ABOUT US

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SMCK Magazine's goal is to make art lovers familiar with the history and potential of applied arts, design and crafts, while focusing on contemporary jewelry as a tool of storytelling, cultural diplomacy and political communication.
SMCK Magazine strives to bridge art and craft disciplines, to discuss contemporary social practices, and make artists aware of market challenges.
The magazine also serves as a podium for independent artists to address interdisciplinary considerations, to share stories of failure and success, and to acquaint readers with multiple cultural perspectives on how to appreciate and use art.

It's a difficult task to make the art-loving public familiar with the amazing history, creative potential, and emotional value of the medium of jewellery. This requires knowledge, persistence, reflection, and strategy. It's easy to copy themes from the discourse of the 1990s and paste them into the 2020s.

However, the challenges that inspire artists nowadays have more to do with major armed conflicts and cold wars, democracy and constitutional rights, hygienic totalitarianism and speech control, integration and citizenship, religion, identity, tradition, faith, civil activism, and environmental protection than sex, drugs, girl power, and "PC".

Christoph Ziegler (SMCK Magazine publisher) and Loukia Richards (Editor-In-Chief) ambition to make contemporary art approachable and understandable for a broader public .

Visual artists themselves, Ziegler and Richards curate exhibitions (ZLR BETRIEBSIMPERIUM), teach specialized workshops for art professionals and art aficionados/as, and offer residencies for international artists, designers, makers and art lovers in Greece (FAVELAB).

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