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PlayArtist: THE DOORS
Track: People Are Strange
Record: 45 rpm single
Year: 1967RIP Ray, Jim was right.
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Mount Fuji photographed by Koichi Shimano
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Judith Braun - Portals | Symmetrical Procedure BKS-30-1. Graphite on duralar, 30’x300’ (2008)
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My grandmother, mom, and uncles went through Checkpoint Charlie when it was still in operation. Today I visited what’s...
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Self-Portrait as a Self-Destructing Chocolate Head
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Self-portrait with camera, 1950, photo by Peter Keetman
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KIM BUCK
MY JEWELLERY IS ABOUT JEWELLERY, award-winning goldsmith Kim Buck explains laconically of his elegant, skillfully crafted designs – though simple, it is an apt statement. Buck’s delicate pieces reflect on the fundamental basis of jewellery – wearability and communicability. Buck creates jewellery that is to be worn, that will take on a new life once it leaves the hands of the maker: ”The important thing about jewellery is what goes on after the pieces leave the maker, what they mean to people. Through my pieces I try to show my respect for this, and to visualize the aspects and values of jewellery that we as makers have no influence on, and can take no part in.”
Utilizing materials including gold, silver, pearls, diamonds and even metalled plastic foil on occasion, as in the Gold Heart inflatable brooch, Buck crafts and hand finishes intricate rings, necklaces, pendants, brooches and objects using traditional and modern techniques. Using CAD/CAM (Computer Aided Designed and Computer Aided Manufacturing) software, Buck also employs conventional techniques, honed through his training as a goldsmith; as he says, ”My education as a goldsmith is the basis for everything that I do. I am in a very traditional trade that l both respect and dislike – my recent work reflects these contrasting feelings and mechanisms.”
Alexander Blank
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The Arcadia of youth, with its carefree expectations: Alexander Blank felt it was time for a tribute. Often jewellery has had a symbolic meaning, good examples are the frequent depictions of skulls representing the admonition memento mori – remember you must die. However an accolade for an idealized phase of life is rather unusual. Blank’s heroes from his childhood days were the boisterous animal figures from the animated cartoons, forever fighting the eternal battle between good and evil. Now, at last, they were ready for their final close-up: with great skill and a clever sense of humour Blank cut their imaginary skulls and called these pendants Memento Juniori.
The monumental rings in the exhibition are graced with striking animal heads. In spite of their ivory-white colour, the name of this group of work is Longing for Darkness. Like the skulls, the rings also refer to a bygone time which was full of expectation: Blank’s graduation year at the Akademie in Munich, when he made his impressive black animal brooches.
Arcadia may be out of reach for all eternity, yet the future looks bright. Beyond any doubt these wonderful pieces of sculptural jewellery mark Alexander Blank’s development from a promising talent to a mature artist.
