个人简介
NATALIA GOMENSORO created Metalnat in 1989 after hearing her-self say “I can’t find any jewelry that I’d like to wear”. She went from that phrase to her first ring in a very short time. She learned the silversmith technique from several Latin American masters in Montevideo, Uruguay, and forged unique pieces that were quickly in demand. Her architecture studies influence her jewelry design, which is characterized by a keen understanding of spatial relationships as well as the use of traditional industrial materials. The latter – in the form of concrete, magnets and rubber -balance the organic references to buds, corals, and underwater plants. Gomensoro coaxes a distinctive aesthetic from these contrasting influences that she has made her own . No surprise that her work has been described as both ‘industrial jewelry’ and ‘small sculptures’. Her designs are best appreciated in their final support, the body, where they assume the ideal proportion for which they were created. Gomensoro lives and works in New York City.
Selected Exhibitions
Sept. 19 – Show 2nd seminar China-Uruguay Cultural Gallery, Beijing China
Jan. 16 – Solo Show Gallery Paseo, Punta del Este, Uruguay
Aug. 12 – Featured in “America Jewelery vol lll” book, USA
Sept. 11 – Featured in “Ring a Day” by Lark Books, USA
Apr. 11 – Ring a Day Show for SNAG, Seattle, USA
May. 10 – Invisible Dog Gallery, Brooklyn, USA
Selected Awards
2008 – 5
th Peoples Design Award Cooper Hewitt 2008 New York, USA
2004 – Special Mention, UNESCO Craft 2004 for Latin America, Uruguay
2002 – Mention of the Jury at the Third Biennial of Crafts, South America
1997 – First Biennial of the Crafts Object, Special Mention, South America
Education
Architecture, Universidad de la Republica. Montevideo, Uruguay, 1990
Fine Arts, Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes. Montevideo, Uruguay, 1991
Jewelry Design, Zina Fernandez Worshop. Montevideo, Uruguay, 1990
Flavia Bertorello (b.1980) is a Brooklyn based artist and architect investigating the relationship between form and matter through a practice that includes: writing, drawing and experimenting with metals in various formats, scale & spatial contexts. “I’m interested in the exchange that takes place between my body and the materials i choose to interact with. I establish a relationship with them and regard the process of my work as a total body experience. I consider my work and body as being in a constant state of flux, both informing one another. The bodies I create are the remnants of the exchange that takes place between my body and the materials during the process of making.”
Education
2018-2019- Transart Institute for Creative Research, University of Plymouth, UK. MFA.
2014-2018- The Art Students League of New York. Sculpture & Painting Atelier
1997-2006- National University of Cordoba, Argentina. M.Arch & Urban Design.
Art Residencies
August 2019- Field Kitchen Academy. Wüsten Buchholz, Germany.
July 2019- Transart, UferStudios. Berlin, Germany.
January 2019- Transart, Art in general. Brooklyn, New York.
August 2018- Transart, UferStudios. Berlin, Germany
Collaborations & Group Exhibits
August 2019- Iron and Granite: IN Conversation, Uferstudios, Berlin. Germany. Iron
and Granite exhibited the sculptural and performance work of Flavia Bertorello & Kate
Hilliard, as they complete their final research in Creative Practice at The Transart
Institute. body-fragmentsculminationdialogue
January 2019- Experimental Installation: sculpture, sound and light- live stream. New
York-Cordoba, Argentina.
2017- Elizabeth st. Garden Fundraising show- Poetry
2017- “Red dot exhibition”- Sculpture- Phyllis Harriman Mason gallery, NYC- Group
exhibition.
2016- “Red dot exhibition”- Sculpture- Phyllis Harriman Mason gallery, NYC- Group
exhibition.
2015- “Red dot exhibition”- Sculpture- Phyllis Harriman Mason gallery, NYC- Group
exhibition.
设计说明
coil of life
Evolution and growth lie at the heart of every cell in our bodies as a tiny kernel of sticklike
chromosomes inside which genetic information is encoded and transported. The impact
a molecule composed of two chains that coil around each other carrying genetic
instructions has in our conception of life is immeasurable, yet unseen. How elegant the
self-replication process can be at a molecular level and how much information and
diversity can be packed into something so small…DNA, looks like a stepladder that has
been twisted around, into a complex combination of chemical elements that make the
spinning possible. This kinetic, ever changing force is what makes us unique, what makes
us grow and evolve. We envision the future of jewellery resting on this infinite, everadapting, ever-changing pattern.
materials
sterling silver, commercial magnets, iron rebar, iron particles & pigments. variable dim.
