设计师简介
Mette Olsen (1953) art jewelry designer Education: Design School Kolding, Denmark
Various Danish censored exhibitions e.g The Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition, KP, The Biennale for Crafts and Design
Tinne Delfs (1957), writer
Education: master of literature Aarhus University, Denmark
Various writing and editorial work, e.g. KUNSTUFF (DK), Kunsthåndverk (NO), exhibition catalogs Awarded in International Writing Competition on Architecture, Henning Larsen’s Fond
Biennale for Crafts and Design
Current exhibition
Participates in the exhibition Poetry in Paper with the work ‘PEARLS – cultural pearls’
Museum for Paper Art, Denmark https://museumforpapirkunst.dk/en/home/
NATURAL PEARLS is made in a collaboration between Danish contemporary art jewelry designer Mette Olsen (born 1953) and Danish writer Tinne Delfs (born 1957)
Mette Olsen and Tinne Delfs is an aesthetic collaboration between practice and theory and an attempt to reduce the boundaries between them. The main expression is contemporary art jewelry.
作品和设计说明
NATURAL PEARLS is jewelry made in the Anthropocene epoch.
The necklaces hold a simple form which is recognizable down trough ages and connect our time with the past. Our ancestors found pieces of amber, coral, stone and other nature materials on the beach and wore the findings in a leather cord.
Now evolution has reached the Anthropocene epoch and we mainly find plastic waste on the beaches.
NATURAL PEARLS express genuine natural beauty. The beads look ‘real’ and at first you see delicate and valuable materials as jade and coral. All the cracks, holes, the radiant glove and the play of colors suggest that the beads are made from natural materials.
And in that sense, they are.
Because plastic is derived from natural, organic materials e.g. crude oil, cellulose, coal, natural gas and salt. In addition, plastic is an important resource in a sustainable strategy and much, much too valuable to throw away.
NATURAL PEARLS are made from green and red plastic fishing nets lost or dumped into the sea, washed ashore at Denmark’s west coast and finally found and collected by the artists. Afterwards the plastic nets are divided into small pieces, melted and casted in a primitive handmade mold. Last the beads are bored out and drawn on cords made of black catfish skins.
NATURE PEARLS consist of two items: a green necklace JADE and a red necklace CORAL.
Each necklace measures
approx.
20 cm. in diameter. A single bead measures approx. 2,5 cm. in
diameter.
