Klimt02 Gallery News en-EN Klimt02 Gallery News /images/logo.gif Copyright: (C) Klimt02 klimt@klimt02.net Wed, 17 Jun 2009 02:00:00 GMT SELECT * FROM item i INNER JOIN blog b ON i.id = b.iditem WHERE i.esborrat = 0 AND i.idtype = 23 ORDER BY i.data_alta DESC LIMIT 0, 10 <![CDATA[Mari Ishikawa & David Bielander awarded in Munich]]> Mari Ishikawa and David Bielander for being awarded this year during the Schmuck at the 62nd International Trade Fair in Munich.


Bavarian State Award for special design and technical excellence in the craft, 2010, in the field of design
«Handwerk & Design» 2010: Hall A1, Stand 05B/06B

Jewelry series “Monophony "

The goldsmith Mari Ishikawa, born in Japan, studied at the Jewellery Class of the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and she is now living and working here.
The inspiration for her jewelry she often gets from nature. The forms of plants and their structures are used to ornament the body and the vitality in nature, the changes between light and shadow is visible in her jewellery.


Herbert Hofmann Price 2010
Herbert Hofmann Prize 2010 was awarded at the International Trade Fair in Munich. 

David Bielander was awarded for his oversized pieces of corn. This floral decorative motif to the Basel artist with a trailer "with wit and sly humor succeed," said the jury, "the bearer of a simple joy of doing."
Wit, humor, and visible joy of doing are characteristics for the work of the Basel artist David Bielander. With his oversized pieces of corn he was awarded with the Herbert Hofmann Prize. 



brooch by Mari Ishikawa


necklace by David Bielander

]]> Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100 17312 <![CDATA[Preview of the 2010 Collection: The Beauty & The Best.]]> a preview of the next year : The Beauty & The Best : 2010 collection. Klimt02 regards the works in this exhibition as essential and representative of the current contemporary jewellery scene. The Beauty is more than just decoration; it rather means good, well done and essential. The Best, for klimt02 and now for you all as well, is a selection of pieces that will make us think and feel.

Klimt02 Gallery exhibits the work of international artists such as:
Alexander Blank, Helen Britton, Pavel Herynek, Stefan Heuser, Jiro Kamata, Dominique Labordery, Benjamin Lignel, Sari Liimatta, Fritz maierhofer, Marc Monzó, Javier Moreno Frías, Katja Prins, Estela Sàez, Tore Svensson


















Más info de JOYA / More info about JOYA en: www.joyabarcelona.com


]]> Mon, 07 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0200 15163 <![CDATA[Klimt02 Press Reviews Online]]> Klimt02 | gallery and its events are posted regularly at the following web sites:

http://www.b-guided.com
Guía online de la publicación trimestral de cultura contemporanea.

http://lecool.com
Información cultural actualizada semanalmente de Madrid, Barcelona y Lisboa.

http://www.urbanjunkies.com
Exclusiva y afamada revista electrónica londinense que provee más de cada día a 40.000 suscriptores con la última y más avanzada información local en artes, moda, diseño, ocio y entretenimiento.

http://www.good2b.es
Web de tendencias de Barcelona, con toda la información sobre la cultura barcelonesa.

http://www.waaau.com
Web Agenda Urbana de Barcelona. Actualizada cada jueves con la mejor propuesta cultural y de ocio.

http://www.neo2.es
Art / Fashion / Housing / Music / Food / Graphic

http://bcncanalla.blogspot.com

http://barcelona.unlike.net
The definitive city guide for the mobile generation

http://blog.tendencias.tv
Noticias sobre tendencias urbanas, moda, cultura, gastronomia y living.

http://www.barcelonacreativa.info
Barcelona Turismo Creativo

http://18kt.wordpress.com
Proyecto de joyería contemporanea

http://es.wordpress.com

]]> Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0100 12627 <![CDATA[Ralph Bakker coming exhibition: Jewellery]]> Ralph Bakker presenta sus últimas creaciones en la galería Klimt02.

4 de diciembre de 2008. Inauguración en Klimt02 —galería especializada en joyería contemporánea, situada en la calle Còrsega 317 de Barcelona— de una nueva exposición de joyería de arte.

Ésta es la última exposición individual de 2008, y permanecerá abierta hasta el 9 de enero de 2009.

Ralph Bakker (1958) vive y trabaja en su ciudad natal, Rotterdam (Holanda). Estudió joyería en la Vakschool de Schoonhoven y en la Gerrit Rietveld Academie de Amsterdam.

Su obra se encuentra en las siguientes colecciones: Goud-, Zilver- en Klokkenmuseum (Schoonhoven), Rijksdienst Beeldende Kunst, Student-collection Gerrit Rietveld Academie (Amsterdam), Schielandshuis/Historisch Museum (Rotterdam), Wilhelmina Ring, Newark Museum of Art (EE. UU.). 




