On 5 and 6 May between 10:00-18:00, in the foyer of the Main Hall of the National Theatre in Bucharest, over 80 designers from 28 countries will meet the public at the 17th edition of AUTOR, the only contemporary and art jewelry fair in South East Europe. This year the event welcomes a growing number of participants from Asia, especially designers from China.
Cleopatra Coșulet, one of the most talented Romanian contemporary jewelry artists was the Focus Artist at the 2018 edition of AUTOR – International Contemporary Jewelry Fair. Her collection titled “The World Inside” speaks about a dynamic and heterogeneous inner universe, with varied emotions and experiences, which reveals itself to the viewer with honesty and invite to reflection and interaction.
“It is my fifth participation to AUTOR and every time I feel the emotion of meeting a special audience, with whom I can share personal feelings, born out of my relationship with the world and carried into the jewelry I create. It is a great joy to see them going into the hands of those who will choose and wear them, giving them a new life, making them part of their own journey” says Cleopatra Coșulet.
This year’s selection brings to the National Theatre Bucharest on 5 and 6 May well-known and emerging names from 5 continents:
Agapi Smpokou (Greece), Alice Visin (Italy), Alis Lalu (Romania), Ana Marchetanu (Romania), Ana Maria Drăghici (Germany), Andra Lupu (Romania), Andreia G. Popescu (Romania), Atelier Nomanda (Romania / Australia), Brândușa Ungurașu (Romania), Brigitte Wang (China), Cedric Chevalley (Switzerland), Charlize Nhung (Canada), Chen Shuming (China / UK), Xinyi Chen (China), Cleopatra Cosuleț (Romania), Corrina Goutos (USA / Germany), Dalius Ilginis (Lithuania), Daniela Boni (Italy / UK), Daniella Saraya (Israel), Anayd Blu (Romania), Diana Vasile-Temper (Romania), Lanqi_Fu (China), Hemfard (Romania), Gili Doliner (Israel / Germany), Giulia Boccafogli (Italy), 1:20.000 by Giulia Savino (Italy), Hiyu Hamasaki (Japan), Ioana Ardelean (Romania), SI Sabato Isabel (Argentina / Switzerland), Isabela Groza (Romania), Iulia Ivan (Romania), Iza Visoianu (Romania), Jil Koehn (Germany), Jiyoon Hyun (South Korea), Konstantinos Georgopoulos (Greece), Leonor Silva (Portugal), Liat Ginzburg (Israel), Lucienne (Republic of Moldova), Mario Albrecht (Germany), Meșteshukar ButiQ (Romania), Mihaela Cherciu (Romania), Mihaela Coman (Romania), Miki Asai (Japan), Mona Velciov (Romania), Monica Iacovenco (Romania), Monique Leocuna (Argentina), Neža Žehelj (Slovenia), OlgaMaria Jewel Inspirations (Greece), PÿR (France), Raluca Buzura (Romania), Rimisen’s (Pakistan), Roxana Hodorog (Romania), Sabina Drăgușanu (Romania / UK), Sanna Brantestad – Making by Hands (Sweden), Sara Chyan Jewellery (Hong Kong / UK), Sara Shahak (Israel), Sarah Tari (Frace), Seonyong Lee (South Korea), Shahpari Sohaei (Iran), Sharon Vaizer (Israel), Xiaotong Si (China), Simo Shomov Jewelry Design (Bulgaria), Tami Eshed (Israel), Teodor Siminic (Romania), Tere Chad (Chile), Wanshu Li (China / UK), What If I Fly (Romania), Xue Liang (China / Germany), Yaoyu Fu (China)
Collectives:
Next Steps by Assamblage (Romania), COLLECTIVA I Jewellery Design (Portugal), H6 I Contemporary Jewellery Group (Hungary), JEWELRIC RONDO Collective (South Korea), Krama Collective (Greece), OBLIK – Collective (Macedonia), Percept Collective (UK), Syn-thesis Collective (Greece), WUNDERKAMMER I Collective Works By Womencraft Jewelry (Italy / Costa Rica)
„AUTOR platform created contexts. The international contemporary and art jewelry fair is the most important one, for the participating designers as well as for the public who has access to such a selection only once a year in Bucharest. We hope that for both, 5 and 6 May will be two days of delight and joy. Contemporary jewelry becomes alive when it is worn. See you at AUTOR!” said Dan Pierșinaru, Director and founder of AUTOR – International Contemporary Jewelry Fair.
