What is balance, why is it so important? Balance is a state of being that gives people inner peace, dignity and certainty, a sense that I can decide, have control over my life and take responsibility for my choices.
Balance is honesty towards myself, an ability to understand my emotions and simultaneously understand other people. A balanced life gives energy, the capacity to think and find what is valuable, to see beauty and feel joy, to be curious about everything new and interesting. Balance means standing on firm ground, it is knowing that what surrounds us is permanent and does not fall apart.
In art, balance means a sense of equality between the various parts of a work, a sense that nothing needs to be added or removed. A well-balanced work finds harmony between the idea, the choice of materials and the technical execution.
Jewelry is a precious thing, which is mostly created to complement the costume and emphasize the wearer’s personality, it goes into the wide world and lives its life there. It reflects the world of thought of the jeweler, but each wearer always adds his or hers personal energy to the jewelry.
A balanced piece of jewellery is convincing, pleasant, gives confidence to the wearer, supports and makes us feel better.
I strive for balance.
The exhibition was designed by ÜLA KOPPEL.
The artist expresses her gratitude to Cultural Endowment of Estonia, A-Gallery, Üla Koppel, Kalle Komissarov, Liina Lõõbas and Avo Raikna for their help and support.
Ülle Kõuts (b. 1956, Pärnu) is an Estonian jewellery artist, whose clear minimalist nature of her work and the marriage of metals technique that she uses makes it stand out and has contributed to establishing her position in the Estonian jewellery art scene. Ülle Kõuts’ work has been exhibited in Estonia, Czech, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden, USA, France, Germany, Hungary and Denmark. Her works belong to museum collections in Estonia, Latvia, Sweden and Russia. Ülle Kõuts is a member of the Estonian Artists Association, the Estonian Association of Jewellery and Blacksmiths, the Katariina Guild. She is one of the founding members of the artist group ON-grupp. BALANCE is her fourth solo show at A-Gallery and a continuation of artist’s solo exhibition KOOSKÕLA at the Evald Okas Museum in Haapsalu in summer 2021.
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BALANCE
Ülle Kõuts
01.10–26.10.2021
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Summer – a colourful, diverse and inspiring season, a dream of an eternal paradise. Reflecting the extreme heat of this year’s summer, the exhibition brings together Andrei Balashov’s work of the last years, presenting an array of small-scale sculptures, objects and jewellery that highlight the symbiosis of metal and colour, research and experimentations with various techniques and technologies.
Andrei Balašov (b. 1965 in Tallinn) is an Estonian jewelry artist who in recent years has worked in the genre of small sculpture, dealing with anthropomorphic forms, experimenting with casting techniques and textures. Balašov has studied at the Estonian Academy of Arts and Lahti Goldsmiths’ School in Finland. He has exhibited his works in solo exhibitions at Gallery Susi in Riga, Latvia, Kauno Langas in Kaunas, Lithuania, and Uzopio Galerija in Vilnius. This is the artist’s sixth solo exhibition at A-Gallery. Balašov has participated in group exhibitions in Sweden, the USA, Germany, Finland and the Netherlands. In 1996, Balašov was awarded the Edde Kurrel Estonian Metal Artist Award.
Sodium, potassium and calcium are carried in our veins. We have that in common with all the fish, amphibians, reptiles, warm-blooded birds and mammals. It is a salty stream combined in almost the same proportions as in seawater. Life on Earth arose in the ancient sea. When we once left our original home to live our lives on land we took the sea with us inside our bodies. We still carry it.
Man’s relation to the sea accommodates a gamut of feelings and thoughts. We are drawn to it, yet we know little about it. 80% of its wonders and mysteries are still waiting for us. It triggers our imagination and fear. No one is untouched.
This exhibition is about man’s relation to the sea spoken through the art of jewellery. Six Swedish jewellers invite you to their realms of jewellery, to explore and ponder. These are their treasures from the sea.
