Contemporary jewellery and fine art exhibition opens in ÚjMűhely Gallery

An exhibition of contemporary jewellery and fine arts entitled Cellux – Problem solved will open on Wednesday at the ÚjMűhely Gallery in Szentendre. The exhibition can be visited until 29 August.

Within the genre of contemporary art jewellery, the material of the exhibition is mostly composed of objects located at the border between conceptual and conceptual and design jewellery, complemented by contemporary fine art works in the form of photos, installations, video works and intermedial art works – read MANK Hungarian Creative Arts Public Benefit Nonprofit Kft. In a statement to MTI.
As Mária Roskó jewellery designer, one of the curators of the exhibition emphasizes, speaking about the title of the exhibition, that the cello is an object of commonplaceness, a daily remedy for the human and social problems and ruptures surrounding us, which in the hope of a quick result we do not deal with materially, we only glue together with a piece of cello, and we consider it a problem solved for our own reassurance.
The title of the exhibition also reflects on one of the central themes of the contemporary art jewellery genre, the questioning of the notion of value, which is reflected in the materials of jewellery, the artists’ compositional procedures and the choice of themes – the statement quotes the curator’s words.
Among the exhibited works, contemporary works of fine art in the form of photos, installations, video works, intermedial works of art will be placed in the same space as conceptual jewellery, which raise questions of social existence, self-image, illness and its acceptance, appearance and reality as part of the artists' individual creative program.
“As a result of the border extensions of the art jewellery genre in recent decades, wearable jewellery in the traditional sense has expanded into objects and installations in the union of design, industry and fine arts”, the Communication states.
Besides Mária Roskó, the curator of the exhibition is Eszter Récsey Manyi, artistic manager. Among the artists exhibiting at the exhibition are Erika Baglyas, Emese Benczúr, Lajos Csontó, Marcell Égi, Veronika Fábián, Kinga Huber, Judit Kis, Réka Lőrincz, János Szirtes, Nóra Tengely and Eszter Zámori.