Ralph Bakker presents his latest creations at the Klimt02 gallery.

4th December 2008 marks the opening of a new art jewellery exhibition at the Klimt02 gallery (Carrer Còrsega 317, Barcelona), which specialises in contemporary jewellery

This is the last solo exhibition of 2008 and will remain open until 9th January 2009.

Ralph Bakker (1958) lives and works in Rotterdam (Holland), his native city. He studied jewellery at the Vakschool in Schoonhoven and at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam.

His work can be found in the following collections: Goud-, Zilver- in the Klokkenmuseum (Schoonhoven), Rijksdienst Beeldende Kunst, Student collection at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie (Amsterdam), Schielandshuis/Historisch Museum (Rotterdam), Wilhelmina Ring, Newark Museum of Art (USA).

]]> Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0100 12403 <![CDATA[Klimt02 | Gallery en Joyas à la Carte]]> >> Leer el dossier completo en castellano (pdf)


JOYAS À LA CARTE es una plataforma donde se encuentran y hacen negocios un grupo internacional de creadores de Joyería Contemporánea de alta calidad artística.
El evento tendrá su primera edición el día 29 de Noviembre de 2008 en el Hotel 1898 en Las Ramblas 109, Barcelona, España.
Joyas à la Carte consiste en una feria internacional de Joyería Contemporánea nunca antes celebrada en España, una oportunidad única para que los jóvenes diseñadores puedan presentar sus colecciones, ofrecemos la posibilidad de venta directa al público final, un evento a Puertas Abiertas y entrada gratuita al público general, con una convocatoria de medios de
comunicación y difusión por toda España.

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JOYAS À LA CARTE is a meeting point and a platform to make business for a group of international, high class, Contemporary Jewellery and art designers.
The event will take place for the first time on the 29th of November 2008 at the 1898 Hotel, Rambla 109 in Barcelona, Spain.
Joyas à la Carte is the first international Contemporary Jewellery Fair of it’s kind in Spain and a unique opportunity for young designers to present and be able to sell their collections to a wide public. We make it possible during an Open Doors, free audience admission event at the presence of the media, ensuring widest possible national coverage.

KLIMT 02 - Joyas à la Carte from tendenciastv on Vimeo.

 

 


Main entrance

 
General view of the display


Visiting the gallery display


Manon van Kouswijk


Peter Hoogeboom


Svenja John


Javier Moreno Frias


Stefano Marchetti


Mari Funaki


Gésine Hackenberg


Helen Britton


Sari Liimatta


Helfried Kodré


Pilar Garrigosa

]]> Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0100 12243 <![CDATA[Helen Britton coming exhibition: Chaos and Clean Shapes]]> Helen Britton presenta sus últimas creaciones en la galería Klimt02.

18 de septiembre de 2008. Inauguración en Klimt02 –galería especializada en joyería contemporánea, situada en la calle Còrsega 317 de Barcelona– de una nueva exposición de joyería de arte.

Esta es la cuarta exposición individual de 2008 que permanecerá abierta hasta el 10 de octubre. La próxima estará dedicada al artista alemán Ralph Bakker (04 de diciembre – 8 de enero 2009).

Helen Britton nació en 1966 en Lithgow (Australia), aunque vive y trabaja en Munich donde comparte taller con David Bielander y Yutaca Minegishi. Estudió Arte y Diseño en la Edith Cowan University, y Diseño en Metal y en 3D y un máster en Bellas Artes en la Curtin University of Technology, ambas situadas en Perth. Fue alumna del curso de joyería que impartió el profesor Otto Künzli en la Akademie der Bildenden Künste en la ciudad donde ella reside. En 2007 recibió el premio Stadtgoldschmiedin. Entre otras galerías, ha expuesto en Oona (Berlín), Biró (Munich), Louise Smit (Amsterdam), Funaki (Melbourne), Jewelers' Werk (Washington), Hélène Porée (París), Beatrice Lang (Berna) y Sofie Lachaert (Tielrode, Bélgica). 





Helen Britton presents her latest creations at the Klimt02 gallery.

September 18th 2008, inauguration at Klimt02 –a gallery specialising in contemporary jewellery on Còrsega 317, Barcelona-, of a new art jewellery exhibition.

This is the fourth individual exhibition of 2008 and will remain open until October 10th. The next will be dedicated to the German artist Ralph Bakker (December 4th – January 8th 2009).

