Hollow goose eggs, natural sponges, packaging, balloons featuring smileys, shoe soles, scientific gauges, or even his mother-s gallstones - the repertoire of things elevated to jewellery objects knows no bounds for the Norwegian artist Sigurd Bronger. His -portable objects- are turned into wearables by means of artful hanging mechanisms. For Bronger, jewellery is a means of communication. The questions he poses with his works relate to function and use, decoration, aesthetic, and beauty, and his works invite us to see things anew: does the beautiful really have to be useless and the practical aesthetically uninteresting? Through the witty yet subtle cosmos of this extraordinary artist, our own -world of things- is becoming a good deal greater.
Text in English and German.
