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The Cadavre Exquis NO.5

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Thanks to everyone who participated in this weeks Cadavre Exquis. As always we got an interesting story with mysterious charaters and a sweet honey ending. And THIS TIME there was a give-away. Those who commented partcipated for a SNOU gift certificate worth 20USD.

And the winner is......:

Kathryn from black bird letter press, whose fantastic

lady with scissors letterpress notebook

was featured in the list.

Congratulations Kathryn!

The cadavre exquis was widely used by surrealists as a way of entertainment and to develop creative abilities. Maybe you know this „game“ from your childhood. It is usually done on paper using text or drawings.

My CE lists are an „open“ version of the game. Each person writes one sentence, in the end the sentences add up to a story. The list is used as a source of inspiration (other comments are written between parenthesis...).

Click on the images to get a zoomed view and read the story.

Enjoy and cheers!

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.

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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!

Was bleibt ist Schmuck
10 P o s i t i o n e n z e i t g e n ö s s i s c h e r S c hmu c k k u n s t

Eine Präsentation des Forums für Angewandte Kunst im Neuen Museum in Nürnberg
Eröffnung am Donnerstag, 12.11.2009
von 18.oo Uhr bis 20.oo Uhr,
im Unteren Foyer des Neuen Museums in Nürnberg

Es sprechen:
Dr. Angelika Nollert, Direktorin, Neues Museum in Nürnberg
Dr. Barbara Maas, Kunsthistorikerin
Cornelius Réer, 1. Vorsitzender des Forums für Angewandte Kunst

Auf Einladung des Forums stellen neben vier schmuckschaffenden Forumsmitgliedern sechs
weitere Schmuckkünstler aus. Alle Künstler sind international tätig und haben ganz verschiedene Wege eingeschlagen. Es entsteht ein Querschnitt durch die vielfältigen Strömungen im aktuellen Schmuckgeschehen.

Gezeigt werden Arbeiten von:
Iris Bodemer - Pforzheim,
Askan Hertwig - Nürnberg,
Katja Höltermann - Nürnberg,
Jiro Kamata - München,
Ted Noten - Amsterdam,
Alessandra Pizzini - Nürnberg,
Katja Prins - Amsterdam,
Judit Pschibl - München,
Sabine Steinhäusler - Nürnberg,
Norman Weber - Kaufbeuren


Ausstellungsdauer vom 13.11.2009 bis 06.12.2009, Eintritt frei
Führungen mit beteiligten Künstlern des Forums:
Mittwoch, 25.11.09 um 19:oo Uhr und Dienstag, 01.12.09 um 19:oo Uhr
Öffnungszeiten: Dienstag - Freitag 10.oo - 20.oo Uhr,
Samstag und Sonntag 10:oo - 18:oo Uhr, Montags geschlossen
Neues Museum, Klarissenplatz, 90402 Nürnberg

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

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 new Urban Modern Classic

Very modern, elegant and classic all at the same time.
I made a list of items from amazing designers on etsy. Come by and take a look....