Date: July 27th-31st, 2015
Enrolment deadline: Apr 30th, 2015
e-mail: info@atelierrudee.com

Double Negatives is a 5-day workshop suits for art students, professional jewellers and all jewellery lovers.
In this workshop you will learn how to make lost wax models and how to work with concept in contemporary jewellery.

The workshop consists of 3 different themes; Parallel World, Disappearance, and Reproduction.
For each theme there will be lectures, group and individual discussions, sketches, and making of jewellery piece(s).

“Where does a „Parallel World“ exist?
Can one discover this world through time travel?
Is it perhaps possible to see this world in a dream?
Or does it only exist in one’s heart?
The world we see is only a part of the entire reality which is composed of many worlds existing simultaneously, side by side.
We can find “Parallel Worlds” whenever we open our eyes and hearts. They are always with us.”

“Parallel worlds”
Light of full Moon : Sun = 1:400000

Photographs under moonlight require longer exposure, which is a time of silence. In that way, I look at the fluidity of time in the darkness. Under the moon light there are grey worlds. But when I take a picture of such a grey world, they show me different pale colours, which I can’t see with my eyes. It is mysterious. I look into the parallel world.

If you look at something a microscope and keep raising the magnification, the more abstract it shape becomes, until you are looking at nothing but a circle. Likewise, when you view the night sky through a telescope, all heavenly bodies look round. Particularly when you are viewing them through a lens, this similarity in their appearance can foster the illusion that small things viewed close-up and large things viewed long -distance are practically the same. They take on very simple, abstract forms.

When you look at your immediate surroundings, you see that they are full of objects of various shapes. The visible world is complex and diverse. With the diversity of scales we deal with our environment, we live in a world whose state is the most bizarre and complex of all. the thing around us are not simple objects reduced to some common denominator of roundness, but a chaotic jumble of shapes and size.

You see what you want. What do you want see in your world?

About Mari Ishikawa: Born in Kyoto, Japan
www.mari-ishikawa.de
klimt02.net/jewellers/mari-ishikawa

Education and Work Experience
1982–86 Master degree of art, Nara University of Education, Japan
1989–94 Graphic designer at "Aim Creates", Tokyo, Japan
1993–94 Studied jewelery making, Hiko Mizuno College Of Jewelery, Japan
Studied jewellery at the Munich-Academy of Fine Art, Germany
1999 Master student, Munich-Academy of Fine Art
2001 Diploma at the Munich-Academy of Fine Art

Work in public collections
Museo deli Argenti, Palazzo Pitti, Florence, Italy
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, USA
Museum of art and design, New York, USA
Jewellery museum Pforzheim, Germany
Hiko Mizuno Collection, Tokyo, Japan
Grassi Museum Leipzig, Germany
Pinakothek Der Moderne, Munich, Germany
Ville de Cagnes-sur-Mer, France
Helen W. Drutt Collection, Pennsylvania USA
Duetsches Goldschmiedehaus Hanau, Germany
Museum fuer Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany

Conditions:
Language : English, German, Japanese
Workshops and studio hours: 10:00-17:00
Maximum number of participants: 10
Enrolment close: Apr 30th , 2015
Applications are registered in the order in which they come in.

Enrolment:
Please e-mail to info@atelierrudee.com:
- Completed enrolment form *only in English*
- Copy of Identity Card or passport
Upon acceptance, the fee of 16,900 THB must be paid immediately.

Price: 16,900 THB (approx. 408 Euro)
Note: Exchange rate as of Jan 15th, 2015 is € 1 = 41.4 THB