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The Last Member of BOE Participated in a Crucial Period of Contemporary Dutch Jewelry

Sculptor Berend Peter and his partner, jewelry artist Marion Herbst, shared 30 years of joys and sorrows and worked together a lot in the early years. In 1972, Berend Peter made a rectangular sculpture based on one of Herbst’s rings.

The following year, he joined four jewelry makers—Herbst, Françoise van den Bosch, Onno Boekhoudt, and Karel Niehorster—to establish the BOE-group. They wanted a better understanding of contemporary jewelry and also resented the uniformity that had taken hold of Dutch jewelry due to the government's exhibition policy, which favored minimalist, modernist, and serial jewelry. The BOE-group wanted to disrupt this uniformity. 

Caption: Marion Herbst and Berend Peter, The Big Ring, 1972, photo courtesy of Berend Peter Hogen Esch
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WHO WILL WIN AJF'S $7,500 AWARD??? FIND OUT TOMORROW!!!
Wednesday, March 2, 12 p.m. EST

Since we can't be on the Internationale Handwerksmesse Main Stage to reveal the winner and finalists of the Young Artist Award (YAA), the next best thing is to make the announcement on AJF Live. The jurors—collector and gallerist Karen Rotenberg, curator Chequita Nahar, and 2020 YAA winner MJ Tyson—will announce their names. The four finalists and the winner will then present their work. Please join us in celebrating their achievements—let's raise our glasses to them!

The biennial YAA competition offers a prize of US$7,500 for the winner and US$1,000 for each of the four finalists, as well as an exhibition at Schmuck—art jewelry's biggest and most prestigious annual event—in July 2022.

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