New book: Gray Area Gris

Valeria Vallarta Siemelink

The Gray Area Symposium was an unparalleled

opportunity for the Mexican audience to learn about the

state of contemporary jewellery in the world and, at the

same time, the Symposium served to stimulate cultural

exchange between jewellery artists from Latin America

and Europe.

Organized by the Otro Diseño Foundation for

Cultural Cooperation and Development and supported

by the Prins Claus Fonds, the Mondriaan Foundation

and the Dutch Embassy in Mexico, Gray Area

encouraged a rewarding exchange of ideas from the

perspective of various disciplines, which converged

in an open and much needed debate on the present

and the future of jewellery as a medium for artistic

expression and cultural exchange.

Biblioteca de México “José Vasconcelos”, faithful

to its mission to support and promote national and

international culture, embraced this initiative with great

enthusiasm, offering a space where jewellery artists

from Europe and Latin America were able to exchange

ideas within the frame of the Gray Area International

Symposium.

This proceedings book is a written testimony of the

lectures presented during the encounter as well as a

celebration to initiatives like Gray Area, which help to

enrich and reassert the mission that all the involved

public and private organizations realize

The Gray Area Symposium, which took place in April 2010 at Biblioteca de Mexico José Vasconcelos in Mexico City was an unparalleled opportunity for the Mexican audience to learn about the state of contemporary jewellery in the world and, at the same time, the Symposium served to stimulate cultural exchange between jewellery artists from Latin America, Europe and other corners of the world.

Organized by the Otro Diseño Foundation, Gray Area encouraged a rewarding exchange of ideas from the perspective of various disciplines, which converged in an open and much needed debate on the present and the future of jewellery as a medium for artistic expression and cultural exchange.

This proceedings book is a written testimony of the lectures presented during the encounter as well as a celebration to initiatives like Gray Area, which help to enrich and reassert the mission that all the involved public and private organizations realize realize in favor of cultural cooperation and exchange.

The book include essays by Liesbeth den Besten (NL), Jorge Manilla (Mexico), Cristina Filipe (Portugal), Damian Skinner (NZ), Valeria Siemelink (Mexico),Miguel Luciano (Puerto Rico), Monica Gaspar (Spain) and Mirla Fernandes (Brazil) among many others.

Gray Area Gris: contemporay jewellery and cultural diversity

Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes

Bilingual edition: English and Spanish

245 pages

Full color, soft cover

Price: 28, 00 Euros

The book is available at museums and galleries in Latin America and Europe or can be ordered here:

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