Body Alchemy

Abstract

“Body Alchemy” – Hangzhou Contemporary International Jewelry and Metal Arts Triennial is held at China Academy of Art in Hangzhou in November 2015. This exhibition focuses on the relationship and dialogue between oriental aesthetics, conceptual art, body and space of jewelry creation and metal art, in order to explore the transition of contemporary jewelry and metal art from “alchemy” to “casting body”, from material aesthetics to conceptual art and from space modeling to body language.China Academy of Art is the host academic institution and organizes all art-related activities. This international art event seeks to build a connection of sharing and exchanging knowledge and experience between international and Chinese jewelry and metal artists in this field. This exhibition features the introduction of international contemporary jewelry artists and metal artists and also the incubation of the new-generation Chinese young artists of jewelry art, forming a mature exchange platform for contemporary jewelry art circles and cultivating aggressive jewelry artists. Roaming from the thematic exhibition to the peripheral exhibition, coupled with an international academic seminar, we start from the perspectives of academic, arts, business and public aesthetic guidance, expand from the academic perspective, convert from the business perspective, and guide the public aesthetic to a multidimensional trigger of the relationship between contemporary art jewelry and people, life and urban ecology. Curator: Ruudt Peters Exhibiting artists: David Bielander, Alexander Blank, Helen Britton, Sigurd Bronger, Jichang Chai, Bifei Cao, Carla Castiajo, Nicolas Chen, Xiang Dai, Jess Dare, Hilde De Decker, Aaron Decker, Gemma Draper, Yanli Duan, Iris Eichenberg, Ming Gu, Xin Guo, Karl Fritsch, Benedikt Fischer, Christiane Förster, Adam Grinovich, Gésine Hackenberg, Karolina Hagg, Sophie Hanagarth, Satoshi Hara, Jin He, Daniela Hedman, Hanna Hedman, Ineke Heerkens, Meiing Hsu, Wen Hsien Hsu, Mary Lee Hu, Jun Hu, Shifa Hu, Xiaowang Huang, David Huycke, Jiro Kamata, Yeonmi Kang, Donghyun Kim, Dongchun Lee, Heng Lee, Helena Lehtien, Sang Li, Xiao Liang, Xiao Liu, Anders Ljungberg, Myra Mimlitsch-Gray, Xianou Ni, Xiaoli Ning, Ted Noten, Noon Passama, Ruudt Peters, Vincent Pontillo-Verrastro, Estela Saez, Philip Sajet, Lucy Sarneel, Dosik Seo, Peter Skubic, Jie Sun, Tore Svensson, Xuxiang Tang, Fei Teng, Carine Terreblanche, Terhi Tolvanen, Tarja Tuupannen, David Tylor, Tanel Veenre, Aric Verrastro, Chungang Wang, Kezheng Wang, Kun Wang, Norman Weber, Qiong Wang, Xiaoxin Wang, Zhenghong Wang, Mian Wu, Annamaria Zanella, Christoph Zellweger, Bowen Zhang, Fan Zhang, Lan Zhang, Ni Zhang, Yan Zheng, Xiao Zhou. David Huycke participated with objects Order & Chaos (2007-2012), Pearl Sphere White (2003), Pearl Sphere Black (2003) and Pearl Chaos Flat (2002). Catalogue: Jang Xu, Wu Zhou, Peters Ruudt, “Body Alchemy” – Hangzhou Contemporary International Jewelry and Metal Arts Triennial 2015, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou.