of Facets“ we would like to address to jewellery in all its diversity and richness. The symposium will be characterized by lectures from renomated jewellery artists and well-known designers who are specialized in contemporary jewellery and/or serie-design. Futhermore the program will contain theoretical
controversies and reflections.
New materials, innovative concepts and techniques like 3D modelling, rapid prototyping and rapid manufacturing are going to be brought forward though presenting divers projects on this subject. Confrontations, different points of view to jewellery and new interpretations as well as definitions of the term jewellery will be discussed. We will focus on jewellery as an important, independent communication medium at the intersection with contemporary art, fashion and product design.
The program is internationally orientated with speakers from for example; Spain, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Austria, thereby alumni students from academies though Europe will lecture about their works. According to tradition there will be a possibility for the visitors to present their own works on the jewellery table.
As usual the Zimmerhof Symposium is a place for international encounter, exchange of knowledge, communication, contact and not at least for partying together!

mehr infos/ more informations

Kontakt und Sekretariat (weekdays 9:00 bis 12h30)
Yvonne von Racknitz
Schloß Heinsheim
Gundelsheimerstr 36
D-74606 Bad Rappenau

Tel. +49 (07264) 808853
Fax +49 (07264) 808854.
info@schmucksymposium.de
Official Website

Studio 20/17 : Paper and text exhibition

Paper/Text exhibition

At STUDIO 20/17

A Group exhibition of jewellery inspired by the written word. Coinciding with the Sydney Writer’s Festival, International and Australian artists exhibit work containing text or paper elements.

Tues May 5th to Sat May 30th.

Opening drinks 6-8pm Thursday 7th May.

2 Danks St, Waterloo NSW 2017. 02 9698 7999.

Exhibiting Artists:-

Alice Potter (AUS)
Annaig Bidan (AUS)
Barbara Ryman (AUS)
Belinda Newick (AUS)
Danielle Butters (AUS)
Eliana Arenas (México)
Erin Keys (AUS)
Fabrizio Tridenti (Italy)
Ingeborg Vandamme (Netherlands)
Jessica Dare (AUS)
Lucia-Natalia Nieves Cortes (Germany- Puerto Rico)
Leah Tarlo (AUS)
Lotte De Mey (Belgium)
Nicole Polentas (AUS)
Sabrina Meyns (Ireland)
Tatjana Panyoczki (NZ)
Zoe Jay Vaness (AUS)

Ausencia y Regreso, by Lucia Nieves Cortés , paper, iron, silver, pigment

Studio 20/17

Melanie Ihnen, Ross Buchanan and Bridget Kennedy established as a workshop and venue for contemporary Jewellery, Object and Photography. Bridget and Melanie both work in the studio, creating limited edition series, commission and exhibition work. Visitors to the space are able to see the work in progress.

Artists are also invited to contribute to a regular exhibition calendar.

Studio 20/17 aims to increase the profile of the applied arts within the contemporary art arena.

Jewelry exhibition in Offenbach a.M.

If you have plans of being in Frankfurt am Main this weekend then come chill- out and look at some amazing art and jewelry work by young artists at the Waggon am kulturgleis. For more info visit:



www.freedomsoonwillcome.de
www.made-in-hanau.com

The divine prints of Toxic guinea pigs

I stumble across the work of such talented artists and designers continuously on Etsy (not only are these guys SUPER talented, they are sooo nice as well) . After seeing the wonderful flowing lines of her prints, I contacted Maggy O´Reilly from toxicguineapigs/O´Reilly ink to ask her if she would be willing to say a little something about herself and her work, and this was her response:

“My name is Maggy O'Reilly and I live in Hilliard, Ohio which is a suburb of Columbus. I didn't grow up here, though. I grew up (proudly) on a farm.”

How long you have been drawing, doing art, doing creative work?:
“Yikes, forever? When I was a little one, I used to draw in the inside covers of all my books. And I had this weird affliction for putting rabbit ears on every person I drew. I should probably add that I wore bunny ears as everyday attire at the time.
I've always been fairly serious about my artwork. I grew up in a very tiny primarily Amish town in Morrow County, Ohio where there was honestly nothing to do. So drawing was always something I had. I did my first actual commissioned piece when I had just graduated from high school and the school board came to me to do a mural on one of the buildings. I had never done one and it didn't turn out too great, but I got paid and I think they've painted over it now. Hah. I do the occasional commissioned pet portrait now, craft shows, and of course etsy.”

