APOTHEKE
Maria Christina PapaleontiouMCP Jewellery
Maria Christina Papaleontiou
MCP Jewellery
10 -12 April 2009
In her varied carrer as a design practioner Maria Christna Papaleontiou is interested in genarating sites through form. In launching the MCP Jewellery Spring-Summer 2009 collection she once again turned to architectural techniques of model making to create immaginary landscapes and destinations, as singular as every travellers vision . Engraving the map to such sites she employed specific, technological process like laser cutting and computer aided design, on the one, and humble materials on the other.
Laser-cut, burnt plywood, a distant relative of serene fishing boats, has been layered by hand into strucutres redolent of utopian archipelagos and evocative harbors of fantasy. The spetacularly transformed wood then mingles with colourful textiles to organise luxurious, three-dimensional homages to tanned bodies. Angular rings extend to reach refracted sun rays caressing fingers at beach bars. Others are engaged in a tidal game with shadows and openings. Etched earings are but diagrams of breezy sweet nothings.
Rarely is a piece recreated, as every journey is different, with very few having an identical pair. A soulmate to share the summer party. And the dreams.
