Shoe object: vintage Jan Jansen original ‘Fong Leng 1’ (1975) stainless steel toe cover and harness, 2017.
Part of Jan Jansen Shoe Treasures project and exhibition 2017.
Measurments: 20 x 8 x 22 cm.
Gift for Liza Snook to celebrate 20 years of the Virtual Shoe Museum in 2024, this piece is part of a special collection featuring 20 unique shoe artworks.
The work of artist Ted Noten is very hard to label: is it art? Design? Craftsmanship? The only label that fits his work is the label that reads ‘Ted Noten’. Noten has earned fame for his bags and jewellery, in which he employs a broad range of objects which he has multiplied, using casts. Used objects are less commonly found or seen – cocaine, a dead mouse wearing a tiny necklace, guns and gold rings. Ted Noten’s aim is to make his work function both as a criticism of society and as a reminder of the history of product design – more specifically, the history of jewellery design. In his work, he responds to themes such as violence, greed and love. His designs are marked by humour, irony and small innovations. Its strength lies in removing iconic symbols from their usual environment and placing them in new contexts. He radically changes the perception of an object. He searches for an object’s essence, isolates it and puts the spotlight on it – influenced by symbolic values.
Photo by Charlotte Visser.
