Lot 307
Peter Chang (British 1944-2017) §
Man's Ring, 1988
£1,638
Auction: 28 October 2022 from 10:00 BST
Description
acrylic and silvered metal
Dimensions
Provenance
Provenance:
Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh;
Private Collection, London.
Footnote
Exhibited:
Schmuckmuseum, Pforzheim, Peter Chang: It's Only Plastic ... Schmuck Objekte Skulpturen, June - September 2002 travelling to Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin (October 2002 - January 2003), Bayerischer Kunstgewerbeverein, Munchen (January 2003 - March 2003) and Deutsches Goldschmiedehaus, Hanau (March 2003 - May 2003);
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, Peter Chang, June - September 2007, travelling to Somerset House, London and Kelvingrove Museum, Glasgow.
Plastic Fantastic
“The pieces I create can be sculptures or they can be worn as jewellery. Each individual will have a different response to them and I like that.” (Peter Chang)
Peter Chang had been called the Faberge of 21st Century, with his outlandish, extravagant, unorthodox and off-the-wall jewellery creations. He exploited the fundamental qualities of plastic with his high voltage colours and the malleability of the material, continually developing new techniques and ideas that earnt him a global reputation as one of the foremost maker’s in his field.
Chang used plastic because it reflected the age we live in, was anonymous and could be moulded and sculpted into objects of splendour and frivolity. He saw himself as a visual artist aiming to create a synthesis between jewellery and sculpture with a hint of fantasy thrown in and he noted that ‘I like to incorporate a bit of fun: spice it up. People take things too seriously,’
Over his career he won numerous international awards including the Jerwood Prize for Applied Arts in 1995 for his ‘lasting significance and daring brilliance’, had major exhibitions at the likes of the Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris, and in Germany at the Schmuckmuseum Pforzhei and his work is now held in the collections of museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Smithsonian, the Musée des Art Decoratifs, Montreal and the National Museum of Scotland.
