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Only 11 days left to submit your work for the 28. International Jewellery Competition “Silver”!

Deadline: 1 April 2019

(Works must reach the Gallery within this deadline - the date on the postmark is irrelevant.)
Also, take into account, please, that works sent from abroad may get stuck at the Customs which causes delays in their arrival at the Gallery.
This year it’s also possible to submit the works directly at the AMBERIF Fair in Gdansk (Poland). We’re waiting to meet you and receive your works at the Gallery stand C 603.

The Entry Form and Competition Terms & Regulations are available at http://silver.legnica.eu/en/?Competitions:SILVER

As always, winners can expect (not only) silver awards.

As usual, the Competition is the main event of Legnica SILVER Festival, which this year celebrates its 40th anniversary. We’re preparing a congratulations postcard for the Festival in the form of a film and we’d like to invite to this project everyone who has ever taken part in the Jewellery Competition, been to Legnica during SILVER Festival or has been connected with the Festival in any other way. We’re asking you to record a short movie with your smartphone, in which you can simply give your greetings and congratulations to the Festival or say a few words more, for example:

- how you’re associated with SILVER,
- what you remember about your stay in Legnica,
- any special memories,
- funny stories,
- people you met in Legnica,
- friends you made there,
- anything else you’ve always wanted to tell the Festival but never had a chance.

We’re looking forward to receiving your competition works and your films! (Deadlines are the same).

Your Silver Team from the Gallery of Art in Legnica

PS. Submission of a film is equivalent to expressing agreement for the film to be displayed publically and distributed together with other materials promoting the Gallery of Art in Legnica and Legnica Jewellery Festival.

Italia

I make jewellery because it makes me feel balanced. And because of my urge to communicate.
Jewellery is contagion. Thoughts and feelins pass from the maker to the viewer just like viruses.
Wearability and perfection are not relevant to me. They may happen , but please don't seek for them in my work.

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Pubblicazioni / Publications

20 – 21st April, at the National Theatre Bucharest, Romania

AUTOR is the most important event in the field of contemporary and art jewelry in South-Eastern Europe. The 2019 edition will mark the 10th anniversary of creating a dynamic environment with high selection standards for contemporary jewelry. The participants at AUTOR are offered access to an exquisite and attractive clientele. Beyond the actual fair, AUTOR is an active platform that encourages and creates a dialogue between designers and their public: consumers, collectors, distributors, specialised media.

Established in 2009, AUTOR has positioned itself throughout its 17 editions as an innovative fair, a connector and a context creator for contemporary and art jewelry creative talents.

Website: http://dautor.ro/en/call-for-entries/

Call for entries AUTOR 2019: http://dautor.ro/en/call-for-entries/

Catalunya

From a young age, it was clear that I wanted to make a type of jewelry that was not merely ornamental. The jewel is my way of expressing myself artistically with total liberdat, the only condition is that it is related and can be used by a person. I usually work with series, I never know how many pieces, I stop when I think that I have nothing else to say on the subject. I try to create a symbiosis between the jewel and its bearer, so that the two become rich. I feel like a filter trying to express the nuances of the world from my point of view. Few contemporary jewelers come from a family tradition and I was lucky enough to learn the trade with my father and now it is my daughter Elena who learns from me, I feel like the link of a very old chain that transmits ancestral knowledge.

Italia

The research is based on the relation between different materials and on how they can converse and enhance each other. The contrast is essential, organic shapes combined with simple figures, poor materials with precious ones, light with darkness. Creating a suggestion in the observer without using figurative elements provokes a wider range of possibilities and reflections. For this reason the creation process becomes extremely important, the spontaneity of the form and the composition are fundamental, the imperfection becomes strength and the fragment infuses a feeling of completeness.
The jewel is born from the transformation of wood into coal, the metamorphosis of the material imparts value to the object, telling a story of unleashed shape shifting potential.

Il giorno 24 marzo p.v. i soci AGC sono convocati in assemblea ordinaria presso il Barco Teatro, Via dell’Orto Botanico 12 Padova alle ore 10.00 per il rinnovo delle cariche statutarie dell'associazione.

Tutti i soci, sono invitati a prendere visione dell'ordine del giorno e delle schede di candidatura, presenti nell'Area Riservata del sito.

