As of: March 1, 2024, 4:53 p.m
By: Katja Kraft
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Sigurd Bronger's works are extravagant in the most cheerful sense.
Here: a balloon brooch.
It can also be seen in the New Collection - The Design Museum in the Munich Pinakothek der Moderne.
© Pinakothek der Moderne
The great Norwegian jewelry artist Sigurd Bronger shows his art in the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich.
Makes you a little happier.
The sun rises in the Pinakothek der Moderne.
In keeping with the meteorological spring, an exhibition started here on March 1, 2024, which you should treat yourself to now.
Repeatedly included in many of the works that can be seen at the top of the rotunda gallery: eggs.
chicken egg.
duck egg.
Goose egg.
Ostrich egg.
Egg, egg, egg – not Verpoorten, but by Sigurd Bronger.
It is one of the favorite materials that the great Norwegian artist has used for his extraordinary jewelry creations for 40 years.
“Nature gives us this perfect oval shape, and you have to use it,” says Bronger.
Ha!
Sounds easier than it is.
The blowing out of Easter eggs will soon begin again, where half of the shell breaks when the shell is pierced so that the contents can slobber all over your hands in a nice, sticky way.
That's why the delicate eggshell works that now shimmer in the display cases of the New Collection - The Design Museum in the Pinakothek der Moderne make it clear what a precise craftsman Sigurd Bronger is.
Egg, egg, egg – Sigurd Bronger.
The Norwegian artist next to a ring that looks like a hot air balloon.
© kjk
The 67-year-old prefers to work with natural materials.
Camel dung, for example.
Lay in the desert at his feet.
He took it with him and created an extremely fine construct around it.
And, simsalabim - thus spun gold from dung;
He can do that, the alchemist Bronger.
“If you imagine: This was created in an animal body!” he says happily.
Like a playful child, Bronger draws our attention to the everyday things that we pass by carelessly.
Raises a bathtub spout, a pine cone, a (fragrant!) cinnamon stick into brooches.
Shows what they are: works by the greatest artist of all, Mother Nature.
A new context changes everything.
It is a show that teaches us to look.
“You have to stay curious.
Look at the world.
That’s the whole secret.” The perfect shape, it’s already there.
In the shell, which Bronger cuts open lengthways – revealing the architectural masterpiece within.
Say Cheeeese!
Sigurd Bronger's jewelry made from plastic cheese makes you smile.
© kjk
The artist, who incidentally travels without any jewelry (even the wedding ring usually stays in the box), has no interest in the jewelry market circus.
He cleverly makes fun of the vain scene.
About collectors who only wear brooches, necklaces and rings to show what they can afford.
Who have no sense of the craft, the precision, the art behind it.
The main thing is flashy.
And what does Bronger do?
Instead of using a large diamond, he takes a tiny one and places a mini magnifying glass in front of it.
Anyone who looks through it will see a big bling sparkling.
Or Bronger makes a gold key as a pendant for a chain - and simply dips it in paint.
“I thought it looked prettier.
For me, gold is simply a material that is easy to work with.
But you don’t have to see it.” But you can wear it, wear it.
Close to the heart.
That knocks with joy.
Until June 2, 2024 on the second floor of the Rotunda, Pinakothek der Moderne;
daily (except Monday) 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Thursday until 8 p.m.
Parallel to Sigurd Bronger, the next generation can also introduce themselves to the New Collection for a month from March 2, 2024.
This time the jewelry class at Kobe Design University.
This too: worth seeing!