Ketli Tiitsar, Estonia

From the series “Line going for a walk”: Natural; Balanced; Doubtful; Versatile!

The serie of necklaces inspiered by Wassily Kandinsky, who told to the students of preliminary course of Bauhaus art school: „The drawing is like a line going for a walk“. In my work I play with similar elements, making them smaller and larger and searching for ways how to connect them with with line – string.
The works are inspiered by preliminary course of Bauhaus arts school, where students where encouraged to explore their own subjective feelings and to bring creativity to design. Course was divided into three sections: studies of nature and materials including colour and form theory, analyses of the old masters and life drawing. After Johannes Itten, Wassily Kandinsky started to teach the course.
This body of works is made during Erfurt Schmuck Symposium on 2019. Theme of the symposium was Bauhaus, as the legendary school was celebrating 100 years anniversary. My work was selected to the exhibition Schmuck 2020 in Munich. Four necklaces were sent to the exhibition, they were unpacked but due to global Covid Pandemic the exhibition and Handwerk fair were cancelled, first time in their long history. These pieces were sent back and never shown publicly so far.

Walnut wood, iron, industrial enamel, paint, viscose cord