{"id":965,"date":"2024-03-04T10:42:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-04T09:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.die-neue-sammlung.de\/?post_type=exhibition&p=965"},"modified":"2024-04-26T10:54:01","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T08:54:01","slug":"sigurd-bronger-trag-objekte","status":"publish","type":"exhibition","link":"https:\/\/www.die-neue-sammlung.de\/en\/ausstellung\/sigurd-bronger-trag-objekte\/","title":{"rendered":"Sigurd Bronger. Wearables"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sigurd Bronger. Wearables<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
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About the Exhibition<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
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Hollow goose eggs, natural sponges, packaging and balloons with a smiley face \u2013 soles of shoes, scientific measuring instruments and his mother\u2019s gallstones:
For Norwegian artist Sigurd Bronger, the repertoire of things elevated to jewelry objects knows no bounds. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n

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The items are rendered wearable through the artful mechanisms on which they are mounted and hung. In their meticulous precision, the brass and gold mechanisms are reminiscent of scientific instruments, and like such instruments, Bronger\u2019s objects fit snugly into their specially made wooden cases.
The artist himself does not call his works jewelry, nor brooches, finger or necklaces, but simply \u2018wearable objects\u2019.

The artful mechanisms that make them wearable objectivize the reception of the items, lifting them out of their everyday implications, and making it possible for us to view them aesthetically and in so doing discover an entirely unexpected beauty. Objects are existent manifestations of the material world on which our perception is focused.
We want to recognize what we see, which is precisely Bronger\u2019s starting point.

He utilizes items for his jewelry objects that we would not otherwise touch, much less pin to our clothing as a decorative element. Once we recognize what we are actually looking at, the initial moment of shock when identifying the sole of a shoe or camel dung, which takes center stage in a brooch, charmingly resolves into an instant of tongue-in-cheek delight that is so characteristic of some of Bronger\u2019s works.

Thanks to his inquisitiveness and his way of looking at things, our own world of objects expands many times over \u2013 the ball from the computer mouse becomes a ring, the precious diamond in the medicinal blister packaging a brooch, with the disposable packaging however catching the eye more strongly than the gemstone.

Born in 1957 in Norway\u2019s capital Oslo, for one year Sigurd Bronger attended the Oslo Vocational College specializing in Jewelry before choosing to pursue further studies in watchmaking and goldsmithing at the Vocational School in Schoonhoven, Netherlands, graduating in 1979. Following his studies he worked as an engraver in the Koninklijke Fabrieken Posthumus in Amsterdam, founded in 1920. In 1983 he returned to Oslo, where he has since lived and worked.

Die Neue Sammlung is honored to present the work of Sigurd Bronger, whose artistic language is unique not only in Norway, but worldwide, in his first solo exhibition outside his home country.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/content-reveal>\n\n\t\t

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