Treasures from the Sea was shown in Paris during the international jewellery triennial Parcours Bijoux 2020 where it became a highly appreciated exhibition. As a complement to the exhibition the book with the same title is available. It gives an even deeper approach to the subject and in it the jewellers describe their work and process. The foreword is written by Anders Omstedt, professor emeritus in oceanography, the author of ”A Philosophic View of the Ocean and Humanity”.
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The grand opening of TREASURES FROM THE SEA will take place on August 25th at A-Gallery in collaboration with the Embassy of Sweden.
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Serena Holm
Serena often works with myths and tales as a theme. In this project the mermaid is her main figure. In a series of necklaces she interprets the mermaid from different cultures. The three sirens from the Greek myths are here, so is the Korean legend about Sinjike and the one about the West African Mami Wata. Her jewellery is made of silver, gemstones and porcelain.
Over the years Hanna has developed her own very personal expression in her use of paper in her jewellery. For this project she has especially looked closer at lichens. These small and super strong species that live where sea and land meets have inspired her to a series called Symbioses. The name comes from the symbiotic partnership of algae and fungus. The pieces are made of silver and paper, paint and lacquer.
The underwater forests of kelp and eelgrass and the complexity of the ecosystems of the coral reefs have given her inspiration to her necklaces with tanned fish leather from Iceland. She also lets you meet the sea elephant, the grey seal, the sea leopard and many more in her seal colony of etched brooches in silver.
Anna’s works are about the importance of weight. It is about the plumbs that with their weight pull downwards to touch the ocean floor and measure the depth of the sea. They are reminders of the other direction than the one shown by the waves. The pendants have been given their forms inspired of old plumbs.
Paula has worked with plastic waste from the oceans in her jewellery for many years. For this exhibition she has made jewellery for the modern mermaid. What would she adorn herself with when she goes on holiday to the floating island of plastic waste that has aroused? Paula’s works bear the traces of environmental issues, of feminism and the inspirations of marine life.
Mona remembers swimming in lukewarm waters in the late summer nights with the glittering sea fire surrounding her body. She has dived deep down into the wonderfully detailed illustrations of Ernest Haeckel and created a whole new world of her own of diatoms and zooplankton. She calls them Sea-crets and they are all brooches in titanium.
From Saturday 31 July, A-Gallery is hosting the exhibition of Into Niilo, a jewellery artist from Moscow.
PRECIOUS PARTS jewelry collection is about self-love and self-acceptance. It’s a small research about being a human, an effort to accept and embrace it with all the vulnerability, fragility and imperfection.
It’s an attempt of philanthropy, starting with a physical acceptance. This is a personal attempt of the designer Into Niilo to love and understand the human body.
PRECIOUS PARTS is a sensual journey that starts from the little – loving the shape of your nail plate and nipples, toes, belly buttons, every single little curve and wrinkle of thy body, charm of bends, sticking bones, goosebumps, body hairs and birthmarks.
Many various materials were used to create the collection – metals (brass, silver, gold), precious natural stones (pearls, Ethiopian opal, turquoise, lapis, obsidian, labrador, rutilated quartz, chrysoprase, ametrine, topaz, agate) and artificial materials (opal, tourmaline quartz, opal quartz, ulexite).
For the usual surrealistic twist of Into Niilo’s brand into|into the designer carved teeth from baroque pearls, MOP, ulexite and artificial opal. For the nail rings a variety of cuts dictated by the shape of fingernails were used and the designer chose stones that have an obvious stone look and also imitate different manicure styles. Various techniques were used to create nipple and belly button brooches and collarbone necklace. The designer cast the brooches in silver and then gold plated them. Electroforming in brass was used for the necklace which was also then gold plated.
Each item of the new collection is a true piece of art, a philosophical reinterpretation of everything natural with a hint of dark humor and infinite self-love.
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Into Niilo (they/them) is an artist and jewelry designer based in Moscow, Russia.
After graduating from Moscow State University of Design and Technology (MSUDT) in 2013, as an accessory designer, they made their master degree in Footwear Design at London College of Fashion (LCF), University of Arts London (UAL).
Straight after the designer realized that they are no longer interested in footwear but have more interest towards small, wearable architectural and sculptural forms. That’s how they launched their own brand into|into (in 2015) of experimental accessories and later switched to fine jewelry primarily.