Helen Britton was born in 1966 in Lithgow (Australia), although she lives and works in Munich, where she shares a workshop with David Bielander and Yutaca Minegishi. She studied Art and Design at the Edith Cowan University, and Design in Metal and in 3D and a master in Fine Arts at the Curtin University of Technology, both in Perth. She was a student on the Jewellery course given by professor Otto Künzli at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in the city in which she resides. In 2007 she received the Stadtgoldschmiedin award. Amongst other galleries, she has exhibited in Oona (Berlin), Biró (Munich), Louise Smit (Amsterdam), Funaki (Melbourne), Jewelers' Werk (Washington), Hélène Porée (Paris), Beatrice Lang (Berne) and Sofie Lachaert (Tielrode, Belgium).

]]> Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0200 11177 <![CDATA[Marc Monzó coming exhibition: The world of things]]> Marc Monzó presenta sus últimas creaciones, y el libro que recoge su trayectoria hasta hoy, en la galería Klimt02.


28 de Mayo de 2008, inauguración en Klimt02 -galería especializada en joyería contemporánea en la calle Còrsega 317 de Barcelona-, de una nueva exposición de joyería de arte.

Ésta es la tercera individual de 2008, y permanecerá abierta hasta el 1 de Julio. La próxima estará dedicada a la artista alemana Helen Britton (Septiembre-Octubre). 

Marc Monzó, artista catalán (Barcelona, 1973), vive y trabaja en su ciudad natal. Estudió en la escuela de arte y diseño Massana, y ha dado clases y conferencias en el Konstfack College de Estocolmo, el Hiko Mizuno College de Tokio, y la Gerrit Rietveld Academie de Amsterdam. En el año 2006 el Colegio de Joyeros de Cataluña le concedió el premio de la sección de diseño.



Marc Monzó presents his latest creations and a book that compiles his trajectory until today in the Klimt02 Gallery.

The 28th May 2008 marks the opening of a new exhibition of art jewellery in the Klim02 Gallery (Còrsega 317, Barcelona), which specializes in contemporary jewellery.

This is the third individual exhibition to take place in 2008 and will end on 1st July. The following exhibition will be devoted to German artist Helen Britton (September-October).


Marc Monzó, Catalan artist (Barcelona, 1973), lives and works in his home town. He studied at the Massana art and design school, and he has given master classes and lectures in the Konstfack College in Stockholm, the Hiko Mizuno College in Tokyo, and the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. In 2006 the Catalan Jewelers’ Association awarded him the Prize of the design category. 

]]> Tue, 20 May 2008 00:00:00 +0200 10493 <![CDATA[X-BONES: new publication by Svenja john]]>
In her most recent works, Svenja John has abandoned the voluminously interlocking modules. Now she is more interested in an additive fitting together – the so-called x-bone becomes the essential part of an airy construction. 

Inspired by the beauty of nature, the artist builds airy, bizarre, and filigree-like art works that, like a frost-flowered window or a snow crystal, embody something mysterious. Elaborately formed pendants are reminiscent of umbellate blossoms, while colorless chains and brooches acquire charm through the additional use of stainless steel. 




The plastic in foil form is sanded and hand-painted. The resulting color combinations underline the character of the individual pieces; plasticity and volume are emphasized. The color density of the works can be determined; the applied color penetrates the plastic and cannot be rubbed off. Intelligently assembled without rivets, screws, or any other mounting method, the delicate and ornamental foil lamellae result in transparent, floating constructions of extreme stability and astonishing flexibility. For an intricate pendant, there can be as many as 300 individual elements, while a bracelet can get along with 20 interlocking elements. Her works are given artful names such as Anillo, Pimpollo, or Semila. 

]]> Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0200 10386 <![CDATA[Jiro Kamata. Joyas 1998-2007: Lecture]]> Un recorrido por su obra y las motivaciones de cada uno de los proyectos en estos 9 años.

Nacido en 1978 en Hirosaki (Japón), Jiro Kamata vive y trabaja en Múnich. Estudió en el Yamanashi Institute of Gemology and Jewellery Art, la Hochschule für Gestalltung de Pforzheim, y la Academy of Fine Arts de Múnich con el profesor Otto Künzli.
Su obra se encuentra en las siguientes colecciones: Deutches Goldschmiedehaus (Hanau), Hiko-Mizuno Collection (Tokio), Marzee Collection (Nijmegen), Alice and Louis Koch Ring Collection (Basel), Helen Drutt Collection (Filadelfia), y la Françoise van den Bosch Foundation (Amsterdam).

