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23.08.2022
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Fertile Ground for Art

How does interest or even love for art develop? The autumn 2022 edition of Art Aurea shows that craft can be a favorable breeding ground.

Some people are totally indifferent to art. For others, art means a lot, or even everything, in one form or another. The similarities and differences… Read on

Studio Visits
24.05.2022
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Time Travels

Art Aurea’s summer edition 2-2022 is not about science fiction, but it is about expanding consciousness.

What are the roles of art and craft? In the summer 2022 print edition, we take a look at an aspect that typically preoccupies science-fiction… Read on

Trade fairs
23.03.2022
Claudia Milić, <em>Blossom</em> necklace. Silver 925 rhodium-plated. www.claudia-milic.de

Jewelry Design 2022

Before Corona, numerous designers exhibited at Inhorgenta Munich. The change in jewelry culture began long before.

Until the 1980s, Germany’s jewelry industry was very nearly the world’s largest, second only to Italy as the global leader. Nowadays most jewelry is made… Read on

Studio Visits
03.03.2022
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About Borders

The new Art Aurea 1-2022 is also about the unity of art, craft and life.

Before the year’s first issue of Art Aurea (Spring 2022) went to press, we too could not have imagined that Putin would invade all of… Read on

Studio Visits
19.11.2021
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Rays of Hope

Anyone who looks at our world today and into its future needs rays of hope. Art Aurea’s winter edition 4-2021 presents some beautiful examples.

In a catalogue text for documenta 7 in 1982, the painter Gerhard Richter wrote that “art is the highest form of hope.” This was the… Read on

Studio Visits
14.09.2021
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Eastern and Western Ideals

Interview with Heidi Kippenberg in the new ART AUREA magazine. Retrospective at Brutto Gusto in Berlin.

As a former student of the legendary ceramist Walter Popp, Heidi Kippenberg is a member of the Kasseler Schule für Keramik. Today she lives in… Read on

  • 10.09.2021—31.10.2021
  • Heidi Kippenberg 80
    Brutto Gusto
    Wielandstraße 34
    Berlin 10629
    Germany
  • Link
Studio Visits
14.09.2021
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Östliche und westliche Ideale

Interview mit Heidi Kippenberg in der neuen ART AUREA. Umfassende Werkschau bei Brutto Gusto in Berlin.

Als ehemalige Studentin des legendären Keramikers Walter Popp zählt Heidi Kippenberg zur Kasseler Schule für Keramik. Doch sind in den Keramiken der Künstlerin vielfältige weitere… Read on

  • 10.09.2021—31.10.2021
  • Heidi Kippenberg 80
    Brutto Gusto
    Wielandstraße 34
    Berlin 10629
    Deutschland
  • Link
Studio Visits
10.06.2021
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Life is Art

Live “normally” again! That’s what many people want now. Or better to create life as a work of art? More in Art Aurea 2-2021.

You can already guess who called for lives to be lived as works of art. It was Joseph Beuys, whose 100th birthday is being celebrated… Read on

Studio Visits
10.06.2021
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Leben ist Kunst

Wieder „normal“ leben! Das wünschen sich jetzt viele. Besser vielleicht, das Leben als Kunstwerk zu sehen? Mehr dazu in Art Aurea 2-2021.

Sie ahnen schon, wer ein Leben als Kunstwerk gefordert hat. Es war Joseph Beuys, dessen 100-jähriges Geburtsjubiläum in diesem Jahr in zahlreichen Ausstellungen gefeiert wird.… Read on

Studio Visits
10.02.2021
Den klar und durchdachte gestalteten Schmuckserien von Ursula Biskup entspricht auch die Ordung ihrer Düsseldorfer Werkstatt.

Uli Biskup: One year with Corona

How has the coronavirus affected the applied arts so far? Art Aurea asked jewelry designer Uli Biskup from Neuss.

Art Aurea What has the past year of coronavirus meant for you personally and economically? Ursula Biskup First of all, I am happy to have… Read on

Studio Visits
07.01.2021
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2021 will be better

Questions to artists, designers and gallery owners about the Corona Year. At the start, the jewelry artist Nikolay Sardamov from Sofia, Bulgaria.

Like no other event since World War II, the Corona Pandemic 2020 has influenced politics, economy, society and culture. Despite all the hardship and distortions,… Read on

Studio Visits
30.11.2020
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Material Awareness

Creative craftsmanship, art and author design against corona tristesse. To the new Art Aurea – Issue 42, Winter 2020.

All crafts have in common a profound understanding of materials – or even a consciousness of the materials per se. True masters breathe life into… Read on

Studio Visits
20.08.2020
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Barbara Nanning – Eternal Movement

The Kunstmuseum Den Haag recently honored her work with a retrospective. We spoke with Barbara Nanning.

