Contemporary gold- and silversmithing encompasses a vast range. Increasingly a daring
(self-)critical and inventive scene is edging its way to the fore focusing on challenging the
innovative expansion of classical forms and motifs of jewelry vessels and hollowware. Purpose
function and our normative understanding of beauty are placed on a new footing through
experiments with materials and performative stagings. Socially relevant considerations and
artistic references inform the objects' designs and are an invitation to an entertaining yet
recondite tour de plaisir featuring 120 works by 29 artists-proof once more of gold- and
silversmithing's controversial creative potential today.