Starting from 2016 Into Niilo started to take part in various showrooms of Paris Fashion Week (twice a year). In 2018 they signed a contract with the NOB agency and starting from 2019, they took part in the NOB showroom during Paris, Milan and Tokyo Fashion Weeks.
Into Niilo’s brand into|into takes ideas and principles of the exact sciences and experiments from scientific cognition of different fields like physics, chemistry, natural philosophy, cosmology, astronomy, anatomy, philosophy, etc. and tries to transfer them into the art and design field. The refrain in the name into|into is borrowed from English [intu:] and Finnish [into:] languages and translates as «internal inspiration». And the brand is inspired by the outworld – nature and the cognitive process by man, poetics and the splendor of forms, the very essence of things and their contents.
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PRECIOUS PARTS
Into Niilo
31.07–24.08.2021
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From Friday 2. July, A-Gallery is hosting the exhibition of Katarina Kotselainen, Kalle Kotselainen and Jens A. Clausen.
Three jewellery artists, Katarina Kotselainen, Kalle Kotselainen and Jens A. Clausen came together in a forge in Tartu to craft knives, jewellery and other objects. They used different metals, such as Damascus steel, stainless steel and silver, but also wood, horn and bone. The title of the exhibition, “Tera/ Edge” has multiple meanings, with the Estonian word “tera” referring to the edge of a knife, as well as to the material left over in the process of forging. The small amount of surplus material cannot be made into a knife blade, but can be used for making other smaller objects and jewellery.
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Katarina Kotselainen has studied at the Estonian Academy of Arts Department of Jewellery and Blacksmithing. Has exhibited in exhibitions around the world since 2001 and is member of the Estonian Artists Association since 2008.
Kalle Kotselainen has designed and crafted jewellery for over ten years. In 2019 he graduated from the blacksmithing program at the Vana-Vigala Technical and Service School.
Jens A. Clausen has studied at the Staatluche Zeichenakademie Hanau and since 2012 works at the Estonian Academy of Arts Department of Jewellery and Blacksmithing as a goldsmith. He has been a member of the Estonian Artists Association since 2014 and a member of the Norwegian Association for Arts and Crafts.
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Katarina Kotselainen, Kalle Kotselainen, Jens A. Clausen
EDGE
02.07–27.07.2021
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“Every piece has a story, a journey to become what it is. We believe that objects, drawings, sketches- the things we create while making the actual jewellery- are as important as the finished pieces themselves. Through them, we study material, from meaning. They lead us to the essence of our creations.”
– Natascha Frechen, Felicia Mülbaier, Constanza Salinas & Luisa Werner
The exhibition is accompanied by a publication that will be launched at a public presentation and a talk with the artists on August 14 in the courtyard of Hobusepea 2 studio house.
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Natascha Frechen was born in Jülich (Germany) in 1990. Following her vocational training as a gold- smith and ve years of work experience as a goldsmith specializing in high jewellery, Natascha Frechen decided to take a new step and move into an artistic eld. In 2019, she completed her studies and was awarded the Bachelor of Fine Arts in Gemstones and Jewellery at the Trier University of Applied Sciences, Idar-Oberstein Campus. In March 2020, Natascha Frechen be gan to study for her Master of Fine Arts in Gem- stones and Jewellery, again at the Trier University of Applied Sciences, Idar-Oberstein Campus. For her work with stone, she received the Rhineland-Palatinate award to promote arts and crafts in 2019.
Felicia Mülbaier was born in Speyer (Germany) in 1988. Between 2011 and 2015, Felicia Mülbaier studied at the University of Applied Sciences in Düsseldorf, where she received a Bachelor of Arts. In 2019, she completed her studies with the Master of Fine Arts in Gemstones and Jewellery at the Trier University of Applied Sciences, Idar- Oberstein Campus. As part of her artistic training and development, she spent time abroad at the Academy of Art and Design in Gothenburg (Swe- den) and the Estonian Academy of Arts in Tallinn. When she makes jewellery, she use primarily the media stone and textile to express her artistic vision. She accompanies her creative process with drawings. Her works – shown internationally since 2014 – have already received numerous awards.
