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In Munich, I’ve met individuals from all all over the world and with totally different connections to the sphere of jewellery. I requested them to speak about the principle purpose they got here.
Emmanuelle Rohrlich: To find artists and developments, and so as to add to her assortment
Emmanuelle Rohrlich is a French jewellery artist who lives in Belgium. That is the primary time she has come to Munich. “Already as a pupil at RHok Academie de Bruxelles, I used to be inspired by my professors to go to this essential occasion in up to date jewellery,” she says. Her important objective in coming was to find artists and developments, and discover inspiration. “I used to be not dissatisfied,” she says. “I discovered it very fascinating to find such totally different artists, strategies, and worlds. It was very enriching and really inspiring to have the ability to work together with the artists, and it made me wish to rapidly return to my studio to work.” Rohrlich additionally needs so as to add to her private assortment. “I purchased a number of items that touched my coronary heart,” she says. She hopes to at some point return to Munich to point out her personal work.
Hitomi Kondo: To help her artists
Whereas strolling down a nondescript road, I spot a lady carrying a particular brooch, so I cease her to ask if she’s on the town for jewellery week. She is. She owns Gallery C.A.J., in Kyoto, Japan. That is her second time attending Munich. This 12 months, she got here to help the artists in her gallery, a few of whom are on present within the Kankan – Kirakira – Dokidoki exhibition in Die Neue Sammlung.
Liesbeth den Besten: It’s the very best place to see plenty of work from all over the place
As I depart the Messe to take the U-Bahn again to the town middle, I encounter Liesbeth den Besten and her husband, Jim Reekers. That is the twenty fifth 12 months that den Besten has attended Munich’s jewellery week. “I’ve seen the occasion develop from a well-organized program to an overloaded and somewhat hysterical entire,” she says. “I at all times miss loads that I later deeply remorse, though I [realize] upfront that I can’t do the whole lot I would love.” She got here partially as a result of she has some conferences and appointments; to select up a beforehand commissioned mourning necklace by Lori Talcot—”After I noticed an Instagram put up by her of a black silver medallion-shaped pendant on a black wire with a black coral and 7 knots, I requested her if she may make one for me with the letters IMO on it. It was beautiful to satisfy her in particular person and to obtain this stunning necklace meaning loads to me, additionally due to the care and a spotlight with which she made it”—and to present a brief speech at Galerie Biro. “One among my finest experiences was an interview with 82-year-old Hubertus von Skal, an important man, eyewitness [to] and a part of the brand new post-war German jewellery, who gave up his workshop final November and now enjoys drawing and writing poems.”
“By going to Munich,” she continues, “I hope to seek out inspiration, as a result of it’s the easiest way to see plenty of work from all corners of the world. I hope to see fascinating exhibitions and work. I’m excited about exhibition show and the set up of jewellery.” Being right here additionally provides her an opportunity to meet up with individuals who have the identical pursuits as she does and who she will’t typically see as a result of they reside far-off. Moreover, it’s the proper place to seek out new jewellery so as to add to her assortment.
Within the harsh gentle of the subway automobile, she exhibits off a lot of the day’s purchases. Some she pulls out of luggage, however she’s particularly excited by a brand new ring she’s already carrying on her left hand, one made by Marta Boan, from Barcelona. Den Besten loves its intelligent development from a single piece of stainless-steel sheet. It “struck me in its simplicity. It’s an excellent design and punctiliously made: exact, and concise. The powder-coated prime is refined. Typically a hoop doesn’t want greater than that.”
Hiyu Hamasaki: His work is on show right here
I meet Hiyu Hamasaki outdoors David Blander Junkyard. He’s Japanese and has come to Munich as a result of he’s a finalist for the BKV Prize for Younger Utilized Arts, so his work is on show. That is his sixth time in attendance—he thinks. He’s unsure. His jewellery was all packed in his baggage, so he confirmed me some photographs of it on Instagram.
Noah Layr: For the connections
Noah Layr is a jeweler from Graz. That is the fourth time he has attended Munich. He involves the occasion to attach with individuals, with work, and the interactions that Munich opens up.
Jana Westreicher: For the inspiration
Jana Westreicher made the silver brooch she wears. That is the primary time the scholar has attended Munich. She’s right here to realize inspiration. “It’s so good to see all of the totally different kinds and all of the creativity,” she says. “It’s simply fantastic!”
Lisa Muriel Huber: To see all the chances
Lisa Muriel Huber’s blue armband of printed plastic movie instantly drew my consideration. She is learning in Graz and has beloved being right here and seeing what’s doable—“All of the totally different approaches and simply seeing you can principally do no matter in case you put sufficient effort and vitality behind it,” she says.
Katia Rabey: To verify whether or not the pandemic derailed the occasion
Katia Rabey got here to Munich twice earlier than the pandemic, however that is her first time again since then. She needed some type of proof that this world nonetheless exists as a result of she had been reduce off from it for a very long time. So—does it nonetheless exist? “It does!” exclaims Rabey, “and overwhelmingly so! I adore it a lot!” She finds the whole lot in regards to the occasion stunning and fascinating and “you see plenty of like-minded people who find themselves so sparsely unfold everywhere in the world. In any other case you’ll be able to hardly really feel them exist outdoors of their Instagram feed, and it’s very, very treasured.” Rabey has written a number of occasions for AJF.
Emma Stone: To satisfy a dream
I meet Emma Stone at an occasion Ludwig Menzil has organized in his lodge room. A black claw-foot tub in a single nook if the packed room has carved picket spoons hanging from its edge. Below a ceiling with plaster putti in every nook and an impressive chandelier, individuals take turns fashioning issues from black wax at a tool-strewn desk. Menzil then attaches them to one in all two black kinds, loosely hour-glass formed and about 18 inches tall and eight inches round on the widest level. It’s as a lot a celebration as a occurring, and though I got here anticipating to manufacture jewellery within the technique of beautiful corpses, it’s by no means made clear what Menzil plans to do with the component-encrusted kinds. Solid them? Possibly in plastic?
Stone was learning jewellery at Massachusetts School of Artwork and Design when COVID ran her education off monitor. Since then she has traveled in Europe a number of occasions, making jeweler associates and dealing of their studios. She’s at present tending bar in Boston and has a small studio in her condominium. She has dreamed of coming to Munich since 2019.
Stone loves vogue, she loves jewellery. “It’s a connecting pressure,” she says, “principally the easiest way that one can articulate themselves and specific individuality, as a result of it serves no performance more often than not.” She has studied the works of jewelers from Germany and surrounding nations: Otto Künzli, Karl Fritsch, Gerd Rothmann, and so many others. She met Künzli the opposite day and noticed Fritsch’s work and Rothmann’s, too. “They’re huge inspirations of mine.” To be in a group that shares her values of expression and craft—”that’s simply the very best factor I may ever hope for.” Now that she’s right here, Stone hopes to current her work someplace on the occasion subsequent 12 months.
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