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Paris, France
website: www.benjaminlignel.com mail: ben@hartlandvilla.com
Benjamin Lignel. photo: Baptiste Lignel, Paris Benjamin Lignel Piece: Io ce l'ho d'oro (yeah...but mine's gold) 2007 Fine gold 6,5 x 3,4 x 3,4 cm Beak extension for pigeon photo: Enrico Bartolucci, Paris An experiment on the ambivalent use of accessories to either mock, or ape, the demeanour of our betters. Benjamin Lignel Piece: Io ce l'ho d'oro (yeah...but mine's gold) 2007 Fine gold 6,5 x 3,4 x 3,4 cm Beak extension for pigeon photo: Enrico Bartolucci, Paris An experiment on the ambivalent use of accessories to either mock, or ape, the demeanour of our betters. Benjamin Lignel Piece: Suck my thumb 2006 Caramel-flavoured chocolate, branded beech 9 x 2,2 x 2,2 cm photo: Samantha Font-Sala An act of faith, designed to last the average length of a Tex Avery animation film, and procure a sweet kind of pleasure. Benjamin Lignel Piece: Wedding Goblets 1996 Sterling silver 9 x 7 x 12 & 8,8 x 6 x 14 cm photo: Joel Degen, London Let me spell this out: this is not a ring-hanger, nor some complicated chin support. This weird goblet is meant to be put on, and worn under the hand: this is proper drinking equipment. Take a groom, a bride: once this apparatus fitted on them, you pour the betrothal wine into the recently adorned palms of their hand: they must drink into each other’s hand, drink up from this ephemeral chalice. Benjamin Lignel Wedding Gobelets, 1996 Manual Benjamin Lignel Ring: Happy family Mrs 1999 Sterling silver, offset-printed card box, paper 9,3 x 3 x 5,8 cm Set of three fold-to-fit rings photo: Joel Degen, London A mild and temporary cure for the compulsively possessive: this ‘happy product’ should make you feel better, whilst having none of the drawbacks of actually meeting with the medical institution. It is especially recommended if you believe that health and beauty are the same thing; this purchase, in fact, should represent a marginal fraction of your monthly ‘splash-out’ on skin creams and slimming products - think of it as an aesthetic band-aid. Benjamin Lignel Ring: Happy family NHS 2002 Rubber, gauze, ink, screen printed card, plastic sleeve 8,4 x 13,7 x 0,3 cm Set of two adhesive rings individual ring 76 x 2 x 26 (top) / 76 x 2 x 20 (bottom) photo: Joel Degen, London Let us imagine that the NHS, just before its death rattle, adopts a liberal charter, simplified procedures, and a fresh, fashion-friendly attitude to dressings: while saving up to put your fatty deposits in the hands of overpaid, sublime surgeons, why not accessorise your minor cuts back to health! (I know you want to.) Benjamin Lignel Brooch: Support your local jeweller 2006 Aluminium, steel, acetate ? 3,2 x 0,8 cm Set of two badges (edition of 150) photo: Joel Degen, London Benjamin Lignel Ring: Super cheap thrills 2007 Fine gold, offset-printed card box 3,9 x 4,6 x 0,6 cm one instant ring photo: Benjamin Lignel, Paris The title refers to Janis Joplin's (almost) eponymous 1968 album, and purports that some memorable pleasures last no more than 9'38" (the ring does; avoid masonry work). Benjamin Lignel Brooch: Getting old sucks 2005-2006 Oxidised sterling silver, stainless steel pin medium 6 x 3,7 x 3,7 large 7 x 3,7 x 4,6 cm two brooches photo: still - Joel Degen, London portrait - Elène Usdin, Paris Brooches for mammal in the p.m., worn to signal some things other than protracted youth: sag, feed, and pride. (The pair). Benjamin Lignel Brooch: Getting old sucks 2005-2006 Oxidised sterling silver, stainless steel pin medium 6 x 3,7 x 3,7 large 7 x 3,7 x 4,6 cm two brooches photo: still - Joel Degen, London Brooches for mammal in the p.m., worn to signal some things other than protracted youth: sag, feed, and pride. (The pair). Benjamin Lignel Brooch: Thinking of you (portrait) 2006-2007 Sterling silver, fine silver, polyurethane paint, stainless steel pin dimensions variable, aprox 4 x 1 x 6,5 cm photo: Enrico Bartolucci, Paris “Thinking of you (portraits)” is a series of brooches that reproduces the ear of the user, or that of the user’s partner / friend/child etc.: each brooch is designed to order, and strives to render, much as a portrait painting would, the