Constanza Salinas was born in Valdivia (Chile) in 1993. Following her vocational training as a goldsmith in her native country Chile, Constanza Salinas moved to Germany in 2016 to study at the Trier University of Applied Sciences, Idar-Oberstein Campus. In 2019, she completed her studies with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Gem- stones and Jewellery. In her artistic work, she primarily chose wood and stone to express her artistic vision. In the course of her studies for her Bachelor’s degree, Constanza Salinas spent one semester at the Estonian Academy of Arts in Tallinn. In March 2020, she began to study for a Master in Gemstones and Jewellery at the Trier Univer- sity of Applied Sciences, Idar-Oberstein Campus.
Luisa Werner was born in Berlin (Germany) in 1997. Following her vocational training as a gold- smith (CAP Art et techniques de la bijouterie- joaillerie) in Saint Amand Montrond (France), Luisa Werner began to study Gemstones and Jewellery at the Trier University of Applied Sciences, Idar-Oberstein Campus. In 2019, she spent a term abroad at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax (Canada). In the summer of 2021, she will com- plete her studies with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. In her work so far, Luisa Werner has combined a range of different techniques and materials, with a main focus on stone and textile.
From Friday 28 May, A-Gallery is hosting the solo exhibition of Ilona Treiman.
“The word “FIRE” has different meanings in estonian which allow for parallel readings to emerge. We have been moving forwards at such a fast pace that it felt like there was fire (tuli – fire) beneath our feet. Eventually, we had to (tuli – had to) stop and look for balance.
The importance of fire in the life and work of a metal artist is undeniable. In metal forging and casting, fire is powerfully dominant: fire represents passion, heat and enthusiasm while creating something new. It can represent both beginnings and endings. Strike while the iron is hot — capturing the right moment is crucial. Fire can be beautiful, magical, purifying, illuminating and warming, but at the same time it can be destructive. It is tricky to tame fire. In fact, a metal artist could even be called a fire juggler.
Annual, increasingly common wildfires have made the world rethink and look at the effects of climate change on our planet, see the change in flora and fauna. I add elements of nature to my work which will be part of the disappeared world in the future. When we see how vulnerable and fragile we are when fighting against the fire, our values change. How are we supposed to find the balance then? We know that all things break when great force is applied. This poses a Shakespearian question: to be or not to be? I consider and reflect the life path through the symbols hidden in the works and with the help of dialogue.
When we see how vulnerable and fragile we are when fighting against the fire, our values change. How are we supposed to find the balance then? We know that all things break when great force is applied. This poses a Shakespearian question: to be or not to be? I consider and reflect the life path through the symbols hidden in the works and with the help of dialogue.
In fire, there is a dialogue of opposites, collisions, movement through time, and balance. The world is like a double-edged sword: when one blade is of feather and the other of sharp steel, which one has more weight?”
– Ilona Treiman
Ilona Treiman is a jewelry and metal artist and teacher, who uses different materials and techniques in her work, characterised by a sculptural approach. She has graduated from metalworking at the Estonian Academy of Arts (1984), is a member of the Estonian Artists Association, Ornamo Art and Design Finland and The Union of Finnish Art Associations. She has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions, most notably at Limoges (1990, -92, -94), Cincinnati USA (1989, -91), Moscow and Tallinn (1985 -1990), Tokio (1992), Denmark, Beijing (2004) and Berlin (2005, -16), She has taken part of the nomadic exhibition Baltic and Nordic Jewelry Art (Denmark-Finland-Sweden, 1991) and the exhibition in Seoul South Korea (2011). She had a solo exhibition in the Art Museum of Hyvinkää (2012). In 2019, she received the Ede Kurrel prize of the The Estonian Association of Jewelry and Blacksmiths. Her works are part of the collection of the Estonian Museum of Applied Art And Design, Nordic Museum in Vaasa and private collections in France, USA, England, Finland, Denmark, Italy.
