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LITHUANIAN CONCEPTUAL JEWELLERY
LITHUANIAN
MA D E IN LIT H UANIA
“aka jewellery” – the tandem of jewellery alchemists from New York
gn "Blue blood"
"Albedo"
Silver and glass tubes used to take blood (USSR).
Location: Hotel Chelsea @ The Chelsea Room, New York, NY. September 14th, 2011.
Few years ago two Lithuanian jewellers Ausra Bankauskaite and Mante Maskoliunaite, working under “aka jewellery” name, have moved to NYC and for awhile now are creating decadent and very conceptual jewellery. Not everyone, or maybe no one, would have the guts to wear their conceptual pieces. JEWELLERY RAVERS-ALCHEMISTS. You could say they’re sort of jewellery reivers or modern alchemists from Brooklyn. Things they use for making jewellery ranges from medical syringes to Haribo gummies, from silver to rubber, from blood
tubes to antifreeze, from white amber to magnets, from ribbons to the machine oil, from pills to gasoline, from brake fluid to resin... “We create in several directions. Some of our works are “portable jewellery”, affordable to someone who appreciates the aesthetics of our works and is looking for something original. Another direction that brings us as the artists the greatest satisfaction is conceptual jewellery. It conveys our thoughts and ideas”, says the tandem.