Well.. that’s an ongoing discussion of course but I think the work of the Swedish contemporary jeweler Adam Grinovich is a good example of conceptual jewely. “My work is a constant question of history, formation, prehistory, marks, and value. I’m looking for the connecting threads”. Adam Grinovich. 3 works by Adam Grinovich rom the series: [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Art'
Horizon Field
August 30th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Art
The Britisch artist Antony Gormley is famous for his spectacular projects in archetypal natural landscapes. When I first came across his work I immediately liked his work. The project he has taken on now, Horizon Field is in Austria and consists of 100 life-size, solid cast iron figures of the human body spread over an [...]
The Balloonists
August 24th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Art, Uncategorized
Balloons are magical… don’t you think?… the small colorfull balloons reminding you of happy times in childhood. Often big balloons fly above our house and I wave at the people in the basket… the movement is slow and the weather is allways nice otherwise the balloons would not fly… The artist Maggie Mailer paints colorfull [...]
Tags:balloons·colorfull paintings·Ferring Gallery·Maggie Mailer
Looking at art
August 18th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Art, Photography
With great pleasure Jan and I visited last year’s Open Art Fair in Utrecht. The Open Art Fair is a fair with galleries from home and abroad. This is what it says on their site: Whether you like painting or sculpture, glass, ceramics or jewelry – on the Open Art Fair one finds all expressions [...]
Tags:Alexander Gerasimov·Art Fair Utrecht·Marie cecile Thijs·Open Art Fair
Russian Art
August 12th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Art
Yesterday I discoverd a surprisingly nice gallery on the internet. The Lilja Zakirova Gallery was founded in 1993 and is located in the historic town of Heusden, near Rotterdam. The gallery represents contemporary artists from Russia. Lilja Zakirova selects its artists on a personal basis without taking into account the issues of the day. Especially [...]
Tags:Art Gallery Heusden·contemporary Russian art·Katerina Belkina·Lilja Zakirova·Russian art
Once upon a time…
July 30th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Art, Once upon a time...
Once upon a time I lived in Watkinsville, Georgia, U.S.A. It was the Deep South and really rural country. For someone like me living until then in the city of Amsterdam, there were quit some things getting used to. Like rattlesnakes living under your porch, or a redneck neighbor carrying a gun at all times. [...]
Drawings in the sand
July 2nd, 2010 · 2 Comments · Art
Images to match the beautiful warm weather over here in The Netherlands! These are the latest drawings in sand by Jim Denevan, the versatile American artist that I’ve wrote about twice before, here and here. Jim Denevan makes temporary drawings on sand, earth and ice that are eventually erased by waves and weather. Hope you [...]
20×200 an online art gallery
June 17th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Art
The other day I came across 20×200, an amazing online gallery full of prints of photo’s and work on paper. The art gallery was launched in 2007 and offers a large selection of archival- quality artwork starting at just $ 20. Take a look it is really worth it… One artist I discovered in 20×200 [...]
Tags:20x200 online art gallery·Amy Casey·Michael Rosenthal Gallery·ZG Gallery
Sculpture Garden Anningahof
June 14th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Art
Sunday we went to Anningahof a sculpture garden near Zwolle, The Netherlands. A beautiful, sometimes daring collection of sculptures on 6 acres of land. Work by Gerard Groenewoud (looks very surrealistic, also because of the sinister clouds) If you’re walking on the estate Anningahof and see the dozens of sculptures, you can hardly imagine that [...]
Tags:Anningahof·Gerard Groenewoud·Hans van bentum·Marc Roover·Peer Veneman·Sculpture garden
Sea green aquamarine
June 11th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Art, Jewelry, Work in progress...
Jan’s new sculpture “Wireman” is ready! It is made from Plexiglas wire and wood and measures 85 cm. high. He’s been playing around with a new idea and this is the prototype in copper. Last week we sold this beautiful ring. I am afraid we will never encounter such an amazing sea-green color aquamarine anymore… [...]
Tags:big aquamarine·big silver ring·Jan Kerkstra·Plexiglas wire·sculpture
