ARTISTS
Private Confessions: The Drawings of Jewellery Artists
For the first time a 禄jewellery exhibition芦 is devoted to drawing, focussing attention on a complex, hitherto underappreciated subject. Thirty-six contemporary jewellery artists from around the world present a selection of drawings accompanying the work on objects. The spectrum ranges from sketches geared to the actual execution of the piece of jewellery to drawings as autonomous artistic manifestations. The panorama of exhibited works extends from minimalist, radically reduced gestures to written confessions to baroque-like narrative opulence and the conflation with decorative sculpture.
In addition to some 400 drawings, selected jewellery as well as installations and sketchbooks are on view. The exhibition opens a new chapter for the reception and consideration of contemporary auteur jewellery which has taken on singular prominence especially in Munich, drawing thousands of visitors to the capital of Bavaria each year.
The drawings of jewellery artists have all characteristic traits of creative production. Indeed, it is the intimate dialogue with the creative impulse, one that tends to remain inaccessible to the public, which manifests itself in them. The drawing reveals the artist鈥檚 distinctive, signature style, before it is changed and disciplined by material and design. At the same time every graphic expression demands to be recognised as autonomously valid, as an artistic contribution to the process 鈥� as design, but above all as conceptual extension and aesthetic note and oftentimes, indeed, as an independent work which exists alongside the jewellery. The artistic process seeks its paths and finds expression as much in the spontaneous gesture or the jotting down of the prima idea as in the final form.
For the first time a 禄jewellery exhibition芦 is devoted to drawing, focussing attention on a complex, hitherto underappreciated subject. Thirty-six contemporary jewellery artists from around the world present a selection of drawings accompanying the work on objects. The spectrum ranges from sketches geared to the actual execution of the piece of jewellery to drawings as autonomous artistic manifestations. The panorama of exhibited works extends from minimalist, radically reduced gestures to written confessions to baroque-like narrative opulence and the conflation with decorative sculpture.
In addition to some 400 drawings, selected jewellery as well as installations and sketchbooks are on view. The exhibition opens a new chapter for the reception and consideration of contemporary auteur jewellery which has taken on singular prominence especially in Munich, drawing thousands of visitors to the capital of Bavaria each year.
The drawings of jewellery artists have all characteristic traits of creative production. Indeed, it is the intimate dialogue with the creative impulse, one that tends to remain inaccessible to the public, which manifests itself in them. The drawing reveals the artist鈥檚 distinctive, signature style, before it is changed and disciplined by material and design. At the same time every graphic expression demands to be recognised as autonomously valid, as an artistic contribution to the process 鈥� as design, but above all as conceptual extension and aesthetic note and oftentimes, indeed, as an independent work which exists alongside the jewellery. The artistic process seeks its paths and finds expression as much in the spontaneous gesture or the jotting down of the prima idea as in the final form.
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