Elisabeth Holder

Form: Constructed | Freehand

Constructed

These works are committed to abstract geometry. They are constructed into three-dimensional objects based on their surface shape, transforming them into the captured idea of geometric bodies.

Context: Human,
Objects of Adornment,
Divided Squares

1 / 7 Divided Squares I. Necklace 1990
The divided square bodies can be newly reassembled in several ways. By threading them onto the round of a neck ring, their order breaks apart.

2 / 7 Divided Squares I. Necklace 1990
The divided square bodies can be newly reassembled in several ways. By threading them onto the round of a neck ring, their order breaks apart.

3 / 7 Broosh, 1991
The brooch’s pair of shapes can both oppose and connect to each other in surprising ways, depending on which way the pin finds its way through the perforated shapes.

4 / 7 Bracelet, 1989

5 / 7 Zinc Rings, 1990

6 / 7 Rings, 1989
The body and the rectangular frame can be connected in different ways, only finding a fixed position to each other once on the finger.

7 / 7 Sonnenrad. Brooches, 2001

Freehand

A right-angled network of freely drawn lines, applied directly to the metal without the aid of a ruler, define these works. Here the abstract form of the straight line is abandoned in favour of its sensually perceptible origin. And the cubic bodies they create need to follow these freeform lines. This gives these bodies room to move, that being the essential difference to their abstract geometric counterparts.

“Line, executed by hand, encompasses the sensual experience of the path made …” Marianne Pollich

1 / 8 Maltese Square. Object, 1992

2 / 8 Maltese Square. Object, 1992
Individual elements taken from the object and strung on wire can be worn as necklaces.

3 / 8 Maltese Square. Object, 1992
Individual elements taken from the object and strung on wire can be worn as necklaces.

4 / 8 Maltese Square. Object, 1992
Individual elements taken from the object and strung on wire can be worn as necklaces.

5 / 8 Secret Order. Necklace, 1994

6 / 8 Secret Order. Necklace, 1994

7 / 8 Organic Order. Necklace, 1995
The cuboid formed from two cubes releases the chain it contains within it when the cubes sit angled inside each other.

Form: Constructed | Freehand

Constructed

1 / 7 Divided Squares I. Necklace 1990 The divided square bodies can be newly reassembled in several ways. By threading them onto the round of a neck ring, their order breaks apart.

2 / 7 Divided Squares I. Necklace 1990 The divided square bodies can be newly reassembled in several ways. By threading them onto the round of a neck ring, their order breaks apart.

3 / 7 Broosh, 1991 The brooch’s pair of shapes can both oppose and connect to each other in surprising ways, depending on which way the pin finds its way through the perforated shapes.