(…) Las lentes de cámaras fotográficas (y también de las gafas) apasionan a Jiro Kamata. Las separa del instrumento del que forman parte y devienen collares, broches y anillos meticulosamente concebidos. Piezas de joyería que capturan los reflejos del entorno de un modo único, convirtiéndose, en cierta manera, en representaciones de una realidad concreta (…). 


jiro kamata



Organizan: ClubCasaAsia + Klimt02 Gallery + Escola Massana
Fecha: viernes 11 de abril, 12 h 00
Lugar: Casa Asia. Casa Asia, 373. 08008 Barcelona. Sala Samarcanda, planta 3


Actividad asociada:
Exposición en Klimt02 Gallery (www.klimt02.net/gallery ) : Momentopia: Jiro Kamata.
Inauguración 10 de Abril a las 19 horas.
Duración de la exposición hasta el 3 de mayo.


Inscripción:
La inscripción previa a la conferencia es imprescindible y se puede hacer por correo electrónico (club@casaasia.es) o por teléfono (93 368 08 36). También puede presentarla directamente en InfoAsia, Av. Diagonal, 373, de lunes a viernes de 10.00 h a 14.00 h y de 16.00 h a 20.00 h o por correo a la dirección siguiente:
InfoAsia
Av. Diagonal, 373
08008 Barcelona


ClubCasaAsia se reserva el derecho de cancelar cualquier actividad en caso de no alcanzarse un mínimo de alumnos inscritos. Las fechas y horarios propuestos son susceptibles de variación. 
]]> Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0200 10291 <![CDATA[Jiro Kamata coming exhibition: Momentopia]]>
Jiro Kamata presents her latest creations at Klimt02 gallery.

10 de Abril de 2008, inauguración en Klimt02 -galería especializada en joyería contemporánea en la calle Còrsega 317 de Barcelona-, de una nueva exposición de joyería de arte.

Ésta es la segunda individual de 2008, y permanecerá abierta hasta el 3 de Mayo. La próxima estará dedicada al barcelonés Marc Monzó (Mayo-Junio).

Jiro Kamata, artista japonés (Hirosaki, 1978), vive y trabaja en Munich. Estudió en el Yamanashi Institute of Gemology and Jewellery Art, la Hochschule für Gestaltung de Pforzheim, y la Academy of Fine Arts de Munich con el profesor Otto Künzli. 





]]> Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0200 10213 SELECT * FROM item i INNER JOIN press p ON i.id = p.iditem INNER JOIN itemclassification ic ON ic.iditem = i.id WHERE i.esborrat = 0 AND i.idtype = 25 ORDER BY i.data_alta DESC LIMIT 0, 10 <![CDATA[The Beauty & The Best: Pensar y sentir]]> Número 158, Julio 2010
By Roser Vendrell

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(...) Con esta recopilación quieren hacer partícipes de conceptos, mensajes, pensamientos, ironías, preguntas, respuestas, transgresiones y lenguajes implícitos que han encontrado una forma y devenido entidades físicas. Broches, pins, sortijas, pendientes, collares, pulseras e incluso llaveros, de autores como Marc Monzó, Gemma Draper, Ted Noten, el “señor de los anillos” alemán Karl Fritsch, el suizo David Bielander, la finlandesa Sari Liimatta y sus ejercicios de “acupuntura” artística, el francés Benjamin Lignel y sus curas para posesivos compulsivos de blin. (...)

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(...) With this collection they want to involve concepts, messages, thoughts, ironies, questions, answers, transgressions and implicit languages have found a way and become physical entities. Brooches, pins, rings, earrings, necklaces, bracelets and even key chains, by authors such as Marc Monzo, Gemma Draper, Ted Noten, Karl Fritsch, David Bielander, Sari Liimatta, Benjamin Lignel (…).




]]> Thu, 15 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0200 19321 <![CDATA[Barcelona is an avant-garde design mecca]]> The Washington Post
By Blake Gopnik



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>> read the online article at The Washington Post site

Barcelona, city of design: Those elegant art nouveau curves, the riot of Antoni Gaudi's extravagances and excrescences. Those are the standard images that come to mind.

But how about Barcelona, city of design: A high-end bar crafted to look like a low-end dive; a jewelry emporium that shows ceramic rings cut from old dishes; a chocolate boutique that offers a truffle made with South American corn and Japanese seaweed.

Doing the standard "design tour" that gets packaged-up for Barcelona's millions of tourists can be like taking a walk 100 years ago, when art nouveau was radical and Gaudi had yet to meet his fatal trolley car. Last time I visited the city, I went looking for something fresher. Even in design-challenged Washington, I'd heard hints that Barcelona was on its way to being one of Europe's new centers for truly avant-garde objects. I decided to see whether I could confirm them on my own custom-made, one-day design tour.

I knew that I'd need local guidance -- the cutting edge tends not to be tourist-friendly -- so I found my way to Curro Claret, a 40-year-old Catalan designer whose Web site includes projects such as a breadboard that funnels crumbs to a bird feeder and a vase made from an oil spill's leftover sludge. He was clearly my man in Barcelona for vanguard design.

