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15th Silver Triennial
Temporary exhibition from 2 February to 6 April 2008
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 Young silversmiths from around the world compete to show their vision of the silver of tomorrow. The exhibition displays the broad span of the silversmith's imagination and the wide range of possibilities inherent in silver as a material.
Since 1965 the Deutsches Goldschmiedehaus in Hanau has, together with the Gesellschaft für Goldschmiedekunst, organised an international silver triennial in which young talents can display their creative powers and technical skill on equal terms with older practitioners.
For the 15th Triennial, 147 people from 19 countries took part with more than 200 works. Naturally, most of the entrants come from Germany. Again this year the exhibition shows the wide range of the imagination of the silversmiths. In line with the Triennial's premises, the works are concentrated on the dining table, either dishware or cutlery. |
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 Both historically and today, it most often at the dining table that we encounter silverware. Dishes, bowls, pitchers, cups, candlesticks, and decorative pieces compete with items of cutlery for the triennial's prizes. The dishware prize was won by the Korean Mihwa Joo, born 1980. No first prize was awarded to the creators of the cutlery pieces, instead two second prizes were awarded to Sophie Barbara Kloess, born 1975, and Beate Leonards, born 1967, both from Germany.
The works chosen for the exhibition show the wide range of possibilities which silver offers as a material. From fairly traditionally formed pieces for use at mealtimes, to slightly wilder objects which are close to the grotesque, to entirely free objects which can be placed on the table or elsewhere in the room to catch the eye or as decoration.
The talent exists for the creation of silverware that is both beautiful and relevant – if only it were possible to focus on the aesthetic values and overcome the detachment from silverware that developed in the mid-20th century out of the unwillingness to maintain and polish the silver. The more often it is used, the easier the maintenance and the more beautiful the glow of the silver.
Read more about the 15th Silver Triennial (in German and English)
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