Petra Zimmermann

Petra Zimmermann’s jewelry objects are forthright, sensuous, and opulent. Her early

works already reveal an artistic strategy she has continued to pursue ever since: an

allusive confrontation of provided material and individually designed plastic forms.

However, theobjects produced in this way avail of more than just their decorative

function; Zimmermann’s works are far more “thought impulses” bringing up aesthetic

questions of appeal, value and the transitoriness of beauty. They impress as subtle

works of art that cause the conventional barriers between design, the applied arts and

fine arts to falter….