Galeria ARTICULA

Kelly McCallum

Kelly McCallum had her show "Diamonds and Dead things" together with Märta Mattson at Galeria ARTICULA April-May 2012. Here some pieces from Kelly.

More photos on Articula's FB page and on Kelly's own page http://www.kellymccallum.com/

Märta Mattson

The exhibition D&D has come to the end in Galeria ARTICULA. Here some pieces from the exhibition. Works of Märta Mattson.

More photos on Articula's FB page and on Märta's own page http://www.martamattsson.com/

Exhibition "Diamonds & Dead Things" - Opening night photos - part 3

Third lot of photos from the opening night 14 April 2012
Works of Kelly McCallum and Märta Mattsson.
Check the FB page for more photos: Galeria ARTICULA

Photos by Luis Pais.

Exhibition "Diamonds & Dead Things" - Opening night photos - part 2

Works of Kelly McCallum and Märta Mattsson

Here some more photos of the opening night.

Exhibition at Galeria ARTICULA until 12 May 2012

Photos by Luis Pais.

Exhibition "Diamonds & Dead Things" - Opening night 14 April 2012

Works of Kelly McCallum and Märta Mattsson

Here some photos of the opening night.

Exhibition at Galeria ARTICULA until 12 May 2012.

Photos by Luis Pais.

The artists of "DIAMONDS & DEAD THINGS"

Märta Mattson - Photo Luis Pais

Märta Mattsson was born in Stockholm, Sweden and has studied jewellery art at HDK-School of Design and Crafts in Gothenburg, Hiko Mizuno College of Jewellery
in Tokyo, Rhode Island School of Design in Providence and at the Royal College of Art in London. She has exhibited her work internationally at galleries and fairs including, Schmuck in Munich, Velvet da Vinci in San Francisco and at Gallery Marzee in Nijmegen.

Someone once told Märta: “You make jewellery for children, not for adults.” Given that she draws inspiration from her childhood experiences of playing with stuffed animals and slugs, her fellow students in Tokyo were right when they described her work as: ‘KimoKawaii’, which is in fact a combination of two words kawaii (cute) and kimoi (disgusting). Märta’s work is based on the tension that exists between attraction and repulsion. She translates her bizarre fantasies into ornament and invites people to marvel over their oddity.

www.martamattsson.com

Kelly McCallum - Photo Luis Pais

Kelly McCallum graduated from the Goldsmithing department at the Royal Collage of Art in summer, 2006: a jeweller’s interest in scale and attention to detail is apparent in both her wearable objects and her sculptural pieces. Her work is influenced by both story-telling and natural history, employing Victorian taxidermy as well as insects, precious metals and other treasures from her personal collection of curiosities.

She is interested in the stories of how things age, how they decay or are preserved, are forgotten, covered in shrouds of grime, only to be found again and given new meanings by our own sentimentality. Taxidermy seeks to preserve life by celebrating death: it is a strange half-live, a suspension, an illusion. Insects on the other hand, through their lives, destroy this illusion: they feed on death, breaking down, demolishing, creating movement from a silent tableau, forcing change and action.

McCallum’s work juxtaposes and celebrates the interplay of these warring factions, preservation and disintegration. They become the characters in melodramatic scenes of mortal stillness and ever-present decay.

www.kellymccallum.com

Exhibition "Diamonds & Dead Things"

Works by Kelly McCallum and Märta Mattsson.

Opening night Saturday 14th of April 2012.

“Art is far too important to be taken seriously”

Diamonds and Dead things is the brain child of Kelly McCallum and Märta Mattsson.
A constantly evolving project in which anything goes and everything is possible.

D&D is not a straightforward collaboration of ideas or a way to share the making of pieces, but an opportunity to throw caution to the wind and to create work in which each artist does not always have complete control.
It’s about constructing opportunities for creative play, to search for the magical in the unexpected and to allow two creative minds free reign to explore all that is possible.

Exhibition "Border City: Tallinn - Lisbon"

Exposição “Cidade Fronteiriça: Tallin – Lisboa”

até dia 23 de Março no Instituto Camões.

Ao deparar-me com as frases "last stop on the line" e " crossing the line" e com o significado de " boundaries", a ideia que me surge imediatamente é a de limite e a fronteira entre a realidade e o virtual, a sanidade e a insanidade mental.

Nesta perspectiva penso que estas duas peças "The killing jewel" e "The anti-existence device" se enquadram neste mesmo paradoxo entre a realidade e ficção e a vontade que cada vez mais o ser humano tem de se alienar da realidade e de transformar o virtual e artificial em real.

Estas peças também estão relacionadas com o medo psicológico de enfrentar a realidade, o envelhecimento, o tempo, a passagem, a mortalidade, as emoções no fundo a vida.

When I come across those sentences " last stop on the line", " crossing the line" and the meaning of " boundaries" the idea that immediately comes to my mind is the limit and border between reality and virtuality, mental sanity and mental insanity.

On this perspective the works " Killing jewel" and " Anti-existence device" fit perfectly well in the paradox between the reality and the fiction and on the desire that the human being has more and more, to be alienated from the reality, transforming the artificial and the virtual in real.

Those pieces are related also with the psychological fear of dealing with reality, time, aging, passage, mortality and fillings, emotions in the end with the life.