#17, HERMAN HERMSEN
ROOTS, TRACKS, TRACES, Talk in English
FRIDAY JUNE 5th, 10h-11h
CHATEAU-MUSEE GRIMALDI, 2e étage, Place du château, 08600 Cagnes-sur-Mer
Since my start in 1981 with thinking about and making jewellery different styles and interpretations passed by. The challenge of developing new views on aspects how to make brooches, earrings, necklaces and rings made me try to find new alternative solutions: how to set stones, so that the stone is not only decoration, but also an important part of the construction, or set in a not traditional common way; how to connect a brooch to the clothing otherwise than usual; how to connect an earring to the ear; how to express the function of the jewel in the design. These challenges still fascinate me.
The selection, to see in the exhibition, is more or less a compressed overview of different styles of work from the 45 years of making.
My statement:
“I conceive my jewellery as unique piece, as multiple or for serial manufacturing.
Concept is always the important starting point and can develop into different directions: new interpretations for the meaning of the jewellery, technical or constructive approaches, critiques about materialistic values or concepts from an associative, anecdotal or a humoristic point of view”.
