Eine Sonderschau auf der Internationalen Handwerksmesse MünchenSCHMUCK 2013

Robert Baines

In runden und ovalen Broschen, von glamouröser Wirkung, eingebettet spielt Robert Baines mit Tierdarstellungen von der Schlage bis hin zur Teddybärmotiv. Auf humorvolle und ironische Weise spielt er dabei wie so oft auf historische Schmuckformen vergangener Epochen an. Geschichte ist der Ausgangspunkt um eine eigene, neue, expressive Schmuckform zu gestalten, die Robert Baines und nichts als Robert Baines repräsentiert. Als Geschichtenerzähler ist er bereits aus der Schmuckszene nicht mehr wegzudenken. Auch mit der Vorliebe zu täuschen, zu verwirren und seine ganz persönlichen Fantasien auszuleben.

Winner of the Herbert-Hofmann-Prize 2013

Fumiki Taguchi

Medals and decorative marks of distinction confer authority and function as symbols of status and power. The value of a work of jewellery is in Japan often based on the size and the quality of the gems. This cliché Fumiki Taguchi confronts with his brooches that remind on the first glance in a surprising way at medals. Fascinated by the forms of historic jewellery and medals he neglects the traditional employment of precious stones. He creates the effect of diamonds in a trompe l’oeil way from silver. By this the brooches gain the brightness of precious stones in a surprisingly new way.

Helena Lehtinen

The group of Helena Lehtinen consists of seven different pendants. The work with the title “Family” has the character of a still life in which each part relates to the other. Most simple and reduced forms like sticks and disks which remind at everyday objects, receive a new value by the craftsmen-like work. The jewellery was specially appreciated because of the clear austerity of the individual forms and of the composition of the group in different materials and delicate colours.

Robert Baines

In his round and oval brooches of glamorous effect Robert Baines plays with the depiction of animals ranging from serpents to teddy bears. In a humorous and ironic way he hints as so often in his works at the forms of historic jewellery. History is his point of departure to evolve an entirely own expressive version of jewellery that represents Robert Baines and Robert Baines alone. As narrator of stories he is already well known in the jewellery world as well as by his love to deceive, to irritate and to live out his personal fantasies.