AdOC - Asociación de Diseñadores de Orfebrería y Joyería Contemporáneas
AdOC - Asociación de Diseñadores de Orfebrería y Joyería Contemporáneas
It is the Contemporary Goldsmith and Jewelers Association intention to incorporate composition, creativity, sensibility and intellectual stimuli ideals common to all arts.
We believe goldsmith and jewelry design is an essential part of the arts and society in which it develops. This is the reason why a group of independent designers join forces to achieve this common goal.
Carlos Fernández Hoyos (México-España)
LABYRINTH. Brooch
The labyrinth is a legendary structure designed by Daedalus at the behest of King Minos of Crete to imprison his son, the Minotaur. The labyrinthine image appears in numerous cultures, rendered in diverse materials. The cool tones evoke streams and waterways, surprising us with their varied expressive possibilities, just as life invites us to take different paths.
Technique and materials: traditional goldsmithing techniques. Opaque enamels fired using the champlevé technique on copper.
Carolina Maffei-Monoju (Italia)
MONO. Pin
Everything, from birth, is destined to end, while we contemplate, fascinated, the wonders of the worl we live in. Aesthetics that becomes ethics, as a bearer of beauty. In Japanese, mono is an exclamation of wonder referring to a natural object. An aesthetic concept with emotional implications. A feeling of melancholy, beauty, and the fleeting nature of life, with the consequent nostalgia linked to incessant change.
Technique and materials: traditional goldsmithing techniques. Coral, glass beads, resin, and brass.
Christine Rammel (Suecia)
TUBE. Brooch
The unexpected moments of everyday life are a source of constant creativity. An abandoned paint tube, perhaps lost, perhaps discarded, can be a point of reference. Its contents have curled up on the cobblestones like a frozen movement, a silent history of something that once was and has lost its function. The tube, freed from its purpose, takes on a new life.
Technique and materials: traditional goldsmithing techniques. Glass and silver
Cristina Martín Más (España)
EINE KLEINE STIMMGABEL. Necklace
The reference to nature and the environment evokes sound sensations through a tuning fork symbolised by a piece of metal. Sounds related to the lichens of fresh air forests and the silk cocoons clinging to its rough surface. Its natural imagery gives it a character of timelessness and purity, combining tradition and contemporaneity.
Technique and materials: traditional craftsmanship and goldsmithing techniques. Copper, natural silk cocoons, fibres and silver
„Crown of beauty” crown, human hair, video, 200 x 200 x 100 mm, 2025
Javier de Villaux (España)
UNTITLED. Pendant
Sculptural and abstract character with texture as the singular protagonist. Compensation of volumes, forms, transparent and opaque color creating projected light and shadow. Geometry as a pretext, violent contrasts and imprecision as a value. Balance and compensated asymmetry. Lightness and a play of contrasts in small sculptures transformed into functional elements that seek to evoke emotion.
Technique and materials: traditional goldsmithing techniques. Opaque and transparent enamels fired on copper and silver foil.
Magdalena Vélez Salinas (España)
LR. Pendant
“Everything matters in art except the subject”. O. Wilde
The object and the creative process is the consequence of the stream of consciousness, surging spontaneously from the chosen inspiration source. Inspired by a fragmented and augmented reading of an existing piece of art, it becomes a disintegrated representation in nonrecognizable parts of the original whole, thus making the design process irreversible.
Techniques and materials: traditional enamel techniques. Copper, gold pallon (18k.) and gold (18k.) platted silver
María Teresa Domínguez Vázquez (España)
ADRIFT IN TIME. Brooch
Biomorphism conveys tranquility like the undulations of the sea, where the sun reflects in infinite directions, just like the seaweed that moves peacefully. The warmth of the sun and the murmur of the sea carry us "adrift in time" like another piece of seaweed, evoking an inner peace with the wish that it would never end.
Technique and materials: traditional goldsmithing techniques. Brass, glass, steel, and silver
Vera Blixen (España)
THE HEART OF MY ANARCHY. Pendant
Inspired by S. Plath's poem "I am vertical, but I would rather be horizontal" and J. E. Valls's "The Right to Beautiful Things," the pieces are grouped like small haikus. A visual reflection on the profound impression nature makes on us, where its grandeur dwarfs us, challenging our vertical existence.
Technique and materials: traditional goldsmithing techniques. Lacquer, calligraphic ink, and brass plated with 18k yellow gold.
