B.S. Kosmos
Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg•Sep 21, 2024 — Dec 01, 2024
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Friart is dedicating a major retrospective to Bernhard Schobinger, the artist at the heart of a revolution in jewelry creation. Revisiting an original oeuvre spanning 50 years, the exhibition pays homage to an independent figure who stands alone in the art of his country and beyond.
From his connections with Concrete art to punk rebellion, from postmodern eclecticism to the smallest of zen-influenced touches, Schobinger’s work testifies to a constant experimentation that belies any hierarchisation of the arts. Making extensive use of formal and technical invention, it holds up the coming together of opposites, the subtle transfiguration of everyday objects charged with individual stories. In the democracy of materials instituted by the artist, noble metals and precious stones sit alongside the waste of industrial civilisation.
On the first floor, the artist presents a new series of works he has been working on for several years. Employing fragments retrieved from the...More
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B.S. Kosmos
Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg•Sep 21, 2024 — Dec 01, 2024
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Friart is dedicating a major retrospective to Bernhard Schobinger, the artist at the heart of a revolution in jewelry creation. Revisiting an original oeuvre spanning 50 years, the exhibition pays homage to an independent figure who stands alone in the art of his country and beyond.
From his connections with Concrete art to punk rebellion, from postmodern eclecticism to the smallest of zen-influenced touches, Schobinger’s work testifies to a constant experimentation that belies any hierarchisation of the arts. Making extensive use of formal and technical invention, it holds up the coming together of opposites, the subtle transfiguration of everyday objects charged with individual stories. In the democracy of materials instituted by the artist, noble metals and precious stones sit alongside the waste of industrial civilisation.
On the first floor, the artist presents a new series of works he has been working on for several years. Employing fragments retrieved from the...More
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