ILLUSION
On April 11 & 12 the proceedings of the Jury of the 27th International Jewellery Competition ILLUSION took place. 495 works by 195 artists from 34 countries had been submitted.
The Jury members were: David Bielander (Switzerland / Germany), Norman Cherry (Great Britain), Sławomir Fijałkowski (Poland), Sara Gackowska (Poland), Nanna Melland (Norway).
A LIST OF ARTISTS QUALIFIED
in the 27th Legnica International Jewellery Competition ILLUSION
Laurent Brune – Francja / France
Sungho Cho – Korea Południowa / South Korea
"TRYB" Anna i Witold Chudzik – Polska / Poland
Marion Delarue – Francja / France
Georg W. Dobler – Niemcy / Germany
Dagmar Christina Gerke – Niemcy / Germany
Mieczysław Gryza – Polska / Poland
Maja Houtman – Holandia / The Netherlands
Tzu Chun Hung – Tajwan / Taiwan
Margit Jäschke – Niemcy / Germany
Minna Karhu – Finlandia / Finland
Cathleen Kämpfe – Niemcy / Germany
Shin-Lyoung Kim – Korea Południowa / South Korea
Eszter Sára Kocsor – Węgry / Hungary
Jil Koehn – Niemcy / Germany
Akiko Kurihara – Japonia/Włochy / Japan/Italy
Kyung Jin Kim– Korea Południowa / South Korea
Young Im Lee – Korea Południowa / South Korea
Jongseok Lim – Korea Południowa / South Korea
Magdalena Maślerz – Polska / Poland
Dot Melanin – Izrael / Israel
Satoshi Nakamura – Japonia / Japan
Thanh-Truc Nguyen – Niemcy / Germany
Michalina Owczarek – Polska / Poland
Sanghee Park – Korea Południowa / South Korea
Sham Patwardhan-Joshi – Niemcy / Germany
Felicity Peters – Australia / Australia
Mária Roskó – Węgry / Hungary
Marta Rudnicka – Polska / Poland
Agnieszka Sendecka – Polska / Poland
Gisbert Stach – Niemcy / Germany
Christoph Straube – Niemcy / Germany
Céline Sylvestre – Francja / France
Mari Syren – Finlandia / Finland
Timothy Information Limited – Wielka Brytania / Great Britain
Silke Trekel – Niemcy / Germany
Martin Verner – Czechy / Czech Republic
Silvia Walz – Niemcy/Hiszpania / Germany/Spain
Fang-Jin Yeh – Tajwan / Taiwan
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the Gallery of Art in Legnica
invites to take part in
the 27th INTERNATIONAL JEWELLERY COMPETITION
ILLUSION
Deadline for submitting works is April 3rd 2018.
ILLUSION
It is not certain which was first: a man or an illusion? One can imagine life without a man, but is life without illusions still conceivable? Perhaps we would not exist if it was not for an illusion but ultimately, we live with it in an inseparable tangle like jing and yang.
It is impossible to do without it in everyday reality. It is widely used for various purposes. Most often as a means, an instrument, a method to surprise, manipulate, deceive, cheat, and finally achieve the intended effect, a specific goal. Not necessarily a morally reprehensible one.
Illusion can be defined in various ways, located in different orders, from physical and aesthetic to psychosocial and political. Although it apparently originates from the neutral world of optics, in fact it seems to be that fleeting and ambivalent filter, lens, stained glass between the sacred and the profane, the unconscious cause of our triumphs and disasters, the source of beauty and nightmare, pleasure and pain, truth and falsehood, love and solitude. In a word – a remedy for all evil, but often with side effects.
Illusion is a paradox in which a phenomenon – illusory, false and fictitious by its very nature – serves to describe actual reality, considered to be the only true one. And yet the very possibility of illusion is an incentive to negate reality, to make use of an alternative reality. Thus illusion is a confirmation of how dual and ambiguous we are. And that – perhaps – it is impossible to define a man without the concept of illusion, an illusory imagination or a transgression of reality.
Illusion, a substitute for fulfilled dreams, but also a causative spirit for everything. Although it deceives and misleads, it can also be creative and constructive because illusions inspire and initiate actions, they are the driving force behind our deeds. Illusion is a kind of attractive, often risky game to play with others or oneself. A kind of challenge, search, denial, provocation and rejection of the known reality. But also a medicine and an escape from it in order to perceive the world from a different perspective, to “heal the soul” or just satisfy one’s need for adrenaline. It seems to be everything, although it is not (?) God. It was out of this unbridled want for illusion that art was created, including jewellery … Because illusion is a glow, magic, dazzle, fantasy, it is emotion, memory and an inexhaustible source of stories, so why should we not succumb to it one more time.
Monika Szpatowicz
