KARIN JOHANSSON: NEW PLACES - ABSTRACTIONS OF A CITY - 22 Feb 2012 - 23 Mar 2012

Karin Johansson: New Places - Abstractions of a City.
Klimt02 | Gallery presents in Barcelona New Places - Abstractions of a City, a series of necklaces by Swedish artist Karin Johansson. As citizens we understand our city by the visual fragments that are printed in our brain, kind of memories of it giving us a personal vision of where we live. A colour, a smell, an architectonic detail... become abstract forms that explain our perception of the space we inhabit.

In the beginning, a variety of many-coloured images of a city: meeting points, streets, people, blue skies, night and day.
Staying in a playful mood, capturing the pulse, the movement, or the silence. Sketching, cutting paper, creating a map of sorts in my studio, micro and macro at once as my perspective.
Picking out colours, choosing materials, thinking about my purpose, reflecting on meanings and limitations.
Giving each element its shape, assigning it a size and its place, connecting it further to circle in something of this scene.
Having it all transform into a necklace seemed only most obvious to me: no up, no down, wrapped around me, playing, constantly detouring in new directions.
Wearing the object, I become the inhabitant of the new place. 

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Klimt02 | Gallery presents in Barcelona New Places - Abstractions of a City, a series of necklaces by Swedish artist Karin Johansson. As citizens we understand our city by the visual fragments that are printed in our brain, kind of memories of it giving us a personal vision of where we live. A colour, a smell, an architectonic detail... become abstract forms that explain our perception of the space we inhabit.


In the beginning, a variety of many-coloured images of a city: meeting points, streets, people, blue skies, night and day.
Staying in a playful mood, capturing the pulse, the movement, or the silence. Sketching, cutting paper, creating a map of sorts in my studio, micro and macro at once as my perspective.
Picking out colours, choosing materials, thinking about my purpose, reflecting on meanings and limitations.
Giving each element its shape, assigning it a size and its place, connecting it further to circle in something of this scene.
Having it all transform into a necklace seemed only most obvious to me: no up, no down, wrapped around me, playing, constantly detouring in new directions.
Wearing the object, I become the inhabitant of the new place. 

Karin Johansson
-2016-2016
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JEWELS by KARIN JOHANSSON: NEW PLACES - ABSTRACTIONS OF A CITY

Necklace: End of the Street by Karin Johansson. Gold, oxidized silver, enamel, reconstructed jade, reconstructed onyx, reconstructed white coral. 2011. 80 cm. From series: Abstractions of a City. Price: 1800 €. Available at Hannah Gallery. https://hannahgallerybarcelona.net/jewels?Id_open_jewel=26909 Unique piece.
Karin Johansson.
Necklace: End of the Street, 2011.
Gold, oxidized silver, enamel, reconstructed jade, reconstructed onyx, reconstructed white coral.
80 cm.
From series: Abstractions of a City.
Price: 1800 €.
Unique piece.
Necklace: From above by Karin Johansson. Gold, enamel, reconstructed jade, reconstructed white coral, acrylic. 2013. 100 cm Unique piece. Price: 1790 €. Available at Hannah Gallery. https://hannahgallerybarcelona.net/jewels?Id_open_jewel=37600 Special piece designed for Klimt02 Gallery.
Karin Johansson.
Necklace: From above, 2013.
Gold, enamel, reconstructed jade, reconstructed white coral, acrylic.
100 cm
Unique piece.
Price: 1790 €.
Special piece designed for Klimt02 Gallery.
Necklace: Evening Square by Karin Johansson. Gold, enamel, reconstructed white coral, reconstructed pink coral. 2012. 95 cm. Available at Hannah Gallery. https://hannahgallerybarcelona.net/jewels?Id_open_jewel=26890
Karin Johansson.
Necklace: Evening Square, 2012.
Gold, enamel, reconstructed white coral, reconstructed pink coral.
95 cm.
Necklace: 11 pm by Karin Johansson. Gold, oxidized silver, enamel, reconstructed onyx. 2012. 100 cm. Available at Hannah Gallery. https://hannahgallerybarcelona.net/jewels?Id_open_jewel=26891
Karin Johansson.
Necklace: 11 pm, 2012.
Gold, oxidized silver, enamel, reconstructed onyx.
100 cm.
Necklace: June 18 by Karin Johansson. Gold, enamel, reconstructed turquoise, reconstructed jade, reconstructed white coral. 2012. 89 cm. Available at Hannah Gallery. https://hannahgallerybarcelona.net/jewels?Id_open_jewel=26893
Karin Johansson.
Necklace: June 18, 2012.
Gold, enamel, reconstructed turquoise, reconstructed jade, reconstructed white coral.
89 cm.
Necklace: Friday Afternoon by Karin Johansson. Gold, enamel, reconstructed turquoise, reconstructed jade, reconstructed onyx, reconstructed white coral, reconstructed pink coral. 2012. 105 cm. Available at Hannah Gallery. https://hannahgallerybarcelona.net/jewels?Id_open_jewel=26894
Karin Johansson.
Necklace: Friday Afternoon, 2012.
Gold, enamel, reconstructed turquoise, reconstructed jade, reconstructed onyx, reconstructed white coral, reconstructed pink coral.
105 cm.
Necklace: Neighbours by Karin Johansson. Gold, oxidized silver, enamel, reconstructed onyx, reconstructed white coral, reconstructed pink coral. 2012. 82 cm. Available at Hannah Gallery. https://hannahgallerybarcelona.net/jewels?Id_open_jewel=26895
Karin Johansson.
Necklace: Neighbours, 2012.
Gold, oxidized silver, enamel, reconstructed onyx, reconstructed white coral, reconstructed pink coral.
82 cm.
Necklace: Meeting Point by Karin Johansson. Gold, enamel, reconstructed onyx, reconstructed white coral, reconstructed pink coral. 2012. 107 cm. Available at Hannah Gallery. https://hannahgallerybarcelona.net/jewels?Id_open_jewel=26896
Karin Johansson.
Necklace: Meeting Point, 2012.
Gold, enamel, reconstructed onyx, reconstructed white coral, reconstructed pink coral.
107 cm.
Brooch: Butterfly by Karin Johansson. Oxidized silver, enamel. 2012. 3,8 cm. Available at Hannah Gallery. https://hannahgallerybarcelona.net/jewels?Id_open_jewel=26897
Karin Johansson.
Brooch: Butterfly, 2012.
Oxidized silver, enamel.
3,8 cm.
Brooch: Butterfly by Karin Johansson. Oxidized silver. 2012. 5,1 cm. Available at Hannah Gallery. https://hannahgallerybarcelona.net/jewels?Id_open_jewel=26898
Karin Johansson.
Brooch: Butterfly, 2012.
Oxidized silver.
5,1 cm.
Brooch: Butterfly by Karin Johansson. Oxidized silver. 2009. 4,8 cm. Available at Hannah Gallery. https://hannahgallerybarcelona.net/jewels?Id_open_jewel=26899
Karin Johansson.
Brooch: Butterfly, 2009.
Oxidized silver.
4,8 cm.
Brooch: Butterfly by Karin Johansson. 18K gold. 2010. 3,9 cm. Available at Hannah Gallery. https://hannahgallerybarcelona.net/jewels?Id_open_jewel=26900
Karin Johansson.
Brooch: Butterfly, 2010.
18K gold.
3,9 cm.

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