SACRÉS OUTILS !

 

First volume of the collection “Jewellery as Art », Sacrés Outils ! proposes a reflection on technology and its objects seen through the prism of jewellery, with a special focus on contemporary art jewellery.

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First volume of the collection “Jewellery as Art », Sacrés Outils ! proposes a reflection on technology and its objects seen through the prism of jewellery, with a special focus on contemporary art jewellery.

To illustrate its point, Sacrés Outils ! presents the works of about thirty artists. Whether considered as a subject of investigation, a metaphorical support or simply diverted into a material, the technical instrument questions the relationship between human beings and their environment, be it natural or material. It bears witness to the new philosophical, social, cultural and environmental issues raised by our relationship to objects.

The subject of this book and the artists selected focus primarily on manual tools and technical or utilitarian objects. But they often go beyond this restricted framework to consider material culture as a whole.

The first chapter, richly illustrated, traces the history of the representation of the tool and the technical phenomenon in jewellery since Antiquity. It ends with the Glorious Thirties, a time when experimental jewellery exploded on an international scale. Thematic, the following chapters examine the way in which art jewellers today approach the question of the tool and reflect on the technical phenomenon.

Sacrés Outils ! also includes :

  • a story highlighting the initiatory dimension of apprenticeship ;
  • a technical chapter in which four artists describe in detail their creative process ;
  • a directory listing specialised magazines and platforms, prizes and awards, and jewellery schools in France and abroad.

Featured artists

Bas Bouman (NL) – Sigurd Bronger (NO) – Sungho Cho (KR) – Lluis Comin (ES) – Jack Cunningham (UK) – Ramon Puig Cuyas (ES) – Lisa & Scott Cylinder (USA) – Robert Ebendorf (USA) – Veronika Fabian (HU/UK) – Karl Fritsch (DE/NZ) – Gesine Hackenberg (DE/NL) – Karin Herwegh (NL) – Holland Houdek (USA) – Peter Machata (SK) – Kelly McDonald (AU/NZ) – Sebastia Macia (ES) – Juan José Garcia Martin (ES) – Robert Mazlo (LB/FR) – Xavier Monclus (ES) – Liana Pattihis (CY/UK) – Jo Pond (UK) – Katja Prins (NL) – Quars d’una (Maria Diez – Carla Garcia Durlan – Sandra Llusa – Clara Niubo) (ES) – Bernhard Schobinger (CH) – Fabrizio Tridenti (IT) – Christel van der Laan (NL/AU) – Gabi Veit (IT) – † J. Fred Woell (USA).

Informations

Collection : Jewellery as Art

Release date : January 2023

Public price : 88 € *

Format : 20 x 28 cm
 – 464 pages – 2,180 kg

ISBN : 978-2-9582833-0-8

Language : French

* To facilitate access to our publications, a 20% discount is granted to craftsmen (all trades), artists, students in art or jewellery schools, young people under 25, art and jewellery schools, and researchers whose subject of study is related to jewellery.

To order your copy, please contact us. Your book can be sent by post or picked up at LA Joaillerie par Mazlo gallery, in Paris.

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