Born in The Hague in 1957, Barbara Nanning studied ceramics at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam four decades ago. Since then she has developed… Read on

Studio Visits
12.02.2020
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Geist und Materie

Zur neuen Printausgabe von Art Aurea.

Die erste Ausgabe des Jahres 2020 befasst sich in verschiedenen Beiträgen mit einem neuen Selbstverständnis innerhalb der Angewandten Kunst, das aus der gegenwärtigen Menschheitskrise erwachsen… Read on

Studio Visits
12.09.2018
The new Niessing Design Studio in Düsseldorf

Niessing’s Design Studio now in Düsseldorf

Niessing on the way to an international brand.

Niessing’s design studio has a new home. Niessing’s CEO Sandro Erl explains that the studio with Nina Friesleben-Laue and Verena Darlath now occupies a new… Read on

Studio Visits
14.06.2018
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Free Thinkers – Christoph R. Siebrasse and Rainer Schenk

Together with the painter Rainer Schenk, Christoph R. Siebrasse has developed spectacular furniture objects since the 1970s.

The furniture and lamps of “Neues deutsches Design” [New German Design] had been a counter concept to “Die Gute Form” [The Good Form] à la… Read on

Studio Visits
07.09.2016
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At Home In Two Worlds

Ritsue Mishima ranks among the most innovative contemporary glass artists. At the same this maker born in 1962 in Kyoto, Japan, is a lateral entrant. Meanwhile, her large sculptural glass objects reach five-digit prices.

Art Aurea: You’ve been creating glass objects for twenty years now. Prior to that, you worked as a stylist, and created art installations with flowers.… Read on

Studio Visits
06.09.2016
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How a Tension Ring is Created

Only a few jewelry creations have what it takes to become imperishable design classics. One of them is the Niessing Tension Ring®. But how exactly is this ring, this epitome of modern jewelry design, produced?

In 1908, Georg Simmel published his Psychologie des Schmuckes (Psychology of Jewelry). The way this great philosopher from Berlin described the egoistic and at the… Read on

Studio Visits
21.03.2016
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Gerd Rothmann – Sculptural and Intimate

Pieces of jewelry made by the Munich-based goldsmith Gerd Rothmann bear the physical imprint of a person.

Among jewelry’s inherent characteristics are the facts that it closely conforms to the human anatomy and pierces the skin. In addition to this, pieces of… Read on

  • 25.02.2016—02.04.2016
  • Affairs – overview of works by Gerd Rothmann
    Galerie Handwerk
    Max-Joseph-Straße 4
    80333 Munich
    Germany
  • Link
Studio Visits
16.03.2016
Ceramist Emil Heger at his studio

Emil Heger – Silent Magnitude

How can the artistic crafts, which are not always unjustly dismissed as too tame, contrive to shed this image? The experimental shapes created by this ceramicist from Höhr-Grenzhausen provide an answer.

In the pottery world, the concept of simplicity is all too readily associated with functionality: the simplest form makes for optimum utility. Emil Heger’s creations,… Read on

Studio Visits
10.03.2016
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Mechthild Lobisch – Master of the Art of Bookbinding

Painting, sculpture, illustration or graphics? A bookbinder on her interdisciplinary craft

Of all the applied arts, the art of the bookbinder is probably the one with the most contradictions. While it always starts out from a… Read on

Studio Visits
09.03.2016
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Windmills and Oak Leaves

Solingen is internationally renowned for its quality knives. Though many manufacturers have disappeared, a few exceptions remain.

Knives in every imaginable shape and size are displayed atop the long table in the exhibition room and on the shelves that line its walls.… Read on

Studio Visits
04.03.2016
The designer Nina Friesleben inside the <em>White House</em>

Niessing – Loving What One Does

Since 1982 the manufacturer has been the world market leader in jewelry design. An Interview

In 1979 Niessing developed its Tension Ring and the “Niessing S” jewelry line in 1982. The company is currently in a phase of generational change.… Read on

Studio Visits
03.03.2016
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Christof Lungwitz – Walking a Fine Line

The designer skillfully masters the balancing act between fine and applied art, self-effacing and almost shy.

Christof Lungwitz and his wife, a physiotherapist, live in the picturesque town of Leichlingen near Düsseldorf, in a house perched on a hillside and fitted… Read on

Studio Visits
27.01.2016
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Bernard Heesen – An Element of the Anarchic

The Dutch glass artist draws inspiration from antique encyclopedia illustrations and flea market finds. Interview Reinhold Ludwig, Photos Peter Cox.

