A VIEW BY TWO: CONTEMPORARY JEWELRY
What's to see:
A View by Two: Contemporary Jewelry
Where:
The RISD Museum, 224 Benefit Street, in the first- and second-floor galleries of the Farago Wing
When:
February 2-April 15, 2001
Hours: Tuesday through Sunday, 10am-5pm; third Thursday monthly
until 9pm
About the exhibition:
A View by Two is a collaboration between the Museum and Louis Mueller and Barbara Seidenath, guest curators and faculty members in RISD's department of Jewelry and Metalsmithing. The exhibition showcases contemporary work by fourteen jewelers from Austria, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Switzerland and the United States: Giampaolo Babetto, Alexandra Bahlmann, Manfred Bischoff, Hermann Jünger, Daniel Kruger, Myra Mimlitch Gray, Manfred Nisslmüller, Ted Noten, Ruudt Peters, Dorothea Prühl, Gerd Rothmann, Bernhard Schobinger, Sondra Sherman and Irmgard Zeitler. Each artist is represented by approximately a dozen objects, some so recent that they have never before been exhibited.
Like Mueller and Seidenath, many of the artists in A View by Two teach. Indeed over the years several of them have been visiting professors at RISD. Thus RISD students have had a remarkable opportunity to learn from a diverse group of internationally renowned artists. The work in this exhibition highlights their various creative approaches to the craft of jewelry making, challenges traditional interpretations of jewelry and showcases an extraordinary level of design, content and craftsmanship.
The exhibition also includes selections from the Museum's collection of historic jewelry and an important group of early modern jewelry from the collection of Daphne Farago.
On Saturday, February 3, in conjunction with the exhibition, the RISD Jewelry and Metalsmithing department and the Tiffany & Co. Foundation co-sponsored a conference, "Dialog on Contemporary Jewelry." Participating artists included Giampaolo Babetto, Alexandra Bahlmann, Manfred Bischoff, Daniel Kruger, Myra Mimlitch Gray, Manfred Nisslmüller, Dorothea Prühl, Gerd Rothmann, Bernhard Schobinger and Sondra Sherman.
This project was generously supported by the Farago Foundation.
[Return to top]