Hunting Gold !

When I have my free time I usually go to a mall and window shop there. Actually it’s not much important to me to window shop, it’s just that window shopping help me to have a good idea for my blog. Here is one I get when I window shopped!

Timeless, exuberant, royal, mysterious, gold is the sum of all imagination, the dust that clouds the horizons of conquers and explorers, the mute witness of the upheavals in the fortune of men and women in love and acrimony. These aphorisms inspired the cast of the gold jewelry collection designed by national artist Arturo Luz and interpreted by the master goldsmith Hans Brumann in their joint exhibition “Oro”. A much praised exponent of minimalist abstract art in the Philippines, Luz imbues familiar graphic and linear mementos of his paintings into his jewelry designs. The format of his designs relishes the delicate balance of the levers and weights that seem to appear floating in an ethereal vacuum. Brumann then achieves this painterly sight with his sensitive sense of nuance in style on the pendants and earrings. He matches the canvasses of Luz by inlaying the graphics on a fused type of 18-carat solid gold burnished on all sides a s a round off to an elegant beauty of a masterpiece. This sense of architectural surface becomes Luz’s sense of the epic element that pulsed in his visual splendors. Separately, Brumann’s superb craftsmanship surfaces when he invests the glowing traditions of his trade into Luz’s designs. Goldsmiths sign their art into their metals with their delicate touches of width, thickness, and polish in the cups that touch the human skin and in the pin bolts that emerges evenly above the skin of the metal. Besides being atrociously amazing at his craft, Brumann is a skylark in suggesting the heavenly colors of the skies and the deep oceans of the world. These magical regions come in glimpses of the effulgent red coral and ancient lapis lazuli peeing out a tubular gold chain, pendants, earrings, and rings, weaving magic into Luz’s designs. Both artists imprint a return to the grandeur of the ethnic human spirit released in the minimal expression of jewelry.