\u201eI saw this exhibition at the Amber Museum in Gda\u0144sk in the summer of this year, and I greatly liked both the works themselves and the unusual circumstances of its creation. I was moved by the story of Wim Vanderkerckhove, who became fascinated by amber 30 years ago and for whom this exhibition is a dream come true. On the other hand, the idea of entrusting amber to the hands of artists, most of whom had no previous contact with it, I consider brilliant, especially since truly extraordinary works were created,\u201d explained Ulf Erichson, director of the Amber Museum in Ribnitz-Damgarten. <\/p>\n
This is precisely one of the factors that makes this exhibition truly unique: the works presented in it are, in most cases, the surprising result of the invited artist's first encounter with Baltic amber \u2013 all so that the creators could look at this stone with an \u201euncontaminated\u201d eye and be inspired by it. \u201eThe vast majority of these works are genuinely very good. Our objective has been achieved: new creations and ideas have been born, but a new artistic sensibility has also come to the fore,\u201d summarised Vim Vanderkerckhove, who, alongside Prof. S\u0142awomir Fija\u0142kowski from the Academy of Fine Arts in Gda\u0144sk, is the co-creator of the exhibition. <\/p>\n
Unusual, because they are the first ones featuring amber, the works were created by the invited artists: S\u0142awomir Fija\u0142kowski, Christiane F\u00f6rster, Karl Fritsch, Sophie Hanagarth, Herman Hermsen, Daniel Kruger, Stefano Marchetti, Wilhelm Tasso Mattar, Pavel Opocensky, Annelies Planteijdt, Ramon Puig Cuyas, Wolfgang Rahs, Ulrich Reithofer, Philip Sajet, Adolfas Saulys, Gisbert Stach, Manuel Vilhena, Arek Wolski and Petra Zimmermann. They were inspired by myths and legends about amber, as well as associations with Gda\u0144sk and Poland. <\/p>\n
The exhibition \u201ePetrified Tears\u201d has previously been shown in Legnica and Gda\u0144sk. In Ribnitz-Damgarten, it will open on the 20th anniversary of the first amber art competition organised by the German Amber Museum \u2013 the 3rd edition of the International Baltic Sea Countries Amber Art Competition took place this year, and the works could be viewed until the end of October. \u201eFollowing the competition exhibition, this is another opportunity for us to present contemporary amber art,\u201d said Ulf Erichson. It will be accompanied by a catalogue in German and English. <\/p>\n
Exhibition Fossilised tears<\/em> (Frozen tears<\/i><\/strong> The exhibition \u201cPetrified Tears\u201d, presenting amber works by 20 renowned European artists, will be on display from 26 November this year until 26 February 2014 under the title \u201eErstarrte Tr\u00e4nen\u201d at the German Amber Museum in Ribnitz-Damgarten.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":16609,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"slim_seo":{"title":"\u201eSkamienia\u0142e \u0142zy\u201d w Ribnitz-Damgarten - Amber Portal","description":"The exhibition \u201cPetrified Tears\u201d, presenting amber works by 20 renowned European artists, will be shown from 26th November of this year until 26th February 2014 under the nam"},"_slim_seo_primary_term_category":0,"_slim_seo_primary_term_post_tag":0,"_slim_seo_primary_term_sekcja":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"sekcja":[243],"class_list":["post-16610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wystawy","sekcja-design-rzemioslo"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amber.com.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amber.com.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amber.com.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amber.com.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amber.com.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amber.com.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amber.com.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amber.com.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amber.com.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amber.com.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16610"},{"taxonomy":"sekcja","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amber.com.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sekcja?post=16610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Amber Museum in Ribnitz-Damgarten (Germany)<\/strong>
in cooperation with the Villa de Bondt gallery in Ghent and the Academy of Fine Arts in Gda\u0144sk <\/strong>
26.11.13 \u2013 26.02.2014<\/strong> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"