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| Lithuanian Jewellery Report |
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| Piotr Wajcht (Poland) won the nomination “For the best design” |
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Contest of Contemporary Jewellery
Report by Angele Juodzeviciene
The Contest of Contemporary Jewellery was held during the International Baltic Jewellery Exhibition “Amber Trip”. The main idea of the contest was to enable jewellers to reveal their creative potential, to develop the openness of exhibition visitors and guests to art and beauty, and to help perceive a piece of jewellery as an object of art. / more /
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Beauty Triumphed Over the Crisis
Report by Goda Ivanauskaite
Vilnius has always been and will always be the capital of the Baltic jewellery art
Traditions continue: at the beginning of March, despite the frightening prospects of the world crisis, all fans, connoisseurs, professionals and beauty and art lovers gathered to the 6 International Baltic Jewellery Exhibition “Amber Trip”. This year, Vilnius is the Capital of European Culture, and on 5–8 March guests of the city had even two opportunities to witness that, because these days Vilnius is also the capital of the Baltic jewellery art. The exhibition presented jewellery art articles from across the world. Companies from Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland, Turkey, Germany, Russia, Czech Republic, Belgium, Italy, Ukraine, India and Greece participated in the exhibition.
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| Ist place winner Ulla Ahola (Finland) |
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“For you” - Summary
Report by Giedymin Jablonski Chairmen of jewellery art contest „For you”
For the second time already we succeeded in inspiring artists to focus their attention around the theme of the International Baltic jewellery show “Amber Trip” contest. 71 participants from 13 countries: Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland, Russia, Sweden, Ireland, Austria, Netherlands, Portugal, Italy, Belgium, Finland answered to our invitation. The jury members had a real pleasure to see the works entered in the competition and then a serious problem to award prizes as their number was unfortunately strictly limited. / more /
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Lithuanian Assay Office
Over 2008, the Lithuanian Assay Office assayed and hallmarked 1.84 million precious metal articles, of which:
1. 0.39 million gold items, of which:
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1.1. 0.32 million of imported gold items
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1.2. 0.07 million of gold items produced by Lithuanian manufactures.
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2. 1.46 million of silver items, of which:
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2.1. 1.15 million of imported silver items
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2.2. 0.31 million of silver items produced by Lithuanian manufactures.
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3. 32 platinum items, of which:
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3.1. 19 imported platinum items
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3.2. 13 platinum items produced by Lithuanian manufacturers
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4. 70 palladium items, of which:
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4.1. No palladium items were imported
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4.2 70 palladium items produced by Lithuanian manufacturers.
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4 gold items were hallmarked with the Common Control Mark of Vienna Convention. Economy subjects have the right to choose and decide upon the hallmark to be put on precious metal articles. Pursuant to the tariffs on the assay, hallmarking and quality certification of precious metals and precious metal articles and other services approved by Resolution No. 1077 of 1998 September 3 of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania, equal tariffs are applied for the assay and hallmarking of precious metal articles with the Lithuanian State Control Mark as well as with the Common Control Mark of Vienna Convention. Pursuant to item 1 of the above-mentioned Resolution of the Government, different tariffs are applied for the assay and hallmarking of precious metal articles produced in Lithuania or imported to the Republic of Lithuania. Detailed information on the tariffs on the assay, hallmarking and quality certifying of precious metals and precious metal articles and other services for Lithuanian manufactures and on the tariffs applied for precious metals and precious metal articles imported into the Republic of Lithuania is available at the website of the Lithuanian Assay Office www.lpr.lt.
Information provided by Public Institution “Lithuanian Assay Office”
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Kiss of the Sun’s Ray
Report by Renata Petkute
“A piece of jewellery is like a work of art to which a goldsmith devotes all his soul, all his skills, all his experience and artistic intuition, in other words, the artist devotes oneself” – says Viktoras Sitalo.
Viktor, you are an experienced jeweller – jewellery designer. Please, tell me how and when did your way of creation begin?
In 1989, I entered the then Telsiai School of Applied Art to study the speciality of artistic metalworking. Upon finishing my studies, I realized that I wanted to continue broadening my knowledge of jewellery, therefore, already then, in 1994, I started to look for information on foreign schools with a similar profile. / more /
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Amber Sun of the Pisces Epoch
Report by Sergey Petrov Director of the Amber and Regional Resourses Institute
She crashed into my life on a huge GAZ-53 motor van, wearing a suede jacket and high white boots. Talking about Lena calmly and smoothly is impossible, and all my memories of the past resemble the short stories of her favourite writer Chmelevskaja.
… Then and there, during those turbulent Perestroika years, having completed my military service and having said farewell to the Penates of the Kaliningrad Technical Institute, with two children to care for, I was literally torn apart between the two options: following the scientific path or the commercial path. The good thing was that at that period young people were smart and there were enough of them to work with and to start new business. No one had money then; thus, the behaviour of young people wasn’t too intricate, they used to group together actively, to create and to experiment.
