DIVA talk: The Jeweller’s Art
On the occasion of the exhibition The Jeweller's Art, DIVA organises an online talk on 25th of February. Curator Catherine Regout will have a conversation with collector Kimberly Klosterman and jewellery designer Lisa Eisner about jewellery from the sixties and seventies. What makes these jewels and their designers so special? Who wore and collected these statement pieces? And what do Queen Elizabeth, Andy Warhol and Jackie Kennedy have in common?
Expect more information about the exhibition, the jewels on display and the inspiration of these works of art on contemporary jewellery designers.
Thorough research and publication preceded this travelling exhibition. Cynthia Amnéus, curator of the Cincinnati Art Museum, and Kimberly Klosterman talk about the discoveries during the research.
Practical
The language of the online talk is English. You can follow the DIVA talk for free on Zoom via this link:
The number of participants in this zoom session is limited to 100.
Make sure you join in time, or watch the DIVA talk afterwards on our YouTube channel.
Who
Artwork: www.overburen.nl
Catherine Regout received her B.A. and M.A. in art history, with a specialization in design and decorative arts at Leiden University in The Netherlands. She started her career at MUDE, museu do design e da moda in Lisbon, Portugal. After this museum closed for restoration, she returned to the Netherlands as a freelance curator and worked for different museums. Catherine worked close together with Dutch Jewellery designer Ruudt Peters on his retrospective exhibition BRON. In September 2019 Catherine started as the curator of DIVA in Antwerp. Instagram: @catherineregout
Kimberly Klosterman lives in Cincinnati, Ohio in the United States and is a knowledgeable jewellery lover and collector. Her collection is large, well known and specialized in (artist-)jewellery from the 1960s and 1970s. Andrew Grima, Charles de Temple and Aldo Cipullo are just a few names of the long list of designers that form her collection, together with jewellery designed for Cartier, Van Cleef & Arpels and Chaumet. Currently, over one hundred of her jewels are on display in The Jeweller's Art exhibition. Kimberly loves her jewellery and can share an interesting story about each and every piece she owns. Instagram: @kklostermanjewelry
Lisa Eisner lives in Los Angeles in the United States and is a jewellery designer. Nature, whimsical shapes and large stones are a major source of inspiration – comparable to most jewellery designers of the 60s and 70s. Lisa is also influenced by the American West—whether it’s turquoise that comes from a long-since closed mine in Arizona, the inky black jade of her home state of Wyoming, or a strange fossilized specimen from an old rock hound—each stone is hand selected and then set in bronze or gold. Her jewellery can be seen as a statement and is characterised by colour, (large) size and each piece is unique. Instagram: @lisaeisnerjewelry
Cynthia Amnéus lives in Cincinnati, Ohio in the United States and serves as Chief Curator and Curator of Fashion Arts and Textiles at the Cincinnati Art Museum. In her more than 25-year career, she has curated diverse exhibitions and published both exhibition-related catalogs and a wide range of articles. Her particular interests center on female designers in the late 19th and early 20th century and the impact of cross-cultural aesthetic exchange across time. Amnéus organized the exhibition of Kimberly Klosterman’s collection, Simply Brilliant: Artist-Jewelers of the 1960s to 1970s. Instagram: @cincyartmuseum