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FIRE
Ilona Treiman
In the Vault of A-Gallery
28.05–29.06.2021Event on Facebook
The home of Estonian jewelry, A-Gallery, will be 27 years old today. As a jewelry store and exhibition space, A-Gallery represents more than a hundred professional jewelry artists.
“Founding A-Gallery was a bold undertaking in its time. With our enthusiasm, we were also a guide to other applied arts disciplines. Combining different generations of metal artists, offering equal sales opportunities and creative activities to everyone has been the key to A-Gallery’s strength and survival for many years,” says Ene Valter, the founder and chairman of A-Gallery.
A-Gallery was founded in 1994 by jewellery artists who run the gallery to this day. The founding meeting of the gallery took place at the end of 1993. There were 32 founding members, including Ene Valter, Ülle Kõuts, Urve Küttner, Andrei Balašov, Mari Pärtelpoeg and Aino Kapsta. Later, 48 artists in total acquired shares of the enterprise. On May 10, 1994, A-Gallery opened its doors in the building of the Estonian Artists’ Union on Hobusepea Street (current location of HOP-gallery) where it stayed until 2005.
In its current location, on the corner of Hobusepea and Pikk streets, A-Gallery has been located since 2005. Today, A-Gallery has become a unique meeting point where one can get acquainted with the creations of over a hundred different authors.
“For me, A-Gallery is a home of Estonian art jewelry and a place where my work meets different artists and generations. I would say that it is a perfect timeline, every visitor gets a nice overview,” says the artist Claudia Lepik.
Each handmade piece of jewelry in A-Gallery is unique and made with a masterful technique. What makes A-Gallery even more special is the fact that many artists create their pieces right above the gallery where many artists have their studios.
On Monday, 3 May A-Gallery opens Urve Küttner’s solo exhibition AMBER AS A TALISMAN FROM PURE NATUREin the VAULT.
The exhibition is dedicated to Salme Raunam’s 100th anniversary.
This March marked the 100th anniversary of Salme Raunam, the grand old lady of Estonian metal art and the former professor of metalwork at the State Art Institute of the Estonian SSR. She was also my teacher and later on, a beloved colleague at the metal department. In the Soviet period, university teachers were required to conduct research. Thanks to professor Raunam’s suggestion I started working with amber and from 1979–1985 I researched Baltic amber and its uses. During the Soviet period, amber was not considered particularly valuable and the state’s attitude towards nature in general was careless and foul. It has been my mission to work with amber and reintroduce its historic value and meaning to the material. I was inspired by Lennart Meri’s book “Hõbevalge” (Silverwhite), where the author describes how the Roman emperor Nero’s obsession with amber prompted an amber boom in the ancient world – a small amber statue held the same value as a strong male slave. Until the 10th century, gold and amber were valued the same in Europe and Asia. In Prussia, the Teutonic order executed anyone, who gathered amber without permission and stealing amber also resulted in death penalty. In the Soviet Union, amber was cheap and widely available; it is worth noting that the Königsberg (currently Yantarny) amber quarry that was taken as spoils of war from Germany after World War II and restored by prisoners of war, is still fully functional and produces 90% of the world’s amber, determining prices on the world market. A contemporary amber boom was caused by Steven Spielberg’s film “Jurassic Park”, increasing amber’s popularity and causing a price surge.
The 50 million year old masterpiece of nature, the Baltic amber or succinite has embalming qualities, which means it is a great repository for insects, bits of plants as well as dinosaur remains and that makes it a perfect research material for scientists. Amber consists of over 40 different chemical and bioactive substances, the most significant of which is succinic acid that supports the immune system, has antioxidant properties and also helps muscle tissues to adapt to change and prevents blood clots. Together with a team of medics, the Latvian scientist Inga Ļašenko is researching the use of amber fibres in treatment of blood clots.
As a source of information amber truly is a wonder, however, it is also extremely sensitive to changes in its environment. Amber oxidises in sunlight, it melts and burns when heated and loses its beauty when boiled – it slips through our fingers like eternity it symbolises, when compared to human life span. Life on planet Earth can also be as delicate and fragile as amber, if environmental pollution, climate change and the spread of dangerous viruses is not stopped. Since ancient times people have valued amber as a natural healing and protecting stone, it was always held close. Amber is like a talisman, reminding us of the fragility of nature and the importance of a stable environment in sustaining life.
