Sigurd Bronger: Laboratorium Mechanum

Hardback

Main Details

Title Sigurd Bronger: Laboratorium Mechanum
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Jorunn Veiteberg
By (author) Cecilie Skeide
By (author) Paul Derrez
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:184
Dimensions(mm): Height 295,Width 230
Category/GenreJewellery
Jewellery and beadcraft
ISBN/Barcode 9783897903456
ClassificationsDewey:739.27092
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Arnoldsche
Imprint Arnoldsche
Publication Date 13 April 2011
Publication Country Germany

Description

A key, a safety pin, a balloon, a propeller, a voltmeter - these unexpected objects in art jewellery rewrite the world of the Norwegian "jewellery engineer" Sigurd Bronger. He carries over his fascination for machines and instruments in humorously constructed jewellery pieces, and transforms natural materials and everyday objects into meticulously executed, complex and ingenious constructions. In his Oslo "Laboratorium Mechanum", Bronger works on his witty "carrying devices" - brooches, pendants, and rings with balloons, sponges, eggs, even his mother's gallstones, or with medical equipment, which have a greater positive effect on the mind than on the physical well-being. An established feature of his work, which symbolically marks the entrance into Bronger's world, is the key. This current publication offers such a key; a review of over thirty years of his creative work: from Bronger's experiments with materials and constructions in the struggle with the avant-garde Dutch art jewellery to his attempts in fathoming out states of expansion and emptiness in jewellery. He revolutionised contemporary creative jewellery work in such a way, not just in Norway, where to this day he still finds new forms of expression at the interface of jewellery, art, design and engineering. With works from the 1980s to the present day, this book will carry you off into the humorous world of the decorative engineering art of Sigurd Bronger, one of the most significant Norwegian jewellery artists today. Text in English, German & Norwegian.