{"id":33540,"date":"2021-10-07T13:55:10","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T10:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agalerii.ee\/artist\/guntis-lauders\/"},"modified":"2021-10-07T13:55:10","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T10:55:10","slug":"guntis-lauders","status":"publish","type":"artist","link":"https:\/\/agalerii.ee\/en\/artist\/guntis-lauders\/","title":{"rendered":"Guntis Lauders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Guntis Lauders <\/strong>(b. 1965 in Latvia)<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1992 Tallinn Art University BA, 2005 Latvian Academy of Arts MA<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I started pretty early to look around for my own way in art and chose jewellery design. There are no specific national features in my works \u2013 they are open to the world. My basic material for making jewellery is silver. I combine it with different exotic materials like ebony, mammoth ivory, corals, coconut shell, and various precious and semi-precious stones. I like constructing two-piece rings that give an impression of two separate rings.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don\u2019t especially try to find symbolic elements \u2013 they just come to me. During my studies I have absorbed many impressions from other cultures. Nature influences me most. I like cutting the grass. In summer I go to the countryside. I don\u2019t work there but gather a huge luggage of information. It all gets mixed in my head and finds expression in my jewellery later.- In the book \u201cA-Gallery. Estonian art jewellery gallery for 20 years\u201d (2014)<\/p>\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMy first solo exhibition in Hamburg, Germany, took place in 1994. One of my first clients were art historians \u2013 doctor Elisabeth and Adolf Stader. We became friends for years to come. A couple of years ago they gave me their fossil and ammonite collection they had collected in the fifties in America from Death Valley, Arizona desert and Grand Canyon. I fell in love with these materials. I was fascinated how well they fit with precious stones, silver and gold. Each fossil is like a sculpture and has its own story. Even now when visiting mineral fairs in Germany, I look for interesting fossils, they\u2019re lots of fun to work with.\u201d \u2013 Guntis Lauders at the A-Gallery exhibition <a href=\"https:\/\/agalerii.ee\/en\/?p=3174\">MEMORY CARDS<\/a>\u00a0(2019)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":32928,"template":"","class_list":["post-33540","artist","type-artist","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agalerii.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist\/33540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agalerii.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agalerii.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artist"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agalerii.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agalerii.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}