AGC Members' Meeting Call

On March 24th, the members of the Association are convened in the ordinary meeting at the Teatro Barco, Via dell'Orto Botanico 12, Padua, at 10.00 am. The elective assembly for the renewal of the Executive Committee will follow at 2.45 pm.

Italia

Paola Mirai is a jewellery designer in Milan. She tamed Orotrasparente a new super-light transparent material that she developed after 5 years of research and experimentation; something rebellious, light as air and transparent as water. It makes who's wearing it feel as protagonist of a new era. Gold, diamonds, precious stones, japanese organza, seeds and technological components float around the body spreading pureness and a special harmony that takes place when East meets West.
The advent of the technological world, geared towards the future, the evolution, is changing our whole life and put the world in a virtual connection, going from centuries based on matter to this new millennium of immateriality. through transparency.

United Kingdom

The ritual of fusing the enamels is painstakingly precise, almost regimented. Applying the enamel freely but purposefully however, allows the material not only to decorate a piece, but to be instrumental in its creation, its appearance and its function. My designs evolve through a dialogue between my source inspiration and the creative potential of the enamel. The versatility of the material is what attracts me the most as it gives an organic feel to my work. My response to the way in which the materials fuse together is intuitive and impromptu. With each layer the enamel adds form, structure and substance to the piece. The natural fragility of the material exudes a new found strength, richness in texture and an acquired preciousness at the same time as the precious metal chain is slowly buried into obscurity. The inquisitive attention, tactile approach and numerous juxtapositions, provoke a sense of preciousness in my jewellery that is understated and enigmatic.

‘Liana’s work has both an immediate and an ancient quality. It looks effortless and elemental: both sumptuous and scabby. The processes Liana uses in making her jewellery are ones of building and burying. Layer upon layer of enamel slowly obscure the foundation of silver chains, forming a vitreous crust that is raw, crackly and uneven. The surfaces are reminiscent of rough ceramic glazes or thick oil paint, and are far from those required by traditional enamelling, which insists on thin and even layers protected by thin walls of metal. Liana’s work shows a healthy disregard for these traditions – her way is inside out, upside down, wrong way round – enamels that are fused to a seemingly unstable base, which surround the fine and delicate metal links, encapsulating them and rendering them inflexible. The natural quality of the surface gives a feel of a much earlier age, yet buried under the enamel are anonymous, potentially unattractive, silver chains of this age of mass production. The point of delight is, not only that unique, colourful and exciting pieces of jewellery are created, but that the rules of enamelling have been broken and rewritten so successfully. It has been a pleasure to watch Liana’s jewellery grow in strength and stature over the last few years.’ Caroline Broadhead

Italia

Creo gioielli e li realizzo completamente a mano con l’uso di tecniche artigianali tradizionali. Nel mio lavoro utilizzo spesso l’oro giallo abbinato all’argento ossidato martellato per ottenere forti contrasti di colore e di superfici sempre diverse. L’intento è quello di realizzare ornamenti piacevoli da toccare e soprattutto da indossare i miei pezzi sono di chiara ispirazione mediterranea, le mie radici sono campane… ma amo pensare che trasmettano anche qualcosa di più profondo, che provengono da un luogo ideale della mente: dalla mia passione per i viaggi traggano suggestioni che diventano materia. Il mio lavoro è quindi frutto dell’incontro tra la tradizione orafa mediterranea e le contaminazioni stilistiche contemporanee.

Greece

Shielded Sentiments, 2019

By dismantling the walls of emotional protection and make honest connections with others, by opening ourselves up without the fear of being hurt, rejected or other painful emotions, we experience the healthy relationships that can benefit us in many ways. Protecting our self physically is a pretty straight forward affair. Protecting our self emotionally calls for more. Some people attempt to avoid uncomfortable situations by metaphorically ‘shielding’ their self within a ‘wall’, and even though this mode of protection has become somewhat comfortable for them, the accompanying feelings of anger, anxiety, and depression are far from healthy. People over time become used to that ‘wall’ and stop noticing it, they learn to ‘live within these walls’. But the wall is incapable of discerning good or bad; what could cause you harm or what is friendly and harmless.

Rooms of the Mind, 2019

The brain controls all functions of the body, interprets information from the outside world through our senses, filtered by our sentiments and experiences, and embodies the essence of the mind and soul. In this work series I am exploring my own interpretations by creating ‘Rooms of the Mind’, in boxes of various shapes drawing out my thoughts, experiences and memories.

Yiota Vogli