specific features of the sitter’s ear. It finds its inspiration in the Victorian hair work popular towards the end of the 19th century: mourning and sentimental jewellery, usually presented in the form of lockets, featuring a painted portrait on its visible side, and a braided hair lock on the flipside, or inside the medallion. It is poised, as the locket was, between remains and representation. Each brooch is delivered in a box, pinned to a folded newspaper page featuring a personal ad describing the sitter. Benjamin Lignel Brooch: Thinking of you (portrait) 2006-2007 Sterling silver, fine silver, polyurethane paint, stainless steel pin dimensions variable, aprox 4 x 1 x 6,5 cm photo: Enrico Bartolucci, Paris “Thinking of you (portraits)” is a series of brooches that reproduces the ear of the user, or that of the user’s partner / friend/child etc.: each brooch is designed to order, and strives to render, much as a portrait painting would, the specific features of the sitter’s ear. It finds its inspiration in the Victorian hair work popular towards the end of the 19th century: mourning and sentimental jewellery, usually presented in the form of lockets, featuring a painted portrait on its visible side, and a braided hair lock on the flipside, or inside the medallion. It is poised, as the locket was, between remains and representation. Each brooch is delivered in a box, pinned to a folded newspaper page featuring a personal ad describing the sitter. Benjamin Lignel Brooch: Thinking of you (portrait) 2006-2007 Sterling silver, fine silver, polyurethane paint, stainless steel pin dimensions variable, aprox 4 x 1 x 6,5 cm photo: Enrico Bartolucci, Paris “Thinking of you (portraits)” is a series of brooches that reproduces the ear of the user, or that of the user’s partner / friend/child etc.: each brooch is designed to order, and strives to render, much as a portrait painting would, the specific features of the sitter’s ear. It finds its inspiration in the Victorian hair work popular towards the end of the 19th century: mourning and sentimental jewellery, usually presented in the form of lockets, featuring a painted portrait on its visible side, and a braided hair lock on the flipside, or inside the medallion. It is poised, as the locket was, between remains and representation. Each brooch is delivered in a box, pinned to a folded newspaper page featuring a personal ad describing the sitter. Benjamin Lignel Brooch: Hello! My name is W 2006-2007 Dental gold, dental ceramics dimensions variable, aprox 1,8 x 0,4 x 3,8 cm set of six brooches photo: still - Enrico Bartolucci, Paris portrait - Elène Usdin, Paris Alongside the medal, which rewards military excellence, we find the trophy: no less a carrier of martial symbolism or an object of ornamental use, I found it surpasses the medal in indicating the flipside of victory, as it is usually procured directly from the carnage that conquest necessarily leaves behind. Quoth Melville, describing Ahab’s Ship: “She was apparelled like any barbaric Ethiopian emperor, his neck heavy with pendant of polished ivory. She was a thing of trophies. A cannibal of a craft, tricking herself forth in the chased bones of her enemies.” This set of brooches was created in response to the ANTI-WAR medals project initiated in 2003 by gallery Velvet da Vinci, in San Francisco. Benjamin Lignel Brooch: Hello! My name is W 2006-2007 Dental gold, dental ceramics dimensions variable, aprox 1,8 x 0,4 x 3,8 cm set of six brooches photo: still - Enrico Bartolucci, Paris Alongside the medal, which rewards military excellence, we find the trophy: no less a carrier of martial symbolism or an object of ornamental use, I found it surpasses the medal in indicating the flipside of victory, as it is usually procured directly from the carnage that conquest necessarily leaves behind. Quoth Melville, describing Ahab’s Ship: “She was apparelled like any barbaric Ethiopian emperor, his neck heavy with pendant of polished ivory. She was a thing of trophies. A cannibal of a craft, tricking herself forth in the chased bones of her enemies.” This set of brooches was created in response to the ANTI-WAR medals project initiated in 2003 by gallery Velvet da Vinci, in San Francisco.
