Jewelry Avant-Garde. Sources. Parallels

On 19 March, 2002, the exhibition "Jewelry Avant-Garde. Sources. Parallels" prepared by the Hermitage jointly with the Jewelry Museum in Pforzheim, Germany, opened in the Blue Bedroom. The exhibition shows 120 works of Western and Russian masters. Foreign exhibits cover the period from the 1960s to the 1990s, while works of Russian jewelers date from the recent years. The selection does not pretend to give an extensive picture of the avant-garde jewelery. Its purpose is rather to show what has been done in this art in the West. It also proves that despite all the historical perturbations, Russian art at the end of the 20th century was an organic part of the general current in the development of the European art of jewelery.
The exhibition shows works of Wendy Ramshaw, David Watkins, Reinhold Reiling, Claus Bury, Emmy van Leersum, Anton Cepka and many other masters who made their contribution to the "new art of jewelry". Almost all lines of this art's development are represented by Russian masters: Natalya and Aleksey Petrov, Tatiana Baltro, Mila and Arkady Kalnitsky, Natalya and Gennady Bykov, Igor Malkiel, Felix Kuznetsov, Oleg and Lyubov Narizhny and Victor Votsky.
The exhibition is accompanied by the richly illustrated catalogue printed by the Slavia Publishing House.
If you like this exhibition, you may see the jewelry in the Hermitage e-shop.

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Vladimir Yu. Matveyev, Deputy Director of the State Hermitage Museum at the opening of the exhibition

The catalogue