Today, more than 30 years after the Phosphorite War, an extensive environmental campaign in Estonia in the late 1980s against the Soviet industrial expansion, it is us, locals and not foreign powers, who plunder our forests and sacred trees. In the environmental awareness month of May I wish that the young and the old would once again form a unified front to protect Estonian nature, despite the individualist attitudes of today’s world.
– Urve Küttner
Urve Küttner is a jewellery artist and designer, whose work spans a variety of fields, materials and techniques. Her work has often been determined by the technical possibilities available to the artist. As a designer at the Tallinn Jewellery Factory (1967–1976) Küttner designed silver coffee sets and extensive sets of utensils, two of which, “Elegant” and “Arnika” are still being produced today. During that time, her artistic projects included many hollow copper forms and cast jewellery pieces. While teaching and researching amber at the State Art Institute, she also created art made of amber. The years from the late 1980s to the early 1990s make up Küttner’s enamel period, when she created jewellery, using free-form wire mesh and plique-à-jour enamelling and showcased the pieces in fashion shows. For the 1993 Baltic Fashion Fair (Balti Moemess), in addition to jewellery, Küttner also designed a nine-piece collection of garments. Since 1997, Küttner has been working on conceptual jewellery projects, such as “Dedicated to Edde Kurrel” (Pühendus Edde Kurrelile) and since the year 2000, she has created jewellery installations, featuring details of paintings by Paul Delvaux. Since 2010, Küttner has been rediscovering metal, mainly working with sheet iron. Küttner keeps returning to amber every now and then, as for her this is like “a holiday and receiving new ideas, perhaps from nature”.
Küttner has created amber-inspired jewellery for numerous exhibitions: International Amber Exhibition in Romania (1986), “Amber Art of late 20th century” in Ribniz-Damgarten in Germany (1999), Tallinn Applied Art Triennial (2000), “Amber Room“ in the basement hall of Tallinn Town Hall (2001), amber exhibition at the Estonian Museum of Natural History (2001), amber exhibition at Kuressaare Raegalerii (2001), “2+2=5“ at Adamson-Eric Museum (2009), Trofejas gallery in Berlin (2015), „Mere vaik“ dedicated to “Hõbevalge” by Lennart Meri at Vabaduse gallery in Tallinn (2018), „Mere vaik“ dedicated to Lennart Meri’s 90th anniversary at Evald Okas Museum in Haapsalu (2019). Küttner is a member of the Estonian Artists Association since 1974 and a member of the art collective Ruum 312 A since 1998. In 1998 she received the Kristjan Raud Art Award. In 2001 and in 2016 she was awarded the Ede Kurrel Prize.
The artist would like to thank Leonhard Lapin and Harry Liivrand. The exhibition is supported by the Estonian Cultural Endowment.
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AMBER AS A TALISMAN FROM PURE NATURE03.05. – 25.05.2021Event on Facebook
From Wednesday 28 April the Dongyi Wu exhibition PASSERBY and Hans-Otto Ojaste’s exhibitions A HANDFUL OF PRAYERS x VACCINE BE will be open on the windows of A-Gallery.
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PASSERBYDongyi Wu
Dongyi Wu’s works span across jewelry, body jewelry, fashion art, sculpture and conceptual installation. Trying to push the boundaries of jewelry, Dongyi creates the works with her unique and expressive language while making them wearable and well crafted. Collecting ideas from literature books, her own experiences, and researches of psychology, Dongyi lets free imagination and the inspiration guide her in designing the object to wear. She likens herself as a storyteller, who narrates stories that seem to be trivial and common but actually express strong and genuine emotions. Moreover, Dongyi fascinates playing with a wide range of materials and giving them special texture, distinct tactile, and new meaning in the process of wearable artworks creation.
