Margit Hart

A comprehensive documentation of a special conceptual position in artistic jewellery, this is Margit Hart's first autobiography that unites her jewellery with the abstract photographic works for the first time.

Austrian jewellery artist Margit Hart has created an extremely diverse oeuvre in contemporary jewellery over the past twenty-five years. Mindscapes—the name of the book now available as well as of the latest group of works—stands synonymous with her constantly changing jewellery objects.

Since 2009, Margit Hart has been extending her artistic creativity, parallel to jewellery, into the field of abstract photography. The two areas are situated in a dialogue with each other. The artist demonstrates this very impressively in her book: The individual series of artistic jewellery works alternate with expansive illustrations of the seemingly almost black-and-white, atmospheric photographic works.

In both artistic areas, Margit Hart demonstrates a profound examination of surface and line. In creative play, she unfolds the most obstinate shapes: now tender and delicate, now geometrically clear, now futuristically amorphous—they seem to originate from another sphere.

Leaving behind purely objective illustration, Margit Hart creates imaginary visual spaces, promising worlds composed of light and shadow, into which she now immerses us.