Claret arranges for us to meet on the ground floor of the ultra-stylish Hotel Omm, in the middle of the Eixample neighborhood where most tourists head to see Gaudi and friends. We, instead, are contemplating a towering front lobby lit by huge sandblasted globes by the Catalan designer Antoni Arola, shining on sleek modern pieces by such international heroes of modern design as Arne Jacobsen. It's all as stylish as could be -- and the subject of an immediate apology from Claret. This kind of showy modern decor, he explains, is not what counts as cutting-edge in Barcelona.

He really brought me here, he says, for the building's facade, by Juli Capella, a leading local architect and design curator. We head outside and gaze up at a featureless expanse of minimal white tile that has been peeled back in sections to let in light and air, like an Advent calendar someone forgot to print a picture on. But there's more to the facade than that interesting look: Its "peelings" also keep the building's windows shaded from the brutal Catalan sun.

Next stop takes us around the corner to the venerable Vinçon housewares store, whose name is on the lips of anyone who knows anything about Barcelona design. A main front room is full of fairly standard modern furnishings such as you might get at Ikea or Conran, or even Crate and Barrel, but it also reserves space for the politically charged Social Texture T-shirts of Marti Guixe, one of the city's best-known and most radical designers. Each shirt comes lettered with a simple declaration of a role in society -- "consumer," "social artist," "ex-designer" -- forcing buyers to announce the part they want to play in life.

If Vinçon is the more accessible end of Barcelona's design world, our next stop takes us to its other extreme. Well-hidden on the second floor of one of Eixample's elegant beaux-arts apartment blocks, with no signage of any kind beyond a name on one of the doorbells, lurks Klimt02, one of the world's great homes for radical jewelry. An airy Old World flat has been fitted out to show off the very latest in wearable art: those ceramic rings, by a German, as well as silver pins made to look like old-fashioned toothpicks, by the Catalan Marc Monzó. Leo Caballero, one of the gallery's hip, young owners, says that his clients appreciate "art they can take wherever they go" -- although he also admits that the more radical and sculptural pieces probably spend most of their lives in a drawer or display case.

Eixample is home to many of the city's high-end design showrooms. One we spend some time in belongs to a Spanish bathroom-fixture manufacturer called Cosmic. Although most of its products still operate in a standard, if very attractive, minimalist mode, in the back of the store there's a big display of Simplex sinks by Barcelona's Martin Azua. Azua, who has arranged to meet us at Cosmic, shows us a nice deep sink made of ruby-red plastic, with a metal hook instead of a faucet; the hook is meant to let a length of standard garden hose, and a standard garden nozzle, replace the fancy hardware that most posh sinks demand. (The sink is advertised for outdoor use, but Azua says he prefers the idea of using it in fancy interiors.)

Almost time for lunch -- but first we need to ruin our appetites. A short cab ride takes me and my guide to a banal residential neighborhood and to a tiny shop front where the young chocolatier Enric Rovira goes truly cutting-edge. An "ensemble" of chocolates called "Oceans" includes a corn-and-seaweed truffle titled Pacific (get it? -- corn's from that ocean's western edge, and seaweed's from the shores of Japan) as well as an Indian truffle flavored with pistachio and tea and an Antarctic one that's an effervescent white chocolate with a tiny dash of sea salt. Rovira's probably more avant-garde, at least within the world of sweets, than anything we've seen so far.

Our lunch stop, in the Raval arts district, does its best to hide its avant-gardism, which only makes it more high-cred. Dos Palillos restaurant is in the ultra-trendy Casa Camper Hotel -- owned by the hip Spanish shoemaker, and equally stylish. (Of course it is: It was designed by architect Fernando Amat, owner of Vinçon.) Dos Palillos serves high-end Asian tapas in its high-design backroom, but its street-front bar is carefully designed to make sure you'd never know it. Stacked beer crates act as temporary seating, a crude shelf harbors plastic sports trophies, and the bar stools are deliberately cobbled together, handyman style. All a careful simulation of the kind of modest bar that once filled the Raval, explains Claret, rather than the real thing. Lunching at the bar at Dos Palillos is like eating inside a big ironic wink.

Things get a touch more straightforward in the afternoon, with a tour of the Raval's design hot spots. There's a visit to a local Camper shoe-shop, which gets frequent makeovers by the latest in hot-shot designers. (A facelift by the German Konstantin Grcic, for instance, involves covering some surfaces with a field of tiny mirror tiles, so your reflection looks like low-res pixilation.) We also stop by Room Service Gallery, a concrete-floored space that shows the very best in radical design from Germany and Holland -- it's showing chairs made from factory scraps by Dutchman Maarten Baas.

