Mal glänzend, mall matt, mal bicolor, mal bunt. Mal soft in der Anmutung, mal kantig-klobig. So präsentieren sich 24 Silberobjekte, die im Rahmen des „Schoonhoven Silver Award 2018“ eingereicht wurden.
Gezeigt werden 24 großartige Objekte, die im Rahmen des Kunstwettbewerbs „Silver Award 2018“ eingereicht worden waren. Zu dem Wettbewerb aufgerufen hatte das niederländische Silbermuseum in Schoonhoven, einer europäischen Silberstadt. Das Museum prämiert seit 2010 alle zwei Jahre herausragende Werke – ganz aus Silber geschaffen.
“Policast” by Peter Bauhuis
Im Mittelpunkt des Silver Award steht nicht nur der Rohstoff, sondern auch der Erhalt traditioneller Handwerkstechniken. Silberschmiede und Designer aus aller Welt waren aufgefordert, neue künstlerische und technische Möglichkeiten zu erschließen. Beteiligt hatten sich Künstler u.a. aus Australien, Südkorea und den USA. Entstanden sind einzigartige Kunst-, aber auch Alltagsgegenstände aus Silber.
If you happen to visit San Francisco International Airport this spring, you can drop by in the SFO Museum. This museum presents an exhibition of British silver design 1957 – 2018.
During the postwar years, anyone looking to produce modern design looked to Scandinavia for inspiration, and British silversmiths were no exception. In the late 1950s, an American named Mrs. Lasky travelled to London to visit a friend. Wanting to see modern British silver, she visited the studio of Gerald Benney (1930–2008). Upon viewing his stock items, Mrs. Lasky proclaimed they were not British, but Scandinavian. Shaken by the charge that he was following the Bauhaus School, Benney set out with four or five others to create a distinctively English silver that was “rugged, solid, and functional, but at the same time modern.”
Today, Britain continues to provide the expertise and creative environment that nurtures home-grown talent and attracts student silversmiths from around the world who bring a diversity of influences to British silver design. The Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, more commonly known as the Goldsmiths’ Company, plays a significant role in this ongoing development through patronage, educational programs, and training offered at its Goldsmiths’ Centre in London. So too does Edinburgh’s Incorporation of Goldsmiths, which promotes education within the trade and encourages patronage through its annual festival and purchasing exhibition.
During the month of March the silversmith Ru Runeberg is having a solo exhibition at Galleri Montan in Copenhagen. It’s an exhibition of talking pieces based on birds and insects.
Goldsmiths North is a new show set to take place in July 2019 in the North of England. It will provide a new and specifically tailored selling platform to skilled and innovative creative businesses within the precious metals sector. It will be a national/international event – a retail selling fair bringing the best of designer jewellery and silversmithing from the UK and Europe to the north of England.
Goldsmiths North intends to showcase the work of approximately 60 individual designers and craftsmen. Applications to exhibit will be invited from both jewellers and silversmiths and a jury of local and national experts will be convened to select the best and most professional work.
It is intended that those chosen will be representative of the best work currently being designed and made across the UK. In addition it is intended that up to 20% of the exhibitors will be from outside the UK, providing an opportunity for exhibitors and visitors alike to see as wide a range of work as possible.
Exhibitors will be professional designers and/or craftsmen. They will be required to be present at their stand during the Fair’s opening hours, creating a ‘meet the maker’ environment for the visitors.
Applications are NOW OPEN, with a deadline at midnight 20th December 2018. If you would like to apply for a stand at Goldsmiths North, please submit the online form on the website: www.goldsmithsnorth.com.
If you would like more information, feel free to contact email:
info@goldsmithsnorth.com.
Schoonhoven Silver Award 2018 During the opening of the exhibition the prize winners of the Schoonhoven Silver Awards were announced. The 1st prize Schoonhoven Silver Award was for Peter Bauhuis from Munich won the Schoonhoven Silver Award 2018 with his object “Policast”. Gallery owner and silversmith Paul Derrez received the prize on behalf of Bauhuis. For the first time in the history of the Schoonhoven Silver Award, a Young Professional Award has been presented for participants under the age of 30. Sheng Zhang won this Award with “Inside out” that was made possible by Zadkine and Vakschool Schoonhoven. An honorable mention was for David Huycke and the encouragement prize Young Professionals for Oscar Saurin. Both received a kilo of silver donated by Herens & Herens.
“Policast” by Peter Bauhuis
The jury about the winner The jury, consisting of Angela Cork, Jeroen Martens, Jan Matthesius, says about the winning object “Policast” by Peter Bauhuis: “Peter Bauhuis has perfected his art using one of the oldest techniques, the lost wax technique. He demonstrates a great understanding of the process and of working with different alloys to extend the limits of what can be achieved in silver as a form. The result is poetic and discussion topic for discussion. The design is on the one hand beautifully raw, unfinished and reminds us of archaeological finds. On the other hand, it embraces a very modern look with clear attention to the shape and the square parts of the shape. An inspiring piece in everything.”
Schoonhoven Silver Award 2018 With the 7th edition of the Schoonhoven Silver Award 2018 the Silver Museum wants to challenge silversmiths, designers and visual artists at artistic and technical level. This year the most important criteria for the competition were: challenging the contemporary silversmith on an artistic and technical level, innovating older, traditional silversmithing techniques to preserve the heritage and inject new life and innovation into the profession. The judges also sought inspirational work that will encourage debate, discussion and research among silversmiths to meet a promising and prosperous future. The Schoonhoven Silver Award is an initiative of the ‘Stichting Zilverkunst’ (Silver Art Foundation). Since its inception in 2001 the Award has had six winners. The Award’s most recent editions have been dedicated to promoting contemporary ‘great, silver art’ to a broader, art-minded audience, with the emphasis on innovative silver concepts. The Schoonhoven Silver Award 2018 continues to be devoted to the goal of reaching a wider audience and inspiring artists to test and explore the boundaries of their traditional art and craft.
After the exhibition in Schoonhoven, the objects will be on show in the international traveling exhibition.
This summer the Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum has a jubilee exhibition commemorating its 135 years existence. For the exhibition 125 people from Trondheim and surroundings were asked to choose one object from the collection to be on show and to describe why they chose for this object. Jori Lønseth, member of the Museum’s board, chose the HammerClub Common Bowl 2013, supporting the choice as follows:
In 2013 I assisted as a volunteer and relatively new friend of the museum at a banquet for the HammerClub is a group of European silversmiths who come together every year in a different place to promote the silversmith’s trade as a creative activity. This year, they had chosen Trondheim and the Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum. There was an exhibition that evening on the ground floor of the museum with wonderful examples of handmade silver, and in the middle of this array of vibrant silverware we laid the table for the silversmiths in attendance.
Seeing the items together with the craftsmen fell very vivid and right. As a rule, museums just put things on display, but on this occasion we got to meet the people who made them. This silver bowl was made during the HammerClub’s meeting and bears the marks of the hammer blows applied by each of the participating silversmiths. You can see their initials in various places on this bright, airy silver bowl. It was given the name Midsummer Night.
