Drei außergewöhnliche Arbeiten junger Schmuckschaffender standen während unserer Mitgliederversammlung zur Wahl. Die Entscheidung fiel nicht leicht, aber nun freuen wir uns, Yotam Bahat zur Auszeichnung »Junge Schmuckkunst im Museum« zu gratulieren! Sein Anhänger »Bird no. 1« wird in die moderne Sammlung des Schmuckmuseums Pforzheim aufgenommen.
Yotam Bahat wurde 1994 in Israel geboren. Im vergangenen Jahr schloss er das Masterclass-Programm MASieraad Hasselt-Amsterdam in Belgien ab und gewann den Marzee Graduate Prize. Über seine Arbeit sagt der Künstler:
»In a world of nationalism and separatism, I imagine myself as a bird, managing to erect from the ground into a new nest, somewhere else. The transformation is happening, hands grow into wings, and I fly. The hands are a central motif in my works, hands touch the space, the touch becomes an invitation, the invitation becomes a union.
The pendant was made with a ‘multi casting’ technique: since the base material of the piece is aluminium, a material with a low melting point, that doesn’t allow classic soldering, all the moving hands and legs were cast in one shot. The moving parts initially were connected to the main body and to the casting tree. After casting, they were cut out to allow for movement. All parts were made that way, as one metaphorical body, without ‘glue’. Similarly, the ‘eyes’, a marquise cubic zirconia, were set into the body in the waxing process and were cast together with all other parts of the body.«
‘Bird no.1’, 2023
Yotam Bahat
Pendant; aluminium, zirconia, synthetic cord
155 x 45 x 60 mm
Beitragsbild und Foto 2: Yotam Bahat
Foto 3:Mitgliderversammlung ISSP, Foto: Elisabeth Zimmermann, Kulturamt/SMP