Statement
Ben first trained in philosophy & literature, then in art history, at New York University, and finally in furniture design, in London: hence his interest in the fonctional object, complicated by a penchant for art, and further perverted by sustained exposures to literary works, often momentous, sometimes pertinent. The particulars of his training (two years of furniture design, and five days in jewellery making) defined the way he initially approached jewellery: concerning himself primarily with notions of function and context of use, and usually working towards self-appointed briefs, whilst one step removed from actual manufacture. Even though he is now making a large part of his work, it continues to offer a design-led alternative to a craft-based profession: as an extended family of individual objects that hope to tackle specific aspects of body adornment - with little concern for overall stylistic or technical homogeneity. The laws of gravity, or possibly the cyclical nature of one's interests, have recently been steering him back towards desktop adventures, including, but not limited to, curatorial, associative and writing endeavours. His first curatorial project (in collaboration with Christian Alandete) was also known as jewellery, a touring exhibition of French contemporary jewellery which saw 6 countries before shutting down in 2011. Ben co-founded la garantie, association pour le bijou, a French association with a mission to study and promote jewellery. He became a member of Think Tank, a European initiative for the applied arts, in 2009.
CV
Benjamin Lignel, 1972, France. Education: 1990-92 New York University, New York BA(Hons) Art History 1993-95 Royal College of Art, London MA Furniture Design Public collections: 2012 Purchase by the Robertson library, Dunedin, NZ 2011 cneai, Chatoux 2010 Stedelijk Museum ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Holland 2007 Purchase by the Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris 2006 Purchase by the Fonds Permanent du Bijoux Contemporain, Cagnes-sur-Mer Exhibitions: In the last ten years, Benjamin has exhibited - more often than not in extremely good company, but sometimes also on his own - in the following cities: Erfurt, London (Collect at Saatchi gallery, Design Museum), Cagnes-sur-Mer, Kracow, Wroclaw, Barcelona, San Francisco, Münich, Birmingham, Lódz, Limoges, Gardone Riviera, Saint-Etienne, Udine (Palazzo Giacomelli), Paris (Musée de la Chasse, Musée Galliera), Manchester (Manchester Gallery of Art), Padova, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Villejuif, Cheongju, Utrecht, Sopot, Mexico City, Edinburg, Tokyo, Luxembourg, New York, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Beijing, Zürich, Milan, Seattle, Berlin, Melbourne (National Gallery), Lenox, Milan, Tallin and Arnhem. Relevant Experience: 2012 Co-organiser of the 44th Zimmerhof Symposium, with Brune Boyer and Emmanuel Lacoste 2011 Scenography for the exhibition "Collect Rocks, Plant Flag" curated by Leo Caballero and Amador Bartomeu at S O gallery, London \| Co-curator with Jo Bloxham of the exhibition "Suzy Solidor" at Espace Solidor, Cagnes-sur-Mer \| Ben has given workshops and lectures in Beijing, London, Reims, Paris, Limoges, Middlesex, Manchester, Mexico, Seattle, Melourne, and Arnhem. 2008 Co-curator with Christian Alandete of the exhibition "also known as Jewellery" (London, Rome, San Francisco, Munich, Idar-Oberstein, Falkenberg, Paris) \| Co-organiser of Decemberfest/1st edition (AFEDAP), Paris 2006 Participation to the 11th “Schmucksymposium”, Erfurt
Publications
1998 volume 7, a selection of 15 pieces - self published 1999 volume 8, a selection of 13 pieces - self published 2001 volume 9, a selection of 14 pieces - self published 2003 volume 11, a selection of 13 pieces - self published 2007 in "500 wedding rings", ed. by Marthe Le Van, Lark books 2008 page 1, a selection of 1 piece - self published (January) \| page 2, a selection of 12 pieces - self published (February) \| page 3, a selection of 1 piece - self published (March) \| page 4, a selection of 2 piece - self published (May) articles "On defining contemporary jewelry", in Metalsmith, Fall 2006 "Repeat after me", in Metalsmith, Summer 2008 "Plan B", a Klimt02 blog, summer 2009 "If I am fast, will you still love me?", in ThinkTank, edition 06, 2009 "What does it mean to us?", in Grey Area Gris, Biblioteca de Mexico, 2010 "CCTV", a Klimt02 blog, spring 2010 "now and never: the currency of contemporary jewellery", in ThinkTank, edition 07, 2010 "Filling the Blank", contribution to a round table discussion on critical discourse, AJF blog, 2011 "Species of rings : the last show at Hnoss", essay written for Hnoss gallery's last publication, 2011 "Objects