The Legnica Festival of Silver SILVER 2008

257 WORKS, 128 COMPETITORS, 4 JURORS

AN ACCOUNT OF THE DELIBERATIONS OF THE JURY

17th International Silverart Competition Exclusive

            The last week was heated not only for the Polish Post Service and courier service delivering parcels with works for the 17th International Silverart Competition Exclusive at the Art Gallery in Legnica to the last minute, but, first and foremost, for the jurors: T. Noten, K. Fritsch, J. Byczewski, S. Fijałkowski, who had to select works, out of 257 works sent to the competition, for a post-competition exhibition and award prizes. It is worth mentioning that out of 128 competitors, the majority was formed by Poles – 78, next Germans – 19, Italians – 6 and Japanese people – 5, but other countries, including Spain, America, Korea, Czech Republic, Lithuania, Switzerland, Hungary, Finland, Denmark, Mexico, Estonia, Israel and Belgium, were also represented. All in all, there were representatives of 17 countries. The deliberations chaired by Ted Noten were carried out extremely efficiently: the jurors did not take long to choose above-average works.

            Despite geographical, cultural and outlook differences of the competitors, it could be observed in their responses to the topic of the competition (Exclusive) that they think in a similar vein and have similar associations. Bread – as still indispensable, yet quite often an exclusive product in the modern world – was a recurring material in many works. And similarly, water, getting more and more exclusive, was present in the works.

            There were also less global and ecological approaches to the concept of exclusiveness: several works, in which diamonds or almost “diamonds” and such which resembled brilliant cuts were used, confirmed that although they are apparently common and used to make engagement rings on a mass scale, diamonds still are a synonym for exclusiveness.

            As it often happens during Legnica competitions, there were also subtle and philosophical works indicating the subject and not the object of exclusiveness and a lot of funny and witty references to the products of mass culture and values of the modern world, and, in particular, man living in the space controlled by advertising, giving a consumer an unshaken illusion of exclusiveness.

            Among the works sent, there were both critical works and such dealing with the topic with indulgence; there were works providing both strong reflections and shocking conclusions.

            In spite of these facts, the jurors had no problems choosing the winners of the 17th International Silverart Competition Exclusive. The other prizes included: a commendation of the Art Gallery in Legnica and a prize of Goldsmithing Artists' Association, a commendation granted by the Amber Association and JPJ Company. Ia addition, a prestigious artistic magazine EXIT and Polska Biżuteria chose their favourite artist for the first time. The names of the winners will be kept in secret until the date of the exhibition, i.e. 17 May. As early as today we invite all the artists, enthusiasts and fans of goldsmithing to take part in Legnica Festival of Silver.

List of persons whose works will be presented at the exhibition of

17^th International Silverart Competition Exclusive

(date of the exhibition: 30.04. - 8.06.2008, opening ceremony: 17th May 2008) 

Suzanne Beautyman – USA

Karolina Bik – Poland

Alexander Blank – Germany

Paweł Brzozowski – Poland

Sungho Cho – Korea

Reip Chopin – Israel

Piotr Cieciura – Poland

Tomasz Jakub Ciosmak – Poland

Noémie Doge – Switzerland

Agnieszka Domerecka – Poland

Philipp Eberle & Ingrid Römmich – Germany

Ewa Effenberg – Poland

Sina Emrich – Germany

Marta Flisykowska – Poland

Ana Garcia Moya – Spain

Katarzyna Gemborys – Poland

Maren Giloy – Germany

Mieczysław Gryza – Poland

Stefan Heuser – Germany

Yu Iwaki – Japan 

Daniel Januszewski – Poland

Paweł Kaczyński – Poland 

Małgorzata Kalińska – Poland

Maria Kołodziejczyk – Poland

Katarzyna Kosieradzka – Poland

Su Kroker – Germany

Dorota Krzeszewska – Poland

Kristiina Laurits – Estonia

Aneta Lis – Marcinkiewicz – Poland

Agnieszka Maksymiuk – Poland

Jan Piotr Materek – Poland

Jan Niedźwiecki – Poland

Aleksandra Nieświec – Poland

Melanie Nützel – Germany

Sham Patwardhan – Germany

Marta Rudnicka – Poland

Jacek Ryń – Poland

Kacper Schiffers – Poland

Ulrike Strempel – Germany

Paulina Ewa Szenderowska – Poland

Paweł Szott – Poland

Fabrizio Tridenti – Italy

Arek Wolski – Poland

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• Exclusive
• Vratislav Karel Novák
• Andrzej Bandkowski
• Aneta Lis-Marcinkiewicz, Adrianna Lisowska
• Silver Schools
• Identification
• EXCLUSIVE
• Laureates of LIJC MINIMUM