The Point of Things

A hand carved jade pin exhibited as part of a Dresser Project curated by Liesbeth den Besten:
"Jewelry / Archive of Fine Objects". March 5 - June 12, 2016. Galerie Phoebus Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Exhibitors include:
Dinie Besems, Liesbet Bussche, Nicolas Cheng / Beatrice Brovia, Lin Cheung, Manon van Kouswijk Benjamin Lignel, Suska Mackert, Ruudt Peters, Robert Smith, Alejandra Solar

Archive of Fine Objects:
Traditionally, the goldsmith creates objects of precious metal: jewelery and small, or imposing, utensils and tableware. In England they call table beautifully executed pieces often conversation pieces, but the Dutch word eyecatcher , which is used less frequently, is a valuable equivalent. Also Objets de vertu: small items of often costly materials are eye-catchers. They are meant to lure the gaze caught and to keep the attention fixed.

Clean objects collected in the drawer, are as contemporary de vertu Objets be considered. They are not all made ​​of precious materials as a synthetic material, tin, beads or winning a mineral to valuable by the sophisticated operation of the artist who created it.

The archive of clean objects shows how the goldsmith from craftsman to jewelery artist or -vormgever has evolved. Precious metals are only occasionally used, but if they are used is not for nothing: they must capture our gaze and attention and hold it, whether they are the supporting structure of a piece. The 11 participating artists filled their tray (s) with two- and three-dimensional objects. The prints, drawings, printings, and posters have different functions: it can be an illustration, or an independent work, sometimes it is a sketch that served as inspiration. The themes that touch the artists have a deep interconnectedness with the jewelery in all its connotations: etiquette (Bussche), the chain (Kouswijk), power (Lignel), the pin (Cheung), memory (Bussche), the pattern (Solar ), conversation pieces (Cheng / Brovia) and faith (Mackert). But the muse (Smit), poetry (Besems) and alchemy (Peters) serve as inspiration.

Liesbeth den Besten

• http://www.lincheung.co.uk
• http://www.phoebus.nl/LADEKASTPROJECT