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Klimt02, the jewel of contemporary art - 01 Jun 2007
Klimt02 is more than a gallery specializing in contemporary jewellery: it is also a meeting place for creators and their public, based as it is upon two concepts. On the one hand, the virtual community created in 2002, when Amador Bertomeu and Leo Caballero set up a website offering the most comprehensive information on the world of art in jewellery, which swiftly became an international benchmark. And on the other, the gallery on Calle Còrsega that opened on 31 May, and will serve to showcase in situ the most audacious ideas in contemporary jewellery. A meeting point for art collectors and lovers of signature jewellery.
The Klimt02 Gallery is starting off with a selection of pieces from 41 artists which embody the most outstanding artistic creation in the field of jewellery. Gold, silver, plastic, recycled objects, ceramics, aluminium, polyester, silk, glass, steel, wood, enamel... every material is workable for the artists featured in the Klimt02 Gallery, who create jewellery with a contemporary concept whose shapes both perpetuate and escape from tradition and are frequently works of art in themselves. For example, Dutch artist Ted Noten creates necklaces from gold leaf inserted into pieces of methacrylate; Luxembourg creator Claude Schmitz designs multi-layered rings and brooches from coral; Catalan Gemma Draper creates necklaces from pearls, glass and reindeer horn, and Austrian Helfried Kodré conjures up geometric brooches from fine sheets of gold and silver.
The Klimt02 Gallery occupies an apartment on Calle Còrsega in the centre of Barcelona and has two rooms housing the permanent and individual exhibitions, the latter being dedicated to showcasing the work of a particular creator in detail. An essential meeting place for anyone interested in being at the cutting-edge in the world of signature jewellery: Only here will you be able to find unique pieces made from fragments of Mercedes-Benz; brooches imitating pieces of Lego; hearts in red aluminium; necklaces made from human hair; Plexiglas cherries and copper and walnut-shell rings, among a host of other different ideas.
Klimt02 Community
The seed of this gallery, however, was born on the Internet in the Klimt02 Community, a website created in 2002 which today is a global benchmark for connoisseurs of contemporary jewellery.
The Klimt02 Community features all the information relating to this artistic discipline in various different sections: exhibitions, galleries, articles, conferences, interviews, publications, museums with their own jewellery collections, schools, trade fairs, awards, workshops and courses... and of course, the profiles and works of the artists that form part of the community who can showcase their pieces in this virtual space.
The Klimt02 Gallery is starting off with a selection of pieces from 41 artists which embody the most outstanding artistic creation in the field of jewellery. Gold, silver, plastic, recycled objects, ceramics, aluminium, polyester, silk, glass, steel, wood, enamel... every material is workable for the artists featured in the Klimt02 Gallery, who create jewellery with a contemporary concept whose shapes both perpetuate and escape from tradition and are frequently works of art in themselves. For example, Dutch artist Ted Noten creates necklaces from gold leaf inserted into pieces of methacrylate; Luxembourg creator Claude Schmitz designs multi-layered rings and brooches from coral; Catalan Gemma Draper creates necklaces from pearls, glass and reindeer horn, and Austrian Helfried Kodré conjures up geometric brooches from fine sheets of gold and silver.
The Klimt02 Gallery occupies an apartment on Calle Còrsega in the centre of Barcelona and has two rooms housing the permanent and individual exhibitions, the latter being dedicated to showcasing the work of a particular creator in detail. An essential meeting place for anyone interested in being at the cutting-edge in the world of signature jewellery: Only here will you be able to find unique pieces made from fragments of Mercedes-Benz; brooches imitating pieces of Lego; hearts in red aluminium; necklaces made from human hair; Plexiglas cherries and copper and walnut-shell rings, among a host of other different ideas.
Klimt02 Community
The seed of this gallery, however, was born on the Internet in the Klimt02 Community, a website created in 2002 which today is a global benchmark for connoisseurs of contemporary jewellery.
The Klimt02 Community features all the information relating to this artistic discipline in various different sections: exhibitions, galleries, articles, conferences, interviews, publications, museums with their own jewellery collections, schools, trade fairs, awards, workshops and courses... and of course, the profiles and works of the artists that form part of the community who can showcase their pieces in this virtual space.