Since the time of the De Stijl and the Bauhaus movements many artists and designers from the Netherlands cultivate reduced shapes. Bernard Heesen’s work obviously… Read on

Studio Visits
06.11.2015
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Tanja Friedrichs – The Sky is Clouding Over

Tanja Friedrichs uses gallery wire to create jewelry that radiates a compellingly vibrant elegance and reflects the light in a dancing motion

Gallery wire was originally used in the early days of industrial manufacturing as an ornamental material to embellish silverware, but is produced only rarely nowadays.… Read on

Studio Visits
03.11.2015
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Ipek Kotan – The Beauty Inside

Growing up in Turkey, the artist was surrounded by archeology. Which is reflected in her quest for universal, lasting beauty.

The Turkish ceramist Ipek Kotan has been living in the Occident for two decades now, creating minimalist vessels that perpetuate Oriental traditions. The artist is… Read on

  • 06.11.2015—20.12.2015
  • Brutto Gusto fine arts
    Torstraße 175
    10115 Berlin
    Germany
  • Opening 6–9 pm
  • Link
Studio Visits
09.09.2015
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An Interview with Morten Løbner Espersen

The Seven Deadly Sins. Ceramic Art of the danish artist Morten Løbner Espersen.

Art Aurea What was it that sparked your interest in ceramics in the first place? Morten Løbner Espersen I always liked to draw and paint… Read on

Studio Visits
02.09.2015
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Brooches Against Animal Abuse

The jewelry designer Gitta Pielcke tells us in an interview about the jewelry she creates to take a stand against caged hens

Our society has long since realized the importance of keeping hens in humane conditions. As a result, even average earners often buy free-range or organic… Read on

Studio Visits
20.02.2015
Necklace <em>Solitaire</em>. Silver, 750 red gold, niello, patina

Gigi Mariani in his World

In the video: A visit in the studio of Gigi Mariani, an Italian jewelry artist

At first it was just a passion for him: Gigi Mariani started his career as goldsmith without a lot of fuss. Since 27 years he has been making special jewelry in his hometown Modena – by… Read on

Studio Visits
12.11.2014
Kinetic Ring

Motion with Lasting Effect

Jewelry Artist Friedrich Becker

He united an engineer’s desire to design things with the arts of the goldsmith and the sculptor. With his artistic oeuvre and the impact he… Read on

Studio Visits
15.10.2014
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Visiting Carl Dau

A Video

The reduction to the basic determines the life and work of the jewelry designer Carl Dau. A former sailor, he knew how to limit himself to the… Read on

Studio Visits
04.10.2014
Svenja John

Svenja John

A Perfect Symbiosis

Svenja John has been working with plastic sheeting since 1994, imaginatively joining and interlacing small pieces painted in multifarious colors, to form highly original, semiotically multilayered jewelry. Read on

Studio Visits
03.10.2014
Ignasi Llobet and Eva Rodríguez

A Thousand Fingers

Jordi Marcet and Rosa Vila-Abadal

Check out this interesting video by Ignasi Llobet and Eva Rodríguez. Read on

Studio Visits
24.09.2014
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Perfect ceramics

Pottery from Icheon

Watch five masters at work. Read on

Studio Visits
15.09.2014
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Giovanni Corvaja

Universal Beauty

The goldsmith Giovanni Corvaja once said that making jewelry is really only a pretext, a kind of apology that lets him stay constantly in contact with gold, an element that he describes as magical, a miracle of nature. Read on

Studio Visits
11.09.2014
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Andrea Röthlin

Painting with Gold

What happens when gold leaf is used to cover the bottom of an oil tank? The Swiss painter Andrea Röthlin tried to find out. Read on

Studio Visits
10.09.2014
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Thomas Feichtner

The Smaller Yardstick

When the young product designer traveled to China, he saw the dark sides of modern industrial design. Since then, he has worked only for small, local manufactories and jewelers. Read on

Studio Visits
08.09.2014
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Norman Vilalta

A Shoemaker in Barcelona

Traditional shoemakers, who can handcraft completely welted shoes, have become a rare species. One of them is Norman Vilalta, who is originally from Argentina — and brimming with ideas. Read on

Studio Visits
08.09.2014
Bangles and bracelets, 2013. Silver and Gold.

Ulla and Martin Kaufmann

Simultaneously Simple and Opulent

They named their minimalistic jewelry Just Sheet Metal, Mirrored or Nearly Nothing. Now simplicity and opulence combine in the Kaufmanns’ latest creations. Read on

Studio Visits
09.08.2014
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Georg Spreng

"I’m a Colorful Sort of Guy"

Georg Spreng crafted his first piece of gold jewelry in 1983. Previously, this trained product designer from Schwäbisch Gmünd had designed things like computers or dentist’s chairs for eleven years. Read on

Studio Visits
01.08.2014
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Jong-Min Lee

West-Eastern Whiteness

We might regret or appreciate the fact that porcelain, formerly referred to as “white gold”, is available today on every street corner as a mass-produced commodity. But it can also be something very different. Read on

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