Soon, in typical Barcelona fashion, it's back to thinking about food. Most people visit the great Boqueria market to enjoy its vintage ironwork, but we're there to check out a few incursions of more modern tastes. There's the fishmongers called Genaro, done up with polished-concrete walls, bold metal lettering (it's made to echo text-based art) and asymmetrical cases holding its fish. And the famous little lunch-counter called Pinotxo -- named after the Pinocchio-sized nose of its ancient, Muppet-like owner -- recently redone in sleek stainless-steel and wood veneers by the fashionable architects at Pepe Cortes Associates. (If you ask me, the food's the real creative treasure at Pinotxo. I discover the esoteric pleasure of braised rabbit chops -- dozens to a serving, each the size of a quarter and tender as could be. The chickpeas are almost as good.)

Finally, for "dessert" at the end of our long day, we walk the length of the famous Gothic quarter -- gorgeous as ever, if not exactly avant-garde -- to catch performative candywork in a store called Papabubble.

Papabubble is not, strictly speaking, Catalan: It was founded by recent immigrants from Australia. But it fits the avant-garde ethos I've witnessed elsewhere in the city. Occupying the recently abandoned premises of a 150-year-old tinsmith -- creative reuse is a design obsession in Barcelona -- Papabubble feels like candymaking as it might have been practiced in Weimar Berlin, then reimagined by the Cirque du Soleil. In a spotlit room, black-clad hipsters practice punk confiserie, pulling and kneading hot rock candy as tortured tangos -- Kurt Weill meets Tom Waits -- make the warm air throb.

Gaudi might have approved.



]]> Sun, 14 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0100 17091 <![CDATA[KLIMT02: 2010 collection]]> Número 184, Enero-Marzo 2010

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Dicen los responsables de KLIMT02 que “el creador, el artista, el joyero es un catalizador de nuestra realidad”. Así la perciben un total de 26 artistas internacionales que ha reunido la galería en su nueva colección 2010, compuesta por 140 piezas.

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The heads of KLIMT02 say that “the creator, the artist, jewellery itself is a catalyst of our reality”. That is how it is perceived by the 26 international artists that the gallery brought together in its new 2010 collection, comprised of 140 pieces.



]]> Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0100 16789 <![CDATA[Silver ears (and other garbage) / Orelles de plata (i altres immundícies)]]> Dijous 6 de Desembre de 2009
Ángela Molina

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The avant-garde arts and the “applied arts” (or those concerning objects considered “precious”) belong to two worlds that are only apparently irreconcilable. During the second half of the 20th century a transformation took place in the world of jewellery in respect of the role of the author, who became and independent producer isolated in his study, just like a conventional artist. Gone were the schools and workshops of his predecessors from the turn of the century, such as René Lalique, Georges and Jean Bouquet, Henry Vever or Theodor Farhner; highly professionalised jewellers who hired other designers to consolidate their firms.

In the 1950s and 1960s, the Academies of Fine Arts in countries like Germany, Holland, Belgium, Norway, Denmark and Italy began to exploit the expertise of great innovators, who shared the uses of modernity with painters and sculptors. During this period, the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich became the epicentre of world jewellery, presided over by Franz Rickert, Hermann Jünger and Otto Künzli. The Bavarian academy is now considered the real birthplace of signature jewellery, together with Amsterdam’s Rietveld Academie, founded in 1968. It is worth recalling that in Catalonia the Escola Massana promoted jewellery as an artistic discipline in 1950, on the initiative of Manuel Capdevila, Ana Font and Ramon Puig Cuyàs.

The Klimt02 gallery, the only one in Spain to focus exclusively on contemporary jewellery, has been reaping the fruits of the great European schools for three years. With exquisite delicacy, its directors, Leo Caballero and Amador Bertomeu, have put together the collection entitled The Beauty and the Best, made up of 140 works by 26 first-rate artists. The concept is based on the idea that Beauty goes beyond the ornamental: “The aim is to collect what is well done and is essential; what is Good is the selection of works on the basis of what makes you think and feel good”, they state.

