Participants: Ana Pina (PT), Crua Design (BR), Montse Basora (ES), Silvia Walz (DE), Olga Marques (PT) and WEK (PT).
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#tincallabspotlight is a quick question & answer game that brings you a personal insight to the world of a different jewelry artist in every edition.
Today we present you Portuguese Áurea Praga: illustrator and jewelry maker who loves to combine these two worlds in her story-teller jewels.
1. a tool or material of choice: a shovel
2. a source of inspiration: idk, that we're all gonna die?
3. your favorite color: pink and gold (is gold even a color?) oh and blue cause you know, it's the color of distance
4. a personality that influences you: Fox Mulder
5. a book you think everyone should read: Memorial do Convento by José Saramago
6. an unforgettable movie: Fight Club
7. an album that would make the perfect playlist: Felt Mountain by Goldfrapp
8. a city to fall in love with: New York city or else anywhere with a beach and an endless summer
9. the yummiest food and drink: pizza and wine and chocolate
10. a guilty pleasure: wasting time
In the photos: a portrait, a scene of the workspace and an inspiring photo taken by herself in New York.
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After 2 months and a half closed due to COVID-19 constraints, we are happy to reopen our gallery with an exhibition by Mexican Cristina Celis, the artist who won the Selection of the Public Award (voting in person) of Tincal lab Challenge 2019 Jewelry and Anatomy.
Unfortunately we're note able to present you a grand opening like we are used to, but are happy to invite you to come and see these beauties live: statement pieces combining ceramics and metal, with lots of personality and color.
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#tincallabspotlight is a quick question & answer game that brings you a personal insight to the world of a different jewelry artist in every edition.
Today we present you Portuguese jeweler Ana Azevedo: a passionate by wax carving that creates delicate designs with a feminine touch.
1. a tool or material of choice: wax
2. a source of inspiration: literature
3. your favorite color: green
4. a personality that influences you: Yuko Shimizu
5. a book you think everyone should read: Anna Karenina, Lev Tolstoi
6. an unforgettable movie: The Handmaiden
7. an album that would make the perfect playlist: The Head On The Door, The Cure
8. a city to fall in love with: Tokyo
9. the yummiest food and drink: cake and wine
10. a guilty pleasure: true crime podcasts
In the photos: a portrait, a scene of the workspace and an inspiring photo taken by herself in a mesmerising park in Kyoto.
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Thank you to all who submitted their work to our Open Call ANTIVIRUS!
Soon we'll present the selected artists and pieces, stay tuned.
About the Open Call:
These are strange times.
The enemy is invisible, but real. Distance is the best way to protect the ones we love. The virtual world is the only way to keep us close. In a world that forced us to run all the time we are now obliged to slow down. Our habits, our wills and our values are questioned. Protection is the key word.
And more than ever we need to feel inspired and motivated to create.
We invite you to take part in a virtual event of exhibition and sale at tincallab.com
We want you to present your personal ANTIVIRUS for these times: be it a protection shield, a defense weapon, an amulet of hope.
Considering the limited access to workspaces and resources, jewelry and any other artistic expression is welcome: jewelers, artists and designers from all over the world can take part.
Participation is free and applications can be sent until May 15 by email.
Submissions will be subject to approval and a curated selection will be available for sale at Tincal lab’s online shop.
A percentage of 20% of sales will be donated to the initiative #euajudoquemajuda by Cruz Vermelha Portuguesa, intended to finance the means necessary for the development of projects within the scope of Health and Humanitarian Support in the context of Pandemic COVID.
ANTIVIRUS towards a stronger and creative immunity system.
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#tincallabspotlight is a quick question & answer game that brings you a personal insight to the world of a different jewelry artist in every edition.
Today we present you Vittoria Vimercati (Italy), architect and artist behind Niobe Atelier, an universe of terracotta small sculptures turned into jewels.
1. a tool or material of choice: clay, of course
2. a source of inspiration: nature
3. your favorite color: green, green, greeeeen!
4. a personality that influences you: everybody with something uncommon to say
5. a book you think everyone should read: Concerning the Spiritual in Art, Wassily Kandinsky
6. an unforgettable movie: Microhabitat, Jeon Go-woon
7. an album that would make the perfect playlist: Requiem, Giuseppe Verdi (conductor Claudio Abbado, 1980, singers Ricciarelli, Verret, Domingo, Ghiaurov)
8. a city to fall in love with: Roma
9. the yummiest food and drink: bruschetta with tomatoes, basil and a trickle of olive oil
10. a guilty pleasure: fulfil every corner of my house with green objects and plants (yes, I’m obsessed with green...)
In the photos: a portrait, a scene of the workspace and an inspiring photo taken by herself, from a series of artistic photos done on the theme of "identity" a few years ago.
#tincallabspotlight is a quick question & answer game that brings you a personal insight to the world of a different jewelry artist in every edition.
Today we present you Anna Vlahos: an Australian living in Athens, where she finds inspiration for her beautiful intricate wax work in archeological classic finds.
1. a tool or material of choice: wax. I love working in wax.
2. a source of inspiration: ancient Greek art, and especially depictions of nature in ancient Greek art.
3. your favorite color: green. The world would be a sad place without green.
4. a personality that influences you: Ernst Haeckel and Florence Broadhurst.
5. a book you think everyone should read: I've just finished reading Spillover by David Quammen. Pertinent lockdown reading, it has me wondering how this hasn't happened before now.
6. an unforgettable movie: for sentimental reasons I'll go with Murder By Death.
7. an album that would make the perfect playlist: Nirvana, Unplugged in New York.
8. a city to fall in love with: I certainly love Athens, the city I live in. Other's I'd love to get back to someday are Amsterdam and Stockholm.
9. the yummiest food and drink: pies from Ipiros. Dakos from Crete. Ice Cream in Nafplio.
10. a guilty pleasure: sleep ins.
In the photos: a portrait, a scene of the workspace and an inspiring photo taken by herself at the National Archaeological Museum of Athens.
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#tincallabspotlight is a quick question & answer game that brings you a personal insight to the world of a different jewelry artist in every edition.
In this first edition we present you Ana Pina (Portugal): founder of Tincal lab, architect turned jeweler, with a passion for abstract, geometrical and minimalist shapes.
1. a tool or material of choice: ring mandrel
2. a source of inspiration: architecture
3. your favorite color: red
4. a personality that influences you: José Saramago
5. a book you think everyone should read: Jerusalém, Gonçalo M. Tavares
6. an unforgettable movie: The English Patient
7. an album that would make the perfect playlist: Let Love In, Nick Cave
8. a city to fall in love with: Paris
9. the yummiest food and drink: smoked salmon and wine
10. a guilty pleasure: vampires
In the photos: a portrait (by @mariobrandao 2016), a scene of the workspace and an inspiring photo taken by herself at Epidaurus Theatre, Greece.
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In these times of uncertainty we need more than ever to feel inspired!
Tincal lab is launching a weekly virtual challenge in instagram, to keep jewelers motivated together: every Monday until the quarantine is over we'll launch a new theme, tag the photo or story with @tincallab and the tag of the week - the following Monday we’ll share a selection of your photos and launch the new theme!
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