Exhibition of Contemporary Jewellery
Three Men
Georg Dobler (Berin) Michael Becker (Munchen) Stefano Marchetti
from 25th of september toe 10 th of October
at Villa De Bondt
Stefano Marchetti (Padua)
Stefano Marchetti, 1970, born in Padova, Italy. Graduated at Istituto Statale d’Arte “Pietro Selvatico” in Padova, Department of Metals and Jewellery Design. He lives and works in Padova and his works are preserved at the following collections:Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, Fond National d’Art Contemporain, Paris, Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Arnhem, Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Museum of Art & Design, New York, Marzee Collection, Nijmegen, Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim, Pforzheim, The Alice and Louis Koch Collection, Basel, Museo degli Argenti, Firenze, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middelsbrough, RMIT University, Melbourne, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CODA museum, Apeldoorn, The Olnick Spanu Collection, New York, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Die Neue Sammlung, Muenchen, Museo de Arte Virreinal de Santa Teresa, Arequipa, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, Swiss National Museum, Zurich.
Michael Becker ( Munchen )
Michael Becker or the Beauty of Geometry
Cornelie Ueding and Jürgen Wertheimer
Gold plates, titanium discs, dolomite rocks, severe, ascetic shapes, distinct lines: seldom is a first glance more deceptive than a casual observer seeing Michael Becker’s jewelry. Concealed behind the geometric severity and aesthetic perfection are poetry and passion, indeed a desire for beauty bordering on obsession. You could also say that the visible severity is a consequence of a passionate urge to capture a cosmic disorder, while at the same time trying to tame this chaos, halting every movement while setting everything imaginable in motion. Static and dynamic are hardly opposites in the work of Michael Becker, no more than artificiality and nature. read more >>>
Georg Dobler (Berlin)
Born in Creusen, Deutschland in 1952. Master’s certificate as goldsmith, Pforzheim. Has his studio in Berlin. Professor at the university of applied sciences and arts, Hildesheim
In 1985, after an early deconstructivist phase, Georg Dobler started complementing his jewelry with organic elements in blackened silver. In the late 1990s, he experimented with the opulence of gemstones, creating pieces characterized by an innovative combination of naturalism and artificiality. Around the turn of the millennium, he introduced minimalist compositions featuring polished amethyst or quartz slices set in blackened silver frames. His Beetle Brooches created since 2005 under the title à la Lalique clearly reveal he was inspired by this great Art Nouveau master. Dobler, who counts among the most important contemporary jewelry artists of today, recently started designing abstract, geometrical and technology-inspired pieces again (Art Aurea)