Tell us a bit about your process of inspiration and work:
“My inspiration comes from primarily the nature of good ol' Ohio and the Midwest. I have always loved adventuring through woods and fields. I find little places here in the 'burbs that haven't been destroyed by housing complexes yet to go exploring in with my boxer, Cherry (she's another inspiration, by the way). I also have a great love for all things retro, vintage, and tacky. Especially the old cruiser bicycles. Bikes can be a pain to draw, but those old ones are just too freakin cool not to.
I do pen and ink for almost everything, and for original works I like spray paint, watercolor, and recently I'm getting into some mixed media stuff.
And of course, I'm also inspired by the artist that I enjoy: Tara McPherson, Kyungduk Kim, Michele Maule, Elise Towle Snow (ArgyleWhale), Shira Sela, Adrian Tomine...and the list goes on and on.”

Deutsche Guggenheim, BERLIN

Deutsche Guggenheim

Anish Kapoor

30.11-02.01.09

Memory (2008), Anish Kapoor’s commissioned sculpture for the Deutsche Guggenheim, sits tightly within its gallery spaces—a twenty-four-ton, Cor-Ten steel tank, defined by its volume rather than by its mass. Its thin skin suggests a form that is ephemeral and unmonumental, defying gravity as it gently glances against the peripheries of the gallery walls, floors, and ceiling. Kapoor’s use of Cor-Ten steel and its inherent color properties relate the commission back to his early pigment sculptures. Rather than necessitating a coat of paint to smooth the interior curvatures, the sculpture’s 154 seamless tiles, perfectly manufactured to prevent any light from seeping through, read as one continuous form. These tiles create the necessary conditions for darkness and boundlessness within—the void.


http://www.deutsche-guggenheim.de

ARTslant

I just discovered this website, ARTslant,
A comprehensive program of whats happening in Berlin
and other cities. Art exhibitions, openings, what´s opening, what´s closing,
what´s not to be missed...

O´Keeffe Rings

From Wikipedia


Georgia Totto O'Keeffe (November 15, 1887 – March 6, 1986) was an American artist. She is associated with the American Southwest, where she found artistic inspiration, and particularly New Mexico, where she settled late in life. O'Keeffe has been a major figure in American art since the 1920s. She is chiefly known for paintings in which she synthesized abstraction and representation in paintings of flowers, rocks, shells, animal bones and landscapes. Her paintings present crisply contoured forms that are replete with subtle tonal transitions of varying colors. She often transformed her subject matter into powerful abstract images.





These rings have been inspired as an homage to artist Georgia O´Keeffe. Made in massive sterling silver. Available per order in all sizes, and in matte silver or oxidised surfaces.

Exhibition: Made in Hanau Annual Exhibition

Schmuckpräsentation 2008

Opening Sa. 15. Nov ab 18.00 Uhr

Conference about precious stones Sa. 22. Nov ab 19.00 Uhr

by Andy Berck

http://www.berckwerk.de

Musikperformance Sa. 13. Dez ab 18.00 Uhr

Lolita Knockout

http://www.rainermichel.net

opening hours from 15. Nov - 24. Dez 08
Tue.-Fr. 12-19.00 Uhr, Sa. 10-16.00 Uhr

MADE IN HANAU
Schmuck für Körper und Raum

Schnurstraße 15, 63450 Hanau, Germany
fon: 06181.255 735 fax: 06181.255 717
www.made-in-hanau.de

Marc Monzó´s SUN in Oona Galerie

Some pictures of the opening of Jewelry artist
Marc Monzó (Barcelona) at the Oona Gallery, in Berlin.
The exhibition lasts until Nov. 29, 2008.



These two pictures were taken from the website of the Oona Galerie

Today, Perfomance by Tatsumi Orimoto in DNA Galerie Berlin

Tonight 7.00 pm

DNA is proud to present for the first time in Europe Tatsumi Orimoto´s Punishment. Following in the footsteps of the artist's “Communication Art”, this performance also features bread as its main element. Orimoto often uses bread because of its fundamental and basic nature. However, he does not only use it as a symbol for universal communication – something to which everybody can relate – but also as an allegory for Western culture. In the occidental context bread does not only take on meaning as part of the diet of the population but also because of its symbolism in Christianity, where it represents the body par excellence.

With this background Tatsumi becomes in Breadman a sort of living sculpture, his head twined with a bundle of baguettes, who brings art to the people. Nevertheless, bread and its former mentioned function as a tool for communication take on in Punishment a more tragic nuance. Twenty-six blindfolded people, tied to a mast, are carrying a box full of bread. One after the other, each of them falls over, spilling the bread on the floor.
Tatsumi Orimoto (Kawasaki, 1946) studied at the Institute of Art, California. In 1971 he moved to New York, where he assisted Nam June Paik and was introduced to Fluxus. He returned to
Kawasaki in 1977, where he currently lives and works, and takes care of his mother. His
performance Breadman was shown in several countries in public as well as institutional contexts, such as the Biennales of Sydney, Sao Pablo and Venice.

DNA
Auguststr 20
10117 Berlin
+ (49) 030 27 57 23 93
staff@dna-galerie.de
www.dna-galerie.de