2013 08.01 -- 09.08 

WEAR / AWARE – New Asian Jewellery 

Looking beyond the horizon, where the sun rises slowly from the East.  The new energy is ramping up and launching out.

In the past 20 years, the new generation of young creatives from Asia has set foot in other continents like Europe, America, or Australia to learn more about contemporary jewellery, the conceptual way of making jewellery originated in the relatively “West” land. Carrying different cultural background with them, these young Asian creatives reposition themselves and find themselves again throughout the process. 

For “WEAR /AWARE” exhibition, MANO has invited 8 young artists from Taiwan, Thailand, South Korea, Japan, and China to get a taste of new Asian jewellery.  To see how the Oriental artists are using jewellery as media to visualize concept, to tell personal story, to place question about daily life and aesthetics, or to reflect on one’s cultural background.  

From Taiwan, there is Ara Kuo who uses traditional calligraphy brushes to give new interpretation of home.  Shu-Lin Wu’s “Mon Coeur” series uses the fire endurable quality of ceramics to connect the heart and soul. Alice Bo-Wen Chang explores the relationship between body, space and object(s) through her kinetic and structural body sculptures. From Thai artist Noon Passama, basic buttons gets thousand faces being imagined as people who appear in different ways.  South Korean artist Heejoo Kim creates the fifth season with her unique use of materials. Jeehyun Chung investigates material composition and transforms simple fishing line into marvel. From Japan, Mariko Sumioka’s work pays tribute to Japanese traditional architecture and the respect for natural surroundings. Last but not least, Chinese artist Xiao Liu adopts grains and dust as material of his work to reveal the spiritual capacity of human being.

Point to the horizon and point back to ourselves. This is who we are, where we came from, and where we are going. “WEAR / AWARE” have strung together these oriental pearls awaiting you to discover. And the string of connection is the oriental implicit delicacy and beauty. 

新東西 - 亞洲當代首飾新秀展 

站在當代概念首飾的源頭－歐洲，望向遠方，緩緩升出地平面的東陽，正蓄勢待發。

近20年來，許多亞洲新生代的創作者們，帶著不同的信念，紛紛從家鄉出發航向歐、美、澳等地取經，帶著曾有過的燦爛，以踏實的步伐追趕著40年的進度，這群新秀們，在西方世界裡重新看見了自己，也找到了自己的位置。

在當代首飾的概念裡，首飾不再只是尊貴身份的象徵或是流行時尚的附屬品，藝術家使用各種實驗媒材，透過將概念具體化的方式，將個人的生命故事，或是對生活的提問放入在美感領域中的藝術首飾上。

在這次展覽中，慢鏝邀請到來自台灣、泰國、韓國、日本、以及中國八位亞洲新秀們的當代首飾創作。來自台灣的郭亭君為家鄉的毛筆賦予全新的面貌；吳淑麟藉由陶瓷連結了心與靈的關係；而張博雯讓建築結構豐富了首飾；泰國藝術家Noon Passama俐落的運用鏡面型體陳述每一個獨特的你；韓國的Heejoo Kim則用皮革創造了第五個季節；Jeehyun Chung給傳統魚線編織出新的語彙；日本的Mariko Sumioka用創作來向大自然和日本傳統建築致敬；來自中國的劉驍則是選擇把東方的米食穿戴上身。

在漫無邊際的當代首飾領域裡，媒材的運用已超乎了我們的想像，含蓄的東方細膩是這次展出的共同語言。慢鏝串起這條難得聚首的東方明珠，等待每個懂慢鏝的你來發掘這些堅持夢想的新秀們。