艺术家简介
EMPAR JUANES SANCHIS 1990年出生于西班牙，少年时期在瓦伦西亚的格雷多媒体音乐学校Conservatorio de Grado Medio in Valencia学习了十年大提琴。高等教育时期在德国、日本、荷兰、中国、西班牙等多地参与交流项目。
2014年起作为建筑设计师在德国工作。2015年参与清华大学建筑学院与德国Thomas Herzog，日本George Kunihiro，荷兰Martijn de Geus的国际项目并完成硕士论文。
2018年拥有了作为自己的珠宝设计工作室。2019年马斯特里赫特美术与设计学院Maastricht Academy of Fine Arts and Design文学士学位毕业设计。
After finishing her Master in Architecture four years ago, in which she gathered experience within Spain, Germany and China, Empar experienced a necessity for crafts in her life. She decided to aim her career into a more creative and handcrafted direc- tion, so she started to study Design in Maastricht Academy of Fine Arts and Design, where she just had her Bachelor’s Degree from.
She discovered stonework during her exchange semester in Idar-Oberstein, Germany, and she got totally fascinated about this material. What she most loves about carving stone is the power of transforming such a resistant and heavy material into delicate and lightweight jewellery.
四年前完成建筑学硕士学位后，她在西班牙、德国和中国积累了经验，在她的生活中经历了手工艺的必要性。她决定把自己的职业生涯定位在一个更有创造力和手工制作的领域，于是她开始在马斯特里赫特美术与设计学院(Maastricht Academy of Fine Arts and Design)学习设计，她刚刚在那里获得了学士学位。
她在德国伊达-奥伯斯坦交换学期发现了石雕艺术，她对这种材料完全着迷了。她最喜欢雕刻石的地方是它能把一种坚硬而厚重的材料变成精致而轻巧的首饰。
作品和设计说明
Empar Juanes has no desire to fall off a cliff, but she enjoys balancing on the edge. This is how she approaches her jewellery, constantly testing the limits of the material. Her work in stone is about resistance, tension and fragility where risk-taking is es- sential. In order to live fully, Juanes says we must have the courage to be vulnerable. Studying the matter of our personal space and opening a strong, direct, word-less dialogue between the wearer and the observer, “Tensed” is a tribute both to fragility and to life.
Empar Juanes不想从悬崖上掉下去，但她喜欢在悬崖边保持平衡。这就是她如何处理她的珠宝，不断测试材料的极限。她在stone的工作是关于抵抗、紧张和脆弱，而冒险是必要的。为了活得充实，Juanes说我们必须有勇气变得脆弱。研究我们的个人空间问题，在佩戴者和观察者之间展开一场强有力的、直接的、无言的对话，《绷紧》是对脆弱和生命的赞颂。
Piece 1: Tensed 2. Brooch.
Agate, silver, stainless steel. 90x65x52mm. Photo by Nima Ashrafi.
Can a stone be flexible? .
I discovered stone can be slightly flexible, depending on the stone internal structure and geometry. This unexpected characte- ristic of stone’s materiality fascinated me. I set the stone playing with the tension of the metal, visualazing this risky but exciting phenomenon.
The natural stone pattern, as it would be a second skin with its freckles, the space in between the wearer and the piece and in between the wearer and the viewer, with its fragile aura materializes the concept of personal space and it’s vulnerability in an abstract and minimalistic way.
Piece 2: Fragile, it contains emotions.
About Personal Space And Its Matter thesis’ art book. 148 × 210 mm. Photo by Nima Ashrafi.
Original texts, sketches , thoughts, struggles, decisions and emotions on a semi-transparent fragile paper during my thesis research are folded and hand-bound with a Japanese paper thread covered with real gold. The fact the pages are folded, makes it unreadable at the first impression although words, sentences and feelings can be perceived on a closer look. Valuing my own conclusions, some parts are printed in gold using tradiional screen-printing technique.
As jewelry artist it is generally seen as a weakness to show insecurity. I position myself against this believe because I think to doubt and to be insecure is intrinsic of an artist’s nature. Should we not, in our roll as artists question everything? Is this process not totally linked to insecurities and struggles? I do think so and I see beauty on it. My aim with this book was to show a bit of my artistic process and visualize the foggy thoughts and complex emotional process that I experience behind a finished piece.