with instructions", in Metadomestic, Landesgalerie Linz, 2011 "Keeping it pure, keeping it dead", in It Was Like a Fever (RMIT gold and silversmithing graduation catalogue), 2012 "Original Copies", in Metalsmith, Spring 2012 essays on designers and jewelers Bless, in Tribéca, 2000 Kosuke Tsumura, "Final Home", in Tribéca, June 2000 Ulrike Kämpfert, "The Art of w(e)ar", in Also Known as Jewellery, 2009 Christian Gonzenbach, "Safari", in ThinkTank, edition 06, 2009 Atai Chen, "The Redundance of Matter", in ThinkTank, edition 06, 2009 Lin Cheung, "Name: Lin Cheung", in ThinkTank, edition 07, 2010 Lin Cheung, "Wear Again, Again", in ThinkTank, edition 07, 2010 Victoire de Castellane at Gagosian Paris, "Just what is it that makes today's art galleries so different, so appealing?", in Art Jewelry Forum, 2011 A5, "Direct Debit", in Think Tank, edition 08, 2011 Kiko Gianocca, "(not) Your Picture Here", in Think Tank, edition 08, 2011 Manon van Kouswijk, "The Generic and the Singular: Portrait of the artist as a Maker", in Objectspace
On sale at
Alternatives via d’Ascanio, 19, Roma Lesley Craze 34 Clerkenwell green, London Velvet da Vinci 2015 Polk street, San Francisco Klimt02 Gallery Riera Sant Miquel 6, Barcelona
Lignel, Benjamin 77 rue de Charonne 75011 - Paris France


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	[Book] Thinking of you (Portraits) “Thinking of you (portraits)” is a series of brooches that reproduces the ear of the user, or that of the user’s partner / friend/child etc.: each brooch is designed to order, and strives to render, much as a portrait painting would, the specific features of the sitter’s ear. It finds its inspiration in the Victorian hairwork popular towards the end of the 19th century. This poster was published on the occasion of the schmuckszene 2008 exhibition (Munich).
	[Book] io ce l'ho d'oro (Yeah...but mine's gold) “Io ce l'ho d'oro” is an experiment on the ambivalent use of accessories to either mock, or ape, the demeanour of our betters. For maximum effect, the pigeon should be placed in a public arena, and flaunt its golden 'thang' to a large audience of its feathered kin.
	[Book] Senza Confini This catalogue reflects the nature of the project ‘Senza Confini’ - a private initiative by two makers (Zanini and Sicuro) inviting another five to exhibit together, unconstrained by either the visual identity of the host (in this case, the Museo Etnografico of Udine) or of the organizers. We all felt it would be a nice change to come up with a format reflecting the theme of the exhibition, and thankfully, the group was small enough to discuss. (...)
	[members only] [Exhibition] Senza Confini ´Senza Confini' is an exhibition organized by two members of AGC in their home town Udine, north east of Italy, as a dialogue between the strong traditional folk jewellery of the area, and the international contemporary jewellery. (...) Place: Palazzo Giacomelli (Udine, Italy)
	[Forum] Repeat after me (...) if an object is good once, it will be good 20 times over, is what fuels this essay. My more seasoned conviction, that contemporary jewelry needs the visibility that editions would provide, also plays a part. (...)
	[members only] [Showcase] New play in art – the unexpected jewel (...) The garden will host an exhibition giving a comprehensive insight on the theme, with a selection of 30 goldsmiths exhibiting approximately 100 pieces. (...) Place: Heller Foundation Garden (Gardone Riviera, Italy)
	[members only] [Exhibition] Contemporary jewellery from Italy (...) an exhibition with a strong emphasis on constructed jewellery, very typical of the Italian jewellery scene. Most of the artists are Italian or based in Italy, and make use of ancient techniques that are still widespread in Italy and used by most contemporary jewellers.(...) Place: Velvet da Vinci (San Francisco, United States)
	[members only] [Exhibition] The town’s permanent collection (...) the town’s permanent collection, consists of works acquired from exhibiting artists, showcases a large and noteworthy collection by contemporary jewellery artists from all over the world (...) Place: Solidor art space (Cagnes-sur-Mer, France)
	[Forum] What does Contemporary Jewellery mean? (...) Contemporary Jewellery is a type of practice - understood as the contemporary offspring of a craft-based design activity that finds its origin in medieval workshops. (...)
	[members only] [Exhibition] Un vrai bijou! (...) Cette exposition est l’occasion de fédérer les artistes du bijou contemporain et de définir une identité culturelle commune aux artistes français tout en montrant la diversité de leurs approches (...) Place: Château-Musée Grimaldi (Cagnes-sur-Mer, France)

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