Tincal lab Challenge 2021 "Jewelry and Nature"
6 Nov - 31 Dec 2021
Opening : November 6 / 4 pm
Tincal Lab, Porto Portugal
It’s not difficult to think that nature can inspire any artistic creation.
Beautiful in form and rich in content, it represents an unlimited universe of fauna, flora and landscape. From the most microscopic scale to the most universal context, it includes natural phenomena unable to tame, sources of life (and death) and essential resources. Colors, materials, textures. Shapes, sounds, movements. It generally excludes the human creation and the built environment, but nowadays, it may be difficult to know a corner of the planet that has not been affected by humankind in any way.
Even though it is something that exists long before and beyond us, its conservation is constantly being menaced by human growth and technological innovation, in an ironic struggle in which human beings seem to be able to destroy the very basis of their livelihood.
As usual, we don't want to restrict and we challenge jewelers to go further: why not explore the contrast between the natural and artificial world? Study the ramifications of Natural Sciences, ranging from Biology to Geology or Chemistry? Why not question the action of humankind and appeal to sustainability and ecological awareness? Reflect on the current situation and human vulnerability to natural causes greater than us?
A challenge that demands to a look inside, as well as to the world around us.
Jury:
Ana Pina (Portugal) | representing Tincal lab
Marta Costa Reis (Portugal) | representing Jewelry
Jacinto Rodrigues (Portugal) | representing Nature
Selected artists:
Acamhi (CL) | Aino-Astrid Gaedtke (DE) | Alberto Dávila (MX) | Amàlgama (IT) | Ana Azevedo (PT) | Ana Calbucci (BR) | Andrea Alonso (PE) | Andrea Serini (AR) | Ángela Malhües (CL) | Bárbara Laso (ES) | Be Bárbara García (ES) | Bego Fuente | (ES) | Begoña Morales Lao (ES) | CamposTaylor (MX) | Carlo Lucidi (IT) | Carmen López (ES) | Catarina Nordeste (PT) | Chantel Gushue (CA) | Clarisa Menteguiaga (AR) | Clélia (PT) | Cleopatra Cosulet (RO) | Cova Rios (ES) | Cristina Celis (MX) | Cristina R Nuño (ES) | Daniela Schwarz (AT) | Danni Xu (CN) | Daria Edström (RU) | Elise Hoebeke (BE) | Elizabeth Shaw (AU) | Fernanda Barba (MX) | Fruzsi Fekete (HU) | Gabriela Marcos (AR) | Gizella Biró (HU) | Ho Oi Ying Valerie (HK) | Inês Sobreira (PT) | Iona Nieva (AR) | Jan Smith (CA) | Jean Lin (TW) | Juanjo García Martin (ES) | Juergen Veit (DE) | Kendall Reiss (US) | kiseno (CO) | Laila Marie Costa (AU) | Laura Forte (IT) | Letizia Maggio (IT) | Leyt Motiv (AR) | Lunante (IT) | Manuela Igreja (PT) | Margarita Malliri (GR) | Maria Benedita (PT) | Maria Eugenia Ramos (AR) | Merıstėma Lab (IT) | Miriam Arentz (DE) | Miruna Belicovici (RO) | Nanna Doll (DE) | Nik Hanton (NZ) | notAjewelry (HR) | OK enamel (UA) | Padedo (UA) | Possante (PT) | Rachael Colley (UK) | Rho Tang (CN) | Rikke Lunnemann (DK) | Rita Besnyői (HU) | Rita Martínez (CR) | Rocio Britos (AR) | Sabrina Formica (IT) | Salvador Vico (ES) | Sara Mas (ES) | Silvina Romero (AR) | Sita Falkena (NL) | Stefan Gougherty (US) | Suyu Chen (CN) | Telma Oli (PT) | Teresa Dantas (PT) | Valeria Rossini (IT) | Virginie Turcot-Lamarre (CA) | Yone Aizcorbe Marcos (ES) | Yukiko Kakimoto (JP)
Installation views: Tincal lab Challenge 2021 "Jewelry and Nature" Tincal lab, Porto Portugal. Photos: Courtesy of the CLÉLIA Jewellery
Yukiko Kakimoto. From Mother Earth _ rose (from WRAP series), 2021, Brooch, Unique Piece. materials: Wood, Japanese paper, Urushi (Japanese lacquer), Pigment, Brass. L71 x W71 x T8 mm
Yukiko Kakimoto. From Mother Earth _ forest (from WRAP series), 2021, Brooch, Unique Piece. materials: Wood, Japanese paper, Urushi (Japanese lacquer), Pigment, Brass. L62 x W50 x T15 mm
Yukiko Kakimoto. From Mother Earth _ ocean (from WRAP series), 2021, Brooch, Unique Piece. materials: Wood, Japanese paper, Urushi (Japanese lacquer), Pigment, Brass. L75 x W38 x T17 mm
Tincal Lab
CCBombarda Rua Miguel Bombarda, 285, shop 25
Porto, Portugal
Hours:
Monday to Friday, 11 am - 7 pm
Saturday, 10 am - 7 pm