For the series of art jewelry works “Passerby” and “Keyrings”, Dongyi Wu focuses on impression on streets, and transfers these quick images into jewelry pieces that can be worn. “Passerby” aims to capture the moments Dongyi observes people who walk next to her on streets, or people that are pictured in the photos inside fashion magazines. The inspiration for “Passerby5” comes from a young man who wore a mosaic suit, huge sneakers, and a cap with blue color on the street. He looked a little shy but wearing a high fashion style. Dongyi wants to express the contradiction between his personality and self-expression through wearable works. Blue is a color that can seem conservative and traditional, which usually associates with peaceful, relaxing, and orderly, but it was applied to the pieces with an energetic and fashionable style, which reproduced the personal style of the young man.
“Keyring” Collection as the extension series of “Passerby” shifts the focal point from people to everyday carrying objects — Keyrings. Dongyi believes the details and styles of the keyrings can narrate the stories of their owners. Through deconstructing the inspiration from the keyrings, Dongyi reshapes them into narrative jewelry pieces that are wearable, lightweight, and unique.
Dongyi Wu was born and raised in China. She is a contemporary jewelry artist, who is currently working and living in San Antonio, USA. Dongyi received her Master’s Degree from Rochester Institute of Technology, and her Bachelor’s Degree from the Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology in China. Dongyi has her works shown nationally and internationally, such as JOYA 2020 in Barcelona and Schmuck 2018 in Munich. Dongyi was recently selected to be one of the winners of Preziosa Young 2020 in Florence, Italy; and one of the finalists of the Lydon Emerging Artist Program (LEAP award) 2019 at the Contemporary Craft in the United States and finalists of the ENJOIA’T 2017 in Spain. Her works have been featured in many publications, and the last publication that showed her work is the book Chinese Contemporary Jewelry Design.
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A HANDFUL OF PRAYERS
Hans-Otto Ojaste
The exposition observes the similarities in the motoric of eating dried sunflower seeds and fingering prayer beads. Throughout thousands of years mankind has been forming and using physical movements to help us channel our spirit. The fingering of prayer beads while praying or chanting is a common practice in many different religions.
Prayer beads are fingered in synchronization with repeating prayers or mantras. A similar motif can be found in street culture, in the process of consuming sunflower seeds. The seeds pass through fingers as prayers beads do. Biting and peeling form a repeating movement. Chewing takes the place of saying prayers.
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VAKTSIIN BE
Hans-Otto Ojaste
NB! The exhibition is based on the artist’s imagination. A-Gallery supports and follows the recommendations and requirements of Estonian Government and the Health Board.
Bio-energetical vaccines are alternative means of protection which are helpful in preventing the negative effects caused by the COVID pandemic. This new type of vaccines offers an alternative to regular vaccines and masks which have been made mandatory and caused a divide in the society.Supported by in-depth scientific studies and experiments, a new range of products has become available which is suitable for all age groups. These bio-blockers work as an energetical shield and are similar to injectable vaccines, but instead of physical DNA particles they introduce the virus’ particular energy to the body in a nonviolent way. Having come into contact with the virus’s energy field, the vibration converter will recognise it and deactivate it.
These instruments channel the harmonic energy of the universe and work as it’s augmenters, helping to transcend a person to a higher level of cosmic vibration. They can be used as an additional layer of protection, because they also alleviate the effects of 5G and other forms of radiation to the body. 5G is a harmful radio wave which, in addition to having other negative effects, is used to control the nano-chips that are being injected to people via regular vaccines.
*The studies are based on alternative science and publications made by the free media. They are not dependent on the propaganda of the state-financed specialists and their slanted research.*In the trials the best results were achieved by using Vaccine Be in conjunction with FFP3 protective masks.
*Effects of Vaccine Be are enhanced by positive thinking, a healthy lifestyle and a balanced diet.
Hans-Otto Ojaste graduated from the Department of Jewellery and Blacksmithing at the Estonian Academy of Arts (BA 2012) and belongs to the artist duo Urmas-Ott. He has exhibited in group exhibitions both in Estonia and abroad.
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PASSERBY x A HANDFUL OF PRAYERS x VACCINE BE
28.04. – 26.06.2021
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