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Showing posts with label Galerie Rob Koudijs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Galerie Rob Koudijs. Show all posts

Wearable Animals That Won't Piss Off PETA. The Gathering By Alexander Blank.




Presently showing at the Galerie Rob Koudjis, a Netherland gallery for unusual and artful jewelry (or jewellery) , is a collection of modern animal head brooches by artist Alexander Blank.

Crafted of silver, plexiglass, rigid foam and lacquer, the animal heads are highly stylized. With a matte black finish and a silver pin backing the brooches can be worn as pins or exhibited as art.



Here are all 13 animal pins (Ed's friend, as the artist refers to them) from the exhibit, in alphabetical order:

Bird:

Duck:

Fish:

Fox:

Frog:

Hare:

Lizard:

Pheasant:

Pike:

Rabbit:

Rat:

Shrew:

Sheep:

Snail:



above: Alexander Blank

German artist Blank, a recent graduate of the Munich Academy of Fine Arts, has been exhibiting his works at the Galerie Rob Koudjis for over a year and a half. This is his first solo show and it runs through March 13th.


above: opening night at the Galerie





Galerie Rob Koudijs
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
23-Jan-2010 through 13-Mar-2010

Inspired by Hokusai, Ted Noten Is Haunted By 36 Women



above photo by Sharon Mor Yosef



Haunted by 36 Women
From April 11th-May 23d, a new Ted Noten collection at Galerie Rob Koudijs
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Many types of women (including his mother for which many of the pieces in the collection are named) have inspired Ted Noten in making his new series of work. Assemblages, rings, necklaces, bracelets and brooches in many different colors, materials and sizes are the result of a one year survey through the world of women. The exhibit features: the Fashionista collection, the Icecream Girl collection and the Femme Fatale collection as well as pieces from his Sufragette and MOM series.

Ward Schrijver writes for Galerie Rob Koudjis:

The Japanese artist Hokusai immortalized the most enchanting landscape he knew in a group of woodprints: '36 views of Mount Fuji' (shown below)



These images inspired Ted Noten to develop 36 jewels for just as many types of women. Noten also made images: each woman was portrayed in a three dimensional collage. The shoes, car tyres (tires) and other ‘objects trouvĂ©s’ he used, seem a far cry from regular jewellery (or jewelry).


above photo of Ted Noten courtesy of neuer schmuck

The artist became a jewellery maker at the moment he reworked the scale and details of these collages in a computer. State-of-the-art technology allowed him to produce objects in any material and seize: fit for a finger, arm or neck. Out of each collage just one golden jewel will be developed. In addition to these unique pieces, the designer Noten manufactured small editions in innovative plastics, titanium or steel.

Ted Noten’s work is a radically contemporary approach of the age-old craft of the goldsmith. With it he manages to seduce not only his 36 women: whether you are a lover of sculpture, of exclusive gold or wearable jewellery, his work will be hard to resist. --Ward Schrijver


above: Number 1 of 36, Icecream Girl


above: Pig Bracelet, sintered nylon

above: this one image of the ice cream rings is courtesy of Dezeen.

above: Pig ring, sintered nylon and one in gold, price upon request

Necklaces from the Fashionista series:



above: necklaces made of nylon and pigment, 1,400 euros a piece

From the Suffragette series:

above ring made of nylon and car lacquer, 950 euros

above: price on request


above: Kenau (yellow and rose gold ring objects), prices upon request

From the Mom series:

above: Object, MOM, price on request

above: Brooch, MOM, nylon and pigment, 175 euros


above: Macha ring, nylon and pigment, price upon request

Images of the opening and the exhibit at Galerie Rob Koudijs:









all above images courtesy of Ted Noten, Klimt02, and Galerie Rob Koudijs

Part of this exhibition is shown by Galerie Rob Koudijs at COLLECT in the Saatchi Gallery, London from the 14th to the 17th of May 2009.



Galerie Rob Koudijs
Elandsgracht 12
1016TV - Amsterdam
Netherlands
Telephone: +31 (0)20 331 87 96


ATELIER TED NOTEN
Kanaalstraat 149a
1054 XD Amsterdam, NL
+31(0)206895517
info@tednoten.com

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