Spring has come
Isabell Schaupp, Germany, brooch, silver, coral.
Spring* is an exhibition with sparkling, new work of upcoming talents in the Galerie Sophie Lachaert running until 09-05-2010. Small objects and experiments with new techniques, with unknown materials, holding a world of imagination. A glimpse of poetry and fairytales. Some examples with statements of the artists:
“Due to their partly technical partly organic appearing shapes my work seems to belong to a yet unknown species. Photos of satellite and funnel like wire structures, transferred by a special technique into the enamel, talk an emblematic sort of language.“ Isabell Schaupp (Germany).
Ting-Chun Ara Kuo. Ring „brush“, pearls gold.
„I grew up in a world surrounded by brushes. They were designed, made and sold by those I loved the most. Today, something as simple as a brush, something so soft, warm and precious is reassuring. A little piece of home no matter where my painted life takes me…“ Ting-Chun Ara Kuo (Taiwan).
Thanh-Truc Nguyen. Brooch, silver, textiles.
„Following a fascination, personal impressions and emotions, and translate them into tangible forms. For me it is important not to merely copy already existing forms, but instead to portray my own perceptions as they are through my eyes.
While working with textiles I create new possibilities within my working process. Qualities like elasticity and translucence begin to emerge and play an important role in my work. Voluptuous shapes come to life through colour and filling, whose soft curves remind me of cherry-blossoms. The material hold an innumerable number of small pearls tightly together like a warm embrace. The forms and the sensibility of the material evoke emotions in the viewer and give the pieces sensuality and a sense of life. In the same way that one would handle a cherryblossom, the pieces should be handled delicately as the fragile objects they are. Thanh-Truc Nguyen (Germany).
Nicolay Sardamov. Brooch, “The secret of the garden“, gold.
„Butterflies with wide spread wings and beetles with long feelers are arranged in a circle with legs next to each other and form pieces of jewelry. The insects are their own silhouettes: silver shadows, sometimes gilded or blackened. They sit in symmetric ornaments which grow into three dimensional constructions and resemble flowers in bloom. The beetles and butterflies turn into petals. And the secret of the garden? Its flowers can spread their wings and fly away. Nikolay Sardamov (Bulgaria).
Necklace rubber, silver. Isabelle Hertzeisen (Switzerland).
„Structures, accumulations, duality and tension between the different materials.“
Momoko Kumai. Necklace, paper.
„I use tactile material to create jewellery that evokes a spectrum of
memories and address inner landscapes in my mind. I fold, twist
and roll paper using my hands, at times unconsciously. The uneven
layers of texture emerge from light and shadow, conveying
emotions of permanence to impermanence that reflect the
ephemeral breath of nature with its fragility.“ Momoko Kumai (Japan).
Birgit Hagmann. necklace silver.
„This work is based on drawing. Using the wire, the drawing is transformed into a three-dimensional space. Crystalline-organic structures come to life and become jewellery.“ Birgit Hagmann (Germany).
galerie sofie lachaert st jozefstraat 30 tielrode 9140 belgium
friday saturday sunday 2pm-6pm and by appointment.
www.lachaert.com – info@lachaert.com – t+32 3 7111963
closed 2,3,4 april.
