Peter - Day Ten - Displaying your Progression and Akiko Kurihara

Friday, the day where the majority of galleries are opening, and the majority of us are sick. This should be fun.

However, unlike yesterday, it was the first two galleries that I were really interesting for me.

The first one was "tafelbesteck outiles de table table tools", which was a shop of a silversmith displaying cutlery and vessels with other silversmiths.

It was the work of Konstatin Grcic, along with few others, that really caught my attention. This was due to the fact that along with with the finished product, they also displayed the paper models and the drawings that they made to conceptualise the piece. I was really intrigued by this, to demonstrate how your work came to the final product, a rare viewing. In my opinion, it seems to help explain the piece that bit more, to help strengthen the concept of the artist and guide the viewer to it. I am quite interested in this, to display my progress.

Demonstrating the process of the final piece.  

Valuing the model as much as the final piece.

After we said our thanks you and gather ourselves together, we then ventured onto the cluster of galleries.

It was around this time we wondering into a gallery display the work of Akiko Kurihara, and let me tell you, I found her work very interesting. In Kurihara's work, it was a combination of science fact, her perspective on things, and inquisitive pieces.

"1g Silver"

For example, two of her necklaces, "1g Silver" and "1g Gold" which the pendant being in the Times New Roman "g", each weighs exactly one gram of either silver or gold. Then, beside these two pendents is the "1000g" or 1kg necklace, a fifteen meter long chain of one thousand silver "g"s. As the Kurihara states on her plaque next to this piece, "...[by] trying this piece on, you [will] realise how heavy 1kg (1000g) is." Also a side note, having the plaque half explaining the work was interesting as it help understand the piece.

"1g Gold"

Part of the "1000g" necklace

The complete "1000g" necklace.

It was interesting how Kurihara was able to subtly bring the science, facts, and other types of subjects into the jewellery form. I think I will be keeping an eye on Kurihara's work in the future.