Statement
Next year I become 75 of age and will celebrate this moment with a survey in the Silvermuseum Schoonhoven, Netherlands, showing 50 years of making jewellery and 25 years of making silverwork.As an extra addition to this oeuvre-exhibition of jewellery and silverwork, I am making now a new collection of spoons, based on my experiences in the last half century qua: design-themes, material-combinations, and technical solutions. As a chef I use my old ingredients for new recipes, in a fresh, tasty and beautifull way. New and retrospective at the same time.
The plan is to make a year long one spoon a day. At the moment there are about 70 spoons made, and the enclosed 5 pictures show a selection. But the collection will grow and in October I can make a new, strong selection to show at the Grassi Messe .I look forward!
Vita
| 1968 – 1970 | Design Academy, Eindhoven/NL |
| 1971 – 1972 | school for drama, Utrecht/NL |
| 1972 – 1975 | goldsmith training, Schoonhoven/NL |
| Solo exhibitions (selection): 1977 | Paul Derrez, Galerie Ra, Amsterdam/NL |
| 1985 | Paul Derrez, Jewellery, Bowls and Plates, with Julia Manheim, Aspects, London/UK |
| 1996 | Paul Derrez, Risky Business, Galerie Ra, Amsterdam/NL |
| 1997 | Paul Derrez, Cool Creator, Galerie Biró, Munich/G (cat) |
| 2009 | Paul Derrez, Cool Creator 1975-2009, retrospective, Villa Bengel, Idar Oberstein/G |
| 2015 | Paul Derrez, MAKER – jewellery and objects – 1975-2015, CODA museum, Apeldoorn/NL (cat) |
| 2016 | Paul Derrez, DOTS, Galerie Biró, Munich/G |
| Group exhibitions (selection): 1980 | Schmuck International 1900-1980, Künstlerhaus, Vienna/AUS (cat) |
| 1982 | Schmuck 82, Tendenzen?, Schmuckmuseum, Pforzheim/G (cat) |
| 1984 | Cross Currents, Power House Museum, Sydney, and tour/AU (cat) |
| 1986 | Sieraad 1986, draagteken, Museum Het Kruithuis, now Design Museum, ‘sHertogenbosch/NL |
| 2000 | Het versierde Ego, het Kunstjuweel in de 20ste eeuw, Koningin Fabiolazaal, Antwerp/B (cat) |
