Indonesian gold designs to compete in Hong Kong
Indonesian gold designs to compete in Hong Kong
JAKARTA (JP): Picasso, Dali and Van Gogh are alive in the
minds of local gold designers. They are among the world's
maestros who have become their sources of inspiration which have
brought them to the Asian Gold Design contest in Hong Kong,
scheduled to be held in September.
Eleven works of nine artists have been selected to represent
Indonesia in the event.
Lena Suryaputra features a firearm, people's faces, hands and
legs in her work, a necklace, titled War and Peace and inspired
by Pablo Picasso. FX Sucahyo was inspired by Salvador Dali's work
Fast Moving for the creation of his unique set of gold jewelry,
comprising a necklace, earrings, ring and bracelet. He named his
piece Terhanyut dalam Waktu (Carried Away in Time).
Other works are not less attractive. They are Asymmetric
Linear Structures by Sulistiyono, Song of the Dream by Budi
Hartono, Heleconia Mozaik by Eko Rasyanto H.M., Persahabatan
(Friendship) by Suroyono, Three in One Millennium by Antonius
E.S., Future by Tungga Dewi, Lorong (Alley) by Suroyono, and two
pieces by Indah Tjahya Wulan, Beginning of Life and Poem of Life.
A panel of judges, comprising figures like designer Harry
Darsono and the World Gold Council's country manager for
Indonesia, Leo Hadi, selected the 11 designs out of 104 entries
in the contest's semifinal here.
Among the jury's criteria for selecting the designs were the
inspirations for the design, the designer's style and personal
creativity, trend and skill.
Harry said that since the competition's source of inspiration
is from the works of art masters, it means that all the works
should be contemporary in nature, to greet the approaching of a
new renaissance era where conventional designs would no longer be
used.
"The most exciting thing is, almost all the designs taking
part in this competition can be classified as contemporary works.
This is a progression, (it shows that) Indonesian designers
already have the ability to grasp contemporary ideas in the
maestros' works and recreate it in interesting gold designs,
ready to enter the international market," Harry said.
Apart from Indonesia, other participating countries are China,
Hong Kong, Macau, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan,
Thailand and Vietnam.
The gold contest, taking Gold for Eternity as its theme, was
organized by the Geneva-based World Gold Council and the African
gold producer Anglofold. (ste)