All the authors in the Klimt02 collection have their own artistic language. The German artist Gésine Hackenberg creates small still lives in Danish glass while paying tribute to the paintings of the 17th and 18th centuries. For her Room Service project, the Dutch artist Manon van Kouswijk creates painstaking white ceramic pieces with pearls, wood and plastics that are transformed into a family heirloom, an object of exchange, a memory or a souvenir. Sari Liimatta designs apparently innocent objects with rubber toys, plastic pearls, needles and glass from her native Finland; a real challenge for the surrealist imagination. The Swiss artist David Bielander uses an ironic approach to short circuit traditional formal models on the basis of unusual materials; the material that he uses to simulate meat in his necklaces/Viennese sausages, bratwurst and weisswurst comes from Thonet chairs. A true neo-dadaist. The situationism of the French artist Benjamin Lignel leads him to come up with brooches that are nipples, silver ears created by taking a mould of the user’s own ears, and gold and silver rings in the form of band-aids. In her Beautiful City series of necklaces, Annelies Planteydt, another Dutch artist, recreates imaginary house plans: they are necklaces structured into two stages; the invention stage and that of putting the jewel on. As such, the house becomes inhabited by a body - or the house inhabits a cleavage.

On another tack and using a different device, the Worth vs. Waste collective, at the Centre d’Art Santa Mònica, has come up with the concept of appropriating an everyday object: the garbage bag. Two years ago, the Portuguese curator Ana Cardim sent an e-mail to ninety selected artists and designers asking them to create a metal structure pin incorporating a small transparent plastic bag with a small kit of spares, enabling the bag to be replaced each time that the jewel was used. In these garbage pins a fine material clashes with a material that is an enemy of the planet. For those behind this travelling exhibition, this is not about turning garbage into something provocative or “de-aestheticising” art but rather it aims to blur the boundaries between creation and other artistic practices, such as advertising, comics, jewellery or photography.

In the exhibition catalogue Martí Perán goes much further, stating that these pieces “turn the surplus of experience into a treasure”. For the art critic this is about “understanding life by turning its caducity into a jewel”. A new function of art in its incessant desire to merge with life: compiling the surplus of experience for the museum of hidden treasures. Institutional criticism or simply garbage?

The Beauty and the Best. Klimt02 Gallery, 2010 Collection. Carrer Còrsega, 317, pral. 2a. Barcelona. Opens on 17th December. www.klimt02.net

Garbage Pin Project. Worth vs. Waste. Centre d’Art Santa Mònica. La Rambla, 7. Barcelona. Curator: Ana Cardim.




]]> Wed, 30 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0100 16500 <![CDATA[Klimt02, Joieria contemporània]]> Divendres 6 de Gener de 2009
Alexandra Serret


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Trossos d'un Mercedes Benz convertits en fermalls, collarets extrets de plats de cuina de ceràmica, peces de Lego que són anells, i fins i tot, puntes de vibradors que pengen de collarets. A la galeria de la joieria contemporània Klimt02 es reuneixen les peces d'artistes consagrats amb les de gent jove, per les quals els propietaris aposten sense por i creuen que en un futur pendràn el relleu dels grans mestres. (...)


]]> Mon, 09 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0100 13003 <![CDATA[Helen Britton: Narrative Microcosms]]> Número 181, Noviembre-Enero 2008-2009


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«Cuando creo joyas, transmito tensiones y bellos enfrentamientos en un pequeño espacio complejo, construyendo diminutos paisajes teatrales y respuestas emocionales ante un mundo material.»
Así explica Helen Britton el origen de sus microcosmos narrativos.

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“Making jewellery, I play out tensions and beautiful collisions in a small complex space, building miniature theatrical landscapes and emotional responses to the material world.”
That is how Helen Britton explains the origin of her narrative microcosms.





]]> Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0100 12662 <![CDATA[La fiesta del maquillaje: Pastel.]]> Domingo 14 de Diciembre de 2008.
Àngels Marín



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]]> Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0100 12628 <![CDATA[Difusión del diseño de hoy]]> Domingo 14 de Diciembre de 2008.
Ana Domínguez


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Amador Bertomeu y Leo Caballero abrieron en 2001 www.klimt02.net, una plataforma para la difusión de la joyería contemporánea. Seis años después - hace un año y medio-pasaron de lo virtual a lo real, abriendo un espacio en Barcelona (Còrsega, 317) que les sirve de tienda, laboratorio, sala de exposiciones, en donde muestran y venden una amplia y bien elegida selección de diseños internacionales. Alemania y Holanda son países cantera, sencillamente porque tienen escuelas importantes donde van a parar australianos y japoneses. Más de cuarenta diseñadores que ellos prefieren llamar artistas por dos razones fundamentales: en primer lugar porque son trabajos hechos a mano y únicos (con un nivel extraordinario en lo tecnológico), y en segundo lugar porque desde el punto de vista de lo conceptual o de investigación están al mismo nivel en que estaría un artista cualquiera que trabaje con otro medio. (...)


]]> Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0100 12593 <![CDATA[Ralph Bakker, Jewellery]]> >> descargar el dossier completo (castellano)
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Ralph Bakker presenta sus últimas creaciones en la galería Klimt02.

