Dr Yael Reisner is the founder, director, and curator of Objects Beautiful gallery, which was registered as company – Objects Beautiful Ltd – in April 2023. The gallery’s activity fucuses on the pursuit of beauty, collecting, exhibiting and selling objects internationally, in 3D, 2D, and digitally. It is based in London, and has no permanent address. It takes part in big fairs, initiates pop-up exhibitions and sales, and has its own active e-Shop; a gallery online.
Objects Beautiful gallery’s largest collection consists of Art to Wear, particularly art-jewellery, and art-textile, along photography, architectural material, and fine art.
Reisner works so far with 44 Jeweller-artists, selected particularly for their beautiful pieces of art-Jewellery – with a wide range of materials, from alternative ones, such like, silicon, PLA plastics, wood, porcelain, or paper, all the way to precious stones, silver and gold, sourced responsibly, by established art-jewellers, and young ones.
She visited most of these artists-jewellers in their studios and got to know them and their work from a close distance. After her visit in Taiwan this summer, the number grows to about 50 great artists-jewellers, internationally spread, including the UK, The Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Sweden, France, Slovakia, Italy, Israel, Estonia, Ukraine, South Korea, China, Japan, Taiwan, Australia, New Zealand, Spain, Greece, and Cyprus.
Reisner is an experienced campaigner for beauty, a word that became a cultural taboo in the creative world since the 1950s, associated with shallowness and old world, and in time turned emptied of its content. And yet, the emotional experience of beauty has remained real, with people referring to it on a daily basis.
Reisner found herself turning an activist when her first publication on the subject came out her book: Architecture and Beauty, Conversations About A Troubled Relationship, the turning point when she started debating publicly the importance of beauty in the arts.
She has a BSc (Hons) in Biology, yet, switched to architecture, finishing her studies at the Architectural Association, London, gaining her PhD from RMIT, Melbourne. She was in practice, and an academic for many years, a researcher, a designer and a curator. Her two designed and built public-art installations, where in Barcelona, in Placa de la Merce, 2014, and at a contemporary art exhibition in Beijing, 2015. Her most rewarding job as a curator and architect-designer, before initiating the gallery activity was a result of winning the competition to become the head curator of the international Tallinn Architecture Biennale, in Estonia, for year 2019, bringing with her the theme of Beauty Matters [in architecture, and the arts].
Reisner takes delight and pride in exhibiting new forms of beauty – characterised mostly by its appearance being profound, elegant, and enigmatic – which requires true artistic talent to be able to create, across all media. Hence, Objects Beautiful does not draw a line between art and craft. That traditional separation, for reasons at the time, has no logic anymore. She primarily believes in beauty as the sifting factor of Objects Beautiful gallery’s range of collectible objects.
As Reisner highlights, beauty is not a singular idea: its plurality prevails, and the diversity reflects on the complexities of contemporary experiences.
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