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| Oleg Tixomirov “Ecologically pure love” |
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Wood Elements in Jewellery Articles
Report by Olga Rogozina
In April, the Saint Petersburg cultural life experienced an exceptional event – an exhibition “Stone World”, traditionally devoted to the Day of Geologist. The organizers arranged various expositions, which presented different aspects of the world of minerals. Different mineralogical collections were presented here. The exposition centre of the Central Science and Research Geological Exploration Museum presented to visitors the history of the famous mosaic map “The USSR Industrialisation”, manufactured by Soviet craftsmen in 1937 and awarded Grand Prix at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1937 and the golden medal at the world exposition in New York in 1939. The exposition was timed to the restoration of the map, which was launched by the craftsmen of “Carskoselskaya yantarnaja masterskaya”.
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| Latvian Jewellery Report |
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| Jewellery artwork of Anita and Vitauts |
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Turaida’s Castle Story
Report by Ema Lukas
Baltu Rotas Ltd was formed 15 years ago by Latvian jewelers Inita and Vitauts Straupe. This year company changed name from „V.I.Straupe” Ltd to Baltu Rotas (Baltic Jewellery).
During the 15 years of work, the workshop and 2 galleries were created. Artists have made gallery Tornis (Tower) in Turaida castle, Sigulda. And Gallery Tornis in Old Riga, opposite the entrance of St. Peters church. In 2007 artists opened The Museum of Ancient Baltic Jewellery in Old Riga.
Baltu Rotas produces handmade silver, bronze and gold jewelry – copies from ancient jewellery, traditional signs in up-to-date designs, modern design jewellery collections.
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| Polish Jewellery Report |
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| Near the Trakai castle at the begining of the route |
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The 3 European Amber Road
Report by Laura Tomas
Recently, routes of cultural tourism are gaining more and more significance for the tourism development. European Amber Roads are among such routes.
Trade relations that were formed on the basis of the Sun Stone Road between the Adrian and Baltic Seas have connected the countries of the ancient Europe. Merchants of the Ancient Roman Empire used to travel to the sandy coasts of the Baltic Sea in search for the "northern gold" – amber. Today, reconstruction of the old Amber Road is beneficial for the integration of the Central European countries, thus the development of cooperation between countries located near this historic road in the field of tourism is of great importance. / more /
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| Jewellery by Adam Grinovich |
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Adam Grinovich - Surrounded by Images and Objects
Report by Renata Petkute
“My work is an investigation into the ability of objects. It is a constant question of history, formation, prehistory, marks, and value. I’m looking for the connecting threads. The ability of an object to become dear to you at the first moment of recognition...” says jeweller Adam Grinovich.
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| Finnish Jewellery Report |
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| Behind the white curtains, 2009 Nelli Tanner |
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Nelli Tanner, Exploring Meanings
Report by Antonio Altarriba
Nelli Tanner, jewellery artist, was born in Helsinki, Finland in 1976. She studied jewellery and stonework design at South Carelia Polytechnic, Lappeenranta, and later at Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, graduating from both institutions with a Bachelor of Arts 2000 and 2003 respectively. She also has studied artistic pedagogy at the Institute of Design, Lahti, Finland 2005. Tanner has exhibited widely in Europe at galleries, museums and other spaces sometimes in group shows and sometimes solo o duo. Tanner has settled in Imatra at the beginning of this summer with her husband Ville Huhtanen who is a painter. / more /
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Never-ending Story - Master of the Contemporary Movement in Jewellery
Report by Angele Juodzeviciene
"A piece of jewellery is above all a concept, an idea. If on the one hand such a concept has to be subordinated to the material, it is on the other also deeply inspired by it. Trough the connection of precious metals, stones and unconventional materials I create unique objects, which make the extraordinary wearable. For 40 years, this has been the stimulus and demand of my creative work"
Michael Zobel
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| Worldwide report |
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| Dr. Laurent-Max De Cock Associate Professor at Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp |
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The New Trends In Academic Metal Art Practice, Research And Education In Belgium
Report by Dr. Laurent-Max De Cock Associate Professor at Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp
I think about this topic that will often read many same stories from England, Netherlands, Germany or some other Europe country. Of course I know the new trends very well, but as a life attitude, we need to work to be original and follow our heart, no trends, and to question our selves what is our interests and why? Originality start from hard work and honest development in your brief without any copy or using of new materials only for being original, for young people very difficult to avoid to be influenced from outside especially the new fashion trends! / more /
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| For your smile |
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Men who wear ear-rings are reckoned to make good husbands because: - They have experienced pain. - They have bought jewellery. / more /
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