MARGIT HART: MINDSCAPES JEWELLERY AND PH Format: Paperback

Over the past twenty-five years, the Austrian artist Margit Hart has created an extremely diverse oeuvre of contemporary jewelry. Mindscapes, the name of her latest group of works, is synonymous with her ever changing jewelry objects. Since 2009 Margit Hart's work - parallel to her jewelry has extended into abstract photography, resulting in a mutual dialogue between both disciplines. In her Schattenflug [Fleeting Shadows] works, she goes beyond illustrating the purely representational to create imaginary three-dimensional pictorial spaces that immerse us in mysterious worlds of light and shade. This monograph showcases the interplay between both modes of artistic expression in a tangible way.

Text in English and German.

Margit Hart (b. 1958) obtained an MFA in metalsmithing from SUNY New Paltz, USA, after concluding her studies in history and art history in Vienna Austria. She has run her own studio in Vienna since 1994. From 1997 to 2017 she was a professor at Schulzentrum Herbststraße in Vienna, and since 2009 at Abendkolleg SchmuckDesign. In 2015 she received the first prize of the Mario Pinton Award in Padua, Italy. Her work has been shown internationally and can be found in several public and private collections, such as the Museum of Applied Arts Vienna, and Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim, Germany.