MAHNAZ COLLECTION
Presents
MEDITATIONS ON MODERNISM
Thirty-Two Years of Jewelry Design by Jacqueline Rabun, 1990-2022
15 November - 18 November 2022
In collaboration with NYC Jewelry week.
An Exhibition + Sale
The new exhibition. MEDITATIONS ON MODERNISM: Thirty Years of Jewelry Design by Jacqueline Rabun, 1990-2022, presented as part of New York Jewelry Week, is on view November 14-18 at Mahnaz Collection. This selling exhibition showcases the long and important career of the jewelry designer Jacqueline Rabun, whose aesthetic and philosophical vision has resulted in modernist jewelry of refined artistry and emotional resonance. In the extensive New York Times article about her work, "The Goal: "To Dream Bigger and Change the World," that appeared in May this year, the author Victoria Gomelsky praised her jewelry designs for their
"powerful simplicity," saying: "Ms. Rabun has forged a career as a jewelry artist working in silver and 18-karat gold. Her 22-year collaboration with the Danish silver firm Georg Jensen has cemented her reputation among connoisseurs of modernist design. And her work, best known for its bold organic forms and its powerful simplicity, was recently highlighted in "Brilliant & Black:
A Jewelry Renaissance," a groundbreaking selling exhibition by 21 Black jewelers held at Sotheby's New York last fall." On view at the Mahnaz Collection exhibition are jewels from Rabun's current and archival designs for Georg Jensen, her early independent work from 1989 to 2000, and a preview of some of her newest creations featuring minimal designs with hand-carved gemstones.
"Jacqueline's meditative, compassionate, and accessible works have brought her international recognition. She offers the world modernism with a twist. Her designs are bold and sensual, simple and pure, elegant and timeless. In certain ways, Jacqueline's artistry shares the design sensibility of pathbreaking female Nordic modernist jewelers who took geometric circles and encased them in eye shapes, as Nanna Ditzel did, or softened sharp angles using curved lines of gold, as in the case of Vivianna Torun Bülow-Hübe.
While
Jacqueline's work begins much later, the broader Nordic region's history of modernism in jewelry design clearly has left its mark
Jacqueline ventures somewhere beyond her jewels can be multisensory you touch them, stroke them, search for their hidden secrets, take them to heart, and, most importantly, wear them easily and close on your body. These are the hallmarks of her work. There is so much here from which the current generation of jewelers can learn,"
words by MAHNAZ ISPAHANI