Edgar Mosa (born 1986, Lisbon, Portugal) is a Portuguese-born American jeweler and visual artist. Mosa's work has been featured internationally at the

Racine Art Museum The Racine Art Museum (RAM) and RAM's Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts are located in Racine, Wisconsin, U.S. The museum holds the largest and most significant contemporary craft collection in North America, with more than 9,500 objects fro ...

, Racine, Wisconsin, Center for Art in Wood, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and

The Stedelijk Museum The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (; Municipal Museum Amsterdam), colloquially known as the Stedelijk, is a museum for modern art, contemporary art, and design located in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

, Amsterdam, Netherlands. In 2022, Mosa and his partner Joe McShea, installed ''Flags, Paris 2022'', a site-specific installation for Loewe's Fall/Winter 2022 collection.

Early life and education

Mosa was born in

Lisbon, Portugal Lisbon (; pt, Lisboa ) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 544,851 within its administrative limits in an area of 100.05 km2. Lisbon's urban area extends beyond the city's administrative limits w ...

in 1986. He trained as a

goldsmith A goldsmith is a Metalworking, metalworker who specializes in working with gold and other precious metals. Nowadays they mainly specialize in jewelry-making but historically, goldsmiths have also made cutlery, silverware, platter (dishware), pl ...

from an early age. He received his Bachelor of Design at the

Gerrit Rietveld Academy The Gerrit Rietveld Academie, also known as Rietveld School of Art & Design and Rietveld Academy, is an art academy in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The academy was founded in 1924 and offers programs in fine arts and design. History In 1924, the In ...

and a MFA at

Cranbrook Academy of Art The Cranbrook Educational Community is an education, research, and public museum complex in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. This National Historic Landmark was founded in the early 20th century by newspaper mogul George Gough Booth. It consists of Cr ...

Work

Mosa exhibited jewelry and metal work in 2011 at Gallery Louise Smit in Amsterdam. In 2014, Mosa wrote an essay, titled ''A Look Into The Work Of Jean Paul Gaultier: Gender Amalgamation And The Musing Of The Maker'' for the exhibition''The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk'' at

The Brooklyn Museum The Brooklyn Museum is an art museum located in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. At , the museum is New York City's second largest and contains an art collection with around 1.5 million objects. Located near the Prospect Heights, Crown H ...

. Mosa collaborated with Hotel Particulier, a boutique gallery space, in Paris, France. Mosa had a solo exhibition called ''Indentations'' at Jewelers’ Werk in 2017. Later that year, Mosa showed at Chamber gallery's group exhibition, ''Domestic Appeal'', curated by Matylda Krzykowski. He exhibited ''Inverted Dart Game'', an interactive game where players throw cork balls onto spikes, blurring the lines between craft, utility, and playfulness signature to his practice. In 2018, Mosa attended the residency Palazzo Monti in

Brescia, Italy Brescia (, locally ; lmo, link=no, label= Lombard, Brèsa ; lat, Brixia; vec, Bressa) is a city and ''comune'' in the region of Lombardy, Northern Italy. It is situated at the foot of the Alps, a few kilometers from the lakes Garda and Iseo ...

. For Jonathan Anderson's Fall/Winter 2022 Loewe Menswear collection, Mosa collaborated with husband and artistic partner Joe McShea to install over 87 flag multi-colored flags atop sandy ground for the runway show. The artist were inspired by

Baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...

fresco Fresco (plural ''frescos'' or ''frescoes'') is a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid ("wet") lime plaster. Water is used as the vehicle for the dry-powder pigment to merge with the plaster, and with the setting of the plaste ...

es at the 13th-century Palazzo Monti, in

, during their time as artists-in-residence. The flags have been on rotating display at various locations in Spain and New York and will be fixed to Loewe stores internationally throughout 2022. Journalist and critic

Evan Moffitt Evan is both an English and Welsh male given name derived from "Iefan", a Welsh form for the name John. In other languages it could be compared to "Ivan", "Ian", and "Juan"; the name John itself is derived from the ancient Hebrew name Yəhôḥ� ...

recorded that the tie-dyed fabric or translucent tulle flags have been shown as ad-hoc public installations on Fire Island Pines since 2018. The flags make appearance each year in August at the

BOFFO BOFFO is a nonprofit arts community and organization in Fire Island Pines, New York. Since 2009, BOFFO has presented the work of 700+ artists across a breadth of disciplines to share and perform work during the summer months. The multidisciplinary ...

Artist Residency Performance Festival.

References

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