4 de diciembre de 2008. Inauguración en Klimt02 —galería especializada en joyería contemporánea, situada en la calle Còrsega 317 de Barcelona— de una nueva exposición de joyería de arte.

Ésta es la última exposición individual de 2008, y permanecerá abierta hasta el 9 de enero de 2009.


Ralph Bakker (1958) vive y trabaja en su ciudad natal, Rotterdam (Holanda). Estudió joyería en la Vakschool de Schoonhoven y en la Gerrit Rietveld Academie de Amsterdam.

Su obra se encuentra en las siguientes colecciones: Goud-, Zilver- en Klokkenmuseum (Schoonhoven), Rijksdienst Beeldende Kunst, Student-collection Gerrit Rietveld Academie (Amsterdam), Schielandshuis/Historisch Museum (Rotterdam), Wilhelmina Ring, Newark Museum of Art (EE. UU.).


Sobre el trabajo:

Para Bakker, el trabajo de joyero es una cuestión de actitud, una mentalidad. Su fuente de inspiración es «el material, el simbolismo de la forma tradicional o la belleza de una técnica». En concreto: «las formas arquetípicas de las joyas tienen una gran importancia. Me puede fascinar una simple cadena: meros círculos que crean un dibujo y una función inmejorables donde la forma y la función están interrelacionadas». Su propósito es «valorar y conservar la tradición de uno de los oficios más antiguos» y que conoce tan bien. De hecho, «estos conocimientos me permiten crear piezas de joyería que nacen a partir de experimentos controlados; unas piezas que llevan consigo toda la tradición de la orfebrería». El suyo fue un criterio inusual en Holanda en una época —finales de los años ochenta y principios de los noventa— en la que la crítica estaba más interesada en los aspectos conceptuales del ornamento.
Su joyería representa un principio y un fin: las nuevas creaciones «contestan a preguntas para las que no encontraba respuestas», ya que «temas intelectuales, que a menudo utilizan compañeros míos, no me resultan interesantes, sino que los considero más bien un callejón sin salida».


Sobre las piezas:

Diseñadas para la mujer y muy llevables, son el resultado de la concatenación de elementos. Están realizadas en oro, plata, minerales como el cuarzo y la aguamarina, cristal y esmalte.
Los anillos y collares que, con su poderosa presencia, ensalzan ese lugar de tránsito en el cuerpo que es la sensual área entre el cuello y el pecho.


Ralph Bakker presents his latest creations at the Klimt02 gallery.

4th December 2008 marks the opening of a new art jewellery exhibition at the Klimt02 gallery (Carrer Còrsega 317, Barcelona), which specialises in contemporary jewellery

This is the last solo exhibition of 2008 and will remain open until 9th January 2009.


Ralph Bakker (1958) lives and works in Rotterdam (Holland), his native city. He studied jewellery at the Vakschool in Schoonhoven and at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam.

His work can be found in the following collections: Goud-, Zilver- in the Klokkenmuseum (Schoonhoven), Rijksdienst Beeldende Kunst, Student collection at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie (Amsterdam), Schielandshuis/Historisch Museum (Rotterdam), Wilhelmina Ring, Newark Museum of Art (USA).


About the work:

Bakker, for whom a jeweller’s work is a question of attitude and mindset, takes his inspiration from "the material, the symbolism of traditional form or the beauty of a technique". Specifically, “archetypical forms of jewellery are of great importance; I can be fascinated by a plain link chain: mere circles creating a picture and function that cannot be improved weher form and function intertwine”. His aim is to “cherish and keep up the tradition of the age-old craft”, with which he is highly familiar. In fact, “this knowledge enables me to let my pieces of jewellery arise from controlled experiments; pieces of jewellery that carry within them the inificance of the goldsmith tradition”. His was an unusual criterion in Holland at a time (end of the 80s and start of the 90s) when critics were more interested in the conceptual aspects of the ornament.
His jewellery is the be all and end all: new creations “answer questions for which I could find no answers”. However, “intellectual themes, which are often used by my colleagues, are not in my sphere of interest and represent a dead-end for me”.


About the pieces:

For women and easy to wear, they are the result of the concatenation of elements. They are produced in gold, silver, minerals such as quartz and aquamarine, glass and enamel. The powerful presence of these rings and necklaces enhances this place of transit on the body, the sensual area between the neck and chest.
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We wish to give you the chance as receivers to feel the emotion involved in appreciating a work of art, thus completing the artistic act.

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Klimt02 | Gallery presents in Barcelona a selection of 140 pieces of 26 international artists. Our selection of works, presented through this 2010 collection, aims to involve you in the implicit concepts, messages, thoughts, ironies, questions, answers, transgressions and languages that have taken shape and have become physical beings.]]> Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0100 16669